M. V. Asseldonk, David Muwonge, Immaculate Musuya, Moses Abuce
Micro-insurance can be an effective approach to smoothening income in adverse times and potentially a way to contribute to the financial inclusion of vulnerable populations. As such, adopting a climate insurance coverage aims to adapt in reducing the vulnerability associated with anticipated negative impacts of climate change. Moreover, giving smallholders access to micro-insurance enables them to invest in improved agricultural inputs to enhance farm production and ultimately household income (Karlan et al., 2014; Marr et al., 2016). Key to success with this is to streamline claim handling and marketing efforts in order to minimise transaction costs (i.e. delivering a solution to a low-cost and at a large-scale). Emerging index-based insurance across Africa has proven to enable efficient claim handling. However, direct sales to individual smallholders remains a challenging task without an easily scalable solution (Carter et al., 2014). Adoption studies in the field of crop (index-based) insurance often focus on one-off field experiments ignoring often the insurance delivery channel (see for example a systematic review by Marr et al., 2016). Yet those insurance programmes that are currently running are frequently marketed via aggregators. To reach the necessary scale it is essential to cooperate with aggregators in the agricultural value chain that have an extensive outreach and shared interests. Such organisations include the financial service industry (e.g. insurers, brokers, banks and micro-finance institutions), input providers (e.g. seeds and fertilisers), traders, the processing industry, and farmer-based organisations. The current research seeks to find the determinants of adoption of a stand-alone coffee index-based insurance product in Uganda marketed by a farmer cooperative, and to elicit preferences for improving the index-based design and delivery model. Uganda is proving a particularly interesting context in which to develop the agricultural insurance market since recently public policy has begun supporting crop insurance by providing a premium subsidy (Van Asseldonk et al., 2019). Moreover, droughts are the main cause of crop failure in rain-fed production in Uganda and climate change is exacerbating the impact of drought events (Platform for Agricultural Risk Management, 2015). The findings can be valuable to guide the scale up phase by enhancing the design and delivery model.
{"title":"Adoption and preferences for coffee drought index-based insurance in Uganda","authors":"M. V. Asseldonk, David Muwonge, Immaculate Musuya, Moses Abuce","doi":"10.7896/j.2053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7896/j.2053","url":null,"abstract":"Micro-insurance can be an effective approach to smoothening income in adverse times and potentially a way to contribute to the financial inclusion of vulnerable populations. As such, adopting a climate insurance coverage aims to adapt in reducing the vulnerability associated with anticipated negative impacts of climate change. Moreover, giving smallholders access to micro-insurance enables them to invest in improved agricultural inputs to enhance farm production and ultimately household income (Karlan et al., 2014; Marr et al., 2016). Key to success with this is to streamline claim handling and marketing efforts in order to minimise transaction costs (i.e. delivering a solution to a low-cost and at a large-scale). Emerging index-based insurance across Africa has proven to enable efficient claim handling. However, direct sales to individual smallholders remains a challenging task without an easily scalable solution (Carter et al., 2014). Adoption studies in the field of crop (index-based) insurance often focus on one-off field experiments ignoring often the insurance delivery channel (see for example a systematic review by Marr et al., 2016). Yet those insurance programmes that are currently running are frequently marketed via aggregators. To reach the necessary scale it is essential to cooperate with aggregators in the agricultural value chain that have an extensive outreach and shared interests. Such organisations include the financial service industry (e.g. insurers, brokers, banks and micro-finance institutions), input providers (e.g. seeds and fertilisers), traders, the processing industry, and farmer-based organisations. The current research seeks to find the determinants of adoption of a stand-alone coffee index-based insurance product in Uganda marketed by a farmer cooperative, and to elicit preferences for improving the index-based design and delivery model. Uganda is proving a particularly interesting context in which to develop the agricultural insurance market since recently public policy has begun supporting crop insurance by providing a premium subsidy (Van Asseldonk et al., 2019). Moreover, droughts are the main cause of crop failure in rain-fed production in Uganda and climate change is exacerbating the impact of drought events (Platform for Agricultural Risk Management, 2015). The findings can be valuable to guide the scale up phase by enhancing the design and delivery model.","PeriodicalId":44547,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Agricultural Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42324060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper analyses the composition and volatility of the total income and wealth of dairy farmers and the importance and volatility of the different components contributing to their total income and wealth based on Dutch FADN data. The results confirm some existing findings on the stabilising impact of CAP subsidies and off-farm income on farmers’ total income. The paper extends the existing analyses by exploring the impact of taxes on income volatility and the important role of savings in stabilising consumption of farm households. In this paper we show that a broader perspective (including off-farm income and wealth) provides a more realistic picture of the income and wealth effects as experienced by farmers.
