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An Agent-based Model of Food Safety Practices Adoption

In: Emergent Results of Artificial Economics

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  • Tim Verwaart

    (LEI Wageningen UR)

  • Natalia I. Valeeva

    (LEI Wageningen UR)

Abstract

Food processors and governments have an interest to motivate suppliers of animal products to implement food safety measures. This paper proposes an agentbased simulation model to compare possible consequences of alternative communication programs and incentive systems. The agent model combines economic incentive models with social-psychological survey results in an approach based on the theory of planned behavior. Food safety actions follow from producers’ attitudes, social network influences, and perceived availability of resources and opportunities to implement the measures. The model allows for heterogeneity in the agent population, for instance with respect to openness to communications and factors that motivate producers to implement food safety measures. A sensitivity analysis can be performed for both aggregate outputs, such as food safety risk reduction downstream in the supply chain, and individual agent performance, such as the response to different incentives and communications. Conclusions are drawn about the model’s feasibility for food safety policy support.

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  • Tim Verwaart & Natalia I. Valeeva, 2011. "An Agent-based Model of Food Safety Practices Adoption," Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, in: Sjoukje Osinga & Gert Jan Hofstede & Tim Verwaart (ed.), Emergent Results of Artificial Economics, pages 103-114, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:lnechp:978-3-642-21108-9_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21108-9_9
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    1. Bourceret, Amélie & Amblard, Laurence & Mathias, Jean-Denis, 2022. "Adapting the governance of social–ecological systems to behavioural dynamics: An agent-based model for water quality management using the theory of planned behaviour," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 194(C).
    2. Sara McPhee-Knowles, 2015. "Growing Food Safety from the Bottom Up: An Agent-Based Model of Food Safety Inspections," Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 18(2), pages 1-9.
    3. Bourceret, Amélie & Amblard, Laurence & Mathias, Jean-Denis, 2023. "How do farmers’ environmental preferences influence the efficiency of information instruments for water quality management? Evidence from a social-ecological agent-based model," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 478(C).

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