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Genetically modified (GM) foods have caused many controversies. One important controversy relates to tolerance?the impurity rate that is tolerated before a commodity must be labeled as genetically modified. Currently, the United States does not have a specific tolerance or threshold level for GM...
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This paper addressed the puzzling resistance of Presidents of southern African countries to food aid in 2002, given near certain starvation and long-term negative health effects of malnutrition of their constituents.  First, I show that NGOs led by Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth are...
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A model of optimal dynamic agricultural supply is derived and hired assuming farmers have two annual stochastic crop production activities, a joint limitation on production capacity, interdependencies between past acreage utilization and current productivity, and rational expectations. A...
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Huffman, W. E. "Changes in the Labour Intensity of Agriculture: A Comparison of California, Florida and the USA," in J.L. Findeis, A.M. Vandeman, J.M. Larson and J.L. Runyan, The Dynamics of Hired Farm Labour: Constraints and Community Responses, New York, NY: CABI Publishing, 2002, pp. 25-40.
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Preface by T. W. Schultz. Under contract with Iowa State Press for a revision, 2004. A 9-chapter book (about 200 pages) that documents the evolution, development, and economic impacts of public agricultural research, especially the state agricultural experiment stations over the past 150 years....
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