{"id":10012,"date":"2014-04-01T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=10012"},"modified":"2014-03-30T10:19:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T14:19:29","slug":"from-the-latest-issue-of-food-policy-food-price-volatility-in-africa-bananas-in-kenya-producer-organizations-in-india-and-input-subsidies-in-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/10012","title":{"rendered":"From the Latest Issue of Food Policy: Food Price Volatility in Africa, Bananas in Kenya, Producer Organizations in India, and Input Subsidies in Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FoodPolicy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"FoodPolicy\" src=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FoodPolicy.jpg\" width=\"198\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I began a three-year term as associate editor over at\u00a0<em>Food Policy<\/em>\u00a0at the end of last year, which means that I handle submissions in my areas of expertise, deciding which manuscripts get reviewed and which ones get desk rejected, selecting reviewers for those manuscripts that do get reviewed, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, I wanted to feature a few articles from the latest issue of the journal. There is nothing special about those articles beyond the fact that I thought they would be of interest to readers of this blog. Those are also regular articles&#8211;there is an entire special section of this\u00a0<a title=\"Food Policy 45\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/03069192\/45\/supp\/C\" target=\"_blank\">latest issue<\/a>\u00a0dedicated to zero tolerance rules in food safety, which you should check out.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Minot (2014)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0306919213001863\" target=\"_blank\">Food Price Volatility in Africa: Has It Really Increased?<\/a><\/strong>, by Nicholas Minot<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The study covers 167 monthly food price series from 15 African countries.<\/li>\n<li>Food price volatility varies in predictable ways by commodity and location.<\/li>\n<li>Food price volatility is higher in African markets than in world markets.<\/li>\n<li>World food price volatility has increased since food crisis of 2007\u20132008.<\/li>\n<li>However, food price volatility in Africa has not increased since the crisis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Kabunga et al. (2014)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0306919213001875\" target=\"_blank\">Impact of Tissue Culture Banana Technology on Farm Household Income and Food Security in Kenya<\/a><\/strong>, by Nassul S. Kabunga et al.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Impacts of tissue culture (TC) banana technology on household income and food security in Kenya are analyzed.<\/li>\n<li>First study to use Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) for impact assessment.<\/li>\n<li>TC adoption significantly increases income and improves food security among smallholders.<\/li>\n<li>Implications for effective technology delivery mechanism are discussed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Trebbin (2014)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0306919213001851\" target=\"_blank\">Linking Small Farmers to Modern Retail through Producer Organizations \u2013 Experiences with Producer Companies in India<\/a><\/strong>, by Anika Trebbin<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Farmer organizations play a yet limited role in supermarket supply chains in India.<\/li>\n<li>There are more than 260 producer companies in India with numbers growing.<\/li>\n<li>Producer companies can develop into business hubs for retailers and input suppliers.<\/li>\n<li>A typology of producer companies based on their function and orientation is presented.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Fisher and Kandiwa (2014)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0306919214000219\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Can agricultural input subsidies reduce the gender gap in modern maize adoption? Evidence from Malawi<\/strong><\/a>, by Monica Fisher and Vongai Kandiwa<\/p>\n<p>Highlights<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We measured the current gender gap in modern maize adoption for Malawi.<\/li>\n<li>Results show female vs. male farmer adoption rates are significantly lower.<\/li>\n<li>We examined if a large farm input subsidy program has impacted this gender gap.<\/li>\n<li>Findings suggest the program has likely narrowed the gender adoption gap.<\/li>\n<li>If targeted to female-headed households, the program could reduce the gap substantially.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I began a three-year term as associate editor over at\u00a0Food Policy\u00a0at the end of last year, which means that I handle submissions in my areas<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/10012\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From the Latest Issue of Food Policy: Food Price Volatility in Africa, Bananas in Kenya, Producer Organizations in India, and Input Subsidies in Malawi<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-2Bu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10012"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10017,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012\/revisions\/10017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}