nep-agr New Economics Papers
on Agricultural Economics
Issue of 2020‒12‒21
29 papers chosen by
  1. Promoting Agri-Food Sector Transformation in Bangladesh By World Bank
  2. The Role of Regulations and Norms in Land Use Change By Irwin, Elena G.; Buckley, Geoffrey L.; Gnagey, Matthew; Irwin, Nicholas; Newburn, David; Pierce, Erin; Wrenn, Douglas; Zhang, Wendong
  3. Improving Agriculture and Food Security Risk Financing in Southern Africa By World Bank
  4. Drivers of organic farming: Lab-in-the-field evidence of the role of social comparison and information nudge in networks in Vietnam. By Kene Boun My; Phu Nguyen-Van; Thi Kim Cuong Pham; Anne Stenger; Tuyen Tiet; Nguyen To-The
  5. Global Land Inequality By Luis Bauluz; Yajna Govind; Filip Novokmet
  6. Efforts of Government on Reforming Agricultural Extension in Bihar: The ATMA Approach By Singh, K M; Meena, M S
  7. Leveraging the Landscape By Guoping Zhang; Mwanjalolo J.G. Majaliwa; Jian Xie
  8. Agriculture Risk Financing in Southern Africa By World Bank
  9. Artificial Intelligence in Agribusiness is Growing in Emerging Markets By Peter Cook; Felicity O'Neill
  10. Green assets of equines in Europe By Agata Rzekęć; Orsoni Agnès; Florence Gras; Celine Vial; Roly Owers
  11. Worsening Climate Crises and the Challenge of Red-Green Alliances for Labour: Introducing the Climate Justice Charter Alternative in South Africa By Vishwas Satgar
  12. Modern problems of the product market of Russia By Gorokhova, Tat’ayna; Pushkareva, Lyudmila; Pushkarev, Mikhail
  13. A Generalization of Environmental Productivity Analysis By Arnaud Abad; P Ravelojaona
  14. "Environmental markets exacerbate inequalities" By Stefan Ambec
  15. SNI Model for Sustainable Black Women Owned Cooperatives By Costa, King; Ntwane, Johlene
  16. RCEPTION OF THE TERROIR FOR WINE: ADAPTATION OF THE CONCEPT OF PERCEIVED TERROIRITY AND PROPOSAL OF A SCALE OF MEASUREMENT FOR WINE By Pascale Ertus; Christine Petr
  17. Economic Preferences and Obesity: Evidence from a Clinical Lab-in-Field Experiment By Pastore, Chiara; Schurer, Stefanie; Tymula, Agnieszka; Fuller, Nicholas; Caterson, Ian
  18. Asia’s emergence in global beverage markets: The rise of wine By Kym Anderson
  19. Recruitment of scarce competences to rural regions: Policies to promote recruitment. By Nyström, Kristina
  20. Social Capital Contributions to Food Security: A Comprehensive Literature Review By Saeed Nosratabadi; Nesrine Khazami; Marwa Ben Abdallah; Zoltan Lackner; Shahab S. Band; Amir Mosavi; Csaba Mako
  21. COVID-19 and Food Security By Joao Montalvao; Patricia Van de Velde
  22. Prospects for Growth in U.S. Dairy Exports to Southeast Asia By Davis, Christopher G.; Cessna, Jerry
  23. Do Standards Improve the Quality of Traded Products? By Anne-Célia Disdier; Carl Gaigné; Cristina Herghelegiu
  24. Agricultural economic reforms, gender inequalities and poverty in Senegal By Maisonnave Hélène; Nziengui Mamboudou
  25. Insurance and Propagation in Village Networks By Cynthia Kinnan; Krislert Samphantharak; Robert Townsend; Diego A. Vera Cossio
  26. Mercosur–EU Agreement: Impact on Agriculture, Environment, and Consumers By Ismail Doga Karatepe; Christoph Scherrer; Henrique Tizzot
  27. Illicit trade and infectious diseases By Beverelli, Cosimo; Ticku, Rohit
  28. Crop diversification with and without irrigation: Selected tribal households of South Odisha By Tripathy, Sadasiba; Das, Sandhyarani
  29. Are Expert Opinions Accurate? Panel Data Evidence from the Iowa Land Value Survey By Wendong Zhang; Sergio H. Lence; Todd Kuethe
  1. By: World Bank
    Keywords: Agriculture - Agricultural Sector Economics Agriculture - Agriculture & Farming Systems Agriculture - Climate Change and Agriculture Agriculture - Crops & Crop Management Systems Agriculture - Food Security Rural Development - Rural Labor Markets
    Date: 2020–05
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:33832&r=all
  2. By: Irwin, Elena G.; Buckley, Geoffrey L.; Gnagey, Matthew; Irwin, Nicholas; Newburn, David; Pierce, Erin; Wrenn, Douglas; Zhang, Wendong
