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| Huffman, Wallace E.; Huffman, Sonya Kostova; Tegene, Abebayehu; Rickertsen, Kyrre. |
| The high and rapidly rising adult obesity rates in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand are associated with major health risks, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, stroke, and some forms of cancer; large health care costs; and premature deaths annually. For example, the death rate from diabetes mellitus has been rising in the U.S. In contrast, death rates from circulator diseases have a strong negative trend, but rising obesity rates almost certainly have slowed this trend. This paper focuses on obesity-related mortality from diabetes and circulatory diseases and establishes the econometric underpinning of an aggregate household health production function and an aggregate household health supply function using data for 15... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Health; Over nutrition; Obesity; Obesity-related mortality; High income countries; Economic factors; Household models; Food prices; Health Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25567 |
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| Leibtag, Ephraim S.. |
| Over the past 10 years, the growth of nontraditional retail food outlets has transformed the food market landscape, increasing the variety of shopping and food options available to consumers, as well as price variation in retail food markets. This report focuses on these dynamics and how they affect food price variation across store format types. The differences in prices across store formats are especially noteworthy when compared with standard measures of food price inflation over time. Over the past 20 years, annual food price changes, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), have averaged just 3 percent per year, while food prices for similar products can vary by more than 10 percent across store formats at any one point in time. Since the... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food prices; Retail markets; CPI; Dairy; Nontraditional retailers; Agribusiness; Demand and Price Analysis; Industrial Organization. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7238 |
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| Stewart, Hayden. |
| For the commodities they sell, farmers have been receiving a decreasing share of what consumers pay for food at retail stores for some time, but the extent of this decrease has been overstated for at least a few commodity groups. Current estimates of farm share are based on baskets of foods representative of what households bought between 1982 and 1984. Using updated baskets based on what American households bought for at-home consumption between 1999 and 2003, this report estimates farm share for two major commodity groups—fresh fruits and fresh vegetables. Using this approach, this report found that farmers are capturing more of the consumer’s food dollar than current estimates suggest. The methodology behind the market basket data series is also detailed. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Marketing margin; Farm share; Farm-retail price spread; Food prices; Fruits; Vegetables; Demand and Price Analysis. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7241 |
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| Tsioumanis, Asterios; Mattas, Konstadinos. |
| Although food quality and food safety issues seem to dominate discussion and research in Europe, price inflation and economic recession may pose questions over food abundance over the coming years. For the first time since the early seventies, market stability for a number of commodities is seriously questioned. The paper tackles the fluctuation of food prices in the last decade and the reasons behind recent record prices in a series of commodities, trying to investigate whether food shortages may create new problems, even for relatively economically stable nations. Lowering stock levels that induce price volatility, production shortfalls due to adverse conditions that are often correlated to climate change, oil prices, changing diet patterns in regions... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Food insecurity; Biofuels; Food prices; Market distortion; Financial speculation; Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58151 |
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| Saunders, Caroline M.; Kaye-Blake, William; Cagatay, Selim. |
| The recent rise of food cost in world markets has accelerated the research examining the underlying factors for this rise. The present research investigated the separate and combined impacts of three factors thought to contribute to the price rise: adverse weather events, strong and sustained growth in high populated countries, and increased biofuels production. The research further analysed the effects of these price rises on consumption expenditures in Brazil, China and India. Analyses were carried out using a partial equilibrium trade model with a focus on the 2004 to 2007 period. The modelling suggests that the most important factor behind the price rise depends on the commodity, with maize/corn, oilseeds, and sugar most affected by biofuels, while... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Food prices; Partial equilibrium model; Biofuel; Agricultural and Food Policy; International Relations/Trade; F11; Q17. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51460 |
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| Babcock, Bruce A.. |
| Production of biofuels from feedstocks that are diverted from food production or that are grown on land that could grow crops has two important drawbacks: higher food prices and decreased reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. If U.S. policy were to change and place greater emphasis on food prices and greenhouse gas reductions, then we would transition away from current feedstocks toward those that do not reduce our ability to produce food. Examples of such feedstocks include crop residues, algae, municipal waste, jatropha grown on degraded land, and by-products of edible oil production. Policy options that would encourage use of these alternative feedstocks include placing a hard cap on ethanol and biodiesel production that comes from corn and refined... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Biofuels; Feedstocks; Food prices; Policy.. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37752 |
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