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Quantitative analysis of the household’s expenditure for food
Dudek, Hanna - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 11 (2011) 26
The paper deals with the dependence of the share of households’ food expenditure on the total expenditure and the … household’s size. This problem is important in applied welfare economics. According to the Engel’s law, the poorer household … was applied to Polish households microeconomic data from 2000, 2005 and 2009. …
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Regional employment impacts of Common Agricultural Policy measures in Eastern Germany: A difference-in-differences approach
Petrick, Martin; Zier, Patrick - Department für Agrarökonomie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin - 2010
marginal employment effect. We present evidence that full decoupling of direct payments in 2005 led to labour shedding, as it …
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Wpływ zmiany systemu płatności bezpośrednich na wyniki rolnictwa w wybranych krajach Unii Europejskiej
Kalińska, Justyna - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 02 (2007) 17
Presented are some results of investigation of the structure of direct payments schemes in the EU member states, their influence on agricultural output and on entrepreneur income. For that purpose results of economic accounts for agriculture (EAA) were used. / Synopsis. Przedstawiono strukturę...
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DAIRY TECHNOLOGY IMPACTS ON LIVEHOODS OF DAIRY PRODUCERS IN CENTRAL ETHIOPIA
Melesse, Kassahun; Jemal, Jeilu - In: International Journal of Food and Agricultural … 1
A survey was conducted in 2012 to assess the impact of dairy technologies on the livelihood of dairying households in …. Dairying has significant contribution as a sustainable source of income to the dairy producing households. It contributed about … for about 80% and 62% of the dairy producing households in Ada’a and Lume districts, respectively. On the other hand, 92 …
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Agricultural Contracts and Alternative Marketing Options: A Matching Analysis
Katchova, Ani L. - 2010
The increasing use of agricultural contracts and processor concentration raises concerns that processors may offer lower contract prices in absence of local competition. This study examines the price competitiveness of marketing and production contracts depending on the availability of...
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Empirical Evidences from a Coffee Paradox: An Export Supply/Price Asymmetry Approach
Kang, Hyunsoo; Kennedy, P. Lynn - 2009
This paper aims to determine the solidity of the notion of the "coffee paradox" using annual data from 1977 to 2007. In the confines of an export supply model, we analyze the effects of export coffee price on export volume. Price and profit equation are used to determine the effects of market...
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Auctioning Conservation Contracts and Evaluating the Risk Attitudes of Farmers: Economic Experiments in Japan
Sasaki, Hiroki; Fujie, Takeshi; Kawasaki, Kentaro; … - 2010
Agri-environmental programs in Japan have generally been promoted through the provision of fixedpayments for certain environment-friendly farming and management practices. However, the auctioning of agrienvironmentalcontracts is a noteworthy alternative for the furtherance of such programs....
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Consumer attitudes towards sustainability attributes on food labels
Saunders, Caroline M.; Guenther, Meike; Kaye-Blake, William - 2010
With current concerns about climate change and the general status of the environment, there is an increasing expectation that products have sustainability credentials, and that these can be verified. Labelling is a common method of communicating certain product attributes to consumers that may...
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The adoption of market-based instruments for resource management: Three case studies
Sinner, Jim; Fenemor, Andrew; Palmer, James - 2005
Market-based instruments (MBIs) for resource management create financial incentives for people and businesses to use resources more efficiently, within a regulatory context designed to ensure that ecological, social and cultural objectives are also met. Three case studies were done to identify...
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Partial versus General Equilibrium Calorie and Revenue Effects of a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax
Dharmasena, Senarath; Davis, George C.; Capps, Oral - 2011
The current obesity crisis in the United States is generating numerous alternative policy options for combating the problem. One alternative that has been widely proposed is an excise or sales tax on sugar-sweetened non-alcoholic beverages. This literature started out within a very simple...
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