Federal and state legislators recently enacted policies to fund new renovated small local meat processors expansion with the aim of increasing meat-processing sector's resiliency. Wages must be competitive attract employees for these plants competitive. No previous studies have examined what has happened employee labor costs at United States (US) since early 2000s. This study estimates how firm...

Agricultural support has changed substantially in both rich and poor countries recent years. In countries, there been a strong move to decoupled subsidies fall average rates of protection. developing market price remains the dominant form protection, have risen—breaking traditional pattern taxing agriculture. Emissions from agriculture land use change contributed up third total greenhouse gas e...

Abstract Spirits represent around 50% of global alcohol consumption. This sector is much less studied than other alcoholic beverages such as wine or beer. paper reviews the economic history spirits and analyzes recent trends in markets. The technology to produce more complex for Distillation was known ancient Chinese, Indian, Greek, Egyptian societies, but it took innovations by Arabs distill a...

New breeding techniques (NBTs) for genetically modified (GM) crops, such as CRISPR/Cas9, could represent a valuable solution achieving sustainable agricultural system. This study examines Italian farmers' attitudes toward CRISPR/Cas9-modified blast-resistant rice in hypothetical context. It is one of the first studies to investigate NBTs. Additionally, it explores role sociodemographics, farm c...

From Farm to Fork Strategy is at the heart of European Green Deal – new growth strategy EU and a key implementation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). designed for building fair, healthy environmentally-friendly food system with an integrated safety policy in Union. Current paper presents some strategic accents main documents initiatives concerning future sustainable agri-food systems contex...

providing of food products for increasing population, enhancing food security, increasing of production and foreign incomes are among the major program purposes of each country and monetary policies are one of the methods that immediately affected on food price and on major agriculture variables. time series analysis was used for studying the impacts of monetary policies effect on food price in...

The member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) have recently endorsed its Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health in an effort to combat the growing burden of noncommunicable diseases. We assess the potential consumption impacts of these norms in the United States using a mathematical programming approach. We find that adherence to the WHO norms would involve signific...

For decades, earnings from farming in many developing countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies, as well as by governments of richer countries favoring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies reduce national and global economic welfare and inhibit agricultural trade and economic growth. They almost certainly add to inequality and p...

Despite the resurgence of parastatal marketing boards and strategic grain reserves over the last decade in eastern and southern Africa, there is little empirical evidence about how their activities affect smallholder input use and cropping decisions. This paper uses panel survey data from 1997-2007 on Kenyan smallholders to investigate the effect of Kenya’s National Cereal Produce Board activit...