Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm and Resource Issues articles from January 2002

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm and Resource Issues archives from January 2002

Globalization is good. (So they Say).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Amartya Sen talks about a popular theme by saying, "[Globalization] is, in fact, neither new nor necessarily Western; and it is not a curse. Over thousands of years, globalization has contributed to the progress of the world through travel,...

Whose Property Rights? (So they Say).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Cole and Grossman get right to the point by saying, "Law & Economics has become a highly successful interdisciplinary field for several reasons, including the fact that public policy issues invariably arise at the intersection of law and...

Distance Students Online. (So they Say).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Kazmer and Haythornwaite say, "Increasing involvement in an online environment is more complicated than a simple, unconscious transfer of attention from offline time. Students actively prioritiz[e] what and who needs to be dealt with first.......

Immigrants vote with their feet. (So they Say).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Borjas says, "Migration costs prevent many native-born workers from moving to those states that offer the best economic opportunities. Immigrant workers, in contrast, form a self-selected sample of persons who have chosen to incur those...

Agricultural economics in Australia. (So they Say).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... After 35 pages of narrative on the recent history of Agricultural Economics in Australia, Godden closes by saying, "Writing history (like doing economics) reveals as much about the writer as it does about the subject. While some of the...

Taxing the land. (So they Say).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Netzer revives an old theme by saying, "[Henry] George attracted many followers with the proposition that land value taxation would alleviate poverty and the unequal access to economic resources. Economic theory and even superficial observation...

A policy opportunity: Getting in touch with rural America. (Guest Editorial).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... As this issue of CHOICES goes to press, Congress, the Bush administration, and several powerful interest groups are debating the next Farm Bill. The policy debate centers on disagreements about who should benefit from the bill, and for what...

Brownouts in California, Brown fields in Idaho.
January 1, 2002... DID CONVERGING CIRCUMSTANCES IN CALIFORNIA POWER DEREGULATION AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST'S HYDROPOWER INDUSTRY COMBINE TO CREATE THE "PERFECT STORM," BUFFETING FARMERS IN THE PNW AS WELL AS CONSUMERS AND BUSINESSES IN CALIFORNIA? Remember...

Food securities: Where Wall Street meets Main Street.
January 1, 2002... Capital market imperatives can have as much impact on agricultural producers as the weather or commodity prices. Agriculturalists need to understand that when Wall Street coughs, Main Street ought to try the chicken soup. Like it or not,...

Collective bargaining by farmers: Time for a fresh look?
January 1, 2002... If stagnant farm profits are due in part to the economic power of agribusiness, collective bargaining may get agriculture a better seat -- and a bigger serving -- at the table. The perpetually low income of farmers has kept agricultural...

Churning out the links: Vertical integration in the peef and pork industries.
January 1, 2002... For the livestock and meat industry, the 1990s were a period of marked vertical integration. By the end of the decade, the use of production contracts, marketing agreements, and other ownership linkages between beef and pork producers and meat...

Supplly chain management & production agriculture: A Florida Dairy Case. (Graphically Speaking).
January 1, 2002... Technological innovation and competition have led to improvements in supply chain management for food products. Supply chain improvements reduce inventories, waste, and costs, and thus increase efficiency within the firm and the market channel....

The trouble with salmon: Among the issues are deciding which salmon are in trouble, and in describing just what the trouble is.
January 1, 2002... For decades the Pacific Northwest has been immersed in debate reagrding the state of salmon runs in general -- and lately, of wild salmon runs in particular. Since enactment of the Northwest Power Act in 1980, an estimated $4 billion has been...

StarLink[TM]: Where no Cry9C corn should have gone before.
January 1, 2002... The discovery of StarLink corn in food products intended for human consumption caused considerable disruption in corn markets in 2000 and 2001. The authors take a closer look at the market impact, and look at ways to avoid a return trip. ...

Can't get ahead for falling behind: Development policy, poverty, and relief traps.
January 1, 2002... "Can't get ahead for falling behind." The powerlessness this phrase evokes applies as much to development assistance as it does to the people that the assistance is meant to help. These two kinds of powerlessness are related. The longer...

Looking for the Nutritional Label: Does it make a difference?
January 1, 2002... Poor diet contributes to over 300,000 deaths a year in the United States. About one-third of all cancer deaths are attributable to poor diet, and four of the top ten causes of death in the United States -- heart disease, cancer, stroke, and...

Good enough to use? (More So they Say).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Rosenwein worries that "...rarely has the economic climate changed so radically from one year to the next, as it did in 2001. So the question naturally arises: What do you do with the Census Bureau's findings contained in two reports, "Money...

Food for the children. (More So they Say).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Summarizing an extensive study, L.C. Smith and L. Haddad say, "... as per-capita food supplies are increased in any country, they become an increasingly blunt tool for reducing malnutrition [among children]. The effect is very strong for...

Coming to grips with globalization.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Globalization is, to coin a phrase, everywhere. It certainly has become an important dimension of the changing agricultural sector. Export growth for United States agricultural products is a fundamental premise of U.S. farm policy, and an...

Letters to the editor.
January 1, 2002... Editor: Thank you for publishing our work on beef markets in the Third Quarter, 2001 issue of CHOICES magazine. We find two serious errors in the published article that were not in the earlier drafts. These errors will be misleading to...