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Understanding Egg Price Volatility and Policy Implications in the U.S. With Machine Learning

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Eggs are an inexpensive and sustainable source of proteins, but volatility in the U.S. egg prices has intensified in recent years, raising concerns over food affordability and market stability. This study examines the drivers of U.S. egg price dynamics over 2004–2025 using a two‐stage framework that combines LASSO‐based variable selection with
Xuemei Zhao, Simon Meister, Lucie Maruejols, Xiaohua Yu   +3 more
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Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah, Obed Quaicoe, Fafanyo Asiseh, John N. Ng'ombe   +3 more
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Unpacking the Farmland Capitalization Effect of Ethanol Establishment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We unpack the impact of expansions in ethanol production—as measured by proximity to newly constructed ethanol plants and capacity expansions—on farmland values using land transaction data from Kansas in combination with modern causal inference techniques.
Gabriel S. Sampson, Jisang Yu
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Agricultural Economics

Rural and Regional Development
В этой статье рассматривается область экономики сельского хозяйства, с упором на ее значение в обеспечении продовольственной безопасности, развитии сельских районов и устойчивых сельскохозяйственных практиках. В исследовании обсуждаются основные проблемы, с которыми сталкивается сельскохозяйственный сектор, включая изменение климата, управление ...
Otamurodova Dilorom, Shukorova Dinora, Xaitmurodova Ozoda   +2 more
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Würdigungs-Netzwerk, gewolltes Nichtwissen und Geschichtsschreibung

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2012
The article deals with the tradition of a special academic field, agricultural economics and policies during the 20th century. Agricultural economics had become a prominent field of science during the Naziperiod in Germany. Persisting networks after 1945
Katrin Hirte
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Assessing influence in biofuel production and ecosystem services when environmental changes affect plant–pest relationships

GCB Bioenergy, 2020
Climate change is currently affecting both biodiversity and human activities; land use change and greenhouse gas emissions are the main drivers. Many agricultural services are affected by the change, which in turn reflects on the basic provisioning ...
Walter De Simone, Mattia Iannella, Paola D’Alessandro, Maurizio Biondi   +3 more
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Crop Insurance Design and On‐Farm Risk Adaptation

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The United States spends billions annually on crop insurance premium subsidies, yet the prevailing distance‐based guarantee design unintentionally rewards risk‐taking by linking subsidies to yield variability. We consider a simple redesign: define guarantees in terms of probability so that coverage reflects a consistent likelihood of indemnity.
Gerald Van Tassell, Alan P. Ker
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Farmers’ Perceptions of Agricultural Land Abandonment in Rural Western New York State

Land, 2018
Over the last century, the U.S. economy has favored large-scale agribusiness over small-scale farming. In some regions, this trend has led to the abandonment of cultivated land, and there is little scholarly literature that discusses how farmers are ...
Kara A. Kuntz, Frederic Beaudry, Karen L. Porter   +2 more
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The Cost of a Nutritious Diet in Cafeterias: Evidence From US Military Dining Facilities

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing nutritious meals in institutional settings with financial constraints, such as military dining facilities, is challenging. The US Department of War (DoW) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) collaborated to modernize the Basic Daily Food Allowance (BDFA) using an optimization model that incorporates service members' consumption ...
Linlin Fan, Yiwen Zhao, Andrea Carlson, Parke Wilde, Joanna Reagan, Julianna Jayne, Starr Seip, Denise Laursen, Matthew P. Rabbitt   +8 more
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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
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