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Food security and poverty in the era of decentralization in Indonesia
Thompson, Geoff; Bottema, J.W. Taco; Baldwin, Robert - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific … - 2008
rural development, such as food security and the reduction of poverty and the number of food-insecure households, is being …. Part 3 focuses on the empowerment of rural households facing food insecurity. …
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Popyt na żywność w krajach UE w warunkach spowolnienia gospodarczego
Wyrzykowski, Paweł - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 14 (2014) 29
Over the period of 2011-2012 the scope of economic activities in many Member States decreased. As a result of that the demand for food declined. The situation on labour market deteriorated - unemployment increased and employment went down. The rate of household income growth diminished. An...
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Effects of Household Socioeconomic Features on Dairy Purchases
Blaylock, James R.; Smallwood, David M. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1983
Higher income households likely spend less per person on whole and canned milk than do lower income households, but … food stamp status of households also affect spending for the 20 dairy products analyzed. Using the Tobit analytical method …
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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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Consumers’ Preferences for the Food Preparation Time and Identification of the Factors Influencing Time-saving Food Consumption Pattern
Kim, Elizabeth J.; Ahn, Byeong-il - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA
The main purpose of this study is to classify consumers according to their time allocation on food consumption and to analyze socioeconomic characteristics that affect time-saving food consumption pattern. We find out the determinants of time-saving food consumption lifestyle. Since the...
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Effects of policy instruments on farm investments and production decisions in the Spanish cop sector
Kallas, Zein; Gil, Jose Maria; Serra, Teresa - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009
Our paper asses the impacts of the partially decoupled (PD) scheme, implemented during the 1990s and first half of the 2000s in the framework of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), on on-farm investment as well as on other production decisions. The Spanish COP sector was taken as a case study...
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ASYMMETRY IN RAW MILK SAFETY PERCEPTIONS AND INFORMATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR RISK IN FRESH PRODUCE MARKETING AND POLICY
Knutson, Ronald D.; Currier, Russell W.; Ribera, Luis; … - 2010
Scientific evidence clearly indicates that consumption of raw milk carries substantialdisease-inducing health risks. While federal U.S. policy mandates that milk moving in interstatecommerce be pasteurized; within 41 of 50 states, raw milk can be obtained for consumption.Warning labels...
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Nutritional & Health Claimed Products Market Development in Serbia: Exploration of Findings Obtained from In Depth Interviews
Stojanovic, Zaklina; Ognjanov, Galjina; … - 2010
The main objective of this paper is to present the most relevant findings obtained from in depthinterviews with processors and retailers about the N&H claimed products market in Serbia. Inour research we addressed the following set of topics: motivations and barriers to offer N&Hclaimed products...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442763
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Effects of Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage and Subsidizing Milk: Beverage Consumption, Nutrition, and Obesity among US Children
Lin, Biing-Hwan; Smith, Travis A.; Lee, Jonq-Ying - 2010
Taxing sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been proposed as a means to improve U.S. dietand health and generate revenue to address obesity-related issues. A related concern is thatchildren’s intake of SSBs, a third that of milk consumption in the late 1970s, now equals milkconsumption....
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Effects of Family, Friends, and Relative Prices on Fruit and Vegetable Consumption by African American Youths
Zhylyevskyy, Oleksandr; Jensen, Helen H.; Garasky, Steven B. - 2011
Paper for presentation at the Northeastern Agricultural & Resource Economics Association’s Workshop on Economics and Child Nutrition Programs, AAEA & NAREA Joint Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 23, 2011.
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