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Energy prices increased significantly following the first energy price shock of 1973. Agricultural producers found few short run substitution possibilities as relative factor prices changed. Inelastic demands resulted in total expenditures on energy inputs that have closely followed energy price...
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, masoor, mung and mash) is analyzed to estimate the compound growth rate, instability index and annual fluctuation of area …
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The “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act” was signed into law on June 22, 2009. The bill grants the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) an authority to regulate the manufacturing and marketing of tobacco products. Tobacco leaf is not subject to the regulation. As a...
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In the Philippines, where rice is considered the most important food crop, attempts to influence rice prices have been prevalent. The government, through National Food Authority (NFA) has sought to establish stocks and control imports to stabilize prices since its establishment in 1972 to...
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in rural waterways. In mid-2012 the authors prepared a number of policy scenarios from published regional council … workshop they reviewed the proposed policy problem and objective, as well as the policy scenarios. Workshop participants then … used post-it® notes to complete a template that described the attributes underlying the policy scenarios. The results were …
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. Plotting this in a public-private benefit framework (PPBF) suggests a policy of “flexible negative incentives” to limit … scenario sets: (1) Policy setting — without or with the requirement for distributions of water use entitlements to be handled …
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The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. www.ifama.org
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We examine the impact of four policy options on consumption of carbonated soft drinks (CSDs) by estimating a random …-coefficient discrete-choice model of demand. Policy simulations using demand estimates indicate that the impacts of banning television …
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macroeconomic, policy, weather, and technological scenarios. They are intended for use by government agencies and officials, farmers … study. The AGREP World Rice Outlook starts with a preliminary baseline that is generated in the Food and Agricultural Policy …
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