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The spillover effects of seed producer groups on non-member farmers in mid-hill communities of Nepal
(International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2020-06)Rice farmers in the mid-hills region of Nepal are vulnerable to drought, which can drastically reduce yields. Stress-tolerant rice varieties (STRVs) can mitigate this vulnerability, as can having a high seed replacement ... -
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the U.S. and Virginia Farms and Businesses: May 2020
(Virginia Tech. Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2020-05)This report addresses various aspects of the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on Virginia’s farm and agribusiness sector as of the beginning of May 2020. At the time of this writing (May 7, 2020) the Centers for Disease ... -
A Century of Profligacy? The Measurement and Evolution of Food Waste
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)Food waste has been recognized as an economic issue for at least a century and is gaining tremendous traction in academia as well as in discourse about public policy. The goal of our study is to examine the evolution of ... -
COVID-19 & Agricultural Exports under the U.S.-China Trade Deal
(Virginia Tech. Center for Agricultural Trade, 2020-05)This report from the Center for Agricultural Trade provides an update on COVID-19 and related impacts on US-China trade. -
Hedonic Valuation with Translating Amenities: Mountain Pine Beetles and Host Trees in the Colorado Front Range
(2016-03)In hedonic valuation studies the policy-relevant environmental quality attribute of interest is often costly to measure, especially under pronounced spatial and temporal variability. However, in many cases this attribute ... -
Profitability of Virginia's Agritourism Industry: A Regression Analysis
(2016-04)Virginia's growing agritourism industry provides additional income to farms and mitigates risk. This study empirically analyzes the effect of demographic, operational, and financial factors on the profitability of agritourism ... -
Forest pests and home values: The importance of accuracy in damage assessment and geocoding of properties
(2017-01)We examine the impact of measurement errors in geocoding of property locations and in the assessment of Mountain Pine Beetle-induced tree damage within the proximity of a given residence on estimated losses in home values. ... -
Are USDA reports still news to changing crop markets?
(2019-04)This study investigates whether major USDA reports still provide important news to changing crop markets. The news component of each report, or market "surprise," is measured as a difference between the USDA estimate and ... -
Nonlinear exchange rate pass-through in timber products: The case of oriented strand board in Canada and the United States
(2019-11)We assess exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) for U.S. and Canadian prices for oriented strand board (OSB), a structural wood panel product used extensively in U.S. residential construction. Because of its prominence in ... -
Conservation Agriculture Increases Yields and Economic Returns of Potato, Forage, and Grain Systems of the Andes
(2019-11)Physical and environmental vulnerability analysis conducted for the Illangama watershed located in Ecuador's Andean highlands, shows deteriorated soil quality and declining crop productivity. These problems are caused by ... -
Political Economy Of The 2014 Farm Bill
(Oxford University Press, 2015-06-11)This article assesses the political economy of the 2014 U.S. farm bill, with a focus on the farm support safety net. The farm bill secured substantial bipartisan majorities in a politically contentious Congress. Planned ... -
Student-Managed Commodity Fund—A New Frontier in Experiential Learning
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-10-03)This study provides a road map for creating and operating a student-managed investment fund (SMIF) as an experiential learning opportunity in commodity market analysis. We describe the reasons for implementing a SMIF and ... -
Arsenic in drinking water in Bangladesh: factors affecting child health
(Frontiers, 2014-06-16)The focus of this paper is to present an empirical model of factors affecting child health by observing actions households take to avoid exposure to arsenic in drinking water. Millions of Bangladeshis face multiple health ... -
Consumer Willingness to Pay for Environmental Production Attributes in Tomatoes: A Southeastern Consumer Survey
(Virginia Tech, 2014-02)Direct-to-consumer sales accounted for roughly 18.27 percent of the total food sales in the United States (Low and Vogel 2011), and farmers’ markets increased by about 150.67 percent between 2002 and 2012 (U.S. Department ... -
Market Strategies for a Tobacco Bio-Pharming Application: The Case of Gaucher’s Disease Treatment
(Virginia Tech, 2005-07)Small firms developing biotechnology applications often focus on establishing intellectual property rights, which can then be sold to more established firms with existing market chains. This paper explores the expected ... -
Are Consumer Health Concerns Influencing Direct-From-Producer Purchasing Decisions?
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)Research has shown health concerns may motivate consumers to purchase foods sold at direct market outlets, yet connections between management of specific diseases and food purchase decisions remain unclear.We utilize a ... -
Horticultural Growers’ Willingness To Adopt Recycling Of Irrigation Water
(Cambridge University Press, 2016)Recycling irrigation water can provide water during periods of drought for horticulture operations and can reduce nonpoint-source pollution, but water recycling increases production costs and can increase risk of disease ... -
Estimating household demand for millet and sorghum in Niger and Nigeria
(2016-05-15)Millet and sorghum are two important crops and source of calories for poor households in semiarid West and Central Africa. This research analyzes the response of household demand for millet and sorghum to income and prices ... -
Assessing Economic Impacts of Ecotourism in the Virginia Roanoke River Basin: Metrics Program Development Services
(Virginia Tech, 2014-11)The mission of the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification & Community Revitalization Commission (VTICRC) includes helping rural communities transition from a tobacco-based monoculture to a diversified economy. One strategy, given ...
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