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Government policy and agricultural production: a scoping review to inform research and policy on healthy agricultural commodities
Unhealthy foods and tobacco remain the leading causes of non-communicable disease (NCDs). These are key agricultural commodities for many countries, and NCD prevention policy needs to consider how to influence production towards healthier options. There has been little scholarship to bridge the agri...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6971899/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31959213 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-020-0542-2 |
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author | Lencucha, Raphael Pal, Nicole E. Appau, Adriana Thow, Anne-Marie Drope, Jeffrey |
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description | Unhealthy foods and tobacco remain the leading causes of non-communicable disease (NCDs). These are key agricultural commodities for many countries, and NCD prevention policy needs to consider how to influence production towards healthier options. There has been little scholarship to bridge the agriculture with the public health literature that seeks to address the supply of healthy commodities. This scoping review synthesizes the literature on government agricultural policy and production in order to 1) present a typology of policies used to influence agricultural production, 2) to provide a preliminary overview of the ways that impact is assessed in this literature, and 3) to bring this literature into conversation with the literature on food and tobacco supply. This review analyzes the literature on government agricultural policy and production. Articles written in English and published between January 1997 and April 2018 (20-year range) were included. Only quantitative evaluations were included. Studies that collected qualitative data to supplement the quantitative analysis were also included. One hundred and three articles were included for data extraction. The following information was extracted: article details (e.g., author, title, journal), policy details (e.g., policy tools, goals, context), methods used to evaluate the policy (e.g., outcomes evaluated, sample size, limitations), and study findings. Fifty four studies examined the impact of policy on agricultural production. The remaining articles assessed land allocation (n = 25) (e.g., crop diversification, acreage expansion), efficiency (n = 23), rates of employment including on- and off-farm employment (n = 18), and farm income (n = 17) among others. Input supports, output supports and technical support had an impact on production, income and other outcomes. Although there were important exceptions, largely attributed to farm level allocation of labour or resources. Financial supports were most commonly evaluated including cash subsidies, credit, and tax benefits. This type of support resulted in an equal number of studies reporting increased production as those with no effects. This review provides initial extrapolative insights from the general literature on the impact of government policies on agricultural production. This review can inform dialogue between the health and agricultural sector and evaluative research on policy for alternatives to tobacco production and unhealthy food supply. |
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spelling | pubmed-69718992020-01-27 Government policy and agricultural production: a scoping review to inform research and policy on healthy agricultural commodities Lencucha, Raphael Pal, Nicole E. Appau, Adriana Thow, Anne-Marie Drope, Jeffrey Global Health Review Unhealthy foods and tobacco remain the leading causes of non-communicable disease (NCDs). These are key agricultural commodities for many countries, and NCD prevention policy needs to consider how to influence production towards healthier options. There has been little scholarship to bridge the agriculture with the public health literature that seeks to address the supply of healthy commodities. This scoping review synthesizes the literature on government agricultural policy and production in order to 1) present a typology of policies used to influence agricultural production, 2) to provide a preliminary overview of the ways that impact is assessed in this literature, and 3) to bring this literature into conversation with the literature on food and tobacco supply. This review analyzes the literature on government agricultural policy and production. Articles written in English and published between January 1997 and April 2018 (20-year range) were included. Only quantitative evaluations were included. Studies that collected qualitative data to supplement the quantitative analysis were also included. One hundred and three articles were included for data extraction. The following information was extracted: article details (e.g., author, title, journal), policy details (e.g., policy tools, goals, context), methods used to evaluate the policy (e.g., outcomes evaluated, sample size, limitations), and study findings. Fifty four studies examined the impact of policy on agricultural production. The remaining articles assessed land allocation (n = 25) (e.g., crop diversification, acreage expansion), efficiency (n = 23), rates of employment including on- and off-farm employment (n = 18), and farm income (n = 17) among others. Input supports, output supports and technical support had an impact on production, income and other outcomes. Although there were important exceptions, largely attributed to farm level allocation of labour or resources. Financial supports were most commonly evaluated including cash subsidies, credit, and tax benefits. This type of support resulted in an equal number of studies reporting increased production as those with no effects. This review provides initial extrapolative insights from the general literature on the impact of government policies on agricultural production. This review can inform dialogue between the health and agricultural sector and evaluative research on policy for alternatives to tobacco production and unhealthy food supply. BioMed Central 2020-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6971899/ /pubmed/31959213 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-020-0542-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2020 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Review Lencucha, Raphael Pal, Nicole E. Appau, Adriana Thow, Anne-Marie Drope, Jeffrey Government policy and agricultural production: a scoping review to inform research and policy on healthy agricultural commodities |
title | Government policy and agricultural production: a scoping review to inform research and policy on healthy agricultural commodities |
title_full | Government policy and agricultural production: a scoping review to inform research and policy on healthy agricultural commodities |
title_fullStr | Government policy and agricultural production: a scoping review to inform research and policy on healthy agricultural commodities |
title_full_unstemmed | Government policy and agricultural production: a scoping review to inform research and policy on healthy agricultural commodities |
title_short | Government policy and agricultural production: a scoping review to inform research and policy on healthy agricultural commodities |
title_sort | government policy and agricultural production: a scoping review to inform research and policy on healthy agricultural commodities |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6971899/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31959213 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-020-0542-2 |
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