Revitalization of state brands is deemed important to several constituencies. Stated preference with choice experiment methods were used to elicit consumer preferences for two locally grown products: spinach, which has had a well-publicized food safety incidence, and carrots, which have had no...

In Korea, processed food markets have various shapes of structure: the markets of ice cream, special dietary food, noodles, sugar are highly concentrated, while the markets of gimchi, pickles, and ice are not very concentrated. The level of market concentration changes over time. These market...

Development of manufacturing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is a key engine to promote development of rural economy in developing countries. A common industrial organization among manufacturing SMEs, especially in rural areas, in Indonesia as in many other developing countries is...

This paper examines the impact of direct income payments on productive efficiency of Korean rice farms, using farm-level cross sectional data in 2006. For representation of efficiency and its determinants, this paper uses a model that estimates the deviations of farms from a translog distance...

During the 1970s the Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) economy experienced an oil boom because of increases in the level and production of crude oil and in the price each barrel of crude oil fetched on the international market. In the late 1990s to the present, the T&T economy has benefited from another...

Seafood consumption in the U.S. has increased over the period 1990 to 2003. A large percentage of the seafood consumed in the U.S. is imported. The most important seafood products imported to the U.S. are shrimp, Atlantic salmon, tilapia, catfish, crayfish, mussels and a mixture of mollusks. In...

Sustainability concerns are receiving increasingly attention by society and in turn, the food sector and consumers as the food sector’s final customers. Investments towards improvements in sustainability along the chain are usually not evenly distributed along the chain which affects the...

A megújuló energiaforrásokhoz kapcsolódó beruházások és létesítmények a világ számos részén -- elsősorban a szakértő közönséget vonzó -- turisztikai attrakcióvá váltak. Az üzemlátogatások és tájékoztatók amellett, hogy a szakembereknek kitűnő alkalmat adnak...

“Buying local†has become one of the most important trends in food marketing. Despite widespread public attention, the influence of the “local†attribute on food prices is not well understood. We aim to begin to fill this gap in research by exploring the presence of a price...

O amendoim (Arachis Hypogaea) é uma oleaginosa consumida mundialmente, sendo a quarta mais cultivada. No Brasil, essa cultura já ocupou posição de destaque, mas atualmente o país é apenas o 19° produtor mundial. O estado de São Paulo é responsável por aproximadamente 78% da...