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.
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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":" ","pages":""},"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":" ","pages":""},"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}
contrast, the growth of carbon footprint is negatively related to the higher share of rural population and agricultural development.
相比之下，碳足迹的增长与农村人口比例的提高和农业发展呈负相关。
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Consumers have great power in the marketing process and social media represents an opportunity for farmers/producers to promote and strengthen ties with consumers by building short supply chains. Current business trends involving the application of social media for communication with costumers can also be observed among farmers/producers. The paper studies the use of social media by farmers/companies – here, the EU SKIN project partners registered within the SKIN Good Practice Repository. A first step included investigation of company webpages (native language version), which usually provided a general background to the company’s activities and information about its products. A Facebook page was identified as the primary social media channel (used by 81% of the investigated group) as farmers/producers who did not have it also did not refer to any other social media. Research results indicate a relatively wide audience for the Facebook pages of farmers/producers (numbers of likes and followers) but interactions with consumers are limited (a low number of comments and sharings). The conclusion is implied that a number of farmers/producers use social media for providing information but they mostly interact with their costumers offline.
{"title":"Social media for interactions with customers within the short food supply chain: the case of the SKIN project","authors":"N. Drejerska, J. Gołębiewski, M. Fiore","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.292235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.292235","url":null,"abstract":"Consumers have great power in the marketing process and social media represents an opportunity for farmers/producers to promote and strengthen ties with consumers by building short supply chains. Current business trends involving the application of social media for communication with costumers can also be observed among farmers/producers. The paper studies the use of social media by farmers/companies – here, the EU SKIN project partners registered within the SKIN Good Practice Repository. A first step included investigation of company webpages (native language version), which usually provided a general background to the company’s activities and information about its products. A Facebook page was identified as the primary social media channel (used by 81% of the investigated group) as farmers/producers who did not have it also did not refer to any other social media. Research results indicate a relatively wide audience for the Facebook pages of farmers/producers (numbers of likes and followers) but interactions with consumers are limited (a low number of comments and sharings). The conclusion is implied that a number of farmers/producers use social media for providing information but they mostly interact with their costumers offline.","PeriodicalId":44547,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Agricultural Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44590850","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}
Marcella Giacomarra, Antonio Tulone, M. Crescimanno, A. Galati
This paper is the first study to explore the intention of entrepreneurs operating in the Short Food Supply Chain to adopt electric mobility inside their business. For this purpose, a case study approach was chosen, employing a questionnaire based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour and the New Ecological Paradigm to investigate the determinants affecting this intentional behaviour. The empirical analysis has been carried out in the city of Palermo (Italy), involving 42 entrepreneurs who participate in farmer’s markets. Results show that entrepreneurs with higher levels of intention to introduce sustainable means of transport, such as electric vehicles, are the most concerned about the environment and the delicate balance of natural ecosystems. Moreover, the more frequently local farmers participate in local markets, the higher is their intention to adopt electric vehicles for their business. The preliminary results here discussed enrich the existing literature and provide interesting insights for Short Food Supply Chain entrepreneurs and policy makers, paving the way for future research into this topic.
{"title":"Electric mobility in the Sicilian short food supply chain","authors":"Marcella Giacomarra, Antonio Tulone, M. Crescimanno, A. Galati","doi":"10.7896/J.1907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7896/J.1907","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is the first study to explore the intention of entrepreneurs operating in the Short Food Supply Chain to adopt electric mobility inside their business. For this purpose, a case study approach was chosen, employing a questionnaire based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour and the New Ecological Paradigm to investigate the determinants affecting this intentional behaviour. The empirical analysis has been carried out in the city of Palermo (Italy), involving 42 entrepreneurs who participate in farmer’s markets. Results show that entrepreneurs with higher levels of intention to introduce sustainable means of transport, such as electric vehicles, are the most concerned about the environment and the delicate balance of natural ecosystems. Moreover, the more frequently local farmers participate in local markets, the higher is their intention to adopt electric vehicles for their business. The preliminary results here discussed enrich the existing literature and provide interesting insights for Short Food Supply Chain entrepreneurs and policy makers, paving the way for future research into this topic.","PeriodicalId":44547,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Agricultural Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47448873","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}
G. Nemes, Viktória Csizmadiáné Czuppon, K. Kujáni, Éva Orbán, Ágnes Szegedyné Fricz, Veronika Lajos
This article investigates the roles that locally produced, processed and marketed food (Local Food System) play in rural tourism and local socio-economic development. It is the first account of a 3 years’ research project (LO-KALI) exploring a successful Hungarian rural tourism destination, investigating both the demand side (what attracts tourists to pay for premium products/services); and the supply side (what attitudes, norms, values keep producers in their business). We contrast the externally perceived image (‘genius loci’) of the region (‘Hungarian Provence’, together with its cultural landscape, gastronomy, and social and environmental sustainability) with the impacts of the current development process on the environment and the general wellbeing of the local economy and society in reality. This article presents some of the theories and the analytical framework underpinning our project, alongside preliminary results on how the elements contributing to tourist attraction are perceived by locals and by visitors to the region.
