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Food Authenticity, Technology and Consumer Acceptance
Hobbs, Jill E.; McDonald, Jillian; Zhang, Jing - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
Traceability and authenticity issues have gained increasing prominence in food markets and create both opportunities … emerging technology with the potential to deliver traceability and authenticity assurances. A key question for the food … industry in adopting new technologies is consumer acceptance. This paper explores consumer attitudes toward traceability and …
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IMPACT OF FOOD CONTAMINATION ON BRANDS: A DEMAND SYSTEMS ESTIMATION OF PEANUT BUTTER
Bakhtavoryan, Rafael; Capps Jr., Oral; Salin, Victoria - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
A 2007 foodborne illness incident involving peanut butter is linked with structural change in consumer demand. Compensated and uncompensated own- and cross-price elasticities and expenditure elasticities were calculated for leading brands before and after the product recall using the Barten...
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Consumer confidence in Food Safety and the 2010 egg recall
Pouliot, Sebastien - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
Iowa egg producers recalled nearly 500 million eggs in August 2010. The typical effect of a recall is to cause a decline in the demand for the affected product, yielding a decrease in the price. In the case of August 2010 egg recall, the price of eggs increased in the following weeks. This essay...
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Small is Beautiful? Firm's Size, Prevention & Food Safety.
Rouviere, Elodie; Soubeyran, Raphael - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
The European General Food Law of 2005 and the newly promulgated FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FFSMA) of 2010 ask all food operators to implement preventive efforts. In this article, we explore the link between firm’s size and preventive efforts. We show two main results. First, when there...
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China’s small-scale hog production and implications for trade: Evidence from a farmer survey
Wang, Qingbin; Zhang, Guangxuan - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
Using primary data of 3,327 Chinese farmers and their villages collected through a survey in 2010, this study identifies the factors that affect farmers’ decision to raise hogs and the factors that determine the hog farmers’ production scale and discusses the likely future of small-scale hog...
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Assessing the Impact of Southeast Asia's Increasing Meat Demand on Global Feed Demand and Prices
Hansen, James M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
Over the past 20 years increasing global growth and increased per capita income have led to significant changes in food production, consumption and trade for many countries. As incomes and urbanization increase, food consumption patterns exhibit increased demand for a more diversified diet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916493
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International Pork Trade and Foot-and-Mouth Disease
Yang, Shang-Ho; Reed, Michael R.; Saghaian, Sayed H. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
International pork trade has not only been influenced by trade agreements but also altered by consumer perceptions on disease-infected animals. This study uses a gravity model with fixed-effects to investigate how pork trade is affected by foot-and-mouth disease among 186 countries. Results...
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Indonesian Consumers’ Choice of Food Retail Formats: Are Traditional Food Retailers being “Crowded Out”?
Toiba, Hery; Umberger, Wendy J.; Minot, Nicholas; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011070093
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Spillover Effects of SBP and NSLP on Academic Performance
Capogrossi, Kristen; You, Wen - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
The School Breakfast Program (SBP) and National School Lunch Program (NSLP) are two federally assisted school meal programs that currently serve over 31.7 million children each day. Most of the existing literature examines the nutritional quality of school meals with a handful studying the...
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'Hidden Quality' in the History of American Food: Consumer Search vs. Industry Obfuscation?
Smith, Trenton G.; Tasnadi, Attila - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
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