Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Agricultural and Food Policy

...Darin haben wir einen Fragebogen zu Einstellungen zu sozialem Zusammenhalt mit einer mehrjährigen Panel-Studie der Charite kombiniert:

Thu Huong Nguyen, Laura Pletsch-Borba, Peter H. Feindt, Caroline S. Stokes, Anne Pohrt, Nina M. T. Meyer, Charlotte Wernicke, Miriam Sommer-Ballarini, Konstantina Apostolopoulou, Silke Hornemann, Tilman Grune, Tilman Brück, Andreas F. H. Pfeiffer, Joachim Spranger, Knut Mai (2024): The Effect of Individual Attitude toward Healthy Nutrition on Adherence to a High-UFA and High-Protein Diet: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial, Nutrients 2024, 16, 3044, https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16173044.

Website: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/16/17/3044

PDF Version: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/16/17/3044/pdf

A new article by Nicolai Goritz (né Schulz) was published in the Journal of Comparative Politics on 24 August 2024. The article challenges the common notion that smallholder farmers in low-income countries lack the capacity to collectively resist adverse policies. It argues that smallholders can collectivize if they are able to attribute price distortions to government policies. However, apart from direct taxes, this is only likely to happen if traders inform smallholders of unfavourable policies. If traders are also significantly harmed by a price-distorting policy (e.g. by an export ban), they will be motivated to use their networks and financial resources to inform farmers about protests. If traders can pass on price distortions to farmers (as in the case of low export taxes), they will not do so. The article probes this argument through a controlled comparative case analysis of export bans and taxes on raw cashew nuts in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.

Nicolai Schulz (2024) ‘Prompting Peasant Power: Cashews, Coalitions, and Collective Action in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire’. Comparative Politics

Eine neue Publikation mit dem Titel „Explaining low salience of environmental resilience challenges in bioeconomy strategies: A cross-regional comparative analysis“ von G. Varanini, M. Proestou, N. Goritz und P. H. Feindt wurde in der Zeitschrift Earth System Governance veröffentlicht.

Das Papier untersucht, warum die umweltbezogene Resilienzherausforderungen in Bioökonomiestrategien nur geringe Salienz aufweisen. Es präsentiert eine explorative vergleichende Analyse der Gestaltungsprozesse von Bioökonomiestrategien in sechs Ländern: Malaysia, Südafrika, Vereinigtes Königreich, Irland, Italien und Deutschland. Die Ergebnisse legen nahe, dass die primär ökonomische Motivation der führenden Behörden und die Unterrepräsentation von Umweltakteuren in den politischen Gestaltungsprozessen entscheidende Faktoren für die geringe Bedeutung umweltbezogener Resilienzherausforderungen sind.

Das vollständige Paper ist unter diesem Link verfügbar. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2024.100218

A new open access article by Pascal Grohmann and Peter H. Feindt was published on 13 August 2024 in the Journal of Rural Studies. The authors have analysed how changes to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) affect the role of farmers in society. Using the implementation of direct payments in the CAP for 2023 to 2027 as an example, the study shows that the increasing linkage of income support in the CAP to categorical and behavioural conditions is realigning the relationship between the state and farmers.

Grohmann, P. and P. H. Feindt (2024). "Realigning state-farmer relations in agricultural post-exceptionalism: Direct payment implementation in the Common Agricultural Policy post-2022 in Germany." Journal of Rural Studies 110: 103363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103363.

Link to the press release (in German): https://www.hu-berlin.de/de/pr/nachrichten/august-2024/nr-24819