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| Qaim, Matin; Stein, Alexander J.; Meenakshi, J.V.. |
| Micronutrient malnutrition affects billions of people world-wide, causing serious health problems. Different micronutrient interventions are currently being used, but their overall coverage is relatively limited. Biofortification that is, breeding staple food crops for higher micronutrient contents has been proposed as a new agriculture-based approach. Yet, as biofortified crops are still under development, relatively little is known about their economic impacts and wider ramifications. In this article, the main factors that will influence their future success are discussed, and a methodology for economic impact assessment is presented, combining agricultural, nutrition, and health aspects. Ex ante studies from India and other developing countries... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Micronutrient malnutrition; Public health; Biofortification; Agricultural technology; Impact analysis; Developing countries; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; I1; I3; O1; O3; Q1. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25584 |
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| Loizou, Efstratios; Chatzitheodoridis, Fotis; Mattas, Konstadinos; Polymeros, Konstantinos. |
| The current study aims to examine the effectiveness of fisheries policies and specifically of the Greek Operational Programme for Fisheries, 2007-13. In specific, aims to examine and assess possible impacts generated, in the regional economy of Voreio and Notio Aigaio from its four axis, with particularity to the forth one. For this a regional Input-Output model was built in order to capture direct and indirect impacts in terms of output, employment and income. Results indicate that the dynamics of the fisheries sector in the regional economy are very weak and along with the continuous shrinking of the sector, leads to the necessity of supporting alternative vocational activities for the development of coastal rural areas. Though, results indicate that the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Rural coastal areas; Operational fisheries programme; Impact analysis; Regional analysis; Community/Rural/Urban Development; R11; R15; R58; Q22. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/94910 |
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| Manthei, Eric W.L.. |
| Giving consideration to the bills and laws being discussed in Congress during the last few years regarding immigration reform, the need has arisen to study the effects of immigrant labor on the dairy industry. The objective of this study is to consider the economic impacts of reducing the availability of immigrant workers in the United States. This analysis utilizes the IMPLAN model, developed and maintained by the Minnesota IMPLAN Group, for analyzing the effects of 20 percent, 50 percent and 100 percent reductions in immigrant labor within the dairy industry. IMPLAN maps the economy using an input/output structure that “describes commodity flows from producers to intermediate and final consumers”. The employment and production data used as inputs... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Impact analysis; Dairy; Immigrant labor; Agricultural and Food Policy; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56493 |
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| Foltz, John C.; Woodall, Stacie; Wandschneider, Philip R.; Taylor, R. Garth. |
| The impact of Idaho’s wine and grape industry was assessed as an agribusiness and as a tourist industry. Idaho’s grape and wine industry is in its infancy, with wine sales of $15 million from 15 wineries and growers cultivating about 1,000 acres, primarily in southwestern Idaho’s Canyon County. Synthesized output multipliers for wine tourism were virtually identical to the agribusiness output multipliers (1.86 and 2.10 for Canyon County and the state of Idaho, respectively). The wine and grape industry’s agribusiness impact is $15 million in sales and 120 jobs in Idaho, and $23 million and 140 jobs for Canyon County. In contrast, tourism expenditures stimulate other businesses in addition to the agribusiness linkages of grape and wine production. Thus,... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Idaho; Impact analysis; Input/output models; Tourism; Wine; Wine agribusiness; Agribusiness; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/62287 |
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| Nazlioglu, Saban; Erdem, Ekrem. |
| This study analyzes the impacts of Turkey’s integration into the EU on price, production, consumption, and self-sufficiency in the selected agricultural markets (wheat, maize, sugar, milk, beef, lamb, and poultry). The study also examines the welfare and the income distribution impacts of the integration. A partial equilibrium model, Modéle Internationale Simplifié de Simulation (MISS), is used to simulate the impacts of the integration on the agricultural markets and Gini coefficients are calculated to examine the income distribution effects. The results show that the integration has substantial impacts on the selected agricultural markets in Turkey and deteriorates the distribution of income among the selected Turkish producers. |
| Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: Economic integration; Agricultural markets; Impact analysis; Income distribution; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/118575 |
