Labeling context and reference point effects in models of food
attribute demand.
Conventional economic analysis of consumer choices focuses on the
utility arising from alternative bundles of goods and services available
to the consumer. The random utility model assumes that . . .
Consumer demand for a ban on antibiotic drug use in pork
production.
Livestock feed and water are routinely supplemented with
antimicrobial drugs. In the 1940s, animal scientists demonstrated that
higher growth and feed conversion rates could be achieved by . . .
Anti-corporate farming laws and industry structure: the case of
cattle feeding.
Nine states--Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North
Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wisconsin--have laws that restrict
corporate involvement in agricultural production (Haroldson . . .
Block-rate versus uniform water pricing in agriculture: an
empirical analysis.
Recent decades of population and income growth have aggravated the
problem of water shortages in many parts of the world. This is
increasingly leading policy makers to be interested in the use . . .
Illegal landings: an aggregate catch self-reporting
mechanism.
Fishing is a classic example of an open-access renewable resource
problem requiring regulation if optimal exploitation is to be ensured.
The problem arises because the individual fisherman . . .
On measuring the value of a nonmarket good using market
data.
Economists sometimes wish to use market data to measure the welfare
effects of a change in a nonmarket good. For example, they may wish to
measure the value of an increase in river water quality . . .
Tariff equivalent of technical barriers to trade with imperfect
substitution and trade costs.
Article 20 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
permits governments to set their own standards and regulations on trade
in order to protect human, animal, or plant life or health, . . .
Urban influence on costs of production in the Corn Belt.
The intrusion of low-density nonfarm development into traditionally
rural areas is affecting more and more U.S. farmland (Heimlich and
Anderson 2001). The direct effect of such development, the . . .
Urban sprawl and farmland prices.
Urban sprawl and land use has become a major policy issue since the
1980s. The expansion of urban areas has reduced farmland around many
major metropolitan areas (Greene and Stager 2001). This . . .
On monoculture and the structure of crop rotations.
One of the defining features of crop agriculture throughout much of
the world is the widespread practice of cropping in rotation. In the
United States, rotation strategies have been an important . . .
Information exchange and distributional implications of price
discrimination with internet marketing in agriculture.
Since 1997, use of the Internet in agriculture has accelerated
rapidly although greater use has occurred by agribusinesses and larger
farms than small farms (Wolf et al. 1998; Just and Just 2001). . . .
Information sharing and oligopoly in agricultural markets: the
role of the cooperative bargaining association.
Many markets for farm output are plausibly characterized by some
degree of imperfect competition. This is certainly true in most fruit
and vegetable markets where growers are numerous, and . . .
Labor supervision and institutional conditions: evidence from
Bicol rice farms.
Labor markets in all economies are subject to transaction costs
associated with recruiting and monitoring workers. These transaction
costs typically arise due to information problems of two types: . . .
The dynamics of individuals' fat consumption.(composition of
fat intake from meat products to dairy and fish products)
In the past few decades, consumers have become increasingly aware
of the link between their lifestyle choices and the risk of
noncommunicable diseases such as heart ailments and cancer . . .
Dynamic random utility modeling: a Monte Carlo analysis.
Recently, fisheries management has undergone a paradigm shift as
fisheries are no longer viewed as homogeneously distributed resources,
but rather as heterogeneously distributed metapopulations . . .
Land market imperfections and agricultural policy impacts in the
new EU Member States: a partial equilibrium analysis.
In 2004, eight Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs),
which fifteen years ago were still under tight Communist rule, joined
the European Union (EU). At least two more CEECs are expected to . . .
Do formula or competitive grant funds have greater impacts on
state agricultural productivity?(State Agricultural Experiment
Sta
The federal government in 1887 established the State Agricultural
Experiment Station (SAES) system to conduct original research and verify
experiments bearing directly on the U.S. agricultural . . .
Ph.D. recipients by institution, 2005.
University of Alberta
Getu Hailu Ross Mitchell Jeji Varghese
The University of Arizona
Sam Abdoul
Auburn University
Andres Jauregui Mostafa Malki Yuqing Zheng
University of California . . .
Ph.D. recipients by subject, 2005.
Agricultural and Food Policy: regulation, taxation, welfare
Gillaume, Gruere, University of California, Davis, "Labeling
Policies and International Trade of Genetically Modified Food."
Hao, . . .
Duram, Leslie A. Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works.
Duram, Leslie A. Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works. Lincoln,
NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2005, 250 pp.
The book provides a comprehensive discussion of the organic farming
paradigm . . .
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