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https://read.qxmd.com/read/35431402/are-home-gardening-programs-a-sustainable-way-to-improve-nutrition-lessons-from-a-cluster-randomized-controlled-trial-in-rufiji-tanzania
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Mia M Blakstad, Dominic Mosha, Lilia Bliznashka, Alexandra L Bellows, Chelsey R Canavan, Mashavu H Yussuf, Killian Mlalama, Isabel Madzorera, Jarvis T Chen, Ramadhani A Noor, Joyce Kinabo, Honorati Masanja, Wafaie W Fawzi
Homestead food production (HFP) programs may improve diet and nutrition outcomes by increasing availability of nutrient dense foods such as vegetables and supporting livelihoods. We conducted a pair-matched cluster-randomized controlled trial to investigate whether vegetable home gardens could improve women's dietary diversity, household food security, maternal and child iron status, and the probability of women consuming nutrient-rich food groups. We enrolled 1,006 women of reproductive age (18-49 years) in ten villages in Pwani Region, Eastern Tanzania, matched the villages into pairs according to village characteristics, and randomly allocated villages to intervention or control...
May 2022: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36569118/regional-and-plant-size-impacts-of-covid-19-on-beef-processing
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Justin D Bina, Glynn T Tonsor, Lee L Schulz, William F Hahn
During the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. consumers witnessed changes in the volume and type of meat products available at retail and food service markets. Simultaneously, widening farm-to-wholesale price spreads fueled calls for industry change and several related policy proposals. The objective of this study is to document fed cattle slaughter and evaluate the structure and performance of the beef processing industry during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. For major beef-producing regions, the 2019-2020 change in federally inspected U...
April 2022: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37766773/place-matters-out-of-home-demand-for-food-and-beverages-in-great-britain
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Cherry Law, Richard Smith, Laura Cornelsen
Fiscal policies to influence consumption of food and beverages are increasing globally. Most food demand studies focus on understanding consumer response in the context of food and beverages consumed at home. Yet food and beverages consumed outside of the home play an increasing part in our diets, and demand elasticities for these settings are crucial for assessing the potential impact of such fiscal measures on promoting healthier diets. Utilising a large out-of-home food purchase dataset from Great Britain in 2016-17, this paper analyses the demand for seven food groups across four outlet types, including restaurants, fast-food outlets, food retails and other outlets...
February 2022: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34924679/covid-19-risk-perception-and-restaurant-utilization-after-easing-in-person-restrictions
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Jackie Yenerall, Kimberly Jensen, Xuqi Chen, T Edward Yu
This article investigated the influence of risk aversion and the perception of risk associated with dining inside a restaurant on restaurant utilization and expenditures in the initial re-opening phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Consistent with economic theory, risk aversion and perception decreased the use of in-person restaurant services and increased the probability of using take-out and delivery, but had no influence on total restaurant expenditures. Risk perception had a larger effect on indoor dining compared to outdoor dining, suggesting risk averting behavior within the utilization of in-person restaurant services...
February 2022: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34903907/has-global-agricultural-trade-been-resilient-under-coronavirus-covid-19-findings-from-an-econometric-assessment-of-2020
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shawn Arita, Jason Grant, Sharon Sydow, Jayson Beckman
Global agricultural trade, which increased at the end of 2020, has been described as "resilient" to the impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic; however, the size and channels of its quantitative impacts are not clear. Using a reduced-form, gravity-based econometric model for monthly trade, we estimate the effects of COVID-19 incidence rates, policy restrictions imposed by governments to curb the outbreak, and the de facto reduction in human mobility/lockdown effect on global agricultural trade through the end of 2020...
February 2022: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35221447/associations-of-a-national-tax-on-non-essential-high-calorie-foods-with-changes-in-consumer-prices
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Tadeja Gračner, Kandice A Kapinos, Paul J Gertler
Several governments are considering taxes on non-essential energy-dense, high calorie foods (NEDF) to increase their prices and thereby encourage better diet and health. Alongside a tax on sugary drinks in January 2014, Mexico implemented such a tax: an 8 percent ad-valorem tax on NEDF, defined as those with energy density equal or larger than 275kcal/100g. We study the changes in the prices of taxed and tax-exempt foods following this tax both on average and by tax-eligible foods across store types and cities, using monthly price data between 2012 and 2016...
January 2022: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34703074/journal-submissions-review-and-editorial-decision-patterns-during-initial-covid-19-restrictions
#27
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Beatrice Biondi, Christopher B Barrett, Mario Mazzocchi, Amy Ando, David Harvey, Mindy Mallory
We use the full administrative records from four leading agricultural economics journals to study the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on manuscript submission, editorial desk rejection and reviewer acceptance rates, and time to editorial decision. We also test for gender differences in these impacts. Manuscript submissions increased sharply and equi-proportionately by gender. Desk rejection rates remained stable, leading to increased demand for reviews. Female reviewers became eight percentage points more likely to decline a review invitation during the early stage of the pandemic...