    Abstract: Human uses of land produce large social benefits in the form of food, fiber, shelter, and other essential goods and services, but they also generate a range of environmental impacts, including carbon emissions, soil and water degradation, alterations of habitat and hydrologic cycles, and loss of biodiversity. The scale of land use impacts has increased dramatically over time with growing global population and development. Many scientists believe that current global land use practices are undermining the Earth's long-term ability to sustain food production, freshwater and forest resources, and other provisioning ecosystem services. While these concerns are global, land use decisions occur in local settings in response to local, regional, and global factors. Thus, achieving more sustainable land use practices relies on policies that can effectively manage land use and land change processes at local and multiple scales. Because the impacts vary across space, an understanding of the spatial pattern of land use and land change at local scales is also important.
    Date: 2019–01–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:isu:genstf:201901010800001779&r=all
  3. By: World Bank
    Keywords: Agriculture - Agricultural Sector Economics Agriculture - Climate Change and Agriculture Agriculture - Commodity Risk Management Agriculture - Food Security Finance and Financial Sector Development - Insurance & Risk Mitigation
    Date: 2020–05
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:34164&r=all
  4. By: Kene Boun My; Phu Nguyen-Van; Thi Kim Cuong Pham; Anne Stenger; Tuyen Tiet; Nguyen To-The
    Abstract: This study examines farmers’ investments in organic farming using the data from a contextualized lab-in-the-field experiment in Northern Vietnam. We analyze how network structures, information nudge and social comparison between farmers impact their decisions. Results show that networks play a key role in encouraging the adoption of organic farming. However, this effect differs depending on the type of network (circle, star or complete), indicating that the role of individuals and the number of individual connections matter. We find that the cooperation incentivized by social comparison can be more easily achieved in decentralized networks like circle networks than in star networks or complete networks. Our results suggest that policymakers can rely on social interaction and social comparison between farmers as well as on information nudge to encourage farmers to make decisions that support sustainable agriculture in Vietnam.
    Keywords: Lab-in-the-field; Network; Nudge; Organic agriculture; Social comparison..
    JEL: C91 C93 O13 Q12
    Date: 2020
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ulp:sbbeta:2020-54&r=all
  5. By: Luis Bauluz (University of Bonn, WIL - World Inequality Lab); Yajna Govind (PSE - Paris School of Economics, PJSE - Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques - UP1 - Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS Paris - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, WIL - World Inequality Lab); Filip Novokmet (WIL - World Inequality Lab , University of Bonn)
    Abstract: Agricultural land is vital for three out of four of the poorest billion individuals in the world yet little is known about the distribution of agricultural land. Existing crosscountry estimates of land inequality, based on agriculture census data, measure the size distribution of agricultural holdings. These neither reflect land ownership inequality nor value inequality and often do not account for the landless population. In this paper, we tackle these issues and provide novel and consistent estimates of land inequality across countries, based on household surveys. We show that i) land-value inequality can differ significantly from land-area inequality, ii) differences in the proportion of landless across countries vary substantially, affecting markedly inequality estimates and, iii) regional patterns in inequality according to our benchmark metric (landvalue inequality including the landless) contradict existing estimates from agricultural censuses. Overall, South Asia and Latin America exhibit the highest inequality with top 10% landowners capturing up to 75% of agricultural land, followed by Africa and 'Communist' Asia (China and Vietnam) at levels around 55-60%. .
