Food prices and food policy analysis in LDCs

Timmer, C. Peter

doi:10.1016/0306-9192(80)90127-x

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“…Second, for most of the studied food groups, particularly for grains, meats, and eggs, the demand by low‐income households is shown to be more responsive to own‐price changes than the demand by medium‐ and high‐income groups. Because low‐income households spend a larger percentage of their incomes on food, higher food prices have a disproportionately large impact on them as compared to medium‐ and high‐income households (Timmer, 1980). Therefore, if the public policy goal is to encourage the consumption of certain food categories as a mean to alleviate poverty and to improve the nutrition of low‐income individuals, the findings of this study support the allocation of price subsidies to low‐income households.…”

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Household food demand by income category: evidence from household survey data in an urban chinese province

Zheng

Henneberry

2011

Agribusiness

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Price and income elasticities are estimated for ten major food groups across low-, medium‐, and high‐income classes, using the 2004 China urban household survey data for Jiangsu province. Demand parameters are estimated using an incomplete demand system (the LinQuad model). Results of this study show that for the majority of the studied food categories, the demand for the low‐income group is found to be more income and own‐price elastic; while the demand for the high‐income group is found to be less income and own‐price elastic. Therefore, the null hypothesis of constant price and income elasticities of demand is rejected in this study. [EconLit citations: D120, R220, Q180]. (C) 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Section: Policy Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Household food demand by income category: evidence from household survey data in an urban chinese province

Zheng

Henneberry

2011

Agribusiness

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“…In economic terms, it means that the income elasticity of food demand is between 0 and 1. There are causal and direct mechanisms in the food consumption patterns of populations: when the middle and upper households dispose of higher incomes, they tend to increase the demand for livestock products, reducing the intake of grains and cereals (Timmer and Pearson, 1983).…”

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Vegan foods: Mimic meat products in the Italian market

Bedin

Torricelli

Gigliano

et al. 2018

International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science

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The current concern about meat consumption tackles many aspects: health, social life, food behaviours, animal welfare, natural resources exploitation. People are more sensitive about these topics and they are shifting individual food habits in favour of a more plant-based diet. Surveys provide a concise view of the increasing percentage of both vegetarians and vegans. The aim of the present research was to develop adequate recipes to prepare food products that mimic the shape and the texture of traditional würstel and Mortadella, focusing on the Italian market. The challenge faced was multiple: firstly, to maintain the similar characteristics of the traditional foods; secondly, to accomplish the consumer's requests; thirdly, to enlarge the market share of the food industries. The results obtained demonstrated that "mimicwürstel" and "mimic-mortadella" were created with vegan allowed ingredients and proteins of vegetal origin. In the case of "mimic-mortadella" the addition of tofu cubes tried to recreate the visual effect of fat globules.

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“…The common finding from the previous studies is that a fall in output prices makes all producers to be worse off and tends to have a disproportionately large impact on farmers producing significant market surpluses (Timmer, 1980).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…These studies implicitly assume that producers' behaviors are uniform and thereby predict the consequences of ex‐ante behaviors using ex‐post behaviors when output price changes. The common finding from the previous studies is that a fall in output prices makes all producers to be worse off and tends to have a disproportionately large impact on farmers producing significant market surpluses (Timmer, 1980). While the result is suitable for the case where producers have made a uniform supply response, it cannot be fully applied to the case where producers have made heterogeneous supply responses, to a price shock.…”

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Policy reform and farmers' heterogeneous response: Measuring the income effects of corn price shocks

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We measure the impacts of the corn price shocks caused by the corn‐procurement policy reform on the incomes of corn producers of different scales in the respective supply response states, using a balanced panel dataset from household surveys from 2015 to 2016 in Heilongjiang province of China. The results from the specification accounting for the response heterogeneity show that the substantial fall in corn prices had a significant negative impact on the incomes of the large and medium farms that chose to reduce corn acreage and of the large farms that chose to abandon corn planting. In contrast, the results from the specification ignoring the response heterogeneity indicate that the corn price shocks had a significant negative impact on the incomes of all large corn‐producing farms. The results confirm our proposition that the supply response state and the initial operation scale are responsible for whether a corn producer is hurt by a fall in corn prices. The findings suggest that it matters to take the response heterogeneity into account in correctly determining the differential effects of a price shock on farmers' incomes. [EconLit Citations: D31, Q12, Q18].

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Food prices and food policy analysis in LDCs

Cited by 18 publications

References 12 publications

Household food demand by income category: evidence from household survey data in an urban chinese province

Household food demand by income category: evidence from household survey data in an urban chinese province

Vegan foods: Mimic meat products in the Italian market

Policy reform and farmers' heterogeneous response: Measuring the income effects of corn price shocks

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