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What Does the “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act” Mean to Tobacco Growers?

Tiller, Kelly; Starnes, Jane H.; Feleke, Shiferaw T. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2010

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 result, it is not apparent what it does mean to tobacco growers. However …

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Post-Buyout Structural Change in the Peanut and Tobacco Sectors

Dohlman, Erik; Foreman, Linda F.; Da Pra, Michelle - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2010

When longstanding marketing quota systems were eliminated (“bought out”) in 2002 for peanuts and 2004 for tobacco …-oriented system. The nature of the peanut and tobacco marketing quota programs, the structure and magnitude of the buyouts, and market … of USDA’s Agricultural Resource Management Surveys (ARMS) on peanut and tobacco producers over a multi-year timeframe …

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ASYMMETRY IN RAW MILK SAFETY PERCEPTIONS AND INFORMATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR RISK IN FRESH PRODUCE MARKETING AND POLICY

Knutson, Ronald D.; Currier, Russell W.; Ribera, Luis; … - 2010

Scientific evidence clearly indicates that consumption of raw milk carries substantialdisease-inducing health risks. While federal U.S. policy mandates that milk moving in interstatecommerce be pasteurized; within 41 of 50 states, raw milk can be obtained for consumption.Warning labels...

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Nutritional & Health Claimed Products Market Development in Serbia: Exploration of Findings Obtained from In Depth Interviews

Stojanovic, Zaklina; Ognjanov, Galjina; … - 2010

The main objective of this paper is to present the most relevant findings obtained from in depthinterviews with processors and retailers about the N&H claimed products market in Serbia. Inour research we addressed the following set of topics: motivations and barriers to offer N&Hclaimed products...

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Effects of Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage and Subsidizing Milk: Beverage Consumption, Nutrition, and Obesity among US Children

Lin, Biing-Hwan; Smith, Travis A.; Lee, Jonq-Ying - 2010

Taxing sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been proposed as a means to improve U.S. dietand health and generate revenue to address obesity-related issues. A related concern is thatchildren’s intake of SSBs, a third that of milk consumption in the late 1970s, now equals milkconsumption....

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Effects of Family, Friends, and Relative Prices on Fruit and Vegetable Consumption by African American Youths

Zhylyevskyy, Oleksandr; Jensen, Helen H.; Garasky, Steven B. - 2011

Paper for presentation at the Northeastern Agricultural & Resource Economics Association’s Workshop on Economics and Child Nutrition Programs, AAEA & NAREA Joint Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 23, 2011.

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Consumer attitudes towards sustainability attributes on food labels

Saunders, Caroline M.; Guenther, Meike; Kaye-Blake, William - 2010

With current concerns about climate change and the general status of the environment, there is an increasing expectation that products have sustainability credentials, and that these can be verified. Labelling is a common method of communicating certain product attributes to consumers that may...

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The Relationship Between Wildfire and Welfare

Kaval, Pamela; Loomis, John B. - 2005

We used the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two wildfire scenarios. Variables such as age, family size, fire frequency, and house value were...

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Childhood Obesity Risk and the Role of Primary Caregivers: A Triangular Semi-parametric Simultaneous Equations Approach

Xue, Hong; You, Wen; Nayga, Rodolfo M. - 2011

This essay investigates the impacts of primary care giver’s (PCG) time allocation and food expenditure choices on childhood obesity using national panel study of income dynamic (PSID) data. A triangular system of equations is derived and estimated under parametric and semi-parametric model...

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Anatomy of Stigmatized Behavior: Peer Influence and Relative Concern

Chen, Xi - 2011

This paper is based on an ongoing joint work with David Sahn and Xiaobo Zhang.

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