December 2021: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34776590/the-impact-of-policy-design-on-payment-concentration-in-ad-hoc-disaster-relief-lessons-from-the-market-facilitation-and-coronavirus-food-assistance-programs
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Eric J Belasco, Vincent Smith
This study examines the distributional implications of two recent ad-hoc disaster aid programs, the 2018 and 2019 Market Facilitation Payment (MFP) programs that have distinctly different program designs, and the federal crop insurance program. Farm-level data are used to estimate the relationship between farm size, measured by crop sales, and the distribution of program benefits. Results indicate payments are more concentrated on larger farms that receive higher per acre payments under the 2018 MFP and federal crop insurance programs...
November 6, 2021: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34720344/firm-s-compliance-behaviour-towards-food-fortification-regulations-evidence-from-oil-and-salt-producers-in-bangladesh
#29
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Amrita Saha, Daniele Guariso, Mduduzi N N Mbuya, Ayako Ebata
Impact of national food fortification programs is contingent on the extent to which there is compliance with national standards. However, this compliance is often sub-optimal and is not consistently measured. One of the challenges to more regular measurement is an over-reliance on quantitative assessments of micronutrient levels for compliance, which are costly. In resource constrained environments, this contributes to weaknesses in regulatory monitoring. We offer an alternative, systems-based approach to determine compliance, presenting a unique score that can capture firms' compliance behaviour, based on whether and how firms actually carry out stages of the fortification process...
October 2021: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34720343/whose-rights-deserve-protection-framing-analysis-of-responses-to-the-2016-committee-of-advertising-practice-consultation-on-the-non-broadcast-advertising-of-foods-and-soft-drinks-to-children
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Lauren Carters-White, Stephanie Chambers, Kathryn Skivington, Shona Hilton
Exposure to advertising of food and beverages high in fat sugar and salt (HFSS) is considered a factor in the development of childhood obesity. This paper uses framing analysis to examine the strategic discursive practices employed by non-industry and industry responders to the Committee of Advertising Practice's consultation responses (n = 86) on UK regulation of non-broadcast advertising of foods and soft drinks to children. Our analysis demonstrates non-industry and industry responders engaged in a moral framing battle centred on whose rights were deemed as being of greatest importance to protect: children or industry...
October 2021: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34720342/understanding-drivers-of-private-sector-compliance-to-large-scale-food-fortification-a-case-study-on-edible-oil-value-chains-in-bangladesh
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Ayako Ebata, Jodie Thorpe, Ainee Islam, Sabiha Sultana, Mduduzi N N Mbuya
Micronutrient deficiency is a pertinent global challenge that affects billions of people and has deleterious health effects. Large-scale food fortification (LSFF) is a cost- effective way to tackle micronutrient deficiency and improve health outcomes, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, the success of LSFF in LMICs is often hampered by limited compliance with fortification mandates by the private sector, who supply fortified foods. In this paper, we use a case study of the edible oil produced in Bangladesh to analyze the factors facilitating and impeding this compliance by for-profit actors...
October 2021: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34483442/high-frequency-phone-surveys-on-covid-19-good-practices-open-questions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sydney Gourlay, Talip Kilic, Antonio Martuscelli, Philip Wollburg, Alberto Zezza
Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face survey data collection efforts came to a halt due to lockdowns, limitations on mobility and social distancing requirements. What followed was a surge in phone surveys to fulfill rapidly evolving needs for timely and policy-relevant microdata for understanding the socioeconomic impacts of and responses to the pandemic. Even as the face-to-face survey data collection efforts are resuming in different parts of the world with COVID-19 safety protocols, the rapidly-acquired experience with phone surveys on the part of national statistical offices and survey practitioners in low- and middle-income countries appears to have formed the foundation for phone surveys to be more commonly implemented in the post-pandemic era, in response to other shocks and as complementary efforts to face-to-face surveys...
August 31, 2021: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34898811/how-accurate-are-yield-estimates-from-crop-cuts-evidence-from-smallholder-maize-farms-in-ethiopia
#33
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Frederic Kosmowski, Jordan Chamberlin, Hailemariam Ayalew, Tesfaye Sida, Kibrom Abay, Peter Craufurd
Agricultural statistics and applied analyses have benefitted from moving from farmer estimates of yield to crop cut based estimates, now regarded as a gold standard. However, in practice, crop cuts and other sample-based protocols vary widely in the details of their implementations and little empirical work has documented how alternative yield estimation methods perform. Here, we undertake a well-measured experiment of multiple yield estimation methods on 237 smallholder maize plots in Amhara region, Ethiopia...
