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Food Price Spikes and Strategic Interactions between the Public and Private Sectors: Market Failures or Governance Failures.
Jayne, Thomas S.; Tschirley, David L. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
When food prices shoot over import parity, this often leads to social and political unrest and even the toppling of governments. If markets behaved efficiently and in the absence of trade barriers, food prices should not exceed the price in world markets plus the cost of importing it to domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008741303
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Buying More than Taste? A Latent Class Analysis of Health and Prestige Determinants of Healthy Food
Palma, Marco A.; Ness, Meghan L.; Anderson, David P. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275487
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Effects of U.S. Public Agricultural R&D on U.S. Obesity and its Social Costs
Alston, Julian M.; Okrent, Abigail M.; Parks, Joanna - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2013
.S. obesity rates? In this paper we investigate the effects of public investment in agricultural R&D on food prices, per capita … calorie consumption, adult body weight, obesity, public health-care expenditures related to obesity, and social welfare. First … predicted changes in food consumption and hence obesity. We find that a 10 percent increase in the stream of annual U.S. public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010882124
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Impact of School Feeding Programs on Educational, Nutritional, and Agricultural Development Goals: A Systematic Review of Literature
Lawson, Ty M. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012
School feeding program as a social safety net has been popular in developing countries as an instrument for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. These programs are frequently targeted towards populations that are food insecure and reside in areas with high concentrations of families from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010921480
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Impacts of Food Safety on U.S. Meat Demand
Piggott, Nicholas E.; Marsh, Thomas L. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2001
We investigate the impacts of food safety on a weakly separable U.S. meat demand system (beef, pork, and poultry) using both the Generalized Almost Ideal Demand System (GAIDS) and the Rotterdam model. To measure food safety, indices are constructed based on the number of meat safety articles...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010917834
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Nutrient Demand Elasticities with Noisy Measures of Household Resources
Gibson, John - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 1999
Many studies suggest that changes in household economic resources (incomes and expenditure) have little effect on nutrient intakes and child malnutrition in developing countries. This paper examines the impact that errors-in-variables have on inferences about the importance of household incomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010908406
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Trends in Per Capita Food Availability in West Africa, 1980-2009
Me-Nsope, Nathalie Mongue; Staatz, John M. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2013
The goal of this paper is to provide evidence of shifts in food consumption patterns in the ECOWAS countries of West Africa from 1980 through 2009.1 In particular, the analysis is intended to identify major contributors to diets, changes in the levels as well as in the composition of food supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010909782
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Consumer Perceptions of Sustainable Farming Practices: A Best-Worst Scenario
Sackett, Hillary M. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011
The ability of a firm to differentiate their product hinges critically on an accurate understanding of the perceptions consumers hold regarding the implications of a credence labeling claim. Building upon existing work evaluating other food attribute labels (e.g., genetically-modified products,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320435
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Cassava Commercialization in Malawi
Kambewa, Emma - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010
Malawi continues to rely on maize for household food security. Policies to enhance food security continue to target maize production. Traditionally production and use of cassava was localized in lakeshore areas until the past two decades when maize production was increasingly affected by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008741281
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Medição do Impacto dos Activos Públicos e Privados Sobre a Renda de Culturas de Agregados Familiares em Moçambique Rural, 2002-2005
Mather, David - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
This paper aims to better understand the determinants of household crop income, by using the TIA panel household survey of 2002-2005 to measure the impact of various private and public assets on crop income. We build upon Walker et al.’s (2004) analysis of TIA02 crop income by utilizing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008741318