Handbook of agricultural economics. Volume 6 / Christopher B. Barrett, and David R. Just.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrett, Christopher B. (Christopher Brendan), author.

Just, David R., author.

Series:

Issn

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Economic aspects.

Agriculture.

Food industry and trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (588 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Oxford, England : North-Holland, [2022]

Summary:

Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Volume Six highlights new advances in the field, with this new release exploring comprehensive chapters written by an international board of authors who discuss topics such as The Economics of Food Loss and Waste, Empowering Communities Using an Integrated Design of Food Networks, Concentration in Food and.

Contents:

Intro

Handbook of Agricultural Economics

Copyright

Contents of the handbook

Contents of volume 6

Contributors

Preface

References

Chapter 85: Food Waste: Farms, distributors, retailers, and households

1. Introduction

2. Farm-level food loss

2.1. Causes of loss at the farm level

2.2. Secondary markets for surplus food

2.3. Gleaning operations

3. Wholesale food loss

4. Retail food loss

4.1. Theoretical background on retail food loss

4.2. Empirical studies of retail food loss

4.3. Supply-chain management and food loss

4.4. Retailing practices and food loss

4.5. Food loss and food donations

4.6. Other retailing practices and loss

5. Food loss by consumers, households, and food service

5.1. Theoretical research on household loss

5.2. Measurement approaches

5.3. Empirical evidence of consumer food waste due to retailer tactics

5.4. Empirical evidence of household food waste

5.5. Empirical evidence of consumer waste in food service settings

6. Food Loss in developing countries

7. Conclusions and policy recommendations

Acknowledgments

Chapter 86: Interdisciplinary system and network perspectives in food and agricultural economics

