Contact for this paper: Dr. Karl Meilke, Department of Agricultural Economics and Business, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada. The international dairy sector is one of the most heavily protected commodity sectors in agriculture. Following the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade liberalization all...

The traditional food supply chain is arranged as a complex array of producers, handlers, processors, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. As the food supply chain grew in complexity over time, little emphasis was placed on reserving information regarding the origin of raw materials and...

How can we estimate the negative externalities of agriculture at the national level, and attribute these to specific production activities and outputs? The paper presents a method that calculates the mass flow in the whole agricultural sector including inputs from other sectors, and that allows...