DDRIE: Farm to Fridge: Traceability and Quality Incentivizing in a Dairy Chain

DDRIE：从农场到冰箱：乳品链中的可追溯性和质量激励

• 批准号: 2242369
• 负责人: Jonathan Robinson
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Cruz
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2242369&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DDRIE; Farm; Fridge; Traceability; Quality

Improving the quality of agricultural products is an important step in the process of structural transformation---moving farmers from subsistence farming to modern commercial agriculture. Disorganized agriculture value chains prevent the transmission of quality incentives to farmers in the supply chain, especially when quality is unobserved at the farm gate. Without an effective traceability system along the value chain, farmers will not be rewarded for producing high-quality products. This project will support low-income farmers to develop more accountable food supply chains by establishing a sustainable traceability and quality-based payment system in dairy farming. This system helps to improve products’ quality, increase farmers’ profit, and improve consumers’ welfare, which has the potential to be scaled up to not only many other dairy cooperatives, but also other agricultural commodities. This research would help the U.S. target its aid policies in agricultural value chains in developing countries more effectively with a better understanding of these emerging markets. The results of this research could improve agricultural product quality and increase the incomes of small-scale farmers as well as improve the health of consumers. This project will use a randomized controlled trial (RCT) at the collection center level within dairy cooperatives to evaluate the effect of establishing a milk quality traceability system, supplemented with a quality-based payment on milk quality, and farmers’ investment in quality upgrading. The experiment has two arms. First, the project implements a traceability system to track the flow of milk delivery throughout the value chain among randomly selected collection centers. Milk tests at different levels based on the traceability system will be conducted to determine farmers’ eligibility for quality subsidies. Second, this project randomizes the subsidy to be paid to eligible farmers as well as vary the range of subsidies to be given to farmers. This experimental design allows the PIs to identify the causal effects of traceability systems and quality-based payment on milk quality and farmers’ investment in quality upgrading. The design can be adapted to study other markets and the results could provide economists with a better understanding of product quality upgrading, and important contribution to the development economics literature. The data collected for the project will be made available to future researchers. The results of this research could improve agricultural product quality and increase the incomes of small-scale farmers as well as improve the health of consumers. The results will also inform US policies on quality upgrading in agricultural value chains as well as guide the formulation of US aid policies.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

提高农产品的质量是结构转化过程中的重要一步---将农民从生存农业转移到现代商业农业。混乱的宜人价值链阻止了供应链中农民的质量激励措施，尤其是在农场门未观察到的质量时。没有沿着价值链的有效的可追溯性系统，农民不会因生产高质量的产品而获得回报。该项目将支持低收入农民，通过在奶牛场建立可持续的可持续性和基于质量的支付系统来开发更多负责任的食品供应链。该系统有助于提高产品质量，提高农民的利润并改善消费者的福利，这不仅有可能扩大到许多其他奶业合作，还可以扩展到其他农产品。这项研究将有助于美国针对发展中国家农业价值链中的援助政策，以更好地了解这些新兴市场。这项研究的结果可以提高农产品质量，并增加小型农民的收入，并改善消费者的健康状况。该项目将在乳制品合作中的收集中心一级使用随机对照试验（RCT），以评估建立牛奶质量可追溯性系统的效果，并补充了基于质量的牛奶质量支付，以及农民对质量升级的投资。实验有两个臂。首先，该项目实现了可追溯性系统，以跟踪随机选择的收集中心中整个价值链中的牛奶传递流。将根据可追溯性系统进行不同级别的牛奶测试，以确定农民获得质量补贴的资格。其次，该项目将要支付给符合条件的农民支付的补贴随机，并改变了要提供给农民的补贴范围。这种实验设计使PI可以确定可追溯性系统的灾难性影响以及基于质量的付款对牛奶质量和农民在质量升级方面的投资。该设计可以适应其他市场，结果可以使经济学更好地了解产品质量升级，并为发展经济学文献做出重要贡献。为项目收集的数据将提供给未来的研究人员。这项研究的结果可以提高农业产品质量，并增加小型农民的收入，并改善消费者的健康状况。结果还将为美国关于农业价值链条质量升级的政策提供信息，并指导美国援助政策的公式。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务。