Article
Food Science & Technology
Eliane Alves da Silva, Eugenio Avila Pedrozo, Tania Nunes da Silva
Summary: Food systems play a crucial role in addressing hunger, improving diets, and protecting the environment. The Brazilian National School Feeding Program (PNAE) was established to meet the food needs of millions of children in Brazilian schools. This article aims to analyze the learnings from PNAE and their contribution to the development of a sustainable food system in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The study found that individuals tend to group themselves based on their learning levels, which influences their behavior and decision-making.
Article
Geography
Lisette J. Nikol, Kees Jansen
Summary: The debate over the conventionalisation of organic farming focuses on tensions between organic agriculture as an alternative to the dominant agri-food system and the rise of organic agribusiness. A contested issue is the impact of capitalist expansion in the organic sector on transformative power of alternative agriculture. Through a case study from the Global South, this article sheds light on four different trajectories of organic agriculture development and certification in the Philippines, challenging the general representation in the conventionalisation debate.
JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES
(2021)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Bruno Basso, James W. Jones, John Antle, Rafael A. Martinez-Feria, Brahm Verma
Summary: The text discusses the urgent need to transform unsustainable linear grain production systems into more circular and sustainable systems in order to address resource depletion, environmental degradation, and the growing global demand for food under the threat of climate change. The vision of circular grain production enabled by novel technologies and policy mechanisms is laid out to close loops of nutrient and energy flows within farms.
AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Aino Friman, Nina Hyytia
Summary: Food waste reduction brings economic benefits but also trade-offs and welfare redistribution. This is important for policy planning.
Article
Environmental Studies
Marion Werner
Summary: Scholarship on global agri-food regulation is significant for new state capitalism debates, despite being largely overlooked. Contradictions within the global arrangement of corporations, international agencies, national governments and trade architecture governing agriculture in the 1990s enabled more prominent state roles post-2008. The volatility of food prices led to new mercantilist policies while further deepening global market relations. The ongoing interventions by states to manage repriced food shed light on the paradox of new state capitalism, incorporating socioecological dimensions often marginalized in such debates.
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE
(2023)
Article
Geography
Francesca Carnibella, Rebecca Wells
Summary: This study investigates how the policy responses to migrant horticultural labour shortages during the Covid-19 pandemic were framed in the Italian print media, and how this relates to longer-term food policy making. The research suggests that media framing can contribute to policy change and policy lock-ins.
JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Benjamin Felix Richardson
Summary: This paper discusses the conflict between the demand for more land for development and the need to preserve ecosystem services and agricultural land in Auckland. Despite efforts by city planners to promote compact urban development, developers and landowners exploit the flexible development policy to prioritize profitability over the long-term quality of life for residents. This has questionable effects on addressing the housing crisis and leads to financial benefits for some parties at the expense of others.
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Guillaume Gruere, Jonathan Brooks
Summary: This article reviews and categorizes early policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic based on a dataset of 496 measures taken by 54 countries. The findings show a diversity of measures, with developed OECD countries focusing more on agriculture and support related measures, while emerging economies concentrate on trade policies, information provision, and food assistance.
Article
Agronomy
Ana Batlles-delaFuente, Emilio Abad-Segura, Mariana-Daniela Gonzalez-Zamar, Francisco Joaquin Cortes-Garcia
Summary: In the current context of scarcity of resources and environmental degradation, the circular economy provides a sustainable and regenerative framework for agriculture. However, its comprehensive adaptation to the field of agriculture is still lacking. This research aims to bridge this gap by analyzing existing literature on circularity in agricultural production systems, identifying weaknesses and proposing new research directions.
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Johan Swinnen, Alessandro Olper, Senne Vandevelde
Summary: This article analyzes the role of value chains in the political economy of agricultural and food policy, discussing historical insights and emerging literature, as well as market power issues and government regulations. A case study of EU regulations on unfair trading practices is presented, addressing a key concern in global value chains.
