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Avian Influenza outbreaks and poultry production mitigation strategies in the U.S.

Mu, Jianhong H.; McCarl, Bruce A. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010

In this paper, two AI mitigation strategies are examined, quarantine and vaccination. Meanwhile, associated welfare … without vaccination. Once comes to livestock producers, impacts become significant although magnitudes are small. For example …, under 20% demand shocks, vaccination strategy dominates no vaccination at the production, market and national level. However …

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Farmers’ willingness to vaccinate against endemic animal diseases: A theoretical approach

Rault, Arnaud; Krebs, Stephane - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014

The aim of this paper is to propose an analytical framework to explore farmers’ vaccination decisions against endemic … farmer’s vaccination decisions over time and the resulting disease dynamics. Numerical simulations are then performed to …

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Livestock Husbandry between Ethics and Economics: Finding a Feasible Way Out by Target Costing?

Theuvsen, Ludwig; Essmann, Sandra; Brand-Sassen, Henning - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005

Livestock husbandry is a major line of conflict in many industrialized countries. Farmers are caught in a dilemma between ethical considerations imposed by, for instance, nongovernmental organizations and the wider public on the one hand and competitive and economic pressures on the other. In...

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Eliciting public preferences for managing the public rights of way

Morris, Joe; Colombo, Sergio; Angus, Andrew J.; Stacey, K. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008

Public Rights of Way (PROW) in England and Wales, provides a wide range of social and economic benefits to those other than owners of land. The protection and extension of PROW are an important way of encouraging people to engage in informal enjoyment of urban and rural areas, with beneficial...

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Consumer Willingness to Pay for Organic Products in Urban Turkey

Akgungor, Sedef; Miran, Bulent; Abay, Canan - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007

The objective of the paper is to present the preliminary results of the survey project whose aim is to explore the Turkish consumer's perceptions regarding food safety and the tradeoff they make between chemical residues and cosmetic quality in fresh fruit and vegetable marketing chain. Previous...

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Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Food Safety in Nairobi: The Case of Fresh Vegetables

Lagerkvist, Carl Johan; Hess, Sebastian; Ngigi, Marther W. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

Large urban areas in developing countries represent currently the most dynamically growing markets for food products. This study investigates the willingness to pay of consumers in Nairobi for safer leafy vegetables. We survey individuals’ perceived food safety across four major market...

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Willingness to pay for a local food label for lamb meat in Spain

Gracia, Azucena; de Magistris, Tiziana; Nayga Jr., … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

The aim of the paper is to assess consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for a local food produced in a less-favoured area in the Aragon region (Spain). In particular, we examine whether consumers value lamb meat products (lamb and suckling lamb) labelled as “Ojinegra from Teruel”,...

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Contingent valuation analysis of rural households’ willingness to pay for frankincense forest conservation

Tilahun, Mesfin; Mathijs, Erik; Muys, Bart; Vranken, Liesbet - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

Frankincense from Boswellia papyrifera forest (BPF) is a traded non timber forest product (NTFP) used in pharmaceutical, food, cosmetic and chemical industries. However, the resource in northeastern Africa is under continuous degradation and requires conservation measures. Data from a discrete...

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US and German Consumer Preferences for Ground Beef Packaged Under a Modified Atmosphere

Grebitus, Carola; Jensen, Helen H.; Roosen, Jutta - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010

Consumers' preferences for meat quality attributes such as color influence their purchasing decisions. Better understanding of consumer preferences can help meat processors and others attain effective product development and marketing and inform public policy decisions on nutrition and food...

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Consumers’ willingness to pay for food safety: the case of mycotoxins in milk

Sckokai, Paolo; Moro, Daniele; Cuomo, Enrica - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010

European statistics show that one of the most widespread source of health risks related to food is mycotoxins. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the Italian consumers’ perception of the mycotoxins’ risk and, more specifically, their willingness-to-pay (WTP) for a hypothetical bottle...

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