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Challenges and Issues in the Next Decade: A Proactive Role for Agricultural and Resource Economists
Economic and environmental challenges in the global economy raise significant issues that require public policy and private sector attention over the next decade. Price volatility, invasive species, sustainable biofuels production, and climate change all affect our agricultural and resource base and its future. Agricultural and resource economists must provide analyses of public policy and private sector strategies based on innovative research that integrates insights across disciplinary boundaries. Proactive communication of the results to decision makers can make a difference in how these important societal issues are addressed and help to shape the future.economics, environment, policy research, communication, Agricultural and Food Policy, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
EMERGING ROLES FOR FOOD LABELS: INFORM, PROTECT, PERSUADE
Every day, food producers and processors provide products consumed by 250 million people in this country. Each of those consumers is affected by the content of their foods. With advances in food production, processing, and distribution technology, the role of food labels has become increasingly important. Current research and views related to food labeling issues were discussed at a conference held in Washington, D.C. on March 20-21, 2003. This article gives an overview of food-labeling issues and summarizes the research findings presented at the conference. Issues discussed in this paper include the impact of food labels on consumer purchase decisions, the role of the private versus the public sector in providing credibility to marketing claims, the costs and benefits of voluntary and mandatory labels, and the implications of country-of-origin labeling.Agribusiness,
Supply Chains and Rural Development in the Asia Pacific Region
Rapid income growth and urbanization are having profound impacts on the food system, food producers and rural areas in the developing Asia Pacific economies. Meeting the challenge of rural development will depend on better integrating rural areas with fast-growing urban areas where the composition of food demand is changing and the logistics of supply are growing more complex. Possible government options include investment in transportation infrastructure—roads, railroads and waterway—and providing rural communities and small-scale producers the tools they need to better adapt to the rapid spread of modern supermarkets and their supply chains.Community/Rural/Urban Development,
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Simulation of farm bargaining board policies in the western late potato system
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Generic Advertising for the Seafood Industry
The seafood industry is one part of the food industry competing for consumer protein demand. Generic advertising
or promotion offers one approach to expand that demand. Generic promotion programs focus on market expansion involving
an entire industry or segment. They involve advertising directly to the final consumer or to institutional or retail buyers, or
promotion programs to accompany other marketing activities. Generic advertising programs to educate consumers about
nutritional values of seafood and food safety measures taken by the industry may help to increase consumer demand. Generic
promotion programs for agricultural commodities have enjoyed success and provided lessons useful for the seafood industry.
Econometric analyses have generally determined that generic promotion programs have been relatively profitable for producers
in aggregate, but impact varies considerably among programs. For success in the seafood industry, a substantial sub-sector of
participants would need to agree to work together to provide the funding through a trade association or government program.
The fragmented structure of fishing boat owners and the open access, common property nature of U.S. fisheries indicates that
programs would need to be organized at the processor or wholesaler levels. Challenges would be the relatively small operations
which are geographically dispersed, but a few companies account for a large portion of total product. Several generic promotion
programs exist in the seafood industry: the unsuccessful U.S. Seafood Promotion Act of 1986, an ongoing Alaska salmon
promotion program, a Norway salmon promotion program, and in the farm-raised catfish industry program in the southeastern
U.S. Successful programs will require well thought out objectives that identify commodity attributes that could be successfully
promoted, recognize budget limits, allocate resources carefully, develop an implementation strategy that fits the industry
structure, and include plans to evaluate effectiveness
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Generic Advertising for the Seafood Industry
The seafood industry is one part of the food industry competing for consumer protein demand. Generic advertising or promotion offers one approach to expand that demand. Generic promotion programs focus on market expansion involving an entire industry or segment. They involve advertising directly to the final consumer or to institutional or retail buyers, or promotion programs to accompany other marketing activities. Generic advertising programs to educate consumers about nutritional values of seafood and food safety measures taken by the industry may help to increase consumer demand. Generic promotion programs for agricultural commodities have enjoyed success and provided lessons useful for the seafood industry. Econometric analyses have generally determined that generic promotion programs have been relatively profitable for producers in aggregate, but impact varies considerably among programs. For success in the seafood industry, a substantial sub-sector of participants would need to agree to work together to provide the funding through a trade association or government program. The fragmented structure of fishing boat owners and the open access, common property nature of U.S. fisheries indicates that programs would need to be organized at the processor or wholesaler levels. Challenges would be the relatively small operations which are geographically dispersed, but a few companies account for a large portion of total product. Several generic promotion programs exist in the seafood industry: the unsuccessful U.S. Seafood Promotion Act of 1986, an ongoing Alaska salmon promotion program, a Norway salmon promotion program, and in the farm-raised catfish industry program in the southeastern U.S. Successful programs will require well thought out objectives that identify commodity attributes that could be successfully promoted, recognize budget limits, allocate resources carefully, develop an implementation strategy that fits the industry structure, and include plans to evaluate effectiveness.Keywords: generic seafood advertising, seafood promotio
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Annotated bibliography on the economics of food dehydration
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