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Our increasingly heterogeneous food is at least partly due to concerns over conventional production of farm livestock â€¦ cannot be shown, the consumer is better off herself making the choice of how her food is produced. <p> â€¦
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Compte tenu de l'information incomplète dont on dispose quant aux pratiques culturales des exploitants agricoles, il n'est pas toujours optimal de baser les politiques de lutte contre la pollution d'origine agricole exclusivement sur un mode de taxation. Symétriquement, un système...
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In nonpoint source pollution problems, the regulator does not observe each polluter’s individual emission, which prevents him from using the conventional policy instruments. Therefore new instruments have been designed to regulate this type of pollution. In an experiment, we compare the...
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This paper examines a game-theoretical model of parimutuel betting markets with asymmetric information. Generically, all Bayesian-Nash equilibria of the simultaneous game are characterized depending on the number of bettors and the quality of their private information. An equilibrium where all...
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This thesis consists of a summary and four papers. The first two papers address political economy and industrial organization aspects of agricultural policy, and the last two international aspects of environmental policy. Paper [1] explains Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies to farmers...
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The long-term effects of shocks are examined in the context of a traditional pastoral community. The impacts are empirically examined in connection with the micro-level poverty trap hypothesis and the associated minimum poverty threshold estimates reported in previous studies. We argue that...
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Some key features of the Borana household economy are explored in the changing context of growing pastoralist exposure to the exchange system. Despite past commercialization efforts, the pastoral economy has largely remained unmonetized. The average cattle off-take rate is found to be well below...
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favourable outcome in terms of real GDP and employment impacts, a decrease in food taxes might be a more interesting option if â€¦ international food and oil price shocks on the Namibian economy. This is particularly interesting in a country where the domestic â€¦ agricultural expansion. The results show that the Namibian economy will be negatively affected from the food and oil price â€¦
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In this paper we incorporate interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Behavioral and Political Sciences), and suggest a framework for analyzing and improvement of governance of socio-economics dynamic of agriculture....
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With regard to the agri-food system, we investigate the relationship between the concepts of multifunctionality and â€¦-economic impacts of food production, processing and trade, the double role of citizens as consumers and tax payers, agri-food chain â€¦ rents. All these issues must be taken into account when assessing the agri-food system from a sustainable development â€¦
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