Does greater food safety consciousness benefit smallholder dairy farmers? Evidence from Nepal

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dc.creatorThapa, Ganesh B.
dc.creatorKumar, Anjani
dc.creatorRoy, Devesh
dc.creatorJoshi, Pramod Kumar
dc.date2019-04-16
dc.date2024-06-21T09:08:46Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:08:46Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:20:18Z
dc.descriptionFood quality and safety have been the central issues of food economics and are considered among the most important food attributes. However, evidence of the impact of food safety consciousness on consumers' food purchasing behavior is limited. This paper studies the impact of food safety consciousness on weekly milk expenditure, milk price paid, milk quantity purchased, and the probability of purchasing milk from modern market outlets in Nepal. We conducted dairy consumer survey in four selected districts of the country and employed an instrumental variable regression and quantile instrumental variable to estimate the heterogeneous treatment effects. The results suggest that education, income, and social network are the major factors that positively influence food safety consciousness. An increase in the food safety consciousness level by 1% increases the weekly milk expenditure, milk price paid, and weekly milk purchased by 1.37%, 0.66%, and 1.27%, respectively. Furthermore, we found that an increase in food safety consciousness by 1% is associated with a 37% higher probability of selecting a modern milk outlet. At higher levels of food safety consciousness, female-headed households are significantly more likely to purchase milk from modern outlets in comparison to male-headed households. Our findings imply that increasing food safety consciousness is likely to improve food security (through more consumption of milk and other healthy food) and the welfare of smallholder dairy farmers (through increased milk demand and higher milk prices paid by consumers).
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/146793
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/101511
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133518
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133672
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133684
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1017/aae.2020.14
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceThapa, Ganesh; Kumar, Anjani; Roy, Devesh; and Joshi, Pramod Kumar. 2019. Does greater food safety consciousness benefit smallholder dairy farmers? Evidence from Nepal. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1824. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146793
dc.subjectdairy farming
dc.subjectmilk
dc.subjectcapacity development
dc.subjectfood safety
dc.subjectsmallholders
dc.subjectconsumer attitudes
dc.titleDoes greater food safety consciousness benefit smallholder dairy farmers? Evidence from Nepal
dc.typeWorking Paper

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