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Revisiting the palm oil boom: An examination of consumption in the oils complex
Sanders, Daniel; Balagtas, Joseph Valdes; Gruere, Guillaume - 2011
The production, trade, and market share of palm oil has shown impressive growth in the last two decades. As a result of sustainability concerns over issues such as deforestation in Indonesia, the causes of the growth in the palm oil market have received considerable attention. The growth of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445193
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How to increase the effectiveness of agri-environmental subsidy schemes through knowledge of farmer perceptions-a choice experiment on pesticide free buffer zones
Christensen, Tove; Pedersen, Anders Branth; Nielsen, … - 2010
Danish farmers have been far less interested in agri-environmental subsidy schemes than anticipated. We use choiceexperiments to estimate 486 Danish farmers’ preferences for a number of policy relevant scheme-characteristics.Subsidy schemes for pesticide free buffer zones along hedgerows are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442742
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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 … can be obtained for consumption.Warning labels notwithstanding, a segment of U.S. consumers pays higher prices for higher …-riskraw milk than for either organic or conventional milk. The behavioral factors leading to rawmilk consumption are explored. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442762
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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
consumption in the late 1970s, now equals milkconsumption. Displacing milk by SSBs may shortchange the buildup of bone mass …
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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
interactions and relative prices on fruit and vegetable consumption by African American youths using rich behavioral data from the … intake by African Americans as a result of “spillover” consumption effects between the youths and parents. …
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The Effects of a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax: Consumption, Calorie Intake, Obesity, and Tax Burden by Income
Lin, Biing-Hwan; Smith, Travis A; Lee, Jonq-Ying - 2010
were estimated using beverage purchase data for high-income and low-income households. Using the estimated demand … consumption, calorie intake, tax revenue and burden. Our results suggest that such a tax would induce an average reduction of 35 …
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Would Subsidizing a Food Pathogen Vaccine Upset the Food Policy Applecart
Marette, Stephan; Roe, Brian E.; Teisl, Mario F. - 2010
Vaccines against several common foodborne pathogens are being developed and could substantially alter the policy tools available to address foodborne illness. However, little analysis is available to suggest how social welfare would be affected by these new vaccines. To address this void, we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446134
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Non-Credit Services of Group-Based Financial Institutions: Implications for Smallholder Women’s Honey Income in Arid and Semi Arid Lands of Kenya
Otieno, Peter Shimon; Nyikal, Rose Adhiambo; Mugivane, … - 2008
This paper analyses the effect of non-credit services of joint liability credit institutions on smallholder women beekeepers’ honey income. The non-credit services offered to the beekeepers are mainly enterprise development services (training on marketing, business, production and subsector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446370
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Does Futures Price Volatility Differ Across Delivery Horizon?
Karali, Berna; Dorfman, Jeffrey H.; Thurman, Walter N. - 2009
We study the difference in the volatility dynamics of CBOT corn, soybeans, and oatsfutures prices across different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446386