{"id":10799,"date":"2015-04-07T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=10799"},"modified":"2015-04-05T12:17:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T16:17:43","slug":"from-the-latest-issue-of-food-policy-guest-agricultural-workers-agricultural-marketing-and-supermarkets-in-kenya-and-farmers-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/10799","title":{"rendered":"From the Latest Issue of Food Policy: Guest Agricultural Workers, Agricultural Marketing and Supermarkets in Kenya, and Farmers Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FoodPolicy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FoodPolicy.jpg\" alt=\"FoodPolicy\" 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 2013, 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.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Rickard (FP, 2015)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S030691921500007X\" target=\"_blank\">On the Political Economy of Guest Worker Programs in Agriculture<\/a><\/strong>, by\u00a0Brad Rickard.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is much political debate concerning the use of guest worker programs.<\/li>\n<li>Labor comprises a large share of total production costs in horticulture industries.<\/li>\n<li>Competing interests exist for political attention across agricultural industries.<\/li>\n<li>Horticultural industries receive a disproportional share of benefits from guest worker programs.<\/li>\n<li>Grain industries may experience small negative impacts from an increase in labor supply.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a id=\"title_S0306919215000184\" class=\"cLink artTitle S_C_artTitle \" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0306919215000184\" data-docsubtype=\"fla\">Supermarkets and food consumption patterns: The case of small towns in Kenya<\/a><\/strong>, by\u00a0Ramona Rischke et al.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We analyse effects of supermarkets in small towns with different supermarket access.<\/li>\n<li>We causally link the retail revolution with processed food consumption in developing countries.<\/li>\n<li>Supermarkets increase the consumption of processed at the expense of unprocessed foods.<\/li>\n<li>Supermarkets increase daily calorie availability, partly because calories are bought cheaper.<\/li>\n<li>Supermarkets contribute to the nutrition transition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a id=\"title_S0306919215000196\" class=\"cLink artTitle S_C_artTitle \" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0306919215000196\" data-docsubtype=\"fla\">Agricultural marketing by smallholders in Kenya: A comparison of maize, kale and dairy<\/a><\/strong>, by John Olwande et al.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p id=\"p0290\">Smallholder participation in maize, kale and milk markets in Kenya is compared.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p id=\"p0290\">Market access improved overtime but production remains largely subsistence.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p id=\"p0290\">There is greater market orientation and less market concentration in kale and milk.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p id=\"p0290\">Land, assets, technology, prices and rainfall are important to market participation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p id=\"p0290\">Increasing production is critical to broad-based smallholder market participation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a id=\"title_S0306919215000202\" class=\"cLink artTitle S_C_artTitle \" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0306919215000202\" data-docsubtype=\"fla\">What dimensions of women\u2019s empowerment in agriculture matter for nutrition in Ghana?<\/a><\/strong>, by Hazel Jean L. Malapit and Agnes Quisumbing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p id=\"p0215\">Examines empowerment\u2013nutrition links using a new survey-based empowerment measure.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p id=\"p0215\">Empowerment is more strongly associated with diet quality than nutrition status.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p id=\"p0215\">Credit decisionmaking is associated with better outcomes for both women and girls.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p id=\"p0215\">Different domains of empowerment may have different impacts on nutrition.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a id=\"title_S0306919214000918\" class=\"cLink artTitle S_C_artTitle \" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0306919214000918\" data-docsubtype=\"fla\">Enhancing food security of low-income consumers: An investigation of financial incentives for use at farmers markets<\/a><\/strong>, by\u00a0Carolyn Dimitri et al.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Federal nutrition policy in the US targets the diet of low-income consumers.<\/li>\n<li>Weekly matching vouchers, used at farmers markets, augment nutrition benefits.<\/li>\n<li>We model the impact on vegetable consumption of incentives for 300 women.<\/li>\n<li>Those visiting food pantries are more likely to stop shopping at the market.<\/li>\n<li>Low education and low produce consumption best predictors of increased consumption.<\/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 2013, which means that I handle submissions in my areas of<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/10799\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From the Latest Issue of Food Policy: Guest Agricultural Workers, Agricultural Marketing and Supermarkets in Kenya, and Farmers Markets<\/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-10799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-2Ob","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799","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=10799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10801,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799\/revisions\/10801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}