South Carolina Association of Extension Home Economists Records - Accession 146

The South Carolina Association of Extension Home Economists Records consist of histories, constitutions, minutes, annual reports, handbooks, brochures, membership lists, nomination records and clippings, relating to the activities and history of the Association. The South Carolina Association of Extension Home Economists was organized in 1941 for the Extension Agents of the state, both current and retired.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1237/thumbnail.jp

Statement of the Financial Economists Roundtable on Reforming the OTC Derivatives Markets

Testimony was released via a press release from organizatio

Evolution of urban chicken consumption in Southern countries : a comparison between Haiti and Cameroon

Diffusion du document : INRA Station d'Economie et Sociologie rurales 65 rue de Saint-Brieuc 35042 Rennes Cedex (FRA)Since the beginning of 2000s, in order to let poor people accede to meat consumption, several developingcountries have opened their domestic chicken market to foreign imports, by reducing import tariffs. Thus local chicken meat competes with frozen pieces of chicken imported from the European Union or America, causing the loss of many jobs in the Iocal chicken food chain. In order to highlight the determinants of urban consumer's choice relative to chicken types, and assess the opportunity for local chicken to restore its market share, investigations have been done in 2005 and 2006, in Yaoundé (Cameroon) and at Port-au-Prince (Haiti) applied to 180 urban households in each country. While imported frozen pieces of chicken have almost entirely substituted forthe local chicken which has already quite disappeared in Port-au-Prince, Yaoundé consumers still prefer the local flesh chicken to the imported ones, at least for particular uses

Foundation and empire : a critique of Hardt and Negri

In this article, Thompson complements recent critiques of Hardt and Negri's Empire (see Finn Bowring in Capital and Class, no. 83) using the tools of labour process theory to critique the political economy of Empire, and to note its unfortunate similarities to conventional theories of the knowledge economy

The retail market prices of fonio reveal the demand for quality characteristics in Bamako, Mali.

African consumers' expectations concerning quality of food products are great. In spite ofconstrained budgets, we showed that market retailed prices revealed quality preferences of theconsumers and not only production costs. In very poor countries like Mali, food innovation islimited by the very low purchasing power of the population. However, technological food productor process innovations are possible and sometimes valuable. Demand driven innovation may lead toopen new markets, opportunities for small and medium scale enterprises and to improve consumers'welfare. Based on this assumption, technical research was done to provide new food products. Inthis paper, using both sensory test and a hedonic price approach, we estimated consumer demandfor different characteristics of fonio, a West African cereal, and showed that poor consumers dohave quality requirements and actually pay for it. We showed that the shadow or hedonic price paidfor quality characteristics is small but significant. A comparison of sensory test and market studyshowed a convergence between what people say they prefer and what they really pay for. Resultswere consistent and showed directions for technological improvement of the product and itsproduction process. The Partial Least Square method was used to estimate hedonic prices of thedifferent modalities of fonio quality traits. This method was interesting since it solved the OrdinaryLeast Square method's colinearity problems

Food, farm and rural policies after Brexit? Some knowns, and known unknowns

Brexit negotiations were triggered in March 2017 when the UK notified its intention to leave the EU. A year later, a draft Withdrawal Agreement was produced. It is hoped that this will result in a legally binding agreement when the European Council meets in autumn 2018, but this is not guaranteed. The draft provides for a transitional period, extending from March 2019 – when the UK will formally leave the EU – to the end of 2020, during which time EU law and policies – including the common agricultural policy – will continue to apply. The UK–EU‐27 trade arrangements that will apply from 1 January 2021 are yet to be determined. Both the UK and EU‐27 insist they are determined to keep the Irish border open, but how this outcome can be reconciled with the UK's stated ambition of forging new trade links around the world, is yet to be determined. Regulatory provisions, relating to food safety and animal and plant health for example, together with the high tariffs on many agri‐food products, put the agriculture and food sectors at the core of this debate. Direct payments will be phased out in England, but the scope for policy divergence between the various nations of the UK is uncertain