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This paper develops a decision support method that integrates measures of achievement in the economic, environmental, and social aspects of farming. The decision support method combines multiple attribute decision making (MADM) with fuzzy logic. The fuzzy MADM model fully ranks decision...
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from consuming household public goods. Contradictory evidence that per capita demand for food declines with household size … high-value foods, and so they substitute towards cheaper and basic foods, whose per capita demand increases with household … size. However, since high-value foods form a larger proportion of the budget on all foods, per capita demand for all foods …
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We estimate the demand for imported cotton in China and assess the competitiveness of cotton-exporting countries. Given … between the C4 countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali) and United States in China. Demand estimates are used to project … how U.S. prices affect China’s imports by country. In comparing demand projections, results show that the relationship …
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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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A meta-analysis of reported water demand elasticities shows that publication selection bias results in water demand …. A random effects estimator is used to derive water demand elasticity estimates that are efficient and unbiased by … elasticity estimate drops to -.08%. Indoor water demand is almost perfectly inelastic. Water demands and their elasticities are …
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drivers of demand that include geographic proximity, relationships with farmers, and support for local economies. There are … is also potential for increases in sales of prepared foods and meats. And, while there is demand for other product … these locations, must be considered along with knowledge of demand. …
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This paper develops an economic and econometric analysis of demand dynamics, with an application to US aggregate data … marginal benefits. The analysis uncovers strong statistical evidence of demand dynamics, especially for food. We find that the …
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The rapid income per capita of Chinese consumers and increasing demand for nearly all agricultural products have …
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This paper analyzes the impact of human values and personality on the demand for organic tomatoes applying open … demand for products associated with organic labels. Also, consumers distinguish between conventional and organic produce …, such that personality has a differential impact with regard to predicting demand for products associated with organic …
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