Research on food diversity is interdisciplinary in nature, and is highly relevant for different research fields. Eating a variety of foods has been linked to the nutritional well-being of the household. From an economic perspective, food diversity can be used to derive important conclusions...

Lilydale Co-operative Ltd was one of Canada’s largest and most geographically diversified co-operative poultry processors. In 2005, Lilydale voted to end its 65- year existence as a cooperative and converted to an investor-owned firm (Lilydale Inc.). The motivations for Lilydale’s...

This paper examines the cost structure and cost efficiency for an unbalanced sample of 42 animal feed and 115 farm petroleum co‐operatives in Canada over the period 1984‐2001 using heterogeneous technology stochastic frontier models. The parameter estimates of the cost frontier and the...