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Canadian Chicken Industry: Consumer Preferences, Industry Structure and Producer Benefits from Investment in Research and Advertising
Goddard, Ellen W.; Shank, Benjamin; Panter, Chris; … - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2007
The Canadian chicken industry has operated under supply management since the mid-1970s. Canadian consumer preferences for chicken have grown dramatically since then possibly in response to concerns about health and the levels of fat and cholesterol in red meats. However Canadian consumers are...
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Traceability -- A Literature Review
Trautman, Dawn; Goddard, Ellen W.; Nilsson, Tomas K.H. - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2008
sharing information. Value is added to participants in the marketing chain through traceability in the form of reduced … marketing system in order to satisfy trade restrictions in the case of animal diseases and country of origin labelling, to name …
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The Transmission of Price Trends from Consumers to Producers and Tests of Market Power
Lkassbi, Driss; West, Gale E.; Clark, J. Stephen - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2008
cases, long-run constant returns is rejected, indicating market power within the Canadian retail to farm marketing sector …
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Farm Animal Welfare and Quality Verification
Uzea, Adrian D.; Hobbs, Jill E. - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2008
Existing empirical evidence suggests that farm animal welfare may not be a top-of-mind issue for many consumers in North America. Nevertheless, there is pressure from animal welfare groups on food retailers and processors to implement more stringent requirements for their suppliers. Is the...
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An Experimental Investigation of the Impact of Fat Taxes: Prices Effects, Food Stigma, and Information Effects on Economics Instruments to Improve Dietary Health
Cash, Sean B.; Lacanilao, Ryan D.; Adamowicz, Wiktor L.; … - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2008
There is currently no published research on how food taxes may affect consumer behaviour when the imposition of the tax itself may be considered a source of consumer information. The work undertaken here seeks to address this gap in the literature by using experimental methods to enhance...
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Modelling Reference-Dependent and Labelling Effects in Consumers’ Functional Food Choices
Zou, Ning Ning; Hobbs, Jill E. - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2008
This paper examines the reference-dependent and labelling effects when consumers make choices about functional foods, and explores how changes in reference points could alter individuals’ preferences. Functional food (probiotic yogurt) and regular food (regular yogurt) are used as examples to...
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An Investigation of the Marketing of Butterfat by the Canadian Dairy Industry
Clark, J. Stephen; Brown, Bettina; Dunlop, Diane; Yang, … - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2008
This study examines the Canadian Dairy Commission’s marketing of butterfat. Previous studies have concentrated on the … kilograms is a normal factor of production. This means that following kilograms within the marketing system may not track … butterfat is an inferior factor may explain some of the marketing practices of the provincial marketing boards that on the …
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Value-Added Meat: Measuring Past Successes and Predicting Future Winners
Goddard, Ellen W.; Schram, Craig; Huang, Wenzhao; Yang, Jun - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2010
credence attribute, by degree of processing and by marketing strategies. The literature suggests that one of the most important … product introductions or changes in product quality are shown, in this report, to be accompanied by significant marketing … itself as being 100% grain fed. Marketing strategies, such as working with the Health Check™ program of the Heart and Stroke …
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Old World Wines Revisited: Consumers' Valuation of Spanish and German Wines in the UK Wine Market
Steiner, Bodo E. - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2009
The mid 1990s was a pivotal period for the UK retail wine market, as New World Wines started to expand significantly at the expense of Old World Wines. This paper reviews supply and demand-side characteristics of the UK wine market during this period, and the underlying wine labeling scheme,...
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Competition and the Role of the Largest Firms in the U.S. Food and Tobacco Industries
Connor, John M. - Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, … - 1979
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