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our choice experiment. Our analysis also differentiates the value estimates by respondent attitude to Brexit. The results … reveal that being positively disposed toward Brexit means that respondents are less likely to value chlorine washed chicken … negatively. Yet, of equal or greater significance, those respondents who hold positive attitudes with regard to Brexit still …
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The EU has had the difficult task of creating new regulations for genetically modified food labeling while simultaneously developing its governing institutions. It is unclear that the resulting policies have produced substantial welfare gains for consumers. What is clear, instead, is that the...
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CAP reform is the major bone of contention in the negotiations of the next long-term EU budget beyond 2013. This paper reviews the political landscape so as to make it more legible to the public. First, it summarizes the arguments concerning key reform issues: What should be the size of the CAP...
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Fears about food security in the EU have become a driving force in the debate about the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). But the facts do not bear out these fears. This paper brings together the available evidence against EU food security concerns: the size of EU production, the even...
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The cost of complying with a sanitary standard is certain. However, such regulatory measure is a source of uncertainty for exporting firms in relation to border rejections. Shipments may fail to pass inspections and may be refused entry into the importing country. We examine how the risk of...
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The paper discusses the decisions on the CAP in the context of the Berlin summit. In a rather broad perspective the agricultural sectoral and related objectives are analyzed for their consistency and compatability with higher ranking societal objectives. The policies' allocational and...
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In contrast to the whirlwind pace and the efficiency with which the science and commercialization of modern biotechnology have developed in the past few decades, the creation of an adequate and comprehensive regulatory regime for agricultural biotechnology has proven to be a lengthy and arduous...
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Over time, the CAP has had a very important role for the economic objectives of the EU. It is the institutional policy with the highest share of the community budget. This article examines the evolution of the CAP since the nineties, with the aims of reducing surpluses, developing an...
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The recent White Paper on Irish Aid made coherence one of the guiding principles of Ireland's development cooperation policy (Government of Ireland, 2006). Agriculture is at the heart of much of the debate about possible incoherence between trade and development policy. This paper presents the...
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