2011 Annual Meeting, February 5-8, 2011, Corpus Christi, Texas

Every year hundreds of food recalls are made due to contamination. The main focus of this paper is to examine the effects of specific food events on consumers’ confiden [...]

This paper identifies ways to improve on the current literature regarding sustainable production technologies, in this case, organic and local products. A survey method i [...]

We revisit the composite food demand system for the United States covering the period from 1953 to 2008. We were unable to produce elasticity measures that are as close o [...]

The main goal of this manuscript is to explore the retailer conduct in the milk market in a U.S. Midwestern city, based upon a structural estimation of consumer milk dema [...]

The objective of this research is to identify factors that influence both the decision (yes or no) and level of flood insurance among coastal homeowners in the southeast [...]

The customizable area whole farm insurance (CAWFI) was designed and compared with no insurance program and currently available whole farm insurance based on farm level yi [...]

This research applies a novel method of non-market valuation to the case of barrier island restoration in Mississippi. The objective is to estimate peoples’ willingness [...]

The goal of this study is to empirically evaluate the extent to which agricultural productivity estimates are affected by variation on climate. To do so, we explore the c [...]

It is increasingly questionable whether the WTO regime is the most appropriate form of governance for addressing global problems related to agriculture. In particular, cl [...]