Using quarterly data, the notion of Granger causality is employed to to test the causal relationship existing between advertising and sales of cheese and butter in Canada. Results suggest that advertising expenditures influences sales of both commodities. However, sales appear to influence...

Small-scale food producers in Ghana produce about 90 per cent of the food in the country. Behaviourial patterns characteristic of these semi-commercial producers are complex, making it hard for policy makers to predict the consequences of policies on them. This study analyses the effects of the...

The role producer risk preferences on WTP is for sustainable breeding practices addressed in this paper using stated preference methods. Estimates of WTP amongst beef producers are compared with those the diary sector. Whilst preliminary indicate a relatively lower impact, these effects seem...

In this paper the issue of nonlinearity and heterogeneity in the derivation of feed efficiency estimates for beef cattle based on performance data for 6253 animals is examined. Using parametric, non-parametric and integer programming approaches, we find evidence of nonlinearity between feed...

Linear versions of the Almost Ideal Demand System are estimated for US and German coffee imports with the intent of testing for homothetic and non-homothetic weak separability and calculating elasticities. Three different separable groupings are tested and separability restrictions are rejected....