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Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
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Associations between attributes of live poultry trade and HPAI H5N1 outbreaks: a descriptive and network analysis study in northern Vietnam

BMC Veterinary Research, 2010
Background The structure of contact between individuals plays an important role in the incursion and spread of contagious diseases in both human and animal populations.
Otte Joachim, Dinh Quoc, Thi Kim, Ortiz-Pelaez Angel, Soares Magalhães Ricardo J, Pfeiffer Dirk U   +5 more
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Consumer Valuation of Meat Alternatives and Labeling Policies: A Comparative Perspective

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates and compares US consumer perceptions and the impact of environmental, human health, and animal welfare information related to conventional meat on preferences for meat alternatives and labeling policies. Using the best–worst scaling method across 10 different burger alternatives, our results show that the meat burger is
Daniele Asioli, Wei Yang, Jia Han, Quoc Cuong Nguyen, Massimiliano Petracci, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr.   +5 more
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Influenza H5/H7 Virus Vaccination in Poultry and Reduction of Zoonotic Infections, Guangdong Province, China, 2017–18

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2019
We compared the detection frequency of avian influenza H7 subtypes at live poultry markets in Guangdong Province, China, before and after the introduction of a bivalent H5/H7 vaccine in poultry.
Jie Wu, Changwen Ke, Eric H.Y. Lau, Yingchao Song, Kit Ling Cheng, Lirong Zou, Min Kang, Hui-Ling Yen, Malik Peiris   +8 more
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková, Michiel van Dijk, Robert M'Barek, Hans van Meijl, Tomas Ratinger   +4 more
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Markets as drivers of selection for highly virulent poultry pathogens

Nature Communications
Theoretical models have successfully predicted the evolution of poultry pathogen virulence in industrialized farm contexts of broiler chicken populations.
Justin K. Sheen, Fidisoa Rasambainarivo, Chadi M. Saad-Roy, Bryan T. Grenfell, C. Jessica E. Metcalf   +4 more
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Argentine Agricultural Policy: Producer and Consumer Support. Estimates 2007-2012 [PDF]

, 2014
This paper analyzes agricultural policy in Argentina and calculates the degree of support received by producers and consumers. We present a summary of developments in the agricultural policy environment that have occurred in the last decades in Argentina,
Gallacher, Guillermo Marcos, Lema, Daniel   +1 more
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Impact of Interventions on Influenza A(H7N9) Virus Activity in Live Poultry Markets

Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 2016
There are constant exposure of influenza A(H7N9) virus from live poultry market for poultry workers and the general population, but rapid reduction of viable virus in the market setting can be achieved by market closure and disinfection. Our findings highlight the value in intensive surveillance in a natural live poultry market setting, to assess human
Tang, X, Yuan, J, Li, K, Leung, CYH, Yang, Z, Xie, C, Liu, Y, Di, B, Cowling, BJ, Leung, GM, Peiris, JSM, Wang, M, Lau, EHY   +12 more
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Do Tax Incentives for Farmland Leases Increase Farm Supply? Evidence From Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross, Wesley M. Zebrowski, Julia C. D. Valliant   +2 more
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Live Poultry Market Closure and Control of Avian Influenza A(H7N9), Shanghai, China

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014
To the Editor: China reported its first human infections with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus in late March 2013 (1). In the following weeks, 131 human infections were confirmed; 33 occurred in Shanghai (http://www.moh.gov.cn). Because infection with this novel virus had a high fatality rate and posed a pandemic risk, Shanghai disease control authorities
Yi He, Peihong Liu, Songzhe Tang, Yong Chen, Enle Pei, Baihui Zhao, Hong Ren, Jian Li, Yiyi Zhu, Hongjin Zhao, Qichao Pan, Baoke Gu, Zhengan Yuan, Fan Wu   +13 more
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