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Many commentators have claimed that farm subsidies have contributed significantly to the “obesity epidemic” by making …” commodities would contribute to reducing obesity rates. This paper makes three contributions. First, we review evidence from the … literature on the impacts on food consumption and obesity resulting from subsidies applied in the past to production or …
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A random nth price experimental auction is used to elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) a premium for the locally produced and high quality white bean "Mongeta Ganxet" (MG) (Catalonia - Spain). Moreover, we are interested in testing the effect on the WTP of providing different pieces of...
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A regime-switching vector error correction model is applied to monthly price data to assess the impact of BSE outbreaks on price relationships and patterns of transmission among farm and retail markets for bovine in Spain. To evaluate the degree to which price transmission is affected by BSE...
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This paper analyses the impact of food safety information about the “mad-cow” crisis on the demand for different types of fresh meat and fish in Spain. The theoretical model explicitly incorporates food safety information in the consumers’ utility function, from which demand equations are...
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For a variety of reasons, Spanish growth in demand for organic and integrated products has not kept up with supply. This work focused on the effect of information and sensory issues on purchase behaviour in relation to sustainable agricultural production. Using experimental auctions and results...
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Los alimentos transgenicos han sido objecto de un consuderabke debate en los ultimos anos, manteniendose posturas radicalmente opuestas. A pesar de que la aceptacion entre los productores es notable, los consumidores, sobre todo en Europa, se han mostrado tradicionalmente reacios a este tipo de...
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The BSE crisis has increased consumers' concerns on beef safety. Product quality systems and controls have been reinforced. Traceability certification and quality labels have been developed to communicate consumers the safety characteristics of the labelled beef and recover consumption. As a...
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The inception of genetic modification (GM) techniques in food production conveys both opportunities - improve food production technologies and/or product differentiation - and risks - dread of a change of the technological status quo, ambiguity in the food properties..…. Hence, some research...
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