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The EU reforms will increase the Caribbean sugar price, but will not affect the U.S. sugar industry. If liberalization … occurs based on the WTO-DDA, U.S. wholesale sugar price will decrease from 24.89 to 23.79 cents per pound. It is also … expected the Caribbean price to increase from 8.7 to 12.1 cents per pound. Key Words: Sugar, Liberalization, EU Reform, Doha …
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The EU and U.S. have historically been insulated from volatilities in the world sugar market. This paper reviews … changes in WTO and regional trade agreements and interactions with domestic policies. A framework is developed to analyze the … competitive positions of these sugar industries given world sugar policy reforms. …
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for sugar and for sugar in soft drinks was analyzed. Using a bivariate ordered probit model, it was discovered that high … levels of consumer ethnocentrism and consumer patriotism positively impacted consumers’ preference that sugar and sugar in … soft drinks should be labeled with country of origin information. …
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between sugar and fat nutrients implied by a complete food demand system and by conditioning on how food taxes affect total … low-sugar items for rich food items within the same food group. This substitution is integrated into a demand system in …
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purchase decisions. This study therefore, assessed the consumers’ willingness-to-pay for fortified sugar using choice … experiment approach, on a sample of 162 sugar consumers drawn from Western Kenya. The results revealed that consumers are willing … to pay positive premiums for fortified sugar attributes, except the attribute involving a colour change from white …
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In order to reduce obesity and associated costs, policymakers are considering various policies, including taxes, to change consumers’ high-calorie consumption habits. We investigate two sweet tax policies aimed at reducing added sweetener consumption. Both a consumption tax on sweet goods and...
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On a Virginia crop farm, alternative levels of information are evaluated for managing nitrogen applications based on …
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Using data gathered in two surveys we analyze the movement of information in agriculture. The relative importance of … varying classes of information providers are assessed by classes of users. A network based framework expands models of human … capital and bounded rationality to assess the calculus of choice of information. …
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information about daily purchases and social and demographic characteristics of more than 1,100 households. We find that consumers … who prefer milk with a high fat content do not react to information about health effects, but can be influenced by prices …, while consumers who prefer milk with a low share of fat are influenced by information, but are less price sensitive …
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We investigate to which extent the Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS), set up by the G20 in 2011, can help …
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