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Research on the entry of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into the agricultural marketplace has largely emphasised questions of consumer confidence and trust, product liability, and the market. However, the relationship between GMOs, free trade, and questions of culture and traditional...
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value EU food safety standards and quality assurance schemes such as Red Tractor highly. This suggests that attitudes to … Brexit and preferences regarding food do not necessarily align in support of trade agreements that may require the UK to … lower ex- isting food safety and animal welfare standards. Potential policy solutions to ensure consumer preferences are …
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, are objecting strongly to their use. Both environmental and food safety concerns have been raised by opponents of GM crops … for a country to set its own environmental and food safety regulations at the national level is provided for in article XX …
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Using a simple market model and Frisch's duality relation, this report develops propositions about the relationship between advertising and the market demand elasticity that may prove useful in empirical research. In particular, we find that a parallel shift in a linear demand function always...
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Current debates about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture reveal substantial differences in perception of the associated risks and benefits. Genetically modified crop varieties allegedly provide farmers with various agronomic benefits, but serious environmental, health and...
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This study addresses the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) from the German agri-food sector, and options for … GHG emissions are analysed by GHG sources, processes and food products, and in chapter 4 the state of knowledge of … emissions stemming from food processing, retail and households is portrayed. Chapter 5 introduces to technical and …
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This study investigates how consumers value carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of food by conducting a choice experiment … and have more value for this, although this implies that they do not relate food to CO2 emissions. Thus, since whether or … not people select food based on CO2 emissions differs across ages, each age group has a different approach to reducing the …
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This study investigates whether consumers select foods based on the levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by using a choice experiment in the laboratory. Respondents are asked to purchase a few Satsuma mandarin oranges based on price and the levels of CO2 emissions during different stages of...
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Meat consumption and production cause a significant share of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the food sector …. Behavioural food policy suggests the use of defaults – i.e., pre-setting a specific choice option – as an effective demand … existing empirical evidence on such food defaults. Beyond that, potential effect moderators are explored. The systematic search …
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