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The Policy Objectives of a Biofuel Industry in Canada: An Assessment

Roy, Danny G. Le; Klein, Kurt K. - In: Agriculture 2 (2012) 4, pp. 436-451

Canada has a huge stock of biomass resources, which provides a basis (and a temptation) for development of a major bio-fuels industry. Both federal and provincial governments have engaged in a wide array of subsidies, mandates, and other measures to stimulate production and consumption of...

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Biofuels and the Future of Food: Competition and Complementarities

Tokgoz, Simla; Zhang, Wei; Msangi, Siwa; Bhandary, Prapti - In: Agriculture 2 (2012) 4, pp. 414-435

point to some promising areas for future research and specify some implications for policy interventions. …

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Continuity of Business Plans for Animal Disease Outbreaks: Using a Logic Model Approach to Protect Animal Health, Public Health, and Our Food Supply

Moore, Kiana; Allen, Heather - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 2, pp. 253-270

Foreign animal diseases can have a devastating impact on the American economy and agriculture system, while significantly disrupting the food supply chain, and affecting animal health and public health. Continuity of business during an animal disease outbreak aims to mitigate these...

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Using AquaticHealth.net to Detect Emerging Trends in Aquatic Animal Health

Lyon, Aidan; Mooney, Allan; Grossel, Geoff - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 2, pp. 299-309

AquaticHealth.net is an open-source aquatic biosecurity intelligence application. By combining automated data collection and human analysis, AquaticHealth.net provides fast and accurate disease outbreak detection and forecasts, accompanied with nuanced explanations. The system has been online...

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Anti-Obesity Effect of Nepetae spica Extract in High-Fat Mice

Roh, Changhyun; Park, Min-Kyoung; Shin, Hee-June; Kim, Insub - In: Agriculture 2 (2012) 3, pp. 204-210

In recent years, obesity is the most common metabolic disease emerging as a global problem especially in developed nations. The discovery of bioactive compounds from natural plant extracts is one possible way to control obesity and prevent or reduce the risks of getting various obesity-related...

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Biofuel and Food-Commodity Prices

Hochman, Gal; Kaplan, Scott; Rajagopal, Deepak; … - In: Agriculture 2 (2012) 3, pp. 272-281

this gap, and then show that although biofuel was an important contributor to the recent food-price inflation of 2001 …–2008, its effect on food-commodity prices declined after the recession of 2008/09. We also show that the introduction of cross-price … elasticity is important when explaining soybean price, but less so when explaining corn prices. …

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Biofuel-Food Market Interactions: A Review of Modeling Approaches and Findings

Oladosu, Gbadebo; Msangi, Siwa - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 1, pp. 53-71

, adverse weather conditions and direct market interventions during the recent food price spikes when evaluating the role of …

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Potential Nutritional Benefits of Current Citrus Consumption

Turner, Tami; Burri, Betty J. - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 1, pp. 170-187

Citrus contains nutrients and phytochemicals that may be beneficial for health. We collected citrus production and consumption data and estimated the amount of these compounds that are consumed. We then compared the amounts of citrus and citrus-derived compounds used in studies that suggest a...

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Sample Size Requirements for Assessing Statistical Moments of Simulated Crop Yield Distributions

Lehmann, Niklaus; Finger, Robert; Klein, Tommy; … - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 2, pp. 210-220

Mechanistic crop growth models are becoming increasingly important in agricultural research and are extensively used in climate change impact assessments. In such studies, statistics of crop yields are usually evaluated without the explicit consideration of sample size requirements. The purpose...

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Soil Erosion Threatens Food Production

Pimentel, David; Burgess, Michael - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 3, pp. 443-463

-thirds of the world population is malnourished. Overall, soil is being lost from agricultural areas 10 to 40 times faster than …

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