This paper provides an ex-ante economic analysis, comparing six alternative control strategies for the eradication of Bluetongue virus 8 against five incursion scenarios in cattle and sheep populations. The economic analysis assumes a common baseline unavoidable cost of public and private...

The purpose of the paper is examining the potential implications for the UK sugar beet sector of the EU sugar regime reform. Although the reform has yet to be formalised, the initial proposals centre on price and quota cuts. Using panel data from the Farm Business Survey for England, the paper...

The purpose of this paper is to study the price behaviour of fresh produce at the retaillevel of two leading supermarkets, Tesco and Sainsbury, with the purpose of gainingknowledge about their interaction. We focus the study on six products from the freshfruits and vegetable group (i.e.,...