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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...

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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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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 …

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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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Private Labels, Retail Configuration, and Fluid Milk Prices

Bonanno, Alessandro; Lopez, Rigoberto A. - Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department … - 2004

This paper investigates the impacts of store brands (i.e., private labels) and retail characteristics (scanners, deli, bakery, and pharmacy departments, ATMs, restaurant and store size) on fluid milk prices using 1,740 supermarket-level observations from four cities. Non-parametric results...

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The taxation of farm income in Italy. Evidences from the EU-SILC database

Severini, Simone; Tantari, Antonella; Rocchi, Benedetto - Associazione Italiana di Economia Agraria e Applicata - … - 2014

In this paper the level of taxation of Italian farm households is studied by analyzing the data of agricultural households in the Italian EU-SILC database. The proposed approach allows to use the EU- SILC database to fill missing information on FADN database through a methodology of statistical...

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Are Italian farming households actually poorer than other non agricultural households? An empirical analysis.

Rocchi, Benedetto; Stefani, Gianluca; Romano, Donato; … - Associazione Italiana di Economia Agraria e Applicata - … - 2012

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Consumer Preferences: A Guide to Connecticut Apple Marketing

Leonard, Robert L.; Wadsworth, James J. - Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department … - 1989

The primary objectives of this research are: (1) to identify the preferences of Connecticut apple consumers regarding product attributes and market characteristics; (2) to assess the impact of Connecticut promotion programs on consumer preference for Connecticut grown apples, and (3) to identify...

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Estimation of the Effects of New Brands on Incumbents' Profits and Consumer Welfare: The U.S. Processed Cheese Market Case

Kim, Donghun - Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department … - 2004

We estimate the effects of new brands on market competition and consumer welfare in the U.S. processed cheese market. We find that an observed increase in consumer welfare was attributable mainly to an increase in the number of brands in the sample market, while the price effect, which measures...

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