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| Ross, Kara L.; Amanor-Boadu, Vincent. |
| Health care costs particularly those associated with chronic health conditions such as cancer have been significantly increasing for both individuals and governments in the past decades, prompting the demand for preventative medical initiatives, such as functional food, and spawning a new industry in the food sector functional food industry. This article conducts a feasibility study for a firm entering the functional food industry with a specific product, Avert®, CLA-enhanced cheese. It also assesses alternative market conditions under which the firm will be successful. A system dynamics framework is used for the analyses. The results show that a firm can be profitable in the functional food industry provided that it satisfies certain pricing and target... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21182 |
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| Ross, Kara L.; Dalton, Timothy J.; Featherstone, Allen M.. |
| The purpose of this research is to determine how technically efficient small-scale producers are in two provinces (North and South Kivu) in the Democratic of Republic (DR) of Congo at producing two different varieties of beans: bush and climbing beans. In addition to calculating the efficiency scores, this research attempts to identify what producer and field characteristics affect these scores. We hypothesize that bean producers will be more productive than producers in South Kivu and that climbing bean producers will be more productive than bush bean producers. Technical efficiency is estimated using a nonparametric approach. A tobit model is used to examine the effect of producer and field characteristic on the efficiency score. On average, farms... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Production Economics; Production Economics. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46575 |
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| Amanor-Boadu, Vincent; Zereyesus, Yacob Abrehe; Ross, Kara L.. |
| The paper aims at examining how sources and distribution of revenue at the local government level influence the economic well-being of citizens. The results of this study help to illuminate the effect of revenue sources on local government efforts on economic development and their capacity to influence the well-being of their citizens. We hypothesized that the distribution of local government revenue influenced the wealth status of its citizens. Three empirical proxy measures for citizen well-being were used in the estimation of three different panel data models. Results from the estimations suggest that local government revenue generated from its citizens (e.g., taxes, insurance and charges) have more influence on citizen well-being than non-citizen... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Local government; Revenues; Tax; Citizen well-being; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46828 |
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| Ross, Brent; Amanor-Boadu, Vincent; Ross, Kara L.. |
| Sustainability initiatives are frequently imposed on upstream supply chain members by their more powerful downstream partners. This paper assesses the challenges of estimating costs and benefits for participants and the difficulties associated with identifying their locations and effects in the supply chain. The paper argues that the success and endurance of agri-food supply chains that purport to pursue sustainability objectives depend critically on the distribution of the associated costs and benefits. It calls on supply chain leaders to give careful consideration to the distribution of net benefits across the chain to ensure that opportunism and moral hazard are minimized. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Strategy; Food; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61529 |
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