Impact of food safety supervision efficiency on preventing and controlling mass public crisis

Abstract

Food safety has received unprecedented attention since the COVID-19 outbreak. Exploring food safety regulatory mechanisms in the context of cluster public crises is critical for COVID-19 prevention and control. As a result, using data from a food safety regulation survey in the Bei-jing-Tianjin-Hebei urban cluster, this paper investigates the impact of food safety regulation on the prevention and control of COVID-19. The study found that food safety regulation and cluster public crisis prevention and control have a significant positive relationship, with the ability to integrate regulatory resources acting as a mediator between the two. Second, industry groups argue that the relationship between regulatory efficiency and regulatory resource integration should be moderated in a positive manner. Finally, industry association support positively moderates the mediating role of regulatory re-source integration capacity between food safety regulatory efficiency and cluster public crises, and there is a mediating effect of being moderated. Our findings shed light on the mechanisms underlying the roles of regulatory efficiency, resource integration capacity, and industry association support in food safety, and they serve as a useful benchmark for further improving food safety regulations during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Agricultural credit scale and agricultural green production efficiency: a Metafrontier-Malmquist-Luenberger and panel Tobit approach

“…However, some scholars have found that agricultural credit also can inhibit agricultural green production efficiency. Therefore, according to Ding et al (2022a), Ding et al (2022b), Wen and Wang (2022), this paper establishes a theoretical framework for the impact of agricultural credit on agricultural green production efficiency from both the driving and inhibiting effects. Figure 1 is the theoretical framework of this paper.…”

“…According to Ding et al (2022b) and Du et al (2022a), this paper uses the Metafrontier-Malmquist-Luenberger index (MML) based on DEA model to measure the agricultural green production efficiency (AGPE). Significant differences exist in regions' natural resource endowments and agricultural production technologies.…”

Does digital village construction contribute to improving food security?

“…Therefore, strengthening the information monitoring of sustained agricultural output and supply has become the top priority for ensuring food security. At present, digital technology has been widely used in storage, circulation supervision, big data, safety supervision, and other aspects (Ding et al, 2022;Hu et al, 2023a;Xi et al, 2021). Digital villages utilize the Internet, big data, and other modern information technologies to promote agricultural and rural development and improve rural production and living conditions.…”