Food and agriculture: shifting landscapes for policy

Gollin, Douglas; Probst, Lilli Teresa

doi:10.1093/oxrep/grv012

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“…In this study, we have found that the link between primary production, the movement of meat through the supply chain and the resulting use of meat in processed food products is hard to establish. This is not surprising as food manufacturing and processing has become ever more important in terms of supplying the food products demanded by consumers (Popkin, 2014;Gollin and Probst, 2015). Furthermore, it is the complexity of the supply chain that is in large part responsible for the horsemeat incident in the EU in 2013 whereby there was undeclared intentional substitution of beef with horsemeat in various processed products.…”

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Consumer preferences regarding country of origin for multiple meat products

Balcombe

Bradley²,

Fraser

et al. 2016

Food Policy

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Despite the growing use of country of origin (CoO) information and labels on food, the extent to which consumers really value this information is unclear. In an effort to understand this issue we present results of a hypothetical discrete choice experiment examining consumer willingness-topay for CoO information about meat and meat products. Our results reveal that CoO information is positively valued for all the food products we consider. However, it is relatively less important compared to other food attributes for a large number of products such as bacon, pizza and ready meals. Our results suggest that consumers do not value very highly CoO information for many of the food products examined. Therefore, if the associated costs of mandatory CoO implementation are sufficiently high this raises questions about the inclusion of this information on food labels.

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Consumer preferences regarding country of origin for multiple meat products

Balcombe

Bradley²,

Fraser

et al. 2016

Food Policy

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“…More vibrant small towns closer to the villages might offer greater opportunities for seasonal employment opportunities. In either case, the structure and role of the food system is going through an enormous transformation and offers significant potential for jobs and income opportunities that are often underappreciated as drivers of structural transformation (Gollin and Probst 2015;Townsend et al 2017;World Bank 2007). Urbanization and rising incomes drive profound changes in consumer demand for food, as well as changes in the structure of the food industry, offering significant potential for better jobs along agri-food value chains, and in agroprocessing and rural industry.…”

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Harvesting Prosperity: Technology and Productivity Growth in Agriculture

Fuglie¹,

Gautam²,

Goyal³

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“…GDP, gross domestic product. be attracted to firms upstream or downstream in the AVC as the use of purchased farm inputs and the packing or processing of farm outputs and their transporting to more-distant markets increases (Barrett et al, 2022;Gollin & Probst, 2015;Gollin & Kaboski, 2023). Those expanding AVC activities are often located in rural areas, even though their employment is recorded as being in the food processing part of manufacturing or in the transport services sector.…”

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Repurposing agricultural support policies for shared prosperity in rural Fiji

Anderson

2023

Asia & Pacific Policy Stud

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Notwithstanding the increasing place of tourism exports, the rural sector and its agricultural production remain important contributors to Fijiʼs economy. But their contribution is compromised by policies and institutions that distort the farm sectorʼs resource use, with too many resources employed by sugar and livestock producers at the expense of other farmers and producers of non‐farm products. Subsidies to the sugar industry could be used instead to boost investment in rural public goods such as infrastructure and agricultural research. That would benefit a much larger proportion of rural people, many of whom are below the poverty line. So too would a lowering of tariffs on imports of meat and milk products. And by thereby lowering food prices in urban areas, such re‐purposing of support would benefit their poorest households most. It would also lower the prices of high‐protein livestock products and nutrient‐rich fruits and vegetables, which could well improve nutrition and health.

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Food and agriculture: shifting landscapes for policy

Cited by 12 publications

References 7 publications

Consumer preferences regarding country of origin for multiple meat products

Consumer preferences regarding country of origin for multiple meat products

Harvesting Prosperity: Technology and Productivity Growth in Agriculture

Repurposing agricultural support policies for shared prosperity in rural Fiji

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