{"title":"Impact of off-farm income and paid taxes on the composition and volatility of incomes and wealth of dairy farmers in the Netherlands","authors":"H. Vrolijk, K. Poppe","doi":"10.7896/J.2046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7896/J.2046","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses the composition and volatility of the total income and wealth of dairy farmers and the importance and volatility of the different components contributing to their total income and wealth based on Dutch FADN data. The results confirm some existing findings on the stabilising impact of CAP subsidies and off-farm income on farmers’ total income. The paper extends the existing analyses by exploring the impact of taxes on income volatility and the important role of savings in stabilising consumption of farm households. In this paper we show that a broader perspective (including off-farm income and wealth) provides a more realistic picture of the income and wealth effects as experienced by farmers.","PeriodicalId":44547,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Agricultural Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48852426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
considered to have a divine status for its properties, which are not only nutritional but also are perceived to offer health The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistic composite index composed of life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators. Currently, wine consumption is increasingly becoming significant both for reducing several diseases and for improving well-being and quality of life. The aim of this paper is to investigate spatial and temporal characteristics of wine consumption in 45 countries belonging to the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region and its relationship with the HDI. We use a balanced panel data by WHO database (2005-2015). Random effects panel data model was selected over the fixed effects model based on the Hausman test in order to assess the effect of HDI, European Union (EU) membership and geographical areas on wine consumption. Results highlight that wine consumption decreases as HDI increases. We noted higher values of wine consumption in EU countries and a positive gradient from West to East in the area considered. These findings highlight the presence of a new consumer profile seeking quality and healthy consumption and whose awareness increases coinciding with a rise in the degree of country development. National and international policies can address issues of consumption style and persuade consumers to have a new eating cultural approach towards buying quality and healthy food.
{"title":"Investigating the evocative link among wine consumption, Human Development Index and geographical region","authors":"A. Spada, R. Rana, M. Fiore","doi":"10.7896/j.2047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7896/j.2047","url":null,"abstract":"considered to have a divine status for its properties, which are not only nutritional but also are perceived to offer health The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistic composite index composed of life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators. Currently, wine consumption is increasingly becoming significant both for reducing several diseases and for improving well-being and quality of life. The aim of this paper is to investigate spatial and temporal characteristics of wine consumption in 45 countries belonging to the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region and its relationship with the HDI. We use a balanced panel data by WHO database (2005-2015). Random effects panel data model was selected over the fixed effects model based on the Hausman test in order to assess the effect of HDI, European Union (EU) membership and geographical areas on wine consumption. Results highlight that wine consumption decreases as HDI increases. We noted higher values of wine consumption in EU countries and a positive gradient from West to East in the area considered. These findings highlight the presence of a new consumer profile seeking quality and healthy consumption and whose awareness increases coinciding with a rise in the degree of country development. National and international policies can address issues of consumption style and persuade consumers to have a new eating cultural approach towards buying quality and healthy food.","PeriodicalId":44547,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Agricultural Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43998233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Pirkó, S. Koós, J. Szabó, L. Radimszky, P. Csathó, T. Árendás, N. Fodor, A. Szabó
based on an agronomic approach, Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE) and an economic approach. In terms of the agronomic evaluation, no clear differences were found between treatments: the highest yields were obtained in respect of different treatments at the three experimental sites, but the differences were not significant. From the point of view of NUE, the N max experiment on the Nagyhörcsök calcareous chernozem soil showed the highest values, which, according to the EU N Expert Panel (EUNEP), are already in the unfavourable soil depletion range. From the economic point of view, there was no significant difference in net profits between the Present and New planned N max values. The EUNEP approach also confirms the need to increase N max values in order to decrease the potential for soil depletion. However, with a view to establishing the final optimum range for the EUNEP, it seems necessary to take into account economic considerations as well, especially regarding the financial conditions of Central and Eastern European countries.