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| Burrows, Spencer Antonio; Cheney, Laura Martin; Rahn, Allan P.. |
| In 1998, the Sara Lee Corporation implemented a corporate strategy of deverticalization. Bil Mar Foods, Inc., a subsidiary of Sara Lee responsible for the processing of packaged meat products, followed the strategy by shutting down its turkey slaughter facility in Zeeland, Michigan. As a consequence, turkey growers in Michigan were left with no viable outlet for live bird slaughter and the potential end of live bird production in the region. This study analyzes the economic impact associated with the cessation of live bird slaughter at the Bil Mar Foods plant. The economic consequences may be as high as an $81 million loss in total industry output, a $29 million loss in income, and a total employment loss of nearly 800 jobs. Faced with these economic... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Impact analysis; Plant closure; Turkey industry; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14720 |
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| Jutting, Johannes Paul. |
| Community based health insurance schemes are becoming increasingly recognized as an instrument which help farmers in rural areas of low income countries to better manage health. Health risks present a permanent threat to the income earning capacity of poor people. Beside direct economic cost for treatment and lost working time, indirect cost such as a reduction in labor supply materialize which increases the vulnerability of the household. It is often hypothezised that community based health insurance improve social protection, but quantitative analysis is largely missing. Against this background, this paper analyzes if members in a mutual health insurance scheme have a better access to health care than non-members taking "les mutuelles de santes" (mutual... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Community based health insurance; Impact analysis; Social protection; Senegal; Health Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24803 |
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| Gomez y Paloma, Sergio; Majewski, Edward; Raggi, Meri; Viaggi, Davide. |
| This paper analyses farm-household strategies and investment behaviour of Polish farmers with a particular focus on the perceived effects of CAP. The paper is based on a survey of Polish farmers carried out in 2006 on a sample of 63 farms. Farmers where selected in order to fit in the intersection of the following categories: different altitudes (plain/mountain); different specialisation (arable crops, livestock, fruit trees), different technology (conventional, organic). The survey includes information about farm and household structure, expectations, reaction to planned and intended investment, as well as about potential reforms such as decoupling of EU payments. Results show multifaceted expectations toward the future. The main objectives expressed by... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Common Agricultural Policy (CAP); Single Farm Payment (SFP); Decoupling; Impact analysis; Poland; Investment behaviour.; Agricultural Finance; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7842 |
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| Huffman, Wallace E.. |
| This chapter presents a review and synthesis of effects of education in agriculture, summarizes major contributions, and suggests major research gaps in the literature. Although growth in knowledge enables skill acquisition and specialization of labor, which generally raises labor productivity, and technical change, the dominant effect on agriculture has been technical change. A puzzle remains why schooling does not have broader direct impacts in agriculture. Furthermore, as we proxy education or general intellectual achievement by schooling in our empirical research, this has led to biased interpretations of impacts when general intellectual achievement of school graduate changes over time and perhaps in nonlinear ways. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Education; Schooling; Agriculture; Human capital; Impact analysis; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18264 |
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| Jutting, Johannes Paul. |
| Access to public and private health insurance in rural areas of low income countries is severely constrained by high unit cost of transaction per contract due to information asymmetries between insurance sellers and buyers. This leads to a situation in which the majority of the poor have to rely on out-of-pocket expenditures when they are ill, resulting in a high vulnerability for health shocks which negatively affect the overall risk management of the household, investment and resource allocation decisions. Recently, however, in various parts of the world community based health insurance schemes have emerged and are becoming increasingly recognized as an instrument to finance health care in poor developing countries. These mutual insurance schemes often... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Rural development; Health insurance; Impact analysis; Social protection; Senegal; Health Economics and Policy; O17; I19; O55. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19641 |
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