Household level spillover effects from biofuels: Evidence from castor in Ethiopia

Riera, Olivia; Swinnen, Johan

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.12.011

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“…Sustainable environmental behavior will eventually catalyze a "green lifestyle" that further induces residents to be "green consumerists". Actually, there also exists a negative spillover effect discussed in previous studies [23,24]. These studies indicate that a first environmental behavior does not necessarily catalyze a second and even hinders the generation and reinforcement of other environment behaviors.…”

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confidence: 57%

Environmental Behavior Spillover or Public Information Induction: Consumers’ Intention to Pay a Premium for Rice Grown with Green Manure as Crop Fertilizer

Zhang

Hao

et al. 2021

Foods

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Nowadays, there is a growing interest in pro-environmental foods produced by pro-environmental practices. However, consumers’ payment motivations towards such foods are currently poorly understood. This manuscript provided a critical investigation of Chinese consumers’ intention to pay a premium (ITPP) for rice grown with green manure as crop fertilizer (GMR). One focus was the establishment of an explanatory structural research framework that includes effects of environmental behavior spillover (EBS) and public information induction (PII); another focus was to analyze the impacts of the selected structural elements on ITPP by introducing education as a moderator. Results suggest that consumers’ ITPP can be largely influenced by PII, therefore, for GMR marketers and policy makers, measures should be developed to widen consumers’ access to public information related to GMR and to improve their capacity of screening effective information. EBS, when ITPP remains low, emerged as a pivotal predictor of consumers’ ITPP. This observation provides us with the enlightenment that breeding consumers’ daily environmental behaviors is highly valued to inspire their payment intention in the early stages of GMR market development. Another finding is that, with the introduction of the educational variable, the influence coefficients of EBS and PII on ITPP increased from 0.42 and 0.53 to 0.61 and 0.66, respectively, which means that it is possible to boost consumers’ payment intention by improving their educational attainment. This study contributes to the existing literature by providing empirical evidence for the GMR industrial upgrading strategy and have significant implications for the environmental governance of the agricultural sector.

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Section: Ebsmentioning

confidence: 57%

Environmental Behavior Spillover or Public Information Induction: Consumers’ Intention to Pay a Premium for Rice Grown with Green Manure as Crop Fertilizer

Zhang

Hao

et al. 2021

Foods

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“…In contrast to Lavers, studies by Negash and Swinnen (2013) and Riera and Swinnen (2016) on castor production through outgrower contract farming in four districts of the Wolayita and Gamo-Gofa zones of southern Ethiopia conclude that castor production significantly improves outgrowers’ food security. The two completely different findings from similar contract farming platforms or crops may be due to the context of the farmers.…”

Section: Large-scale Agriculture Versus Food Security In Ethiopiamentioning

confidence: 82%

Debate on the linkages between large-scale agriculture and farmers food security: Examples from Ethiopia

Gezahegn

2021

Human Geography

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This article critically contributes to the debate on private large-scale agriculture for export crop production as a means to address the problem of food security in Ethiopia. The reviewed literature was identified by combining relevant keywords. The consumer price index and rainfall pattern, food gaps and affected population were calculated and presented using Microsoft Excel software. The paper argues that although private large-scale agriculture has opportunities in terms of employment generation, income and national-level growth, it poses risks to small-scale farmers’ food security. Loss of access to agricultural land and exposure to market risks endanger their food and livelihood security. The analysis suggests that both large-scale and small-scale agriculture is not a viable means to effectively reduce Ethiopia’s complex food insecurity and hunger. Improving food production for local consumption through transforming small-scale farms to medium-sized labour-intensive farms coupled with investment in manufacturing and building social protection through the adoption of well-intentioned state-directed development interventions that care about the well-being of individuals and households is needed.

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“…Imperfect value chains, practices and conditions will increase risk, inefficiencies and transaction costs, and will reduce factor productivity, profitability and adoption. These issues might be mitigated by horizontal or vertical coordination of the value chain, such as associations or contract farming (Dalemans et al, ; Negash & Swinnen, ; Riera & Swinnen, ; Shinoj et al, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

A framework for profitability evaluation of agroforestry‐based biofuel value chains: An application to pongamia in India

2019

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Biofuel production from oilseed trees in small‐scale agroforestry systems is considered as a strategy for energy security, rural development and ecosystem services provision in low‐income countries. However, the economic potential of these systems remains unclear, as profitability studies commonly ignore key methodological issues such as quantitative uncertainty analysis, full accounting for opportunity costs, and inclusion of all value chain actors. This study addresses these methodological shortcomings and develops a framework for quantifying the long‐term financial performance of agroforestry‐based biofuel value chains. The framework is applied to a case in South India, to calculate profitability of pongamia (Millettia pinnata) cultivation and processing. The results show that pongamia cultivation has limited financial potential, and is only profitable in small‐scale settings, in the middle to long term and for a subset of farmers. If biodiesel is envisaged as the end product, the value chain requires substantial fiscal and marketing support to be economically viable. For current prices, financial performance is much higher if the seed oil is marketed instead of processed to biodiesel. Increased mechanization, increased yields and optimized agroforestry set‐ups might improve financial outcomes and reduce risks for both farmers and processors. These findings are case‐specific, while the developed framework opens the door to comprehensive investigation of the financial performance of other oilseed tree species and in other regions.

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Household level spillover effects from biofuels: Evidence from castor in Ethiopia

Cited by 20 publications

References 34 publications

Environmental Behavior Spillover or Public Information Induction: Consumers’ Intention to Pay a Premium for Rice Grown with Green Manure as Crop Fertilizer

Environmental Behavior Spillover or Public Information Induction: Consumers’ Intention to Pay a Premium for Rice Grown with Green Manure as Crop Fertilizer

Debate on the linkages between large-scale agriculture and farmers food security: Examples from Ethiopia

A framework for profitability evaluation of agroforestry‐based biofuel value chains: An application to pongamia in India

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