Article
Management
Martin Loosemore, Suhair Zaid Alkilani, Rodney Murphy
Summary: Social procurement policies are increasingly being adopted by construction project clients in Australia to meet their corporate social responsibility objectives. The adoption of these policies is mainly driven by coercive, mimetic, and normative factors. Effective implementation requires a shift in project supply chains' mindset and institutional change to normalize social procurement practices.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Management
Kamran Razmdoost, Leila Alinaghian
Summary: This study investigates how buying firms change their existing procurement institutions in order to adopt and advance social procurement, contributing to the literature on the role of procurement in generating value and benefits within societies. It also complements existing literature on conflicts of institutional logics by illustrating how firms address such conflicts when adopting and advancing social procurement. Furthermore, this work contributes to the emerging research on institutional work by considering existing procurement institutions in the examination of institutional change.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Andrea Cattaneo, Ahmad Sadiddin, Sara Vaz, Valentina Conti, Cindy Holleman, Marco V. Sanchez, Maximo Torero
Summary: Climate-related shocks, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the war in Ukraine have worsened world hunger, with millions of people at risk of losing access to affordable energy-sufficient and healthy diets. An analysis of 136 countries shows that up to 260 million people in low-income and lower-middle income countries may not be able to afford an energy-sufficient diet if their real income is reduced by one-third. Additionally, nearly 1 billion people in middle-income countries may become unable to afford a healthy diet. Addressing income inequality and reducing diet cost are crucial for ensuring access to sufficient and healthy diets following shocks.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Adrian Morley
Summary: This paper discusses the potential impact of public procurement on encouraging more sustainable forms of food production and how it can steer business change within food businesses. Through qualitative interviews, the study explores the influence of public procurement on small food producers and advocates of sustainable procurement.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Derek Headey, Sophie Goudet, Isabel Lambrecht, Elisa Maria Maffioli, Than Zaw Oo, Toth Russell
Summary: Myanmar faced both economic shocks and increased poverty during the COVID-19 crisis in 2020. While poverty grew faster in urban areas, urban households were more likely to face food insecurity risks.
GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY-AGRICULTURE POLICY ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Li Lei, Zhai Shi-xian, Bai Jun-fei
Summary: This study used the China Health and Nutrition Survey data to examine the impact of income and income distribution on food demand among adults in rural areas of China. The results indicate that changes in income and income strata have significant effects on food demand, with rising income levels leading to declining income elasticities for certain food groups.
JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE AGRICULTURE
(2021)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Tracy L. Schumacher, Carissa A. Alderton, Leanne J. Brown, Susan Heaney, Laura Alston, Katherine Kent, Stephanie Louise Godrich
Summary: This study aimed to adapt existing Australian scoring tools for food retail outlets to represent rural locations. Through a modified Delphi technique, rural nutrition experts were engaged to modify and develop a tool that reflects the unique characteristics of rural retail outlets. The developed tool accurately assesses the healthiness of food outlets in rural areas and is important in studying the link between the food environment and health in rural populations.
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Christian H. Kuhlgatz, Jiaqi Huang, Gerrit Antonides
Summary: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effects of price and income changes on food and nutrient demand of rural households, and the authors found that income changes have a greater nutritional effect on agricultural households than on other households. The study also shows that reporting nutrient elasticities alone may not be sufficient for policy recommendations, and simulations should be included for a valuable addition.
CHINA AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2023)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Goiuri Alberdi, Mirene Begiristain-Zubillaga
Summary: The healthcare system's carbon footprint accounts for 4.4% of global net emissions, with food services and waste production significantly impacting the environment. The study highlights the opportunity for a Sustainable Food Procurement Strategy and provides a systematic literature review and analysis in this area.
Article
Geography
Jesper Solver Schou, Pia Heike Johansen, Jakob Vesterlund Olsen, Morten Frolund
Summary: This paper investigates farmers' social embeddedness in five case areas characterized by different types of short food supply chains, and finds that farmers' social embeddedness depends on individual farm characteristics. The paper also suggests expanding social embeddedness into three components.
JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Vladislav Valentinov
Summary: This paper discusses how the notion of sustainability is implicated within the normative foundations of classical institutional economics, highlighting the precarious nature of environmental embeddedness of various social systems. It also reveals the moral and ethical considerations that need to be taken into account when utilizing scientific and technological knowledge in line with sustainability goals.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
(2021)
Article
Economics
Anquan Zhang, Pengfei Ni, Chen Ling
Summary: This study uses data from the China Household Finance Survey 2011 to examine peer effects in housing demand in rural China. The findings suggest that the housing consumption of focal households is significantly influenced by the housing consumption of peer households. The study also reveals that status seeking and social learning play crucial roles in determining peer effects in the demand for rural houses.
CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Raquel Fernandez-Gonzalez, Felix Puime-Guillen, Mirela Panait
Summary: This article analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the agricultural and livestock sectors in Galicia and studies the degree of affectation in different provinces and institutional responses to the crisis. The results show a decline in operating income for both sectors, with variations across provinces. Despite measures taken, certain industries have suffered significant losses.
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS-ZEMEDELSKA EKONOMIKA
(2022)
Article
Economics
Congli Su, Mingxi Wang
Summary: This paper discusses the shift in China's innovation policies and emphasizes the importance of demand-side instruments. It addresses the dual information asymmetry of adverse selection and moral hazard that the government faces in the process of government procurement for innovation. The paper proposes a series of quality incentive contract models to help the government identify the initial technology type of the enterprise and motivate it to improve the innovation quality.
MANAGERIAL AND DECISION ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Development Studies
Geovana Mercado, Carsten Nico Hjortso
Summary: The concept of food sovereignty has become increasingly important in public policy discussions in the global South. However, there are contested definitions and interpretations of food sovereignty due to conflicting societal interests. This article examines how the logics of the corporatized agro-food system affect the implementation of top-down state-induced public food sovereignty policies in Bolivia. The study finds that the logics of the corporate food regime shape the implementation process and disregard smallholders' conceptions aligned with food sovereignty principles.