1. Introduction and purposes of the chapter

2. Defining food systems and food networks

3. Questions we might want to answer involving systems and networks

4. Theories and conceptual frameworks in food system and food network research

4.1. General equilibrium

4.2. Industrial organization

4.3. Economic sociology

4.3.1. Embeddedness

4.3.2. Community capitals and wealth creation

4.4. Institutional and new institutional economics

4.5. New economic geography and agglomeration economies

4.6. Systems theory

4.7. Network theory

4.7.1. Network goods

4.7.2. Physical networks.

4.7.3. Social and economic networks

5. Data and methods for the study of food systems and food networks

5.1. Primary data

5.1.1. Survey methods

5.1.2. Interview methods

5.1.3. Focus groups

5.1.4. Observational methods

5.1.5. Sample size and scope

5.2. Secondary data

5.3. Document review and web scraping

5.4. Quantitative analysis methods

5.4.1. Identifying impacts

5.4.2. Classifying data or groups

5.4.3. Classifying groups and identifying impacts in networks and complex systems

5.4.3.1. Social network analysis

5.4.3.2. Agent-based modeling

5.4.4. Simulating or predicting impacts

5.5. Qualitative analysis methods

5.6. Mixed methods

5.7. Conducting meta-reviews of literature

5.8. Community-based participatory research and participatory action research

6. Examples of food system and food network research

6.1. Summary of research on elements of food systems and food networks

6.2. Examples of interdisciplinary food system research

6.3. Examples of interdisciplinary food network research

6.4. Examples of combined interdisciplinary food system and food network research

7. Challenges and opportunities moving forward

7.1. Key trends in food systems and networks

7.2. Gaps in food systems and networks research

7.3. Challenges and opportunities

7.4. Final reflections

Chapter 87: Concentration in food and agricultural markets

1.1. The goal of this chapter

1.2. A brief history of concentration as an economic concern

2. Concentration measures from structural models

3. Use of concentration measures in policy

3.1. Horizontal merger impacts on concentration

3.2. Buyer power and vertical coordination

4. How has concentration in food and agricultural markets changed?.

4.1. Concentration and market definition for analyzing competition: Industry scope

4.2. Markets and concentration measures: Geographic scope

4.3. Creating concentration measures for relevant markets

5. Consolidation in agricultural production

5.1. Consolidation in crops

5.2. Consolidation in livestock production

5.3. Drivers of farm consolidation

6. Research on concentration and market power in livestock

6.1. Intense political and research scrutiny

6.2. Modern agricultural markets and concentration

7. Food retail concentration

7.1. Drivers of retail concentration

7.2. Impacts of retailer concentration

8. Concentration impacts beyond price

8.1. Concentration, competition, and innovation

8.2. Concentration and negative externalities

8.3. Concentration and politics

9. Conclusion

Further reading

Chapter 88: Trade in agricultural and food products

2. Stylized facts

2.1. Stylized fact #1: A small share of agri-food products is traded

2.2. Stylized fact #2: Trade costs are high for agri-food products

2.3. Stylized fact #3: Trade has been rising in importance for food intakes in terms of macronutrients

2.4. Stylized fact #4: Observable and evolving comparative advantage

3. A common model

3.1. Import demand

3.2. Consumer prices and gravity equation

3.3. Trade and welfare

3.4. Discussion: Nonhomothetic preferences and hidden costs

4. Comparative advantage

4.1. Theory: Main modeling elements

4.2. Gains from trade under certainty

4.2.1. Specialization

4.2.2. Inputs use

4.2.3. Evolving comparative advantage because of climate change

4.3. Gains from trade under uncertainty

4.4. Discussion

4.4.1. Limits of gravity

4.4.2. Comparative advantage and structural transformation.

4.4.3. Comparative advantage and endogenous tastes

5. Firm-level analysis

5.1. Theory: Main ingredients and applicability to food industry

5.2. Role of the agricultural sector: Backward linkages and biased technology

5.3. Role of the end consumer: product quality and taste

5.4. Aggregate implications

5.4.1. Average export, average quality, and gravity

5.4.2. Welfare

5.5. Discussion

5.5.1. Variable markup, granular firms, and welfare

5.5.2. Variable marginal cost and export duration

5.5.3. Uncertainty and margins of trade

6. Trade costs: Origin and consequences

6.1. Distribution cost

6.1.1. Intermediaries: Distribution technology and market structure

6.1.2. Multinational retailers: Network effect and private (voluntary) standards

6.2. Standard-like NTMs

6.2.1. Information asymmetry and standards in trade theory

6.2.2. Geographical indications and trade: Empirical evidence

6.2.3. Public standards and trade: Empirical evidence

6.3. Trade costs and agricultural price volatility

6.3.1. Trade policy adjustments

6.3.2. Information flows

7. Conclusions

Chapter 89: Producers, consumers, and value chains in low- and middle-income countries

2. Domestic agri-food value chains

2.1. Subsistence agriculture vs participation in agri-food value chains

2.2. Contracts vs spot markets

2.3. Intermediaries

2.4. Supermarkets and the ``sixth phase´´ of the literature

3. Global agri-food value chains

3.1. Opportunities for global agri-food value chains

3.2. Challenges for global agri-food value chains

4. Research gaps

4.1. Data needs

4.2. Empirical methods

4.3. Disruptions, congestion, and bottlenecks

4.4. Environmental consequences

4.5. Globalization and politics.

4.6. The distribution of employment in agri-food value chains

5. Conclusion

Chapter 90: The economics of malnutrition: Dietary transition and food system transformation

2. Measurement of dietary intake and health outcomes

2.1. Nutrition transition in dietary intake and health outcomes

2.1.1. Costs of malnutrition: Disease and loss of productivity

2.2. Measuring nutrition: Diet quality and health outcomes

2.3. The microeconomics of food choice: Revealed preferences and consumer welfare

2.4. Empirical analysis of food choice and nutrition

2.4.1. Estimating demand systems

2.4.2. Income

2.4.3. Prices

2.4.4. Information and willingness to pay

2.4.5. Education, empowerment, and the use of information to guide consumption

2.4.6. Retail prices and the affordability of least-cost diets for nutrient adequacy and lifelong health

3. The nutrition transition and economic development

3.1. Structural transformation and the food system

3.2. The nutrition transition in undernourishment and obesity

3.2.1. Linear growth and stunting

3.2.2. Ponderal growth, wasting and overweight or obesity

3.2.3. Measuring changes to macronutrient intake

3.3. The nutrition transition in micronutrient deficiencies

3.3.1. Iron deficiency and anemia

3.3.2. Vitamin a deficiency and its consequences

4. Dietary transition and food choice

4.1. Change over time in global dietary patterns

4.2. Change over time in U.S. dietary patterns

4.3. Dietary transition toward packaged foods and food service across countries

4.4. Demand for packaged foods and soft drinks by income level in Nepal and Bangladesh

5. Policies to address the multiple burdens of malnutrition

5.1. Nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions.

5.2. Safety-net transfers and nutrition assistance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Barrett, Christopher B. Handbook of Agricultural Economics

ISBN:

9780323988865

0323988865

OCLC:

1334888612