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consumption since this information is vital for planning production. Static and dynamic demand frameworks involving the Nerlovian …Recent changes in economic conditions have introduced notable changes in household beef consumption patterns in … Cameroon. While consumers are concerned about the short- and long-run effects of these factors on beef consumption habits …
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Consumption functions for total animal-derived food products were estimated for six East Asian countries. Incorporation … positive, indicating that the process of urbanisation had a positive effect on the demand for animal food products. The … expenditure elasticities were also positive, but often less than they would be if estimated from consumption functions that …
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presented that focuses attention on the role of assets and consumption risk in influencing soil conservation adoption decisions …, controlling on these and other household characteristics, the probability of adoption falls as consumption risk rises. These … results underscore a need for greater sensitivity among policymakers to the role of consumption risk in influencing soil …
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This paper reviews the role of national administered protection agencies, whose primary responsibility is the enforcement of national trade remedy laws. After reviewing four recent cases of trade disputes between Canada and the United States, it is argued that the role of national administered...
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and import demand for dairy products in Mexico to determine price and income elasticities as well as import elasticities … relatively elastic, which suggests the existence of other substitutes for fluid milk. Estimation of import demand equations … suggests that Mexico will import possibly more fluid than dry milk as incomes rise. The exchange rate was the most significant …
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The objective of the paper is to examine market integration between Australian and U.S. beef prices at the farmgate level. If these two prices are found to be integrated then it can be alleged that Australian beef prices can be used as a world price in empirical analyses andjor as a 'reference...
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milk production and no change of the feed/milk relation were used for the calculations. BST is more profitable on intensive …
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Tanzania is a net importer of dairy products despite its large cattle herd and successive government efforts to promote dairying. This paper draws on survey data to examine the financial attractiveness of dairying to smallholders in an area of high dairy potential on the slopes of Mount...
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Degraded groundwater, impaired swimming, fishing, algae and weed problem are often associated with eutrophication from phosphorus (P) loadings in surface and groundwater. The concentrated growth of poultry industry and over application of litter on pasture lands may lead to excessive nutrient...
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Linkages between the regulated and unregulated dairy markets in Kenya were examined using an econometric model of the fluid milk intake for eight processing plants. Counter-intuitive results were obtained: an increase in the regulated price was significant in decreasing intake in the regulated...
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