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Supermarket Promotions and Food Prices
Lan, H.; Lloyd, T. A.; Morgan, C. W. - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2014
Using a sample comprising nearly a quarter of a million weekly prices from the largest seven supermarket chains in the UK, we present statistical evidence on two pricing practices that have attracted public interest. Analysing price dynamics before and after periods of promotional discounting...
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Determinants of Change and Household Responses to Food Insecurity: Empirical Evidence from Nigeria
Edeh, Hyacinth Onuorah; Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2014
Limited economic and physical capacities as well as environmental and economic shocks have constrained the ability of many Nigerian households to feed themselves adequately. This has resulted in these households being faced with food shortages; and they have to adopt various consumption-related...
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Demand for carbon-neutral food – evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment for milk and apple juice
Breustedt, Gunnar - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2014
To internalize climate-related external costs from agricultural production and food consumption Pigou taxes and carbon credits increase private costs for food. Voluntary consumer choices for carbon-neutral food can be advantageous over such policy measures since they avoid higher food prices for...
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Impact of cocoa agroforests on yield and household income: Evidence from Ghana
Owusu, Victor; Frimpong, Frederick Kwabena - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2014
results generally indicate that adoption of cocoa agroforests has significant positive impacts on yield and household income …
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Adoption and Impact of Improved Cow Breeds on Household Welfare and Child Nutrition Outcomes: Empirical Evidence from Uganda
Kabunga, Nassul - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2014
innovations in livestock production systems. Moreover, it is unclear whether the benefits of technology adoption in livestock … households to rigorously assess the impact of adoption of improved dairy cow breeds on enterprise-, household-, and individual …, household’s orientation to milk markets, and food expenditure. Consequently, adoption substantially reduces household poverty …
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Livestock product trade and highly contagious animal diseases
Niemi, Jarkko K.; Lehtonen, Heikki - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2014
An outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) can distort livestock markets. In this paper we have simulated welfare effects due to the risk of a hypothetical FMD outbreak and trade distortions associated with the disease. The analysis was carried out with stochastic dynamic partial-equilibrium...
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Do Sales Matter? Evidence from UK Food Retailing
Lloyd, Tim A.; Morgan, C. Wyn; McCorriston, Steve; … - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2011
This paper assesses the role of sales as a feature of price dynamics using scanner data. The study analyses a unique, high frequency panel of supermarket prices consisting of over 230,000 weekly price observations on around 500 products in 15 categories of food stocked by the UK’s seven...
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Incentive payments, food safety and moral hazard in the supply chain
Fraser, Rob; Hussein, Mohamud - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2014
This paper analyses an incentive payment-based approach to improving food safety in the supply chain. It develops a principal-agent model of the food supply chain in which the principal offers heterogeneous agents a payment to implement costly additional practices to improve food safety. It is...
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Land Constraints in Kenya’s Densely Populated Rural Areas: Implications for Food Policy and Institutional Reform
Jayne, Thomas S.; Muyanga, Milu - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2012
This study analyzes the impact of increasing population density in Kenya’s rural areas on smallholder behavior and welfare indicators. We first present evidence to explain how land constraints can be emerging within an overall context of apparent land under-utilization. Using data from five...
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Do experimental protocols in Conjoint Analysis matter in non Hypothetical settings?
Yangui, A.; Akaichi, F.; Costa-Font, M.; Gil, J. M. - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2014
This paper aims at comparing the performance of three conjoint analyses (CA) in terms of estimated partworths, predictive power and estimated WTP: choice experiment (CE); ranking conjoint analysis (RCA) and best-worst scaling (BWS). Comparisons are made in a non-hypothetical setting. For...
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