    Keywords: Land Ownership,Inequality,Distribution
    Date: 2020–06
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:psewpa:halshs-03022318&r=all
  6. By: Singh, K M; Meena, M S
    Abstract: The extension system being an increasingly important engine for transfer of knowledge, innovations, and developments in agriculture, needs reforms over time. During mid-1990s, the Government of India (GoI) and the World Bank explored a new approach to address the prevalent problems and constraints of the agricultural extension system. A new approach known as Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) was pilot-tested through Innovations for Technology Dissemination (ITD) component of the World Bank funded, National Agricultural Technology Project (NATP) that became effective in 1998 and concluded in June 2005. The present study was undertaken to measure the impact of ATMA model implemented under the ITD component of NATP in Bihar using following indicators: research-extension-farmer interface, level of diversification, adoption of technology, and change in crop yields in the study locale. The study has revealed that the NATP-ATMA approach generated some financial resources, developed infrastructure, and facilitated the trainings of farmers. The study revealed that scientists have become more responsive to the needs of farmers and have sharpened their focus of research to meet location-specific requirements of farmers. Considerable improvement in adoption of new technologies and farm practices by all categories of farmers was observed. The spillover effect of these interventions was also seen in the nearby districts.
    Keywords: ATMA Model, NATP, Extension Reforms, Innovations in technology dissemination, Impact assessment
    JEL: Q1 Q16 Q18
    Date: 2019–03–23
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:104306&r=all
  7. By: Guoping Zhang; Mwanjalolo J.G. Majaliwa; Jian Xie
    Keywords: Environment - Environmental Disasters & Degradation Environment - Environmental Economics & Policies Environment - Natural Resources Management Environment - Sustainable Land Management Environment - Water Resources Management Rural Development - Natural Resources Management and Rural Issues
    Date: 2020–05
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:33911&r=all
  8. By: World Bank
    Keywords: Agriculture - Commodity Risk Management Agriculture - Food Security Finance and Financial Sector Development - Insurance & Risk Mitigation
    Date: 2020–06
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:34084&r=all
  9. By: Peter Cook; Felicity O'Neill
    Keywords: Agriculture - Agribusiness Agriculture - Agricultural Knowledge & Information Systems Agriculture - Food Markets Information and Communication Technologies - ICT Applications Information and Communication Technologies - Information Technology International Economics and Trade - Access to Markets International Economics and Trade - Foreign Direct Investment
    Date: 2020–05
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:34304&r=all
  10. By: Agata Rzekęć (UMR MOISA - Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement); Orsoni Agnès (IFCE - Institut Français du Cheval et de L'équitation); Florence Gras (European Horse Network); Celine Vial (UMR MOISA - Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement, IFCE - Institut Français du Cheval et de L'équitation); Roly Owers (World Horse Welfare)
    Abstract: Horses and other equines are actors of the sustainable development. That is the opinion of the European Horse Network.Today's ecological wake up calls and the importance of sustainable development encourage stakeholders to promote the environmental assets of the agricultural sector. The equine industry is part of the agricultural sector, but it differs from standard breeding through the multiplicity of activities involved. Equines are involved through the multiplicity of activities involved: from conservation grazing to agricultural traction and production, to racing, equestrian competition or outdoor tourism.The European Horse Network (EHN) published a document about the Green Assets of Equines in Europe. FEIF is one of the founding members of EHN.
    Keywords: Europe,Recherche,équidé,Environnement,filière équine,Impact environmental,Développement durable,Cheval,Ecologie,Territoire
    Date: 2020–10–13
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02995502&r=all
  11. By: Vishwas Satgar
    Abstract: The world is running out of time to prevent catastrophic climate change. In South Africa grassroots campaigning by the South African Food Sovereignty over the past six years, during the worst drought in the history of the country, produced a Climate Justice Charter(CJC). This CJC is unique in the world and is serving as the basis to build convergences between unions committed to a deep just transition and wider climate justice forces. It is laying the basis for red-green alliances to drive the deep just transition from below and constitute a climate justice project for the country. Many challenges face this process but crucial catalytic steps have been taken, with immense potential, to remake climate justice politics. This working paper serves as an introduction to the South African CJC and the systemic alternatives it is advancing. The CJC is included as an annexure to serve as a political resource for innovation and further development as unions attempt to build red-green alliances in other parts of the world to decarbonize and adapt their societies in the interests of the most vulnerable.
