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Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang   +3 more
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan   +3 more
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Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

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ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The time-energy budget of a moose

Theoretical Population Biology, 1978
Abstract As the first step in developing an optimal foraging model for moose (Belovsky 1978), a time-energy budget for a moose was developed. For the summer period (late May through early September) at Isle Royale National Park, Michigan, we made various behavioral observations on feeding moose and inventoried their food resources.
Gary E. Belovsky, Peter A. Jordan
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Energy and Energy Budgets

1980
Organisms are comprised of cells, which are highly organized groupings of complex molecules. To maintain the degree of organization making up life, energy of the right magnitude is necessary. One learns from thermodynamics that the natural trend of the universe is to go toward increased entropy, i.e., from a degree of order toward more disorder.
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Balancing insect energy budgets

Oecologia, 1985
Energy budgets are based upon the equation C=P P + R + FU, where C = Consumption, P = Production, R = Respiration, and FU= Rejecta (comprising F, egesta, and U, excreta). In studies of insect energetics where all four quantities have been measured, the completed budget rarely balances.
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Budgeting of Energy

1996
Energy taken in as food is apportioned in various ways. Some builds new tissue as growth or is deposited in energy storage products such as fat or glycogen. Some is used in production of young. Much of it Fuels metabolism and is expended in bodily maintenance. Finally, what is not assimilated is lost in the faeces.
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Energy budgets

1999
Abstract Previous chapters have told us how much energy is needed for particular functions such as growth, maintaining body temperature, or running at some particular speed. Now we ask how much energy animals use in their everyday lives, and how it is divided between functions.We have seen how animals ‘ rates of energy consumption ...
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