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The Effect of a Multi-tiered Model for Reducing Obesity Risk Factors: Attitude and Behavior Change in a Rural Community

Thapa, Janani; Lyford, Conrad P.; Belasco, Eric J.; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2013

While there is increasing interest in reducing obesity, relatively few of these efforts focus on rural communities. A multi-tiered model to reduce obesity risk factors was developed and implemented to change food behavior and health awareness in a rural West Texas community over a one year...

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Lessons from the California GM Labeling Proposition on the State of Crop Biotechnology

Zilberman, David; Kaplan, Scott; Kim, Eunice; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

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IMPACT OF FOOD CONTAMINATION ON BRANDS: A DEMAND SYSTEMS ESTIMATION OF PEANUT BUTTER

Bakhtavoryan, Rafael; Capps Jr., Oral; Salin, Victoria - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

A 2007 foodborne illness incident involving peanut butter is linked with structural change in consumer demand. Compensated and uncompensated own- and cross-price elasticities and expenditure elasticities were calculated for leading brands before and after the product recall using the Barten...

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An Analysis of Wine Consumption Trends and Food-Related Expenditures in Japan

Omura, Makiko; Sakurai, Yuka; Ebihara, Kensuke - American Association of Wine Economists - AAWE - 2013

This paper attempts to understand the mechanism of an upward trend in wine consumption in Japan by analysing its trend and possible correlations with food-related consumptions. Through the panel and time-series analyses of wine consumption and food-item expenditures, and of wine consumption and...

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The Demand for Food Consumed at Home and Away from Home

Lamm, R. McFall Jr. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1982) 3

Over the last 20 years, consumers have spent a declining portion of their income on food for consumption at home, while the share of income spent on meals purchased at restaurants, cafeterias, and fast-food chains has held constant This article attempts to explain this phenomenon by estimating a...

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Coffee Consumption and Prices in the United States

Daly, Rex F. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1958) 3

The current situation and prospects for coffee are of widespread interest to American consumers and to those who supply them, and it is of vital interest to the many Latin American countries that depend on coffee as a primary source of foreign exchange earnings. The smaller per capita use of...

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Productivity and Food Processing Costs

Waldorf, William H. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1962) 1

productivity research, and who has watched the continuing rise in marketing charges for farm products, the inevitable question is …: What can measures of productivity tell us about the continued rise in the Farm-Food Marketing Bill and the Farm-Food Market … a third of the Farm-Food Marketing Bill. The eventual product of this area of research should advance our knowledge of …

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Is willingness to pay (WTP) for beef quality grades affected by consumer demographics and meat consumption preferences?

Lyford, Conrad P.; Thompson, John M.; Polkinghorne, Rod; … - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 18 (2010)

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Nutrient Demand Elasticities with Noisy Measures of Household Resources

Gibson, John - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 1999

Many studies suggest that changes in household economic resources (incomes and expenditure) have little effect on nutrient intakes and child malnutrition in developing countries. This paper examines the impact that errors-in-variables have on inferences about the importance of household incomes...

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Agribusiness Model in Africa: A Case Study of Zambeef Products PLC

Almas, Lal K.; Obembe, Oladipo - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 17 (2014) B

The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. For complete library visit: www.ifama.org

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