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Consumer Demand for Quality: Major Determinant for Agricultural and Food Trade in the Future?
Caswell, Julie; Joseph, Siny - Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department … - 2007
The impact of consumer demand for quality on the agricultural and food system is an increased emphasis on quality differentiation but not all in the direction of upgrading quality. The more elite market segments are thriving and reaching growing numbers of consumers but the basic price/quality...
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Testing for Household Resilience to Food Insecurity: Evidence from Nicaragua
Ciani, Federico; Donato, Romano - Associazione Italiana di Economia Agraria e Applicata - … - 2014
The main goal of this paper is to develop a methodology to quantitatively assess resilience to food insecurity. The developed methodology is applied to Nicaraguan rural households hit by Mitch Hurricane in 1999. The results show that the proposed resilience index is a good predictor of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011067599
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________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 Demand for the Food Diversity in Central and Eastern European Countries: an Evide...
Rizov, Marian; Cupak, Andrej; Pokrivcak, Jan - Associazione Italiana di Economia Agraria e Applicata - … - 2014
We estimate demand for food diversity in Central and Eastern Europe. Food diversity is a proxy for the quality of a diet and it is one of the measures of households’ food and nutritional security status. Using data from the Slovak Household Budget Survey, we estimate the impact of...
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Foodborne Illness in the Elderly Population of the United States, 1987-1993
Steahr, Thomas E. - Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department … - 1996
The purpose of this study is to identify the level of foodborne illness in the elderly population of the United States and to examine changes over time in these patterns. The analysis is based upon the National Hospital Discharge Survey done by the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers...
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Weather variability and food consumption: Evidence from rural Uganda
Lazzaroni, Sara - Associazione Italiana di Economia Agraria e Applicata - … - 2013
This multidisciplinary study considers the impact of short-term weather variations on food consumption of 488 rural households in Uganda. We combine World bank LSMS households panel data with data on rainfall, number of rainy days, maximum and minimum temperatures in the period 2005/06-2009/10....
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Child Nutritional Status in the Malawian District of Salima: A Capability Approach
Sassi, M. - Associazione Italiana di Economia Agraria e Applicata - … - 2013
This paper investigates the long- and short-term determinants of child nutritional status in the Malawian district of Salima. Based on monthly data from July 2004 to June 2012, the study applies the capability approach to the analysis of the impact on child nutritional status of a set of...
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Better communication for successful food technology development: A Delphi study
Ragona, M.; Raley, M.; Sijtsema, S.J.; Frewer, L.J. - Associazione Italiana di Economia Agraria e Applicata - … - 2013
barriers, it is important to explicitly recognise inter-disciplinary communication as a success factor in food development … crucial to improve food technology development, respond better to consumer wishes and reduce innovation failures. In this … the elaboration of an effective communication strategy during food product development are presented. Survey participants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010879193
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WIC Contract Spillover Effects
Huang, Rui; Perloff, Jeffrey M. - Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department … - 2009
The three major infant formula manufacturers bid state by state to be the exclusive provider to poor families under the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, and all three compete for non-WIC customers at grocery stores. Previous studies explained the low WIC prices and the higher retail...
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A Global Wheat Market Model (GLOWMM) for the Analysis of Wheat Export Prices
Gutierrez, L.; Piras, F. - Associazione Italiana di Economia Agraria e Applicata - … - 2013
Food commodity prices fluctuations have important impacts on poverty and food insecurity across the world. Conventional models have not provided a complete picture of recent price spikes in agricultural commodity markets, while there is an urgent need for appropriate policy responses. Perhaps...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010910369
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The incorporation of subjective risks into choice experiments to test scenario adjustment
Cerroni, Simone; Notaro, Sandra; Raffaelli, Roberta; … - Associazione Italiana di Economia Agraria e Applicata - … - 2013
In choice experiment (CE) applications, subjects are typically assumed to fully accept information given in the status quo (SQ) alternative, however, subjects might adjust such information on the basis of their subjective beliefs. This phenomenon is known as scenario adjustment. By using a CE...
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