Journal of Integrative Agriculture ›› 2021, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (10): 2807-2819.DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(21)63624-9

所属专题： 农业经济与管理合辑Agricultural Economics and Management； 农业生态环境-氮素合辑Agro-ecosystem & Environment—Nitrogen

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  • 收稿日期:2020-05-29 出版日期:2021-10-01 发布日期:2021-08-09

Food safety inspection and the adoption of traceability in aquatic wholesale markets: A game-theoretic model and empirical evidence

JIN Cang-yu1, Retsef LEVI2, LIANG Qiao1, Nicholas RENEGAR3, ZHOU Jie-hong1
  

  1. 1 China Academy for Rural Development, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P.R.China
    2 Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    3 Operations Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
  • Received:2020-05-29 Online:2021-10-01 Published:2021-08-09
  • Contact: Correspondence LIANG Qiao, Tel/Fax: +86-571-56337019, E-mail: liangqiao2323@126.com; ZHOU Jie-hong, Tel/Fax: +86-571-56337045, E-mail: runzhou@zju.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    The research was funded by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China and ZJU-IFPRI Center for International Development Studies, and the National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science of China (19ZDA106). 

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摘要：

供应链可追溯性的构建能够对食品安全问题进行溯源，因此对于降低食品安全风险来说非常重要。此外，它能够帮助监管者了解食品安全风险发生的供应链环节，并能够对上游农业企业的经济性动机掺假行为产生威慑。本文聚焦于中国水产品供应链，试图通过构建批发市场经营户、养殖户和政府三方的博弈模型和使用大规模的水产品批发市场实地调研数据，分析经营户可追溯采纳行为。该实地调研数据涵盖了浙江和湖南两省所有存在水产品交易的批发市场，具体来说，包含76家批发市场和763个经营户的信息。理论和实证研究的结果表明，批发市场经营户之间采用可追溯性与食品安全抽检强度、经营户个人的被抽检经历和风险意识密切相关；此外，在私营市场中，抽检强度对经营户的产品可追溯性采纳的影响要强于国家/集体所有权的市场。本文提供了关于中国水产品可追溯性发展的情况，更为重要的是，发现了可能影响批发市场经营户的产品可追溯性的因素，以期为相关政府部门促进水产品供应链的可追溯性提供建议。


Abstract:

Supply chain traceability is key to reduce food safety risks, since it allows problems to be traced to their sources.  Moreover, it allows regulatory agencies to understand where risk is introduced into the supply chain, and offers a major disincentive for upstream agricultural businesses engaging in economically motivated adulteration.  This paper focuses on the aquatic supply chain in China, and seeks to understand the adoption of traceability both through an analytical model, and empirical analysis based on data collected through an extensive (largest ever) field survey of Chinese aquatic wholesale markets.  The field survey includes 76 managers and 753 vendors, covering all aquatic wholesale markets in Zhejiang and Hunan provinces.  The analytical and empirical results suggest that the adoption of traceability among wholesale market vendors is significantly associated with inspection intensity, their individual history of food safety problems, and their risk awareness.  The effect of inspection intensity on traceability adoption is stronger in markets which are privately owned than in markets with state/collective ownership.  The analysis offers insights into the current state of traceability in China.  More importantly, it suggests several hypothesized factors that might affect the adoption of traceability and could be leveraged by regulatory organizations to improve it.

Key words: food safety ,  traceability ,  supply chain ,  wholesale markets ,  China