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Who Provides Information Matters: The Role of Source Credibility on US Consumers’ Beef Brand Choices

Dentoni, Domenico; Tonsor, Glynn T.; Calantone, Roger J.; … - 2011

Labels, certifications and endorsements signaling the quality of food have an impact on the purchasing choices of multiple segments of US consumers. At the same time, not much is known about the relationships between the sources providing information through these quality signals and consumer...

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Benefit Evaluation of the Country of Origin Labeling in Taiwan: Results from Auction Experiment

Chern, Wen S.; Chang, Chun-Yu - 2009

This research is aimed at investigating the consumer’s preference for food produced in Taiwan and the economic benefits for the country of origin labeling. The study uses both experimental auction and contingent valuation method (CVM) to investigate factors that affect the consumer’s...

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The Role of Income Diversification, Transaction Cost and Production Risk in Fertilizer Market Participation

Olale, Edward; Cranfield, John A.L. - 2009

Past agricultural input market participation studies have generally ignored the joint influence of income diversification, transaction cost and production risk on input market participation decisions. This study develops an analytical framework that jointly incorporates the three factors and...

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Understanding Market potential for biodiesel in Spain: A Pilot study based on consumer preferences

Gracia, Azucena; Barreiro-Hurle, Jesus; Perez y Perez, Luis - 2009

The production and use of biodiesel is an important alternative in Europe to diminish the emission of gases in order to fulfill the Kyoto protocol goals. Supported by the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the production of biodiesel has increased in Europe but the consumption is only of...

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Does heterogeneity in goals and preferences affect allocative and technical efficiency? A case study in Northern Nigeria

Berkhout, Ezra D.; Schipper, Robert A.; Kuyvenhoven, Arie; … - 2009

Household characteristics are commonly used to explain variation in smallholderefficiency levels. The underlying assumption is that differences in intended behaviorare well described by such variables, while there is no a priori reason that this is thecase. Moreover, heterogeneity in farmer...

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The contribution of female non-farm income to poverty reduction

Seebens, Holger - 2009

conclusion that policies should focus on the further diversification of income options of rural households. However, much off …

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KEY ASPECTS OF INVESTMENT ANALYSIS

Nabradi, Andras; Szollosi, Laszlo - 2007

This paper reviewed principally accepted methods applied to investment analysis. To describe every aspect of investment analysisfully would require far more space than available here, so we highlight only of few of its aspects.This study collects several well-known bibliographies, contrasts them...

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Do Consumers Really Care about Biotech Food Label? What Do We Know? What Else Should We Know?

Chen, Xi; Zhong, Funing; Zhou, Bin - 2008

This paper is Selected for presentation at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31-February 3, 2009. The research is partially funded by ERS/USDA China Project and Social Science Fund of Jiangsu Province in China. The authors are grateful for...

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Consumer Preferences in Purchasing Beef and the Values they Attribute to Branded Beef Products

Hanagriff, Roger D.; Rhoades, Ryan D.; Wilmeth, Doug - 2008

There have been significant changes in consumer demand at the retail counter, such as health, convenience, palatability preferences, and safety concerns. Branded programs offer a means for satisfying consumer demand for high quality and differentiated beef products. To help answer the question...

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DETERMINANTS OF THE DEMAND FOR ORGANIC AND CONVENTIONAL FRESH MILK IN GERMANY– AN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Schrock, Rebecca - 2010

based onthe GfK Consumer Scan Scanner panel dataset on food purchases of German households covering a sample period of four … households with young children and with a female being mainly responsible for food purchases. However, the probability … organicfood shops is the least responsive to price changes. Besides, households headed by aperson younger than 25 or older than 45 …

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