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THE EFFECT OF AVIAN INFLUENZA ON SECTOR 3 POULTRY FARMS IN EAST JAVA: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM A SURVEY
Simmons, Phil - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006
Avian Influenza caused losses to poultry producers in East Java in 2003 and 2004. Two surveys of poultry producers in affected districts were conducted in September 2005. One was of 125 broiler producers and the other of 125 egg producers. Based on results from these surveys the relationship...
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'Local Milk for Local Schools?': Children Dairy Consumption Behaviours, Willingness to Pay and Health in Indonesia
Permani, Risti; Nuryartono, Nunung; Wardani, Fikria Ulfa; … - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275485
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Influence of generalized trust on Canadian consumers’ reactions to the perceived food risk of three recurring BSE cases
Ding, Yulian; Veeman, Michele M.; Adamowicz, Wiktor L. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2011
of BSE motivates this study, in which Canadian households’ expenditures on fresh meat are assessed in the context of the … first three recurring risk events in which bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was found to have affected Canadian cows … Canadian households from the Nielsen Homescan® Canadian panel, supplemented by survey responses on BSE risk perceptions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853523
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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
How much has food abundance, attributable to U.S. public agricultural R&D, contributed to the high and rising U.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...
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Groundwater Quality Policy under Uncertainty
Lichtenberg, Erik; Penn, Tony - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 1996
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AI and its Impact on the Indonesian Economy: a CGE Approach
Oktaviani, Rina - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006
Virus H5N1 is confirmed as the cause of AI in Indonesia as well as in other Asia countries. A possible human pandemic from AI has economic implications and may affect consumer behavior as well as other sectors such as tourist, trade and transportation. A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE)...
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The Dynamics of Poverty in Urban Ethiopia
Gebremedhin, Tesfaye A. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006
The paper examines poverty in urban Ethiopia using household survey data for 1994 and 2000. Consumption poverty is found to be high, with an overall head count of 47 per cent, in 1994, and 40 per cent, in 2000. As monetary measures may not appropriately capture welfare in non-monetary dimensions...
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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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HIV/AIDS and South Africa’s Agricultural Sector: Impact on Food Demand
Agbola, Frank W.; Damoense, Maylene Y.; Saini, Yvonne K. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2003
South Africa has one of the highest cases of HIV infections in the world. With the epidemic continuing at an alarming rate, the government of South Africa has regarded the HIV/AIDS epidemic a developmental and socio-economic policy issue. The study explores the impact of HIV/AIDS on food demand...
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Economic Tools for Planning Health Services in Remote Rural Areas
Doeksen, Gerald A. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2003
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