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Supply Chain Issues in China’s Milk Adulteration Incident
Gale Jr., H. Frederick; Hu, Dinghuan - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
China’s melamine milk adulteration crisis highlights the challenges that arise as large well-capitalized companies … procure raw materials from a diffused supply chain of scattered small farmers and milk collection stations. As milk prices … climbed sharply in 2007 and companies branched out into new territories, intense competition for raw milk supplies …
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THE ROLE OF ASYMMETRIC PRICE TRANSMISSION AND STRUCTURAL BREAKS IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COSTA RICAN MARKETS OF LIVESTOCK CATTLE, BEEF AND MILK
Hernandez-Villafuerte, Karla Vanessa - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2008
The research analyzes the price transmission among the Costa Rican markets of cattle, beef and milk, accounting for … the behaviour expected. Cattle prices adjust in the milk - cattle relationship, beef meat prices adjust in the cattle … - beef meat relation and in the milk - beef meat relation. This finding supports the statement regarding the leading position …
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Estimation of Tariff Equivalent for NTM on Brazilian beef exports to the European Union
Sbarai, Nathalia; Miranda, Silvia Helena Galvao de - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
This paper is part of the first author´s dissertation (Master degree).
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Economics of Traceability for Mitigation of Food Recall Costs
Filho, Resende; Andrade, Moises de; Buhr, Brian L. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
We develop conceptual and process simulation models to determine the probability of a recall and predict its size. We compare the costs of recalls with and without traceability for a ten year planning horizon by simulating the expected recalls caused by Escherichia coli O157:H7 contamination for...
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Market Performance of Poultry Industries under Different North American and European Market Structures
Farris, Donald; Dosky, Doris - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 1989
The broiler chicken and egg industries are compared across the economies of the USA, Canada, FRG, and Switzerland to contrast the impacts on market performance of different market structures due to different government policies. The US industries approzimate free market conditions whereas the...
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Assessing Returns to R&D Expenditures on Post-War Japanese Agricultural Production
Ito, Jyunichi - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 1992
The objective of this paper is to disentangle the question of the influence of R&D investment on resource allocation efficiency and income distribution in Japanese agriculture during 1960-87. The average marginal product of R&D stock as estimated by the cost function approach is calculated to be...
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Understanding Spatial Welfare Impacts of a Grain Ethanol Plant
Van Wart, Justin; Perrin, Richard K. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
A changing world of increasing complexity, fluctuating prices, high energy costs and limited data necessitate creative blending of economic theory and available empirical statistics to understand the welfare impacts in a specific market. In this paper, a programming approach is used in tandem...
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China’s Agricultural Modernisation Program: an assessment of its sustainability and impacts in the case of the high-value beef chain
Waldron, Scott A.; Brown, Colin G.; Longworth, John W. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
China has embarked on a major program to modernise agricultural and agribusiness structures with far reaching …
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Water Footprint in Milk Chains in the Central Subhumid and Semiarid Region of Argentina
Manazza, Jorge F.; Iglesias, Daniel H. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
demand scenario in these fragile areas in relation with this productive transformation process. Water footprints of UHT milk …) methodology, including virtual water indicators. Milk chain of La Pampa presents high self-sufficiency water ratio and high … primary production proportion in virtual water exports. Water footprint of San Luis milk chain is highly externalized with a …
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Improving the Economic Decision-Making Capability and Viability of Chinese Wool Textile Mills
Brown, Colin G.; Waldron, Scott A.; Longworth, John W.; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
The successful restructuring of Chinese industries is of immense importance not only for the continued development of China but also to the stability of the world economy. The transformation of the Chinese wool textile industry illustrates well the many problems and pressures currently facing...
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