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The Global Supply and Demand for Agricultural Land in 2050: A Perfect Storm in the Making?
Hertel, Thomas W. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
2010 AAEA Presidential Address; forthcoming in January 2011 AJAE in shortened version.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020267
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Consumer's behaviour with respect to meat demand in the presence of animal disease concerns: the special case of consumers who eat bison, elk, and venison
Myae, Aye C.; Goddard, Ellen W. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
Prion diseases have raised concerns in consumer’s minds about food safety associated with meat world-wide. Bovine … addition to examining the possible links between food safety concerns and consumption, the demographic characteristics of the …) examined the potential market for bison in Canada. There are a number of past studies investigating the impact of food safety …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020808
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From “May Contain” to “Does Contain”: The price and trade effects of strict information requirements for GM maize under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Bouet, Antoine; Gruere, Guillaume P.; Leroy, Laetitia - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
Replaced with revised version of paper 07/22/10.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020695
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Designing Contracts for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation
Cordero Salas, Paula - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
Reduction of carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) has been identified as a cost effective element of the post-Kyoto strategy to achieve long-term climate objectives. The success of REDD depends primarily on the design and implementation of a financial mechanism that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020510
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Sustainable Development and Intergenerational Equity: Issues Relevant to India and Globally
Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2010
for identifying measures that will achieve it. That raises the question of how far into the future should existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764851
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Natural Resource Dependence in Rural Mexico
Lopez-Feldman, Alejandro; Taylor, J. Edward; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
The relationship between poverty and natural resources is complex and the empirical evidence to date, mostly from studies of forest activities and poverty, is inconclusive. The main purpose of this paper is to empirically identify the effects of household characteristics and of inequality at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020325
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Intraindustry Trade and the Environment: Is There a Selection Effect?
Aralas, Sarma B.; Hoehn, John P. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
Replaced with revised version of paper 08/06/10.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020472
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Risk Belief, Producer Demand, and Valuation of Improved Irrigations: Results from Field Experiments in Mt. Kilimanjaro
Muamba, Francis; Kraybill, David S. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
with lower expectations about future rainfall are willing to pay more for accessing the improved irrigation scheme. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020295
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Weather Vulnerability, Climate Change, and Food Security in Mt. Kilimanjaro
Muamba, Francis; Kraybill, David S. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
welfare value of irrigation. In terms of future food security, climate simulations reveal that by 2029, it will no longer be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020530
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Economic Growth and Transition in Vietnam and China and its Consequences for their Agricultural Sectors: Policy and Agricultural Adjustment Issues
Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2010
Secondary data are used to discuss and compare the consequences for agriculture of economic growth and transition in Vietnam and China. It is found that China and Vietnam have experienced similar adjustments in their agricultural sectors and face at this time, similar agricultural policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008678019