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Government policies in changing climate and the demand for crop insurance

Liesivaara, Petri; Myyrä, Sami - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2014

Crop insurance markets are exposed to unpredictable weather conditions. Yield risks are systemic in nature, and public intervention is often a necessity for the functioning private crop insurance markets. Climate change is expected to increase catastrophic weather events and yield volatility....

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Estimating Farmers' Willingness to Change Tillage Practices to Supply Carbon Emissions Offsets

Gramig, Benjamin M.; Widmar, Nicole J.O. - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2015

One common element in many voluntary and regulatory carbon markets to date has been the inclusion of emissions offsets that can be sold by entities outside of emission caps. A particularly low cost means of sequestering atmospheric carbon is reducing tillage of agricultural soils. A choice...

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The UK public’s perceptions on the issue of the dog overpopulation problem and people’s willingness to pay (WTP) for a humane stray dog management.

Siettou, Christina - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2015

The present study surveyed a UK representative sample of 500 individuals and employed the Choice Experiment (CE) to elicit the UK public’s views on the management of stray dogs and people’s willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce the current euthanasia rate. The results revealed that people have...

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Cattle farmers’ preferences for Disease Free Zones: A choice experiment analysis in Kenya

Otieno, David Jakinda; Ruto, Eric; Hubbard, Lionel J. - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2010

Management of food-borne illnesses is important in ensuring food safety to consumers in both domestic and export markets. In livestock trade, various measures are prescribed under the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards (SPS) agreement of the World Trade Organization (WTO). With regard to food...

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Functional Ingredients and Food Choice: Results from a Choice Experiment

Fraser, Iain; Bitzios, Michael; Haddock-Fraser, Janet - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2010

In this paper we present the results of a Choice Experiment (CE) conducted to examine how the inclusion of an attribute for a functional ingredient affects consumer food choice. Specifically, we examine consumer attitudes towards bread and the inclusion of a functional ingredient (eg, inulin),...

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Using Attribute Importance Rankings within Discrete Choice Experiments: an application to Valuing Bread Attributes.

Balcombe, Kelvin George; Bitzios, Michael; Fraser, Iain; … - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2012

In this paper we present results from a Choice Experiment (CE) incorporating respondent debrieng ranking information about attribute importance employing a modied Mixed Logit using Bayesian methods. Our results indicate that a CE debrieng question that asks respondents to rank the...

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Willingness to pay for Drought Tolerance (DT) in Maize in Communal Areas of Zimbabwe

Kassie, Girma T.; Abdulai, Awudu; MacRobert, John; … - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2014

This study aimed at estimating the implicit prices farmers are willing to pay (WTP) for maize traits with deliberate focus on drought tolerance. Using choice experiment, we generated 12600 observations from a random sample of 1400 households in communal areas within 14 districts of Zimbabwe....

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Forecasting the Adoption of GM Oilseed Rape: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment

Breustedt, Gunnar; Muller-Scheessel, Jorg; … - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2008

This paper explores farmers’ willingness to adopt genetically modified oilseed rape prior to its commercial release and estimates the ‘demand’ for the new technology. The analysis is based upon choice experiments with 202 German arable farmers. A multinomial probit estimation revealed that...

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The impact of changing agricultural policies on jointly used rough pastures in the Bavarian Pre-Alps - an economic and ecological scenario approach

Roeder, Norbert; Lederbogen, Dirk; Trautner, Juergen; … - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2009

The following paper assesses the impact of different policy options on the land use and associated biodiversity values … parameters: (a) protected habitats according to the EC Habitats Directive, (b) biodiversity for selected taxonomic groups (plants …

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Linking biodiversity, land-use and incomes at the farm level: an interdisciplinary modelling approach

Acs, Szvetlana; Dallimer, Martin; Hanley, Nick; Gaston, … - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2009

Recent decades have witnessed substantial losses in biodiversity in Europe, partly driven by the ecological changes … associated with intensification of agricultural production. These changes have particularly affected biodiversity in marginal … subsidies and agrienvironmental payments. The production decisions have an effect on biodiversity, although the precise links …

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