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The Cost of a Nutritious Diet in Cafeterias: Evidence From US Military Dining Facilities

open access: yesApplied 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   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

EMERGING ROLES FOR FOOD LABELS: INFORM, PROTECT, PERSUADE [PDF]

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Every day, food producers and processors provide products consumed by 250 million people in this country. Each of those consumers is affected by the content of their foods.
Henneberry, Shida Rastegari   +1 more
core   +1 more source

On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy

open access: yesApplied 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
wiley   +1 more source

Staple food prices in Mozambique [PDF]

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Prepared for the Comesa policy seminar on “Variation in staple food prices: Causes, consequence, and policy options”, Maputo, Mozambique, 25-26 January 2010 under the Comesa-MSU-IFPRI African Agricultural Marketing Project (AAMP)Mozambique, food security,
Tostao, Emilio, Donovan, Cynthia
core   +1 more source

Drivers of Precision Agriculture Adoption in Italian Viticulture

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the main drivers influencing the adoption of two types of precision farming technologies in the viticultural sector: Decision Support Systems (DSSs) and Variable Rate Technologies (VRTs). We apply a partial proportional odds model and find that socio‐demographic characteristics are not significant determinants of adoption ...
Olimpia Fontana   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

ROLE OF MARKETING IN FOOD ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES

open access: yesNaukovij Vìsnik Nacìonalʹnogo Unìversitetu Bìoresursìv ì Prirodokoristuvannâ Ukraïni. Serìâ: Ekonomìka, Agrarnij Menedžment ta Bìznes, 2017
The objective of this article is to present the role and significance of marketing in the process of development and implementation of the marketing strategy of an agribusiness enterprise. The article provides a review of various concepts of food economy
J. SZWACKA-MOKRZYCKA
doaj  

How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extreme Weather Events and Consumer Food Responses

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates consumer food responses to Hurricanes Helene and Milton, which affected a swath of the Southeastern U.S. in 2024. Using representative consumer survey data from six affected states, we analyze 10 distinct food responses classified into ex ante and ex post responses, and examine their associations with food insufficiency
Ahmad Zia Wahdat, Joseph Balagtas
wiley   +1 more source

Learning from Latin America: toward stronger regulation of unhealthy food marketing. [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Promot Int
Théodore FL   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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