    Date: 2020–10
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ajy:icddwp:31&r=all
  12. By: Gorokhova, Tat’ayna; Pushkareva, Lyudmila; Pushkarev, Mikhail
    Abstract: Modern transformations in the economic life of society impose requirements on the reassessment of existing economic trends from the standpoint of the country’s economic security. In many regions of the country, the situation on the food market is far from ideal. A significant part of the food industry is controlled by transnational corporations, and modern own agricultural production does not cover the needs of the population for significant food products. This article reveals the development trends of the domestic food market. Particular attention is paid to the development of grain farming and the formation of the bread market.
    Keywords: product market; economic life; transformations.
    JEL: O1
    Date: 2020–05–05
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:102113&r=all
  13. By: Arnaud Abad (BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - UL - Université de Lorraine - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement); P Ravelojaona (UPVD - Université de Perpignan Via Domitia)
    Abstract: This paper aims to analyse environmental Total Factor Productivity (TFP) change. Indeed, innovative environmental TFP measures are introduced through convex and non convex environmental production processes. Hence, the impacts of input and output quality change on environmental productivity variation are underscored. In addition, general decomposition of the new ratio-and difference-based environmental TFP measures is proposed.
    Keywords: Environmental efficiency,Non Convexity,Pollution-generating Technology,Total Factor Productivity Indices
    Date: 2020–10–12
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-02964799&r=all
  14. By: Stefan Ambec (TSE - Toulouse School of Economics - UT1 - Université Toulouse 1 Capitole - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)
    Abstract: Environmental markets distribute tradable rights on natural resources that are available for free on the earth such as water, biomass or clean air. In a framework where users differ solely in respect of their access to the resource, I investigate the allocation of rights that are accepted in the sense that, after trading, users obtain at least what they can achieve by sharing the resources they control. I show that, among all accepted rights, the more egalitarian ones do not allow any redistribution among users. Consequently, compared to an efficient allocation of resources, the net trading of rights always increases inequality.
    Keywords: Common-pool resources,Environmental externalities,Property rights,Cooperative game,Fairness,Tradable quotas,Emission permits
    Date: 2020
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-02945513&r=all
  15. By: Costa, King (Global Centre for Academic Research); Ntwane, Johlene
    Abstract: This study focussed on developing a strategy framework for sustainable business undertaking by black women owned cooperatives in the Northern Cape district of Francis Baard. Black women owned cooperatives face a number of notable impediments that obstruct sustainable and successful business development and management. Some of the contributors to the current state of affairs could be attributable to lack of effective strategy focussed on cooperatives in general and black owned women cooperatives in particular. A number of studies have been published on the plight and status of cooperatives in South Africa and beyond, with clearly focussed recommendation emanating from empirical findings. This study, being aware of vast repository of literature on the phenomena and using the Population, Intervention, Comparator and Outcome (PICO) method, sought to answer the question, “how to develop a strategy framework for black women owned cooperatives to run sustainable businesses. A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis, a method within the Systematic Reviews approach was adopted as suitable orientation for answering the research question. A systematic review, also known as research on research (RoR) provides evidence based solution hinged upon primary research conducted by many different authors on the same context or situation. Using a Preferred Reporting items for systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA), A total of 400 articles were retrieved from varied databases such as Ebsco-host, Google Scholar, Z-Library and Web of Science. Through a rigorous critical appraisal of these articles, 100 articles were finally included in the study as subject of analysis. Thematic analysis using the webQDA software produced thematic expressions that were finally treated to develop a theory/framework as per main research objective. The outcome of this qualitative evidence synthesis culminated in a formulation of the SNI Framework for Sustainable Black Women Owned Cooperatives.