July 2021: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34404960/evidence-of-a-health-risk-signalling-effect-following-the-introduction-of-a-sugar-sweetened-beverage-tax
#34
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Miriam Alvarado, Tarra L Penney, Nigel Unwin, Madhuvanti M Murphy, Jean Adams
Consuming sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been associated with increased rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes, making SSBs an increasingly popular target for taxation. In addition to changing prices, the introduction of an SSB tax may convey information about the health risks of SSBs (a signalling effect). If SSB taxation operates in part by producing a health risk signal, there may be important opportunities to amplify this effect. Our aim was to assess whether there is evidence of a risk signalling effect following the introduction of the Barbados SSB tax...
July 2021: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36570064/covid-19-and-food-security-panel-data-evidence-from-nigeria
#35
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mulubrhan Amare, Kibrom A Abay, Luca Tiberti, Jordan Chamberlin
This paper combines pre-pandemic face-to-face survey data with follow up phone surveys collected in April-May 2020 to examine the implication of the COVID-19 pandemic on household food security and labor market participation outcomes in Nigeria. To examine these relationships and implications, we exploit spatial variation in exposure to COVID-19 related infections and lockdown measures, along with temporal differences in our outcomes of interest, using a difference-in-difference approach. We find that households exposed to higher COVID-19 case rates or mobility lockdowns experience a significant increase in measures of food insecurity...
May 2021: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36570063/unscrambling-u-s-egg-supply-chains-amid-covid-19
#36
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Trey Malone, K Aleks Schaefer, Jayson L Lusk
This article investigates how the shift from food-away-from-home and towards food-at-home at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic affected the U.S. egg industry. We find that the pandemic increased retail and farm-gate prices for table eggs by approximately 141% and 182%, respectively. In contrast, prices for breaking stock eggs-which are primarily used in foodservice and restaurants-fell by 67%. On April 3, 2020, the FDA responded by issuing temporary exemptions from certain food safety standards for breaking stock egg producers seeking to sell into the retail table egg market...
May 2021: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36570062/determinants-and-dynamics-of-food-insecurity-during-covid-19-in-rural-bangladesh
#37
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Firoz Ahmed, Asad Islam, Debayan Pakrashi, Tabassum Rahman, Abu Siddique
COVID-19 has threatened food security of the poor due to the lockdown of markets amidst poor institutions and lack of social safety nets in the developing world. To provide rapid evidence on the determinants and dynamics of food insecurity and to understand the coping strategies adopted by rural households during the pandemic, we carried out a telephone survey of roughly 10,000 rural households in Bangladesh, three weeks after the country went into lockdown. We found that roughly 90% of households reported experiencing a negative income shock after the countrywide lockdown was implemented...
May 2021: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36570061/the-coronavirus-pandemic-and-food-security-evidence-from-mali
#38
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Guigonan Serge Adjognon, Jeffrey R Bloem, Aly Sanoh
This paper documents some of the first estimates of changes in experienced food insecurity associated with the coronavirus pandemic in a low-income country. It combines nationally representative pre-pandemic household survey data with follow-up phone survey data from Mali and examines sub-national variation in the intensity of pandemic-related disruptions between urban and rural areas. Although rural households are more likely to experience food insecurity prior to the pandemic, we find that food insecurity increased more in urban areas than in rural areas...
May 2021: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34239221/could-the-new-dairy-policy-affect-milk-allocation-to-infants-in-kenya-a-best-worst-scaling-approach
#39
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Emmanuel Muunda, Nadhem Mtimet, Franziska Schneider, Francis Wanyoike, Paula Dominguez-Salas, Silvia Alonso
Milk is an important food item in the diet of Kenyans, especially infants. During the last two decades, the dairy sector in Kenya has witnessed important growth in production and improvements in milk quality. The informal marketing channel still prevails, and the Kenya Dairy Board, the regulator of the dairy sector, is currently introducing new regulations to increase registration and licensing of smallholder producers and dairy business operators, improve product hygiene and quality, and safeguard the health of consumers...
May 2021: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34177045/seasonal-time-trade-offs-and-nutrition-outcomes-for-women-in-agriculture-evidence-from-rural-india
#40
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vidya Vemireddy, Prabhu L Pingali
Women in agriculture are involved in agricultural activities and are solely responsible for household-level unpaid work. They face severe time trade-offs between agricultural and household activities across crop seasons. Recent literature suggests that these time trade-offs may negatively impact their nutrition. However, there is no quantitative evidence exploring this relationship within an agricultural context. This paper addresses this research gap by analyzing the relationship between women's time trade-offs and their nutritional outcomes...
May 2021: Food Policy
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