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Common pool resources often face overexploitation, but collective action can counteract that tendency. We investigate collective investment in reputation for produce food safety, a common pool resource because of limited branding and traceability, by industry-based and government-sponsored U.S....
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Millions of smallholder farmers in developing countries participate in different types of sustainability standards. A growing body of literature has analyzed the welfare effects of such participation, with mixed results. Yet, there are important knowledge gaps. First, most existing studies look...
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The world is banking on a major increase in food production, if the dietary needs and food preferences of an increasing …
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This paper summarises a decade of research by the authors into the welfare economic foundations for agricultural policy. The main results are that the levels of support to agriculture in rich developed countries like Norway are way out of proportion with what could conceivably be defended by...
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Sustainable food policies strive for environmental, healthy, economically just, and humane food production. Their success has ignited legal debates about the Constitution. This is not new. Iconic constitutional law cases examine sustainable food, such as meat in the Slaughter-House Cases (1873),...
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Food security is a chronic and intrinsic problem in Sub Saharan Africa. The present paper introduces some aspects of it with great considerations to the rich theoretical background presented by some scientists. The problem of food insecurity in Sudan is discussed with review on the recurrent...
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