Special Issue "Developing the Evidence Base for Rural Development Policies and Interventions to Address Novel and Emerging Societal Problems"

A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 March 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Francesco Caracciolo
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Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80055 Naples, Italy
Interests: development economics; food economics; ecosystem services; rural development; sustainable consumption
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Prof. Dr. Danilo Bertoni
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Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Milan, Milano, Italy
Interests: environmental economics; rural development; sustainable agriculture; agricultural economics; agricultural policies
Prof. Dr. Raffaele Cortignani
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Department of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy
Interests: economic modeling; sustainable agriculture; forecasts; environmental analysis; mathematical programming; farm management; climate change; agricultural policies

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The COVID-19 pandemic is emphasizing the importance of a resilient food system that ensures affordable food for consumers and helps to uncover the existing critical interrelations between ecosystem preservation, food system characteristics, and health. The need for a transition toward a more sustainable food system maximizing environmental, health, and social benefits while supporting economic growth is therefore particularly needed.

To foster this transition, countries are asked to orient their policy interventions in agriculture to improve their response to societal demands on food and health, including safe, nutritious, and sustainable food. Agricultural policies need to adapt to the current challenges, which leads to two relevant and related research gaps. Empirical evidence on the fitness and suitability of traditional measures and interventions in agriculture in achieving the expected outcomes and impact is particularly limited with regard to novel expectations and requests. The latter requires a better understanding of farm responses, of farmers’ willingness and capacity to adhere to the policy measures, and how these might impact the environmental and economic farming dimensions. Secondly, the need for the development of new methodologies and tools to analyze and deeply understand the impact of policy decisions on the novel spheres has been accelerated.

The Special Issue aims to include both empirical research articles and conceptual pieces covering (but not limited to) all stages of the agri-food system, from production to distribution, marketing, and consumption, which may contribute to develop an evidence base for rural development policies and interventions to address novel, emerging societal problems in both developed and developing countries.

Prof. Dr. Francesco Caracciolo
Prof. Dr. Danilo Bertoni
Prof. Dr. Raffaele Cortignani
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • Rural development programs
  • Agri-environmental policies
  • Sustainable agriculture.
  • Ecosystem services
  • Sustainable development
  • Agri-environmental measures
  • Policy evaluation
  • Impact assessment
  • Environmental laws and policy
  • Ecological intensification

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Risk Perception of Rural Land Supply Reform in China: From the Perspective of Stakeholders
Agriculture 2021, 11(7), 646; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11070646 - 09 Jul 2021
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The reform of rural land supply market has a profound impact on the rural management and agricultural development. In this article, we want to explore risk perception of multi-subject land supply reform in China. The perception of potential risks from the perspective of [...] Read more.
The reform of rural land supply market has a profound impact on the rural management and agricultural development. In this article, we want to explore risk perception of multi-subject land supply reform in China. The perception of potential risks from the perspective of stakeholders can evaluate the effect of a certain behavioral decision and provide a convincing explanation for further risk control. Based on theoretical analysis and practical investigation, we define the five stakeholders, namely collective economic organizations, farmers, local government, banks and land users, as the respondents of our questionnaire survey. Through in-depth interviews and literature review, we obtained the categories of risks with stakeholders. Data were obtained through questionnaire survey, a total of 307 surveys were conducted to analyze the probability of risk occurrence and the severity of consequences. Frequency analysis, risk matrix method, and Borda count method were used to analyze the survey results in order to determine the risk level and key risk. The research finds that the information asymmetry risk perceived by farmers and the market risk perceived by banks are key risks. In terms of stakeholders, famers and banks perceived the highest overall risks. It implies that the information-disadvantaged stakeholder is usually the one with a strong sense of risk. Full article
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