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African immigrants in the United States (U.S.) experience immense challenges in the form of poverty, unemployment, and underemployment. Limited English language proficiency often restricts African immigrants to low-paying, unskilled positions. Ethnic entrepreneurship in the form of small-scale...
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results show very high premiums for Taiwan products. Taiwanese consumers and food producers stand to benefit greatly with COOL. …
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believe they have over the risks, and the level of worry the risks prompt. It does this for a set of both food and non-food ….g. swine flu vs. heart attack), (ii) food risks as opposed to non-food risks, (iii) perceived levels of control over the risks …
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with identifying their locations and effects in the supply chain. The paper argues that the success and endurance of agri-food …
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been proposed to encourage domestic and regional consumption of Dominica's agricultural outputs and food products. As such …, ‘Organic Dominica' has the potential to simultaneously address ongoing national concerns surrounding food security, foreign …
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food availability is increasing or decreasing. Using data from China, we find that overall dietary knowledge has larger and …, and protein) when expected food availability increases than when it decreases. Without distinguishing the direction of … changes in expected food availability, most of the corresponding effects become smaller and statistically insignificant. Thus …
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In this paper a method to examine how households make their food choice considering micronutrients through utility … theory is applied. The findings support the argument that nutrients play an important roles in the demand for food. The … method is illustrated using the raw data EIH 2000/2001 (Enquesta Integrata de Hogares) for a set of different food groups. …
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shocks affect food and fuel prices within fuel and corn markets. Results indicate that the relative importance of each … main contributors of the 2007-2008 food price spike. …
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20th century, U.S. policymakers opted to ratchet down the rate of growth in public support for food and agricultural R …
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