    Date: 2020–11–27
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:africa:7wrbd&r=all
  16. By: Pascale Ertus (LEGO - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Gestion de l'Ouest - UBS - Université de Bretagne Sud - UBO - Université de Brest - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - IBSHS - Institut Brestois des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société - UBO - Université de Brest - UBL - Université Bretagne Loire - IMT Atlantique - IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris]); Christine Petr (LEGO - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Gestion de l'Ouest - UBS - Université de Bretagne Sud - UBO - Université de Brest - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - IBSHS - Institut Brestois des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société - UBO - Université de Brest - UBL - Université Bretagne Loire - IMT Atlantique - IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris])
    Date: 2020–09–25
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03000562&r=all
  17. By: Pastore, Chiara (University of York); Schurer, Stefanie (University of Sydney); Tymula, Agnieszka (University of Sydney); Fuller, Nicholas (University of Sydney); Caterson, Ian (University of Sydney)
    Abstract: We study economic decision-making of 284 people with obesity and pre-diabetes who participated in a 6-months randomised controlled trial to control weight and prevent diabetes. To elicit preferences, we use incentive-compatible experimental tasks that participants completed during their medical screening examination. We find that, on average, participants are risk averse, show no evidence of present bias, and have impatience levels comparable to healthy samples described in the international literature. Variations in present bias and impatience are not significantly associated with variations in markers of obesity. But we find a significant negative association between risk tolerance and BMI and other markers of obesity for women. A 1 standard deviation increase in risk tolerance is associated with a 0.2 standard deviation drop in BMI and waist circumference. Impatience moderates the link between risk tolerance and obesity. We replicate the key finding of interaction effects between risk and time preferences using survey data from a nationally representative sample of 6,281 Australians with similar characteristics. Deviating markedly from the literature, we conclude that risk tolerance brings benefits for health outcomes if combined with patience in this understudied but highly policy-relevant population.
    Keywords: impatience, risk tolerance, obesity, incentive-compatible economic experiment, lab-in-field experiment
    JEL: C9 D9 D81 I12
    Date: 2020–12
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp13915&r=all
  18. By: Kym Anderson
    Abstract: Asia’s alcohol consumption, and its retail expenditure on each of beer, distilled spirits and grape wine, have more than doubled so far this century. In the process, the mix of beverages in Asia’s consumption of alcohol has been converging on that of the west as wine’s share rises. Since Asia’s beverage production has not kept up with its expansion in demand, imports net of exports are increasingly filling the gap – especially for wine. This paper analyses trends in consumption and imports for the region and key Asian countries, and provides projections to 2025 using a new model of global beverage markets.
    Keywords: Changes in beverage tastes, premiumization of alcohol consumption, impacts of tax and trade policies, beverage market projections
    JEL: F14 F17 L66 Q13
    Date: 2020
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pas:papers:2020-04&r=all
  19. By: Nyström, Kristina (The Ratio Institute)
    Abstract: This paper studies the perceived difficulty of recruiting scarce competences to rural regions. Furthermore, the role of policy in facilitating and enhancing recruitment to and better skills matching in rural regions is discussed. Based on a survey targeted to the business sections in Swedish municipalities, the results show that recruitment is perceived to be difficult in both rural and non-rural regions. However, recruitment problems in the public sector are more pronounced in rural municipalities. Nevertheless, recruitment to the public and business sectors are perceived to be equally difficult in rural regions. Both rural municipalities and non-rural municipalities state that the difficulty of recruiting the right skills results in a lack of skills matching and constitutes an obstacle to growth. Which policies can help remedy recruitment problems in rural regions? The pecuniary incentive of writing off student debt is perceived to be the most promising policy, but respondents also believe that non-pecuniary support such as relocation support for accompanying persons and tandem recruitment should be implemented to a greater extent. Finally, the need for flexibility and policies that can be adapted to the regional demand for labour are stressed. This regards for example the adaption of education programmes to local needs and rules and regulations.