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Tristan Dry, Phillip Baker
Summary: Despite significant progress made by nutrition actors in generating commitment for a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in Australia, political commitment remains low due to powerful influence of industry, opposition from major political parties, ideological resistance to regulation, poor monitoring system, and limited public advocacy. Opportunities for increasing political commitment include limiting industry influence in policy-making and strengthening the pro-tax coalition.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Anne Marie Thow, Charles Apprey, Janelle Winters, Darryl Stellmach, Robyn Alders, Linda Nana Esi Aduku, Georgina Mulcahy, Reginald Annan
Summary: Despite the increased political priority for nutrition in Ghana, its integration into food policy remains limited. Food policy agendas are mainly focused on production, employment, and economic returns, lacking support for a nutrition-sensitive food supply. This focus seems to be rooted in a liberal economic approach to food policy from the 1980s structural adjustment and 1990s trade liberalization, as well as a historical experience of failed food policy interventions and a narrow economic conception of food security.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Anne Marie Thow, Charles Apprey, Janelle Winters, Darryl Stellmach, Robyn Alders, Linda Nana Esi Aduku, Georgina Mulcahy, Reginald Annan
Summary: The global food system is failing to deliver affordable, healthy, diverse diets, necessitating policy change across various economic sectors. In Ghana, despite increased political priority for nutrition, integration into food policy remains limited. Historical economic policy agendas, influenced by global actors like the World Bank, play a significant role in shaping current food and nutrition policies and politics.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Kerstin Potthoff, Wenche E. Dramstad
Summary: Renting agricultural land is a common practice among farmers, but the factors influencing their investment decisions on rented land are complex and may include non-economic factors. This study found that while some variables can explain part of the investment decisions, there is still a significant amount of unexplained variation. This suggests that trust or norms, as well as individual differences among farmers and investments, may play a role in these decisions. Policymakers face challenges in developing measures targeting farmers renting land, but the finding that farmers are driving longer distances to rented land than they find acceptable deserves attention.
Article
Communication
Zenia Kish, Benjamin Peters
Summary: This essay introduces the first special section of articles that explore the topic of farm media, examining the various forms of mediation that shape the modern agricultural system. By adopting a multi-lens framework, media scholars are encouraged to analyze the farm as a significant site, especially in relation to the recent data-driven transformation of agriculture and its social, technical, and environmental aspects. The essay provides an overview of relevant interdisciplinary research, particularly in media studies and critical agrarian studies, and presents contributor essays that investigate the multi-mediation of the farm.
NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Johan Swinnen, Rob Kuijpers
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Emma Janssen, Johan Swinnen
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Martijn Huysmans, Johan Swinnen
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
(2019)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Maria Garrone, Dorien Emmers, Alessandro Olper, Johan Swinnen
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Maria Garrone, Dorien Emmers, Hyejin Lee, Alessandro Olper, Johan Swinnen
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
(2019)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Catherine Haeck, Giulia Meloni, Johan Swinnen
APPLIED ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES AND POLICY
(2019)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Giulia Meloni, Kym Anderson, Koen Deconinck, Johan Swinnen
APPLIED ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES AND POLICY
(2019)
Review
Food Science & Technology
Hannah Ameye, Johan Swinnen
GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY-AGRICULTURE POLICY ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT
(2019)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
David Laborde, Will Martin, Johan Swinnen, Rob Vos
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Koen Deconinck, Jo Swinnen
Summary: This article explores the optimal size of geographical indications (GI) regions and presents a flexible conceptual framework to describe the efficiency and distributional effects of GI size, as well as how this affects interest groups' incentives to influence government decision-making.
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Seneshaw Tamru, Bart Minten, Johan Swinnen
Summary: Studies have shown that coffee exporters are willing to incur losses during exporting by offering high prices for coffee locally in order to access scarce foreign exchange, which unintentionally benefits coffee farmers as consequential high wholesale prices for coffee are transmitted to producers.
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Johan Swinnen, Rob Vos
Summary: The food system and poverty have been unevenly affected by COVID-19 due to a combination of economic recession and disruptions in supply chains. Areas with weaker supply chains and higher poverty levels are more severely impacted, while reliable data remains scarce.
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Bjorn Van Campenhout, Bart Minten, Johan F. M. Swinnen
Summary: The dairy sub-sector in Uganda has undergone significant changes in the last decade driven by increased demand and liberalization policies. Areas attracting considerable Foreign Direct Investment show more pronounced innovations and increased processing capacity, leading to dairy becoming Uganda's third most important export product.
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Saule Burkitbayeva, Emma Janssen, Johan Swinnen
Summary: This paper provides one of the first and most detailed accounts of the emerging large modern dairy farms in India. Through qualitative interviews, it explores the differences between these farms and their traditional counterparts and examines their integration into value chains.
JOURNAL OF AGRIBUSINESS IN DEVELOPING AND EMERGING ECONOMIES
(2023)
Article
Economics
Saule Burkitbayeva, Emma Janssen, Johan Swinnen
REVIEW OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION
(2020)