Linking agriculture to nutrition: the evolution of policy

Fan, Shenggen; Yosef, Sivan; Pandya-Lorch, Rajul

doi:10.1108/caer-03-2020-0040

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“…Since the level of urbanization in China approximately trebled from 1979 to 2018, China has experienced rapidly changing dietary patterns and the co-existence of overweight and obesity, undernutrition, and micronutrient deficiencies, especially in rural areas [ 6 , 50 ]. China’s government continues to promote urbanization in rural areas with mixed consequences for the food environment and in the socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental domains.…”

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Nutrition Transition with Accelerating Urbanization? Empirical Evidence from Rural China

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Although rapid urbanization is often considered as one of the most important drivers for changing dietary patterns, little attention has been paid to rural areas despite the profound transformation they have undergone. Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) for the period from 2004 to 2011, this study seeks to better understand the relationship between the urbanization of rural areas and dietary transition, with the focus on nutrition intake and dietary quality. Our results suggest that with increasing urbanization, rural residents tend to have on average lower calorie intakes but higher dietary quality. Specifically, increasing urbanization consistently reduces carbohydrate consumption and reduces fat consumption after a turning point; protein consumption first decreases and then increases after the turning point with increasing urbanization. Urbanization shows a significant and positive effect on the Healthy Eating Index (HEI). In addition to sociodemographic changes, we find that changing consumer preferences and knowledge serve as important determinants in explaining the dietary transition in rural China from 2004 to 2011. In our study, urbanization appears to positively affect rural residents’ healthy food preferences and dietary knowledge. This study is a first attempt for better understanding the nutrition transition resulting from accelerating urbanization in rural China; several limitations and areas for future research have been highlighted.

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“…We foresee future research in this area that not only use Big Data more intensively but also expand the scope of research into topics for which the analysis tools described in this review have not been used, such as agricultural contracts (Du et al, 2015(Du et al, , 2017, the evolution of nutrition (Fan et al, 2020), environmental economics (Li et al, 2020), production forecasts (Zhang et al, 2020a), the economics of supply chain (Min et al, 2020;Reardon et al, 2019), rural household welfare (Rao, 2019;Su et al, 2020), technology adoption (Hurley et al, 2014;Tejeda et al, 2020), sustainability (Engida et al, 2020) and risk analysis (Aderajew et al, 2020).…”

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How agricultural economists are using big data: a review

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Hatzenbuehler

2022

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe the main ways in which large amounts of information have been integrated to provide new measures of food consumption and agricultural production, and new methods for gathering and analyzing internet-based data.Design/methodology/approachThis study reviews some of the recent developments and applications of big data, which is becoming increasingly popular in agricultural economics research. In particular, this study focuses on applications of new types of data such as text and graphics in consumers' online reviews emerging from e-commerce transactions and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data as well as other producer data that are gaining popularity in precision agriculture. This study then reviews data gathering techniques such as web scraping and data analytics tools such as textual analysis and machine learning.FindingsThis study provides a comprehensive review of applications of big data in agricultural economics and discusses some potential future uses of big data.Originality/valueThis study documents some new types of data that are being utilized in agricultural economics, sources and methods to gather and store such data, existing applications of these new types of data and techniques to analyze these new data.

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“…We summarize some policies or governance to help make smallholder agriculture more nutritionally sensitive. These policies or governance would affect smallholder farmers’ food production behavior, labor allocation within households, and agricultural income, which will directly or indirectly contribute to nutritional outcomes [ 59 ].…”

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Reshaping Food Policy and Governance to Incentivize and Empower Disadvantaged Groups for Improving Nutrition

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exacerbated global malnutrition challenges, disrupted food supply chains, and left poor and vulnerable people unable to produce and access safe and affordable food, especially in developing countries. Food policy and governance are currently malfunctioning, despite their recognized roles in improving food security and public nutrition in many local and national contexts. This article reviews existing food policies and governance with implications for disadvantaged groups in the food systems, particularly smallholder farmers, women, and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), highlighting the importance of reshaping food policies and governance. To end malnutrition in the post-COVID era, multiple sectors, including health, agriculture, social protection, education, and infrastructure, must make greater collaborative efforts to develop and implement food and nutrition policies. Several recommendations for reshaping food policy interventions and governance are summarized.

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Linking agriculture to nutrition: the evolution of policy

Cited by 16 publications

References 18 publications

Nutrition Transition with Accelerating Urbanization? Empirical Evidence from Rural China

Nutrition Transition with Accelerating Urbanization? Empirical Evidence from Rural China

How agricultural economists are using big data: a review

Reshaping Food Policy and Governance to Incentivize and Empower Disadvantaged Groups for Improving Nutrition

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