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Fall 2017
Since European settlement of the Canadian Prairies there has been substantial loss of wetlands. This loss occurs in large part due to drainage by private agricultural operators seeking to boost the productivity of their land. Policy makers now seek not only to conserve wetlands and prevent...
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Aligning Consumers’ and Farmers’ Behaviors Towards Socially Responsible Agriculture: A Canadian Empirical Study
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Malzoni, Marina Mendonca de Almeida
In contrast with the growing public pressure for sustainable agriculture, most Canadian farmers have not prioritized adopting socially responsible production practices. In this context, empirical analysis of farmers’ responses to public demand has been crucial to assisting the agricultural sector...
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Fall 2021
Best Management Practices (BMPs) are commonly promoted as a way for agricultural producers to adapt to and mitigate environmental risks on agricultural land. Agri-environmental policies are an integral component towards encouraging producers to adopt these practices, mostly through the use of...
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Spring 2017
Outdoor recreation is an important and yet often undervalued land use. Measurement of the economic value of outdoor recreation, assessment of the impacts of land uses on these values, and incorporation of this information into land use decisions can be useful in assessing land use tradeoffs. This...
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Fall 2022
This study explores the acceptance of wind energy amongst rural landowning farmers in Alberta as they are a demographic that will be directly involved in and affected by wind energy development in the province. This thesis project uses data from an online survey completed by 401 Albertan...
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Canada's Beef Cattle Industry: Exchange Rates, Price Pass-Through and Feedlot Profitability Under Different Production Systems
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This thesis examines two issues from different perspectives of Canada’s beef cattle industry. The first study undertakes the analysis of the exogenous variable’s threshold effect on the domestic price pass-through across the different market levels. The study employs a 3-step analysis: first, a...
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Competition between Private Label and National Brand for Differentiated Food Category: A Canadian Retail Case
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Retailers in Canada have introduced private labels to gain vertical bargaining power over manufacturers’ national brands and to establish customer loyalty. Product differentiation in quality and increasingly product formulation is an emerging trend for both private labels and national brands in...
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Exploring Preferences for Poplar Biotechnology and Integrated Choice Latent Variable Models
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This thesis is divided in two papers, each focusing on a distinct issue. In the first paper (Chapter 2), public preferences for poplar biotechnology are examined in western Canada. Using a sample of the public from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, respondents were asked to...
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Farm Animal Welfare in Canada: Role of Values, Attitudes and Knowledge on the Consumer Choice of Farm Animal Welfare Labelled Meat
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Consumers in developed countries are increasingly considering process attributes including Farm Animal Welfare (FAW) in their purchasing decisions. However, there have been few studies on Canadian consumers’ concern for FAW and the choice of FAW labelled meat as a process attribute in meat...
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Finding an Appetite for Reducing Food Waste: Determinants of Commercial Food Waste Management and Diversion in Alberta
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Considerable quantities of food waste have been observed globally and minimizing it has the potential to generate significant reductions in the environmental burden of the agri-food sector. The commercial food sector contributes substantially to food waste generation, so understanding the...