In this paper, we try to understand what the main causes of food losses (FLs) are. Our results show that producers' education and experience number years in which a producer has been involved production specific crop are significantly correlated with reduction FL. Unfavorable climatic conditions, pests, diseases, as well limited knowledge access equipment, credit, markets, also challenges incre...

This article develops a framework for assessing the implementation of standards in context multiple negative externalities resulting from meat production. The is applied to introduction New Dutch Retail Standard broiler market, standard on animal welfare initiated by private sector with national coverage. results show that this did not lower producer, retailer, and consumer welfare; rather, soc...

Can be accept a variety of viewpoints on genetically modified organism, as well the products made using them. Therefore, trade regulation rule base is different when considering countries. It noted that in particular European Union member states formed fairly tight trading policies organism and products. The article deals with analysis use Union. object research – EU. aim EU’s legal their marke...

Improving “ last-mile” public service delivery is a recurring challenge in developing countries. Could the widespread adoption of mobile phones provide scalable, cost-effective means for improvement? We use large-scale experiment to evaluate impact phone-based monitoring on program that transferred nearly billion dollars 5.7 million Indian farmers. In randomly selected jurisdictions, officials ...

This study relaxes the assumption of perfect and costless policy enforcement found in traditional agricultural policy analysis and introduces enforcement costs and cheating into the economic analysis of output subsidies. Policy design and implementation is modeled in this paper as a sequential game between the regulator who decides on the level of intervention, an enforcement agency that determ...

We assess farmers' incentives and the conditioning factors for adoption of agricultural technologies under climate risk and evaluate its impact on food security in Niger. Results show that while the use of modern inputs and organic fertilizers improves productivity, results are unclear for crop residues. Results also show that factors driving modern input use are different than those of crop re...

Subsidies linked to production have been classified to be environmentally harmful by OECD. A core element of the EU 2003 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform is to decouple income support from production. This paper estimates the environmental consequences of this policy reform. An agricultural sector model using a modified version of the positive mathematical programming method depicts the ...

The economic impacts of direct payments is a widely studied field in the literature related to Common Agricultural Policy. This article aims provide systematic review income-related payments. In doing so, screened academic on and identified 150 relevant ones, out which 41 were written directly effects.Relevant articles can be classified into four groups: general, distributional, stabilisation o...