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- 49Adamowicz, Wiktor
- 34Unterschultz, Jim
- 29Veeman, Michele M.
- 24Boxall, Peter C.
- 23University of Alberta. Dept. of Rural Economy
- 17Jeffrey, Scott
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- 37Canada, Alberta
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2000
Veeman, Michele M., Adamowicz, Wiktor
Public concern regarding food safety has emerged as a major policy issue. Chemicals and biotechnological processes are perceived as risks of food safety despite their contribution to an efficient, low cost agriculture and food industry. Increases in uses of biotechnological processes for foods...
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Consumers' Responses to the Potential Use of Bovine Somatotrophin in Canadian Dairy Production
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Adamowicz, Wiktor, Veeman, Michele M., Kuperis, Peter
The responses of a random sample of consumers to the use of bovine somatotrophin (BST) in milk production were elicited using a stated preference methodology. A multinomial logit model of consumer choice was developed and tested to analyse consumers' choices of milk with varying characteristics...
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2001
This paper views the social landscape of biotechnology from the perspective of emerging perceptions and attitudes of consumers to food biotechnology. The information from which consumers' perceptions and attitudes may be discerned comes in several different forms. These include market responses...
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Cooperative and Rural Development: The Case of Dayap Credit Cooperative and Development Inc., Philippines
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Murray, Eloise C., Gill, Dhara S., Lacuna-Richman, Celeste
The purpose of this study was to understand the organization and operations of a cooperative and examine its contribution to rural development in the Philippines. Quantitative and qualitative data were used in the study. Data analysis showed the socioeconomic characteristics of the cooperative's...
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1996
Jeffrey, Scott, Richards, Timothy J.
This study investigates the relationships between farm size, milk yield, cost of production, and technical efficiency in the Alberta dairy industry. Estimates of a stochastic production frontier are obtained with two alternative methods; an iterative \"average frontier\" (AF) procedure and a...
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Cross Product Censoring in a Demand System with Limited Dependent Variables: A Multivariate Probit Model Approach
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The most challenging problem in cross sectional demand analyses is to deal with zero expenditure because OLS estimates tend to be biased towards zero in a regression model where a large proportion of the dependent variable is zero. The problem arises as households participating in the survey do...
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2013
University of Alberta. Dept. of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology
The annual reports collect the departmental activities for the events of each calendar year. Names of personnel, publication lists, awards, research grants, and other matters are collected here.