A Vegetable Partnership

Building on the Best: A Research and Education Partnership for Increased Competitiveness of Organic Grain and Vegetable Farms

Project Summary: Recent research on exemplary organic farms in the northeastern U.S.A. identified a vegetable and a grain farm with particularly successful systems. These farms achieve consistently high yields and have low weed, insect and pathogen problems, despite minimal off-farm inputs. The strategy of the proposed project is to demonstrate that these farming systems can be duplicated and c...

Let's move salad bars to schools: a public-private partnership to increase student fruit and vegetable consumption.

Few school-age youth consume the recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables, and increasing fruit and vegetable intake in children and adolescents is an important public health goal to maintain long-term good health and to decrease risk of chronic disease and obesity. School salad bars are an important tool to promote fruit and vegetable consumption among schoolchildren. Studies show that int...

Dissolving a partnership dynamically

In financial disputes arising from divorce, inheritance, or the dissolution of a partnership, frequently the need arises to assign ownership of an indivisible item to one member of a group. This paper introduces and analyzes a dynamic auction for simply and e¢ciently allocating an item when participants are privately informed of their values. In the auction, the price rises continuously. A bidd...

Dissolving a Partnership Efficiently

Several partners jointly own an asset that may be traded among them. Each partner has a valuation for the asset; the valuations are known privately and drawn independently from a common probability distribution. We characterize the set of all incentive-compatible and interim-individually-rational trading mechanisms, and give a simple necessary and sufficient condition for such mechanisms to dis...

A Winning Partnership