Showing papers in "Food Policy in 2014"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between consumer motivation, understanding and use of sustainability labels on food products (both environmental and ethical labels) and found that consumers expressed medium high to high levels of concern with sustainability issues at the general level, but lower levels of interest in concrete food product choices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined cross-sectional data from the Malawi Third Integrated Household Survey (IHS3), a nationally representative sample of farming households in Malawi, implemented from March 2010-March 2011 as part of the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study - Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize how people, markets and governments are responding to rising land pressures in Africa, drawing on key findings from the various contributions in this special issue.

TL;DR: This paper evaluated the impact of adoption of improved wheat varieties on food security using a recent nationally-representative dataset of over 2000 farm households in Ethiopia and found that adoption increases food security and farm households that did adopt would also have benefited significantly had they adopted new varieties.

TL;DR: This study concludes that guidelines oriented in between the two directions (i.e., semi- and pesco-vegetarian) are the option with the optimal synergy between health and sustainability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore empirical evidence about the quantitative importance of supply, demand, and market shocks for price changes in international food commodity markets and distinguish between root, conditional, and internal drivers of price changes using three empirical models: (1) a price spike model in which monthly food price returns (spikes) are estimated against oil prices, supply and demand shocks, and excessive speculative activity; (2) a volatility model, in which annualized monthly variability of food prices is estimated against the same set of variables plus a financial crisis index; and (3) a trigger

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed causes of food waste and discussed how different stakeholders address the prevention and reuse of the €1.18 billion of annual edible food waste in Denmark.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared consumers' preferences for four types of sustainability claims related to organic meat, free range, animal welfare, and carbon footprint and found that nine in every ten Belgian consumers favor free range claims, which are also valued the most highly.

TL;DR: In this article, a model of surplus food generation and management called ASRW, Availability-Surplus-Recoverability-Waste, which encompasses the integrated food supply chain (i.e., business, environmental and social players) is presented.

TL;DR: It is found that age and income are important for the WTP for the Green Food in China and there are structural differences in consumer preference for Green Food between the large city and the small county.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed plot level adoption decisions of SIPs by male, female or joint plot managers within the household, controlling for household characteristics, asset wealth and land quality factors that condition investments in intensification options.

TL;DR: In this article, the past and potential future roles of land tenure reforms and land markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as responses to population growth in the process of land use intensification and livelihood transformation are investigated.

TL;DR: The entire food value chain and diet of low and middle income countries (LMICs) are rapidly shifting and current research, programs and policies are ignoring these rapid dynamic shifts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare how the most frequently used indicators of food security portray static and dynamic food security among the same sample of rural households in two districts of Tigray State, Northern Ethiopia.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of different types of information on consumers' perceptions about the state of marine stocks and the valuation of seafood ecolabels, and found that consumers' perception about fish stock levels changed after receiving information on declining stock levels, and more sensationalized information led to increased change.

TL;DR: The authors re-estimates PAC for Africa in a more explicit economic framework that emphasizes the returns to agricultural production under a variety of assumptions, using recent geospatial data, and shows that improvements in infrastructure and agricultural productivity and the growth of hinterland towns will enhance the economic returns to cropland expansion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used nationally representative household-level panel data from Malawi to estimate how rural population density impacts agricultural intensification and household well-being and found that areas of higher population density are associated with smaller farm sizes, lower real agricultural wage rates, and higher real maize prices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors adopt a supply chain approach to analyze two types of mechanization practices in Ghana, i.e., a recent state-led mechanization program and the private sector-led service hiring market, against an international perspective by drawing on three Asian supply models.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the current strategies available to monitor and detect the economically and criminally motivated adulteration of food, identifying their strengths and weaknesses and recommend new approaches and policies to strengthen future capabilities to counter adulterations in a globalized food environment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a structural model for estimating the impact of population density on input and output prices, farm size, and ultimately on smallholder behavior and agricultural intensification.

TL;DR: In Belgium, the Netherlands and France, nutrition and health claims on saturated fat yielded higher utilities than claims on protein and/or iron, while the opposite was found among consumers in the UK.

TL;DR: This paper found that the growth of emergent farmers in Zambia is primarily attributable to land acquisition by salaried urbanites and by relatively privileged rural individuals, and argued that these outcomes are the result of Zambia’s land administration and agricultural spending policies.

TL;DR: The authors evaluated the impact of Heifer International's dairy cow and meat goat donation programs in Rwanda and found that the program substantially increased dairy and meat consumption among Rwandan households who were given a dairy cow or a meat goat, respectively.

TL;DR: It is shown that rural markets are not generally missing in an absolute sense, suggesting that market existence is less of a problem than market function, which can be interpreted as a reduced form test of market failure.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined adaptation to falling land-labor ratios using a comprehensive theoretical framework in which households faced with binding land constraints can respond in three ways: intensifying agricultural production, diversifying out of agriculture, and reducing fertility rates.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed 563 farmland projects that have been established between 2005 and 2013 in sub-Saharan Africa and highlighted a number of popular misconceptions regarding investor origin and their sectoral interests and motives.

TL;DR: In this article, the variable impact of participation in high value agriculture through contract farming arrangements in southern India was assessed using survey data for 474 farmers in four commodity sectors, gherkins, papaya marigold and broiler, using an endogenous switching model to estimate net profits from participation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address this gap and demonstrate that producer companies are a promising tool to strengthen famers' position in their relationship with supermarket chains in India, but one which needs further improvement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use experimental data collected in 8 African countries to investigate whether a decentralized approach can promote the adoption of agricultural innovations, where local stakeholders meet and seek to identify problems and prioritize solutions.

TL;DR: In this article, the gender gap in adoption of modern maize was measured in Malawi and the authors investigated how the Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP) has impacted the gap.