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Indonesia's Modern Retail Food Sector: Interaction With Changing Food Consumption and Trade Patterns
Dyck, John H.; Woolverton, Andrea E.; Rangkuti, Fahwani … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2012
Indonesia’s food market has changed in response to a changing and growing economy. The report examines changes in the food consumption pattern and measures the growth of modern food retail chains, packaged food purchases, and food imports in the world’s fourth-most-populous country. The...
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Are Healthy Foods Really More Expensive? It Depends on How You Measure the Price
Carlson, Andrea; Frazao, Elizabeth - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2012
Most Americans consume diets that do not meet Federal dietary recommendations. A common explanation is that healthier foods are more expensive than less healthy foods. To investigate this assumption, the authors compare prices of healthy and less healthy foods using three different price...
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Menu Labeling Imparts New Information About the Calorie Content of Restaurant Foods
Stewart, Hayden; Hyman, Jeffrey; Dong, Diansheng - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2014
little new information from menu labeling. In this study, following research in marketing science and behavioral economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098004
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Effects of Marketing Loans on U.S. Dry Peas and Lentils: Supply Response and World Trade
Lin, William W.; Lucier, Gary - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2008
The 2002 Farm Act required USDA to implement marketing loans for the 2002-07 crops of dry peas, lentils, and small … that marketing loans played a role in expansion for dry peas in 2003-05 and for lentils in 2003. For dry peas and lentils …, marketing loans contributed to acreage expansion in North Dakota and Montana. Simulation model results suggest that marketing …
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Growth and Equity Effects of Agricultural Marketing Efficiency Gains in India
Landes, Maurice R.; Burfisher, Mary E. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2009
efficiency gains in agricultural marketing and reduce agricultural input subsidies and import tariffs. More efficient … agricultural marketing generates economywide gains in output and wages, raises agricultural producer prices, reduces consumer food …
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U.S. Cotton Prices and the World Cotton Market; Forecasting and Structural Change
Isengildina-Massa, Olga; MacDonald, Stephen - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2009
This report analyzes recent structural changes in the world cotton industry and develops a statistical model that reflects current drivers of U.S. cotton prices. Legislative changes in 2008 authorized USDA to resume publishing cotton price forecasts for the first time in nearly 80 years....
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Machinery Leasing And Custom Services By Cooperatives And Other Dealers
Biser, Lloyd C. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1979
When earnings decline in the face of rising production costs, farmers may find leasing and renting more attractive than owning their equipment. This-study provides information to cooperative machinery dealers and production credit associations on the benefits, drawbacks, and potential of leasing...
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Consumers’ Use of Nutrition Information When Eating Out
Gregory, Christian; Rahkovsky, Ilya; Anekwe, Tobenna D. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2014
Until recently, many restaurants and fast-food places did not offer nutrition information at the point of purchase. This is expected to change because the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires that nutrition information be posted in many of these venues. Once the law is fully...
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Statistics of Farmer Cooperatives, 1975-76
Richardson, Ralph M.; Click, Jane H. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1979
This report gives results of a 1975-76 survey of marketing, farm supply, and related service cooperatives in the United … marketing, farm supply, and related service volume, California continued in first place with 9.8 percent of total net business …
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The Post-Buyout Experience: Peanut and Tobacco Sectors Adapt to Policy Reform
Dohlman, Erik; Foreman, Linda F.; Da Pra, Michelle - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2009
Marketing quota and price support programs for peanuts and tobacco were a longstanding feature of U.S. farm policy …
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