When is Green Really Green? A Latvian Case Study on Updating of Food Supply Green Public Procurement

Simanovska, Jana; Pelša, Inese; Kibilda-Kinna, Nora

doi:10.2478/rtuect-2020-0120

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“…Hence, the research can proceed for the intended estimation of causal inference using the coarsened data panel. The weights for every panel unit using formulae (3,4) are calculated and formed into a diagonal matrix. After that, the regression using formula (5) is performed.…”

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Estimation of impact of participation in public green procurement of food on farm numbers in rural Latvian counties

Hazners

Zvirbule

2023

22nd International Scientific Conference Engineering for Rural Development Proceedings

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Green Public Procurement (GPP) of food in Latvia is a tool that directly provides the increase in sales of local food products via purchases by local communities and state institutions in sectors such as education, defence, interior, healthcare and welfare. Public procurement within the framework of GPP ensures that the purchase of the food products or catering services minimizes the environmental impact while having positive social consequences. The share of local farms in the total directly provided product volumes within GPP is minor and the bulk of the farm produce goes through wholesale, food processing and public catering companies. The Latvian agriculture is experiencing continuous structural changes with the consolidation and decrease in farm numbers. The rate of the farm “disappearance” in rural counties with companies participating in the food GPP is similar to the counties without such companies. This could lead to the expectations that changes in the farm numbers are not affected by participation in GPP. While the previous research on the impact of GPP in the European countries has extensively focused on the environmental, economic and social issues, the causal inference with respect to changes in farm numbers has not been addressed. Coarsened exact matching (CEM) is the method for the estimation of the causal effects that has been widely applied to observational data. The advantages of CEM are associated with the reduction of the differences between multivariate distributions of covariates in treatment and control groups by pruning the data with splitting into pre-determined bins. The research objective is to evaluate the net impact of the participation in GPP by a rural county on the number of farms in this county. Considering the participation in GPP as a treatment variable in the rural county panel data, the results of CEM reveal positive net impact on the farm numbers in the treated counties. Albeit the direct farm participation in food GPP is negligible, the participation of other companies in food GPP has positive net direct impact on farm numbers. Participation in a food GPP over the period from 2018 to 2020 has contributed to sustainability of 2179 farms. Considering that only about 21% of rural communities have direct participation in food GPP, a modification of the National regulation of GPP towards an increased preferences for local suppliers would improve the resilience of the farming sector.

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“…Simanovska et.al. [4] regard the existing national legal framework regulating on GPP as rather vague with a broad range of equally rated criteria. Hence, often less environmentally beneficial options are chosen.…”

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Estimation of impact of participation in public green procurement of food on farm numbers in rural Latvian counties

Hazners

Zvirbule

2023

22nd International Scientific Conference Engineering for Rural Development Proceedings

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“…It is pretty apparent that there is a strong bias towards the environmental dimension compared to other dimensions (Vörösmarty and Tátrai, 2019; Zipperer, 2019; Sönnichsen and Clement, 2020; Hamdan et al , 2021; Simanovska et al , 2021). However, decent studies have emerged that cater to social criteria in public procurement tendering (Hughes et al , 2019; Osei-Kyei et al , 2019; Vieira et al , 2020; Troje, 2021).…”

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Sustainable innovations in Malaysia’s public procurement: strategic policy initiatives and coherences

Ishak

Thiruchelvam

2023

IJIS

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to discuss policy review in the interest of sustainable innovations in Malaysia’s public procurement. This study also offers the overall relationship between existing policies related to sustainable innovations in public procurement and the coherences towards the four dimensions of sustainable innovations. Design/methodology/approach This study outlines the current policies in Malaysia which are related to sustainable innovation initiatives and explores the cohesiveness that appears disconnected and understood separately. Policy content analysis is conducted on the current policies related to sustainable innovations in the context of Malaysia’s public procurement. Findings This study observed that the current policies related to sustainable innovations in public procurement are actually interconnected with each other through a hierarchical framework. This study also demonstrates that the 12th Malaysia Plan has comprehensively encompassed every aspect of the environment, social, economic and innovation to contribute to one primary goal – green economic growth. Research limitations/implications The proposed policy framework is expected to be beneficial for the administrator executive among the civil servant to connect the independent policies and, at the same time, contribute to the overall goal of green economic growth. Through a broad policy structure too, this study helps the industry player to recognize their potential in any area related to sustainable innovation. Originality/value The policy framework illustrated is new to the literature, especially in Malaysia’s context. The compilation of current policy grounded by the 12th Malaysia Plan has not been presented in any publications.

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Public procurement from the triple bottom line lens: the identification of sustainability criteria from the international literature review

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da Cunha Reis

2024

Environ Dev Sustain

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When is Green Really Green? A Latvian Case Study on Updating of Food Supply Green Public Procurement

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

Estimation of impact of participation in public green procurement of food on farm numbers in rural Latvian counties

Estimation of impact of participation in public green procurement of food on farm numbers in rural Latvian counties

Sustainable innovations in Malaysia’s public procurement: strategic policy initiatives and coherences

Public procurement from the triple bottom line lens: the identification of sustainability criteria from the international literature review

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