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| Wilson, James D.. |
| How "default options" should be used in health risk assessment divides the risk analysis profession. Some argue that these should be "hard": set by policy, generally biased to be "health protective" and requiring a substantial body of evidence to replace by decision-specific alternatives. Others argue that they should be science-based, identified by consensus of the professional community, replaced by whatever decision-specific information may be available to the analyst. This paper shows that both positions have validity, and that both are incomplete. Each kind of construct has a useful role to play, but in different kinds of decisions. Because the two are different, we suggest giving them different names, "default option" being assigned to the... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Risk; Regulation; Decision making; Default options; EPA; FDA; Science; Policy; Public participation; Risk analysis; Risk and Uncertainty. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10712 |
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| Campo, Isabelle Schluep; Beghin, John C.. |
| We explore and investigate Japanese dairy markets. We first provide an overview of consumer demand and how it evolved after World War II. Using historical data and econometric estimates of Japanese dairy demand, we identify economic, cultural, and demographic forces that have been shaping consumption patterns. Then we summarize the characteristics of Japanese milk production and dairy processing and policies affecting them. We next describe the import regime and trade flows in dairy products. The analysis of the regulatory system of the dairy sector shows how its incentive structure affects the long-term prospects of various segments of the industry. The paper concludes with policy recommendations of how to reform the Japanese dairy sector. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Consumption; Dairy; Japan; Milk; Policy; Trade; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18596 |
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| Pizer, William A.. |
| While the rest of the world has pursued absolute emissions limits for greenhouse gases, the Bush administration has proposed an alternative policy formulation based, among other things, on reducing emissions intensity-that is, emissions per dollar of real gross domestic product. Critics of this formulation have denounced the general idea of an intensity-based emissions target, along with its voluntary nature and weak targets. This raises the question of whether intensity-based emissions limits, distinct from the other features of the Bush initiative, offer a useful alternative to absolute emissions limits. This paper makes the case that they do, based on how emissions targets are framed. The argument draws on four key observations: greenhouse gas emissions... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Carbon; Climate; Policy; Intensity; Global warming; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q54; Q58; Q56. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10917 |
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| Daugbjerg, Carsten; Tranter, Richard B.; Holloway, Garth J.. |
| There has been little systematic analysis of the extent to which organic farming policies have influenced growth in the organic sector. Analyses of organic farming policy instruments, for the most part, provide extensive and detailed reviews of instruments applied either in a single country or across countries. Hence, there is a great need to examine systematically whether there is a relationship between the introduction of organic farming policies and the growth of the organic food sector, and whether particular designs of organic farming policies are more effective than others. In this paper, we take the first step in the endeavour of analysing the effects of organic farming by undertaking an econometric analysis of the relationship between organic... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Organic farming; Policy; Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44173 |
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| Tschirley, David L.; Kabwe, Stephen. |
| Cotton is one unquestioned success of Zambia’s turn towards a market economy. After liberalization in late 1994, production rose from 20,000 mt to over 100,000 mt in the 1998 harvest year. After collapsing to less than 50,000 mt in 2000, it has risen steadily, nearing 200,000 mt in 2005. Over 2002-2005, exports of cotton lint were first among all agricultural exports in value, 30% higher than any other agricultural export (Export Board of Zambia 2006). The closest competitor to cotton during this time –raw cane sugar –is primarily produced on large operations, while cotton is almost entirely a smallholder crop. Its potential role in poverty alleviation and food security is, thus, very large. The success of this sector has been achieved despite persistent... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Policy; Zambia; Africa; Cotton; Crop Production/Industries; Q18. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54485 |
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| Thomson, Kenneth J.. |
| The “new institutional economics” has influenced the study of public (or policy) choice, e.g. via the organization and incentives of “stakeholders”, and the analysis of international and other (e.g. state-private) agreements. Stakeholders in fisheries policy include fisherman and their families and communities, processors, scientists, environmentalists, fish product consumers, other (non-fishing-)marine, coastal and land users, government fisheries departments, and taxpayers. These play different roles, with different weights, in policy discussions, as shown in the reformed Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) of the European Union. The recently set up North Sea Regional Advisory Committee is used as an illustration. Conclusions suggest that successful... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Fisheries; Aquaculture; Governance; Policy; North Sea; Livestock Production/Industries; Q22. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55991 |
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| Hudson, Darren; Ethridge, Don E.. |
| The impacts of using export taxes as a price control in a multi-market framework are explored using the cotton and yarn sectors in Pakistan as examples. Results show that the export tax on cotton increased domestic consumption and decreased exports of cotton in Pakistan, transferring income from cotton producers to yarn spinners and the government. There was a social loss to Pakistan in the cotton sector. The export tax on cotton increased domestic yarn production, consumption, exports, and incomes of yarn spinners, but resulted in a large transfer (social loss) out of the yarn sector. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Cotton; Export tax; Simultaneous equations; Simulation; Policy; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15398 |
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| Lu, Wencong C.; Kersten, Lutz. |
| Based on China's Agricultural Regional Market Equilibrium Model (CARMEM), the paper projects the production and consumption of rice, wheat and maize in China toward 2010 at both national and regional level under two different scenarios. The results show that China can ensure a stable grain market development under more liberalized internal and external conditions. Transmission of the world market prices as projected by the World Bank (2003) to the Chinese domestic market would lead to a long-run recovery of the growth in grain production. Total production of paddy rice, wheat and maize is forecast to increase from 386 million tons in the base period 2002 to over 420 million tons in 2010. However, the rate of grain self-supply will be 91% due to higher... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: China; Grain market; Projection; Multimarket model; Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Q11; Q13; Q18. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25662 |
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| Dohlman, Erik; Foreman, Linda F.; Da Pra, Michelle. |
| When longstanding marketing quota systems were eliminated (“bought out”) in 2002 for peanuts and 2004 for tobacco, producers lost quota-related price supports and other quota system protections, and were exposed more directly to a market-oriented system. The nature of the peanut and tobacco marketing quota programs, the structure and magnitude of the buyouts, and market dynamics influenced the ensuing structural changes that occurred at the farm, regional, and aggregate market levels. Analysis of USDA’s Agricultural Resource Management Surveys (ARMS) on peanut and tobacco producers over a multi-year timeframe provides insights on, and a basis for comparing and contrasting the buyout impacts along multiple dimensions. Notable developments include a... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Peanuts; Tobacco; Policy; Marketing quotas; Buyouts; Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56355 |
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