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Assessment, Development and Implementation of Training Materials for Food Defense/Safety, Biosecurity, and Traceability within the Catfish Industry
Hood, Anna F.; Williams, J. Byron; Crist, Courtney - In: Journal of Food Distribution Research 43 (2012) 1
, promote awareness and educate catfish farmers and processors on the principles of food defense, biosecurity and traceability … were asked a series of questions covering different areas of food defense/safety, biosecurity and traceability. Of those … surveyed, 74% said they have a food defense plan; 48% had a working traceability plan; and 52% had a biosecurity plan. Pre- and …
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Assessing the marginal dollar value losses to an estuarine ecosystem from an aggressive alien invasive crab
Bell, Brian A.; Menzies, Sharon; Yap, Michael; Kerr, … - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2008
This paper reports on a case study to establish dollar values for loss of biodiversity in the New Zealand coastal marine environment. The study uses the European Shore Crab (Carcinas maenas) as the example alien invasive species and the Pauatahanui Inlet, Wellington, New Zealand, as the...
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Establishing a benefits transfer database for biosecurity decision making an indigenous biodiversity
Bell, Brian A.; Cudby, Charlotte; Yap, Michael - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2009
An imbalance of quantitative information on pest and disease impacts hampers biosecurity decision-making; there is … values via a process for benefit transfer to facilitate more informed biosecurity decisions. …
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ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC ACCOUNTING FOR THE GERMAN AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
Schmidt, Thomas G.; Osterburg, Bernhard - 2010
How can we estimate the negative externalities of agriculture at the national level, and attribute these to specific production activities and outputs? The paper presents a method that calculates the mass flow in the whole agricultural sector including inputs from other sectors, and that allows...
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The Relationship Between Wildfire and Welfare
Kaval, Pamela; Loomis, John B. - 2005
We used the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two wildfire scenarios. Variables such as age, family size, fire frequency, and house value were...
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Modelling Waikato Farm Nitrogen Discharges for Policy Analysis
Ramilan, Thiagarajah; Scrimgeour, Frank G. - 2005
This study describes the development of bio economic models examining the economic and water quality impact of various proposed policy options in the Upper Waikato catchment. In the first phase nitrogen emissions are determined for representative farming systems using the Overseer nutrient...
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Biofuels: Potential Production Capacity, Effects on Grain and Livestock Sectors, and Implications for Food Prices and Consumers
Hayes, Dermot J.; Babcock, Bruce A.; Fabiosa, Jacinto F.; … - 2009
We examined four evolution paths of the biofuel sector using a partial equilibrium worldagricultural sector model in CARD that includes the new RFS in the 2007 EISA, a two-wayrelationship between fossil energy and biofuel markets, and a new trend toward corn oilextraction in ethanol plants. At...
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2009
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Time-of-Use Pricing for Electric Power: Implications for the New York Dairy Sector, A Preliminary Analysis
Middagh, Mark C. - 1991
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The role of virtual water for sustainable economic restructuring: evidence from Uzbekistan, Central Asia
Bekchanov, Maksud; Bhaduri, Anik; Lenzen, Manfred; … - Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), Rheinische … - 2012
Increases in water demand due to population growth, industrial development and urbanization necessitate economically efficient use of water resources worldwide. This is particularly true in the dryland zones of the world relying on irrigated agriculture for economic development such as in...
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