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Contracts for Grain Biosecurity and Grain Quality
Abougamos, Hoda; White, Benedict; Sadler, Rohan - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2012
to inadequate biosecurity management. As a first step to analysing this problem, this paper considers the design of farm … biosecurity contracts using a principal-agent approach. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010915504
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Predicting the Benefits of Banana Bunchy Top Virus Eradication in Australia
Cook, David C.; Liu, Shuang; Edwards, Jacky; Villalta, Oscar - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2012
social welfare from investment decisions to diverse stakeholder audiences. However, in a plant biosecurity context, it is … their hosts. In this paper, we demonstrate how benefit cost analysis remains highly relevant to biosecurity decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010915532
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An Example of How Chemical Regulation is Affecting Biosecurity Policy-Making: Mediterranean Fruit Fly in Western Australia
Cook, David C.; Fraser, Rob W.; Weinert, Andrew S. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2013
The principal chemicals used by Western Australia’s horticultural industries for field control and post-harvest disinfestation procedures for Mediterranean fruit fly are soon to be withdrawn from use due to public health concerns. When this occurs, the necessary switch to alternative control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010920079
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A Rule of Thumb for Controlling Invasive Weeds: An Application to Hawkweed in Australia
Kompas, Tom; Chu, Long - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
We use a bang-bang optimal control model to derive a rule of thumb for an optimal management of invasive weeds, in terms of the marginal benefits and costs of various control actions. Instead of determining the size of infestation under an optimal surveillance measure, the rule specifies the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693274
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Area-Wide Management of Fruit-Flies: What are the Costs and the Benefits?
Florec, Veronique; Sadler, Rohan; White, Benedict - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2010
Increasing volumes and speed of agricultural trade and the opening of new markets for agricultural products create greater challenges to systems established to protect countries from invasive organisms that can be harmful to human and animal health, crops and natural environments. In reaction to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008866198
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Using involvement to understand responses to biosecurity
Bewsell, Denise; Bigsby, Hugh R.; Cullen, Ross - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2009
The effectiveness of biosecurity measures at national borders is influenced by the behaviour and levels of involvement … the response of individuals to New Zealand biosecurity requirements. A range of people associated with the agricultural … biosecurity. The results indicated that most respondents had medium to high levels of involvement. This implies that respondents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008802942
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Valuing indigenous biodiversity in the freshwater environment
Bell, Brian A.; Yap, Michael; Cudby, Charlotte - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2009
Biosecurity incursion response decisions require timely, high quality information involving science and economics. The …. The hypothetical incursion of Biosecurity New Zealand’s top priority weed hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata) in a typical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008802943
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A review of Multi-Agent Simulation Models in Agriculture
Kaye-Blake, William; Li, F.Y.; Martin, A.M.; McDermott, Alan - 2009
Multi-Agent Simulation (MAS) models are intended to capture emergent properties of complex systems that are not amenable to equilibrium analysis. They are beginning to see some use for analysing agricultural systems. The paper reports on work in progress to create a MAS for specific sectors in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443666
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Hog Options: Contract Redesign and Market Efficiency
Urcola, Hernan A.; Irwin, Scott H. - 2010
This article tests the efficiency of the hog options market and assesses the impact of the 1996 contract redesign on efficiency. We find that the hog options market is efficient, but some options yielded excess returns during the live hogs period but not during the lean hogs period. Our findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443770
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Measuring the poverty impact of ACIAR projects: a broad framework
Pearce, David - 2002
This report sets out some broad ideas about how poverty evaluation could be conducted for ACIAR research projects. As with good benefit–cost analysis, there are good practices that need to be observed when undertaking poverty analysis. While poverty is a broad concept, and can be addressed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444590