18 pages, Consumer preferences for food produced using currently prohibited production methods matter, especially in relation to potential trade deals. We conduct four discrete choice experiments examining UK consumer attitudes for food produced using several agricultural production methods currently prohibited in the UK, including chlorine washed chicken. Our results reveal negative preferences for these forms of agricultural production methods whereas EU food safety standards are highly valued. Willingness-to-pay estimates indicate that the positive values for food safety are frequently greater than the negative values placed on prohibited food production methods. Similarly, UK country of origin was highly valued but organic production was less valued. We discuss the implications of these results and, more generally, the use of stated preference estimates in economic modelling underpinning trade negotiations.
Castri, Francesco di (author), Damlamian, Jeanne (author), Hadley, Malcolm (author), and International Coordinating Council of the Programme on Man and the Biosphere; International Coordinating Council of the Programme on Man and the Biosphere; International Coordinating Council of the Programme on Man and the Biosphere
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1983-09
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 78 Document Number: C04345
This article, written by the president of Cuba, examines what it is like to be a third world country in the shadow of the United States. In particular, it discusses how the world has changed since George W. Bush became president
Crocoll,Sophie (Author) and Steiner,Susan (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Language:
German
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Hamburg, Germany: Institut fur Iberoamerika-Kunde (IIK), GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies/Leibniz-Institut fur Globale und Regionale Studien
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Analyzes the growing problem of poverty and international efforts during various financial crises in Latin America and the Caribbean regions. The authors focus primarily on Honduras, Mexico and Argentina, examining each nations separate crises over two decades through data collected by the United Nations (UNDP) and Comision Economica para America Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
Describes Fidel Castro's ten day at the Theresa Hotel in Harlem beginning on September 18, 1960, when he addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
Format:
News release
Publication Date:
2006-09-27
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24756
Notes:
Retrieved September 27, 2006, 2 pages., Describes a new second phase of the Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) initiative, a public-private partnership for helping low-income countries gain access to more than 900 journals that report research about agriculture and related subjects.
On 12 January 2010, Haiti experienced a 7.0-magnitude earthquake centered 10 miles west-southwest of Port-au-Prince. United Nations estimates indicate that more than 222,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured, and 2.3 million displaced by the earthquake and its 59 aftershocks. At dawn on 13 January, under the direction of United States Southern Command, elements of the Department of Defense arrived to support the Government of Haiti and the US Embassy. The command established Headquarters Joint Task Force-Haiti, with the mission of carrying out humanitarian assistance and disaster-relief operations in support of the United States Agency for International Development, the principal federal agency for the US effort.
