The Local Impacts of Agricultural Subsidies: Evidence from the Canadian Prairies

Bollman, Ray D.; Ferguson, Shon

doi:10.1111/1477-9552.12309

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“…Since the implementation of the agricultural subsidy policy, scholars have conducted fruitful research on the effect of agricultural subsidy policies but have not reached consensus [ 7 , 8 , 9 ]. From the perspective of agricultural subsidies’ effects on farmers’ initiative for growing grain, some scholars found that they have a marginal incentive effect and play a positive role for farmers who are uncertain about participating in grain planting, improving farmers’ enthusiasm for grain planting and increasing the sown area [ 10 ].…”

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The Effectiveness Assessment of Agricultural Subsidy Policies on Food Security: Evidence from China’s Poverty-Stricken Villages

Sha

Sun

et al. 2022

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This paper builds a theoretical model based on a representative peasant household in the neoclassical model, comprehensively considers three types of farmer households in China, and evaluates the effects of the agricultural subsidy policy under equilibrium conditions. Based on the two bottom lines of guaranteeing China’s grain security and ensuring no large-scale return to poverty, this paper uses 2010, 2012, and 2014 tracking survey data from the Mutual Aid Fund for Poverty-Stricken Villages in China to construct an econometric model to evaluate agricultural subsidy effectiveness from the three aspects of farmers’ total sown area, total grain output, and total income. The research draws the following conclusions: (1) Agricultural subsidies can significantly increase the sown area, grain production, and total income of farmers in poverty-stricken areas, which is conducive to improving the farmers’ comprehensive capacity for grain production as well as income, and this conclusion remains valid after performing a series of robustness tests and solving endogeneity problems. (2) The effects of the agricultural subsidy policy are affected by natural conditions, economic development levels, and functional orientation of grain production in different regions, and they have divergent influences on farmers’ total sown area, total output, and total income. (3) Agricultural subsidies boost farmers’ willingness to cultivate grain, reduce land abandonment, and increase the total sown area, total output, and total grain income. The willingness to cultivate grain is an important mechanism that affects the effectiveness of the agricultural subsidy policy.

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The Effectiveness Assessment of Agricultural Subsidy Policies on Food Security: Evidence from China’s Poverty-Stricken Villages

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Sun

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“…Second, for the impact on sustainable agricultural society, Bollman and Ferguson [ 13 ] find that fiscal subsidy cancellation has negative spillover effects on the local non-agricultural economy, leading to significant reductions in farm value-added, farm asset value, and local non-farm employment. With statistical models, Diallo and Wouterse [ 14 ] and Sánchez et al [ 15 ] simulate the potential impacts of fiscal agricultural investment and conclude that public investment led by agricultural productive infrastructure will significantly promote agricultural growth, thereby reducing dependence on food imports, raising income from food production and reducing poverty, which is conducive to economic recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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Fiscal agricultural expenditures’ impact on sustainable agricultural economic development: Dynamic marginal effects and impact mechanism

Zhang,

Zhang

2024

PLoS ONE

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Sustainable agricultural economic development is the core task for achieving the objective of rural revitalization strategy in China, which cannot be separated from the support and guidance of fiscal policy, and agricultural industry integration is a key path for the fiscal promotion of sustainable agricultural economic development. This paper systematically examines the interaction mechanism between fiscal agricultural expenditures and sustainable agricultural economic development by using 31 provincial panel data in China from 2008 to 2020 and adopting a two-way fixed effect model, a panel quantile model, and a mediating effect model, respectively. The results show that the impact of fiscal agricultural expenditures on sustainable agricultural economic development is significantly positive, and appears a dynamic increasing trend with the agricultural development stage upgrading. Moreover, heterogeneity analysis shows that the effect of fiscal agricultural expenditures is more obvious for the samples in the central region and with a high share of primary industry. Further, a mediating effect test finds that agricultural industry integration plays a mediating mechanism between fiscal agricultural expenditures and sustainable agricultural economic development. Therefore, this paper proposes constructing a long-term investment mechanism for fiscal agricultural expenditures, formulating differentiated fiscal support policies for agriculture, and prioritizing support for agricultural industry integration, which provides theoretical support and policy inspiration for promoting sustainable agricultural economic development.

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“…a regression model with a product term is used to test and construct the following equation to test the moderating effect model of operation scale: In Equations ( 5) to (7), represents the moderation variable, represents the product term of the independent variable and the moderation variable, and represents the product term of the mediation variable and the moderation variable.…”

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How do Agricultural Subsidies affect the Income of Food- producing Household: a Mediated Moderation Model

Yi,

Guo,

Wang

et al. 2023

Preprint

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Increasing farmers’ income is critical to achieving the goals of rural revitalization and common prosperity, and has been a priority in the “three rural” work in China. With growing financial support for agriculture and a widening urban-rural income gap, understanding the relationship between agricultural subsidies and rural household income is crucial. Using data from the 2018 China Labor-force Dynamic Survey, this paper employs basic estimation, mediating effect, and moderating effect models to analyze the heterogeneity of agricultural subsidies’ impact on rural household income, the mediating effect of agricultural mechanization, and the moderating effect of operation scale. Our findings show that agricultural subsidies significantly promote the income of food-producing household, with agricultural mechanization partially mediating this effect. Operation scale positively moderates the impact of agricultural subsidies on rural household income and agricultural mechanization. Heterogeneity analysis indicates that agricultural subsidies have a more significant impact on rural household income among elderly agricultural producers in the eastern region.

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The Local Impacts of Agricultural Subsidies: Evidence from the Canadian Prairies

Cited by 11 publications

References 38 publications

The Effectiveness Assessment of Agricultural Subsidy Policies on Food Security: Evidence from China’s Poverty-Stricken Villages

The Effectiveness Assessment of Agricultural Subsidy Policies on Food Security: Evidence from China’s Poverty-Stricken Villages

Fiscal agricultural expenditures’ impact on sustainable agricultural economic development: Dynamic marginal effects and impact mechanism

How do Agricultural Subsidies affect the Income of Food- producing Household: a Mediated Moderation Model

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