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J. Hyland, P. Crehan, F. Colantuono, Á. Macken-Walsh
Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) are central to the alternative food movement discourse. SFSCs are based upon the interrelations among actors who are directly involved in the production, processing, distribution, and consumption of food products. They depend upon actors mobilising resources of various kinds: skills; knowledge; labour; capital; buildings etc. External factors such as policies and regulations can also encourage the creation of these shorter chains. The development of SFSCs can still be hindered by a range of other factors. Nevertheless, bottlenecks can be overcome via the sharing of information on successful SFSCs through the dissemination of Good Practices between various actors and territories. The Short Supply Chain Knowledge and Innovation (SKIN) project uses the term ‘good’ rather than ‘best’ practice to draw attention to the subjective lens through which a practice is ultimately evaluated by an end-user. This paper first outlines the many issues that confront SFSC actors which represent bottlenecks to the adoption of ‘Good Practices’. It then documents the Good Practices collected as part of the SKIN project as tangible examples of how SFSCs overcome such challenges. Lessons learnt from project highlights are subsequently assessed in an effort to mitigate and offer solutions to the challenges associated with SFSCs. The paper demonstrates the considerable latent potential inherent to SFSCs. However, in order for the agricultural sector to realise the full promise of short supply chains it must first be conscious of the issues pertinent to their prosperity.
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M. Stanco, Marco Lerro, G. Marotta, Concetta Nazzaro
A “farmers’ market” identifies a common area where farmers meet periodically to sell food products which do not need to be processed before consumption. Farmers’ markets have recently experienced steady growth mainly due to increasing demand for traditional foods and rising consumers’ interest towards locally produced food products. It is also the case that they provide transparency along the supply chain and decrease information asymmetries. This study attempts to define the farmers and consumers of farmers’ markets in terms of both their socio-demographic and their attitudinal characteristics. Data gathering was performed carrying out face-to-face interviews with sixty farmers and consumers. The study findings show that the majority of consumers purchasing at farmers’ markets are women, with an average age of 49 and with a high level of education. They attach great value to the availability of fresh and organic products with a good value for money. Farmers, by contrast, are mainly male, with an average age of 45 years, a high school degree and several years of experience in farming. They value more the creation of a direct and durable relationship with consumers in order to convey information about the quality and authenticity of their products. The study offers useful implications to policy makers on how to encourage the creation of farmers’ markets as well as spread the shared value created among farmers and consumers.
{"title":"Consumers’ and farmers’ characteristics in short food supply chains: an exploratory analysis","authors":"M. Stanco, Marco Lerro, G. Marotta, Concetta Nazzaro","doi":"10.7896/J.1905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7896/J.1905","url":null,"abstract":"A “farmers’ market” identifies a common area where farmers meet periodically to sell food products which do not need to be processed before consumption. Farmers’ markets have recently experienced steady growth mainly due to increasing demand for traditional foods and rising consumers’ interest towards locally produced food products. It is also the case that they provide transparency along the supply chain and decrease information asymmetries. This study attempts to define the farmers and consumers of farmers’ markets in terms of both their socio-demographic and their attitudinal characteristics. Data gathering was performed carrying out face-to-face interviews with sixty farmers and consumers. The study findings show that the majority of consumers purchasing at farmers’ markets are women, with an average age of 49 and with a high level of education. They attach great value to the availability of fresh and organic products with a good value for money. Farmers, by contrast, are mainly male, with an average age of 45 years, a high school degree and several years of experience in farming. They value more the creation of a direct and durable relationship with consumers in order to convey information about the quality and authenticity of their products. The study offers useful implications to policy makers on how to encourage the creation of farmers’ markets as well as spread the shared value created among farmers and consumers.","PeriodicalId":44547,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Agricultural Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43532257","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}
C. Delicato, M. Collison, Iryna Myronyuk, Tayisiya Symochko, N. Boyko
This paper investigates the current research on how consumers select the foods they buy and how they define ‘quality’. Consumer decisions are complex and whilst a few consumers prioritise local above all other factors when selecting food, for most local is simply one of multiple factors which influence the food choices they make. Short Food Chains are not necessarily local but are based on supply chains with fewer steps in the chain from producer to consumer. Short Food Chains ensure that more of the value of the food is returned to producers and allows consumers to have a more direct connection to where and how their food was produced. Short Food Chains tend to exhibit features which consumers increasingly value, whether these be traceability and provenance, organic, familiarity, tradition or a connection to a specific place and culture. These strengths of Short Food Chains suggest that there is real potential to see major growth in this sector in the coming decade. As Kotler observed, you have to sell to the pocket, the heart and the soul and, in the food sector, embracing Short Food Chains can help producers to do this.
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