{"title":"Results of Hungarian field test trials set up for establishing new maximum permitted N dose values","authors":"B. Pirkó, S. Koós, J. Szabó, L. Radimszky, P. Csathó, T. Árendás, N. Fodor, A. Szabó","doi":"10.7896/j.2036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7896/j.2036","url":null,"abstract":"based on an agronomic approach, Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE) and an economic approach. In terms of the agronomic evaluation, no clear differences were found between treatments: the highest yields were obtained in respect of different treatments at the three experimental sites, but the differences were not significant. From the point of view of NUE, the N max experiment on the Nagyhörcsök calcareous chernozem soil showed the highest values, which, according to the EU N Expert Panel (EUNEP), are already in the unfavourable soil depletion range. From the economic point of view, there was no significant difference in net profits between the Present and New planned N max values. The EUNEP approach also confirms the need to increase N max values in order to decrease the potential for soil depletion. However, with a view to establishing the final optimum range for the EUNEP, it seems necessary to take into account economic considerations as well, especially regarding the financial conditions of Central and Eastern European countries.","PeriodicalId":44547,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Agricultural Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48173612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Compiling C/N and total-N dataset to support countrywide soil nutrient emission models for Hungary","authors":"","doi":"10.7896/j.2037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7896/j.2037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44547,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Agricultural Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44964990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper assesses consumer preferences for margarine among Hungarian and foreign university students (studying in Hungary) by using the discrete choice experiment. The questionnaire-based survey was preceded by a focus group interview which, supplemented with knowledge gained from literature, established product attributes involved in the examination (such as price, fat, salt and sunflower oil content). Results suggest that the increase in fat and salt content result in reduced con sumer utility and willingness to pay for margarine products. Sunflower oil content, however, was not found to play a significant role in consumer choices. When comparing the two groups, we found that international students tended to be more health conscious than their Hungarian counterparts.
{"title":"A Review of Purchasing Preferences for Margarine among Hungarian and International Students","authors":"Péter Czine, Z. Szakály, P. Balogh","doi":"10.7896/j.2008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7896/j.2008","url":null,"abstract":"This paper assesses consumer preferences for margarine among Hungarian and foreign university students (studying in Hungary) by using the discrete choice experiment. The questionnaire-based survey was preceded by a focus group interview which, supplemented with knowledge gained from literature, established product attributes involved in the examination (such as price, fat, salt and sunflower oil content). Results suggest that the increase in fat and salt content result in reduced con sumer utility and willingness to pay for margarine products. Sunflower oil content, however, was not found to play a significant role in consumer choices. When comparing the two groups, we found that international students tended to be more health conscious than their Hungarian counterparts.","PeriodicalId":44547,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Agricultural Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44158501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
analysed Data Envelopment 22.4% of (efficiency reserve). the farms operating in the Great Hungarian Plain, Central Hungary (34.8%) or in the Transdanubian Region (27.6%). All this suggests high reserves for potential efficiency growth.
{"title":"Exploring efficiency reserves in Hungarian milk production","authors":"K. Kovács, I. Szűcs","doi":"10.7896/j.1919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7896/j.1919","url":null,"abstract":"analysed Data Envelopment 22.4% of (efficiency reserve). the farms operating in the Great Hungarian Plain, Central Hungary (34.8%) or in the Transdanubian Region (27.6%). All this suggests high reserves for potential efficiency growth.","PeriodicalId":44547,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Agricultural Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45028586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
For this purpose, non-parametric Malmquist index and panel data of 15 counties over 11 years were used. Results show that only Talesh and Rudsar counties achieved productivity growth during the period analysed. Moreover, three counties of Astana-Ashrafieh, Lahijan and Masal & Shandermann experienced negative changes in efficiency and technology, which resulted in a significant negative change in TFP. Among understudy counties, only Sowme’ehSara County had year-to-year increase in productivity over the period 2007 to 2016. Furthermore, the counties of Roodsar and the Sowme’ehSara had the highest and lowest fluctuations of year-to-year TFP, respectively. The average of TFP change for all counties was negative. Overall, find ings show that with the exception of the years 2011, 2014 and 2016, the major changes in TFP all occurred due to technology change.