    Keywords: Recruitment; skills matching; rural development; regional policy
    JEL: R23 R58
    Date: 2020–12–10
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:ratioi:0341&r=all
  20. By: Saeed Nosratabadi; Nesrine Khazami; Marwa Ben Abdallah; Zoltan Lackner; Shahab S. Band; Amir Mosavi; Csaba Mako
    Abstract: Social capital creates a synergy that benefits all members of a community. This review examines how social capital contributes to the food security of communities. A systematic literature review, based on Prisma, is designed to provide a state-of-the-art review on capacity social capital in this realm. The output of this method led to finding 39 related articles. Studying these articles illustrates that social capital improves food security through two mechanisms of knowledge sharing and product sharing (i.e., sharing food products). It reveals that social capital through improving the food security pillars (i.e., food availability, food accessibility, food utilization, and food system stability) affects food security. In other words, the interaction among the community members results in sharing food products and information among community members, which facilitates food availability and access to food. There are many shreds of evidence in the literature that sharing food and food products among the community member decreases household food security and provides healthy nutrition to vulnerable families and improves the food utilization pillar of food security. It is also disclosed that belonging to the social networks increases the community members' resilience and decreases the community's vulnerability that subsequently strengthens the stability of a food system. This study contributes to the common literature on food security and social capital by providing a conceptual model based on the literature. In addition to researchers, policymakers can use this study's findings to provide solutions to address food insecurity problems.
    Date: 2020–12
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2012.03606&r=all
  21. By: Joao Montalvao; Patricia Van de Velde
    Keywords: Agriculture - Food Security Gender - Gender and Development Gender - Gender and Rural Development Gender - Gender and Urban Development Urban Development - Urban Poverty
    Date: 2020–05
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:33813&r=all
  22. By: Davis, Christopher G.; Cessna, Jerry
    Abstract: Food demand in Southeast Asia (SEA) is expected to grow in the coming decades, creating pportunities for exporters of dairy products. The top dairy product suppliers to the region are New Zealand, the European Union (EU), the United States, and Australia. This study analyzes trends in market share over the 2006-18 timeframe and the price sensitivity for the top four U.S. dairy products imported by SEA countries: skim milk powder (SMP), whey products, cheese, and lactose. In 2018, these four products accounted for 85 percent of the total value of SEA dairy imports from the United States. Our findings show differing trends in market share and price sensitivity across products and countries. Our analysis reveals that SEA importers are more likely to substitute U.S. products for EU dairy products than for dairy products from New Zealand or Australia. Our research indicates that the United States has the potential to gain market share as import expenditures increase (holding prices constant) for cheese in Indonesia; whey products in Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines; SMP in Indonesia and Vietnam; and lactose in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia. SEA imports of U.S. dairy products are sensitive, in varying degrees, to changes in U.S. prices—as well as price changes for products from competing suppliers, such as the EU, Australia, and New Zealand.
    Keywords: Food Security and Poverty
    Date: 2020–12
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:uerser:307713&r=all
  23. By: Anne-Célia Disdier (PSE - Paris School of Economics); Carl Gaigné (SMART - Structures et Marché Agricoles, Ressources et Territoires - AGROCAMPUS OUEST - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement); Cristina Herghelegiu (ULB - Université libre de Bruxelles)
    Abstract: We examine whether standards raise the quality of traded products by correcting mar-ket failures associated with information asymmetry on product attributes. Our predictionson their quality and selection effects are based on a new trade model under uncertaintyabout product quality in which heterogeneous firms can strategically invest in quality sig-naling. Using French firm-level data, we exploit information on prices and productivity toestimate the quality of exported products. Higher quality is assigned to products suppliedby an exporter with higher marginal costs conditional on productivity. In accordance withour theory, quality standards enforced on products by destination countries (i) reduce theexport probability of low-quality firms but also that of high-quality low-productivity firms;(ii) increase the export participation and sales of high-productivity high-quality firms; (iii)improve the average quality of consumption goods exported by France.
