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Global Food Security During Food and Energy (CCC) Crises
No full textPrepared by Johan Swinnen, International Food Policy Research Institute & CGIAR, Kigali, Rwanda, May 2022
Value chains and technology transfer to agriculture in developing and emerging economies
No full textValue chains in the agrifood sector are undergoing a rapid process of modernization, characterized by the emergence of private standards and different systems of vertical value chain governance. In this article we investigate the technological implications of these developments at the farm-level. We model the conditions under which technology transfer and adoption will occur in a value chain setting and review the corresponding evidence on these issues. We find that technology transfer within a value chain can occur in an environment with imperfect credit and technology markets but depends on the surplus generated by the technology and the holdup opportunities within the value chain. We also discuss how these holdup opportunities affect bargaining power and the division of surplus; and how the nature of the technology affects technology transfer and the implications for value chain governance.sponsorship: Rob Kuijpers is a Ph.D. candidate at the Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance (LICOS), University of Leuven (KU Leuven). Johan Swinnen is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance (LICOS) at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). The authors acknowledge the helpful comments and suggestions received from the two anonymous referees and editor Travis Lybbert. They also thank Anneleen Vandeplas and Koen Deconinck for many discussions and insights on the theoretical model. The authors acknowledge support from the KU Leuven Methusalem Fund. Correspondence may be sent to: [email protected]. (KU Leuven Methusalem Fund)status: Publishe
Mapping changes on agricultural and rural areas: an ex-post evaluation of the EU membership for Hungary
Full text linkSeveral progresses have been made in evaluating the development policies for rural areas in the last years; many indicators1 have been set for assessing the effectiveness of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and Rural Development Policies (RDPs) and their role on the convergence process of the EU members, but a shared definition of rurality is still missing. The results obtained at the level of growth and development by the most lagging behind areas, are far from being satisfactory (Brasili, 2005). The evaluation of the policies and programmes introduced evidenced lack of institutional planning and implementing abilities, and an insufficient targeting of policies and payments (Mantino, 2010). The experience of the 10 New Member States (NMSs)2 showed how the current CAP and Cohesion policy, designed for the EU-15 (Csaki et al. 2010), aren’t enough for addressing the regional specificities, hindering a process of development which is already weakened by the effects of the unfinished transition. This paper aims at offering a methodological contribution for evaluating the EU membership, with particular attention to the CAP, in Hungary. We chose this Country among the 10 NMSs because of the relevance (96%) of the rural areas on the total land3, and given the historical socio-economic role played by agriculture. The authors believe that more targeted – and therefore efficient – policies for agricultural and rural areas require a deeper knowledge of their structural and dynamic characteristics. Therefore, in order to identify the changes occurred before (2003) and after (2007) the EU membership on agricultural and rural areas, we use the following multivariate statistics methodologies: Principal Components Analysis, applied to the set of 42 variables, and Cluster Analysis on the results obtained by the Principal Components Analysis. Then, we offer a preliminary evaluation of the distribution of Single Area Payment Scheme (SAPS)4, using the information on the applications provided at the County level by the Hungarian Paying Agency to show correlations with the leading factors.Agricultural and rural development policy evaluation, rural areas, policy targeting, EU enlargement, Agricultural and Food Policy, O18, P25, R58,
COVID-19 and Global Food Security
No full textJohan Swinnen, John McDermott BOOK LAUNCH Virtual Event - COVID-19 & Global Food Security AUG 4, 2020 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM ED
Fruits and Vegetables for Sustainable and Healthy Diets
No full textJohan Swinnen CGIAR RESEARCH INITIATIVE Fruit and Vegetables for Sustainable Healthy Diets (FRESH) Global Launch Event MAY 25, 2022 - 9:30 TO 11:00AM ED
Virtual Event - COVID-19: Implications for Global and Country-Level Food Security, Nutrition, and Poverty
No full textJohan Swinnen, David Laborde Debucquet, Xiaobo Zhang, Purnima Menon, and James Thurlow POLICY SEMINAR Virtual Event - COVID-19: Implications for Global and Country-Level Food Security, Nutrition, and Poverty APR 14, 2020 - 12:15 PM TO 01:15 PM ED
COVID-19 & Global Food Systems
No full textJohan Swinnen CONFERENCE IFIAD Annual Conference 2020 COVID-19 & Sustainable Food Systems - Transforming food systems in times of crises OCT 21, 2020 - 10:00 AM TO 01:00 PM IS
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