{"title":"Productivity analysis of sericulture in Northern Iran","authors":"M. Kavoosi-Kalashami, M. Motamed","doi":"10.7896/j.2004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7896/j.2004","url":null,"abstract":"For this purpose, non-parametric Malmquist index and panel data of 15 counties over 11 years were used. Results show that only Talesh and Rudsar counties achieved productivity growth during the period analysed. Moreover, three counties of Astana-Ashrafieh, Lahijan and Masal & Shandermann experienced negative changes in efficiency and technology, which resulted in a significant negative change in TFP. Among understudy counties, only Sowme’ehSara County had year-to-year increase in productivity over the period 2007 to 2016. Furthermore, the counties of Roodsar and the Sowme’ehSara had the highest and lowest fluctuations of year-to-year TFP, respectively. The average of TFP change for all counties was negative. Overall, find ings show that with the exception of the years 2011, 2014 and 2016, the major changes in TFP all occurred due to technology change.","PeriodicalId":44547,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Agricultural Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44022878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Agriculture has been the backbone of the Indian economy for centuries. More than half of the country’s population at present depends on agriculture and allied services for their livelihoods (Tripathi et al, 2018). Over the last few decades there has been a major transformation in the Indian agricultural sector. With the introduction of ‘Green Revolution’ technologies, agriculture in India has transitioned from subsistence to commercial farming. However, in spite of the success, the input intensive ‘Green Revolution’ in recent decades has often masked significant externalities, affecting natural resources and human health, as well as agriculture itself. Besides, there is also the added impact of neo-liberal economic reforms. Policy measures such as the reduction or withdrawal of input subsidies, privatisation and marketisation of economic activities have adversely affected the Indian peasants’ community (Goswami et al., 2017). Moreover, the twin effects of the ‘Green Revolution’ and the neo-liberalisation of the Indian economy have led to a deep agrarian crisis. The smallholders1 have become its worst victim. The prevailing agriculture system in India is characterised by high production costs, high interest rates for credit, volatile market prices for crops, and rising costs for fossil fuel-based inputs and private seeds. As a result, Indian farmers (especially the smallholders) increasingly find themselves in a perpetual cycle of debt. More than a quarter of a million farmers have committed suicide in India in the last two decades (Parvathamma, 2016). In the light of these growing concerns about the sustainability of the current input intensive agriculture system, the need for an alternative farming system has arisen. Various forms of alternative low-input farming practices have emerged in different corners across the world, promising reduced input costs and higher yields for farmers, chemical-
几个世纪以来，农业一直是印度经济的支柱。目前，该国一半以上的人口依靠农业和相关服务维持生计(Tripathi等人，2018年)。在过去的几十年里，印度农业部门发生了重大转变。随着“绿色革命”技术的引入，印度的农业已经从自给农业过渡到商业农业。然而，尽管取得了成功，近几十年来投入密集型的“绿色革命”往往掩盖了重大的外部因素，影响到自然资源和人类健康，以及农业本身。此外，还有新自由主义经济改革的额外影响。诸如减少或取消投入补贴、经济活动私有化和市场化等政策措施对印度农民社区产生了不利影响(Goswami et al.， 2017)。此外，“绿色革命”和印度经济新自由化的双重影响导致了深刻的农业危机。小农成了最严重的受害者。印度现行农业体系的特点是生产成本高、信贷利率高、作物市场价格波动，以及化石燃料投入物和私人种子的成本不断上升。因此，印度农民(尤其是小农)越来越多地发现自己陷入了债务的永久循环。在过去的二十年里，印度有超过25万农民自杀(Parvathamma, 2016)。鉴于对当前投入密集型农业系统的可持续性的这些日益增长的关切，需要一种替代的农业系统。各种形式的替代低投入农业实践在世界各地的不同角落出现，有望降低投入成本，提高农民的产量
{"title":"Economics of Zero Budget Natural Farming in Purulia District of West Bengal: Is It Economically Viable?","authors":"Nilojyoti Koner, A. Laha","doi":"10.7896/j.1924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7896/j.1924","url":null,"abstract":"Agriculture has been the backbone of the Indian economy for centuries. More than half of the country’s population at present depends on agriculture and allied services for their livelihoods (Tripathi et al, 2018). Over the last few decades there has been a major transformation in the Indian agricultural sector. With the introduction of ‘Green Revolution’ technologies, agriculture in India has transitioned from subsistence to commercial farming. However, in spite of the success, the input intensive ‘Green Revolution’ in recent decades has often masked significant externalities, affecting natural resources and human health, as well as agriculture itself. Besides, there is also the added impact of neo-liberal economic reforms. Policy measures such as the reduction or withdrawal of input subsidies, privatisation