    Keywords: Firm exports,quality standards,information asymmetry,product quality
    Date: 2020–01–08
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-02953680&r=all
  24. By: Maisonnave Hélène (FAI - Université Le Havre Normandie - Faculté des Affaires Internationales - ULH - Université Le Havre Normandie - NU - Normandie Université); Nziengui Mamboudou (FAI - Université Le Havre Normandie - Faculté des Affaires Internationales - ULH - Université Le Havre Normandie - NU - Normandie Université)
    Abstract: In Senegal, as in many developing countries, the agricultural sector plays a key role in the economy. As well as supplying food, agriculture is the most important source of employment, especially for women. Through the Plan for an Emerging Senegal (PES) the Senegalese government is implementing an ambitious financing plan to improve the productivity of the agricultural sector and to improve women's employment opportunities. Our study assesses the impact of two PES measures (investing in the agricultural sector and an increase in production subsidies for the agricultural sectors) on economic growth, women's employment, poverty and inequality using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model linked to a micro-simulation model. While on the one hand, we find that investing in the agricultural sectors has positive impacts on growth, improves women's work opportunities, decreases poverty and inequality both in the short and long term, however increasing production subsidies in the agricultural sectors has positive effects only in the short term and does not reduce inequality or poverty in the long term.
    Keywords: gender,poverty,public policies,agriculture,dynamic CGEM,Senegal
    Date: 2020–11–19
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-03015249&r=all
  25. By: Cynthia Kinnan; Krislert Samphantharak; Robert Townsend; Diego A. Vera Cossio
    Abstract: In village economies, insurance networks are key to smoothing shocks, while production networks can propagate them. The interplay of these networks is crucial. We show that a significant health expenditure shock to one household propagates to other linked households via supply-chain and labor networks. Imperfectly insured households adjust production decisions---cutting input spending and reducing labor hiring---affecting households with whom they trade inputs and labor. Household businesses proximate to shocked households in the supply chain network experience reduced local sales, and those proximate in the labor network experience a lower probability of working locally. As a result, indirectly shocked households’ earnings and consumption fall. These declines persist over several years because networks are rigid: households appear unable to form new linkages when existing links experience negative shocks. Propagation is a function of access to insurance networks: well-insured households do not cut spending when hit by shocks, leading to minimal propagation. A simple back-of-the-envelope exercise suggests that the total magnitude of indirect effects may be larger than the direct effects and that social (village-level) gains from expanding safety nets such as health insurance may be substantially higher than private (household-level) gains.
    JEL: D13 D22 I15 O1 Q12
    Date: 2020–11
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:28089&r=all
  26. By: Ismail Doga Karatepe; Christoph Scherrer; Henrique Tizzot
    Abstract: -
    Date: 2020–05
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ajy:icddwp:27&r=all
  27. By: Beverelli, Cosimo; Ticku, Rohit
    Abstract: We collect a novel dataset that covers about 130 countries and the six four-digit live animal categories in the Harmonized System (HS) over a sixteen-year period, to study the link between illicit trade in live animals and threat to animal health from infectious diseases. Our results imply that a one percent increase in illicit imports in an HS four-digit live animal category is associated with a 0.3 to 0.4 percent rise in infections amongst related species in the importing country. We explore the mechanisms and find that mis-classifying or under-pricing an imported species are the channels through which illicit trade impacts animal health.
    Keywords: illicit trade,missing imports,disease,live animals
    JEL: F14 F18 I18 K42 Q57
    Date: 2020
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:wtowps:ersd202013&r=all
  28. By: Tripathy, Sadasiba; Das, Sandhyarani
    Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the impact of irrigation on crop diversification. Crop diversification index has been employed to study the nature and extent of crop diversification in the study area. Descriptive statistics is used to explain the average CDI and irrigation. We found a mixed correlation between the factors and also observed a fluctuate impact on the crop diversification in the study area.
    Date: 2020–12–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:4ezmp&r=all
  29. By: Wendong Zhang (Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD)); Sergio H. Lence (Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD)); Todd Kuethe
    Abstract: Opinion surveys are the dominant method to gauge U.S. farmland values. However, there lacks a systematic evaluation of how opinions are formulated and adjust over time. Using a panel data of 311 agricultural professionals from the Iowa Land Value Survey from 2005 to 2015, we investigate how surveyed experts update their farmland value estimates. We find that experts almost fully correct their prior "errors" in a single period. Experts' opinions also incorporate most of the prevailing price innovations in one period. Our Bayesian estimation technique simultaneously addresses the non-stationarity of farmland values and the Nickell bias in short dynamic panels.
    Date: 2020–12
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ias:cpaper:20-wp612&r=all
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