The agri-food industry faces new challenges as consumer demand for new, healthier foods increases. Media headlines frequently mention health benefits from certain foods and food components, and consumers are more health conscious because they are aging. They realize their food choices can reduce...

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...

This study examines technical efficiency of Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) using a two-stage approach and bootstrap procedures for making valid inference about the impact of environmental variables on CAH efficiency. In the first stage, a data envelopment analysis (DEA) efficiency estimator is...

This paper aims at simulating optimal prices satisfying public health recommendations in terms of nutrient adequacy. This implies to estimatea complete food demand system in order to compute price elasticities. Food consumption behaviors are described by an AI functional form [Deaton and...

The provision of nutrition and health information on food labels is increasing as an industry and regulation answer to the growing consumer concern with diet-health relationships. Prior research has shown that the presence of this information on food labels is valued by consumers; however there...

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Health policy will be a major issue in Britain's next general election. The Labour government is committed to a substantial increase in funds for the National Health Service (NHS) and has eliminated tax relief for private health insurance. The Conservative Opposition party favors subsidizing...

Healthier food diet is likely to prevent numerous non communicable diseases. Then there is agrowing interest in evaluating the impact of food price taxation on food consumption. However,strategic reactions of both manufacturers and retailers are missing in empirical analyses. Rather,passive...

We present research findings on consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for reductions in the level offoodborne health risks. The research addresses how such valuations are affected by the means of whichthe risk reduction is delivered and the methods of risk presentations used in choice tasks. In...

MRNA technology has proved in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic its breakthrough value as a basis for vaccines. There has been rapid development of highly safe, effective and robust mRNA vaccines, and these can be delivered at large scale. Yet the technology is the result of a long process of...