and marketisation of economic activities have adversely affected the Indian peasants’ community (Goswami et al., 2017). Moreover, the twin effects of the ‘Green Revolution’ and the neo-liberalisation of the Indian economy have led to a deep agrarian crisis. The smallholders1 have become its worst victim. The prevailing agriculture system in India is characterised by high production costs, high interest rates for credit, volatile market prices for crops, and rising costs for fossil fuel-based inputs and private seeds. As a result, Indian farmers (especially the smallholders) increasingly find themselves in a perpetual cycle of debt. More than a quarter of a million farmers have committed suicide in India in the last two decades (Parvathamma, 2016). In the light of these growing concerns about the sustainability of the current input intensive agriculture system, the need for an alternative farming system has arisen. Various forms of alternative low-input farming practices have emerged in different corners across the world, promising reduced input costs and higher yields for farmers, chemical-","PeriodicalId":44547,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Agricultural Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42268236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Against the backdrop of liberalised trade in agricultural commodities in the twenty-first century, world food prices have risen at a faster pace since 2007. Food price volatility is inextricably connected with the problems of food security due to its implications for the availability of food, household incomes and purchasing power, malnutrition, per capita consumption expenditure and the changing patterns of consumption on the part of poor people. In India’s case, a declining trend in the availability of food grains in the post-reform period can be explained by the encouragement given to the export of food grains due to India’s comparative advantage vis-a-vis the international market in relation to the pricing of food grains. However, the mere availability of food in the country is obviously not sufficient to ensure access to food for all households. In this context, our main objective in this paper is to evaluate the implications of food price volatility on access to food across decile classes in India. Empirical results reveal that consumption expenditure differs in both spatial (rural and urban) and temporal (pre- and post-2008) dimensions; specifically, the relative loss of consumption expenditure is significant in urban regions in comparison to rural regions in post-2008. In fact, difference-in-difference regression results also reinforced our earlier findings that differences in consumption expenditure can be explained by the spatial effect.
{"title":"Food Price Shocks and the Changing Pattern of Consumption Expenditure across Decile Classes in Rural and Urban India: A Difference-in-Difference Analysis","authors":"S. Sinha, A. Laha","doi":"10.7896/j.1911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7896/j.1911","url":null,"abstract":"Against the backdrop of liberalised trade in agricultural commodities in the twenty-first century, world food prices have risen at a faster pace since 2007. Food price volatility is inextricably connected with the problems of food security due to its implications for the availability of food, household incomes and purchasing power, malnutrition, per capita consumption expenditure and the changing patterns of consumption on the part of poor people. In India’s case, a declining trend in the availability of food grains in the post-reform period can be explained by the encouragement given to the export of food grains due to India’s comparative advantage vis-a-vis the international market in relation to the pricing of food grains. However, the mere availability of food in the country is obviously not sufficient to ensure access to food for all households. In this context, our main objective in this paper is to evaluate the implications of food price volatility on access to food across decile classes in India. Empirical results reveal that consumption expenditure differs in both spatial (rural and urban) and temporal (pre- and post-2008) dimensions; specifically, the relative loss of consumption expenditure is significant in urban regions in comparison to rural regions in post-2008. In fact, difference-in-difference regression results also reinforced our earlier findings that differences in consumption expenditure can be explained by the spatial effect.","PeriodicalId":44547,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Agricultural Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46641822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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