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Australia is currently developing a carbon emissions trading program. The Garnaut report recommendations include options for the allocation of carbon credits, trading schemes, banking and borrowing, and self reporting mechanisms. This paper reports the results of a series of economic experiments...
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The paper analyses the 1996 EU food aid reform and addresses the question of its impact on improving EU food aid allocation in terms of reaching those countries which are most vulnerable to food insecurity. Using a two-stage regression model the analysis finds that EU food aid in kind is...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine politically sensitive food safety problems from the viewpoint of political economy. The model was built in order to clarify the behaviors of consumers and politicians, employing the prospect theory and the median voter theorem. Major findings and policy...
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Using recent survey data (n = 1,430) on trust levels in agri-food supplier-buyer relationships in six different …-retailer), main determinants of trust are identified and discussed. The structural equation modelling estimation results indicate that … trust can be significantly improved by effective communication and by a positive collaboration experience. The existence of …
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This study identified and validated key constructs underlying supply chain management research: contract, trust and … Chinese vegetable and fruit farmers, we found empirical support for a complementary relationships between contract and trust …
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the government policy priority should be on building and maintaining trust in food and health authorities, and research … risk perception and trust. The data are from a nationally representative European survey of 2 725 respondents from five … extended TPB framework, which incorporates risk perceptions, and trust in alternative sources of food safety information. This …
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Based on an enhancement of Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behaviour, this article investigates German consumers' trust in … different sources of information. Moreover, it discusses the settings and the extent to which consumers' trust influences … incidence such as bird flu . Results indicate that both the consumers' attitude and their trust in suppliers of information is a …
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China has embarked on a major program to modernise agricultural and agribusiness structures with far reaching implications for rural development, international competitiveness / trade and food safety. There are, however, few studies that examine in detail how the modernisation program has...
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In Vietnam, a quasi-private property regime has been established in 1993, with the issuance exchangeable and mortgageable land use right certificates. Using primary qualitative and quantitative data, this paper investigates the role of the titling policy in fostering the use of soil conservation...
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India is the second largest producer of silk and also the largest consumer of silk in the world having a strong tradition bound domestic market. In this paper, growth functions were estimated for India’s aggregate production and trade parameters using annual data from 1984/85 to 2006/07. To...
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