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

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

So they say.
March 22, 2002... What agricultural and resource economists are finding about food, farm, and resource issues * BLAST FROM THE PAST. In 1963, the USDA promoted a niche market for guinea fowl saying, "Many hotels and restaurants in large cities serve guineas...

CHOICES is here to stay! (Guest Editorial).(Electronic format of this publication)(Editorial)
March 22, 2002... CHOICES is one of our favorite publications. It is a living, growing, and evolving entity. And now is the time to take it to a new level of effectiveness and stature. Starting in 2003, you will receive CHOICES on line. CHOICES articles will...

On the media roller coaster: will biotech foods finish the ride?(newspaper coverage of genetically modified foods)
March 22, 2002... Europeans have had mixed feelings about biotechnology for a long time, well before 1996 and the "mad cow" crisis a seemingly watershed event. European consumers broadly support therapeutic drugs and other possibilities for improvements in human...

Auctions 101: lessons from a decade in the lab. What am I bid for safer food?(Consumer behavior. Includes bibliography.)
March 22, 2002... Over a decade ago, we became interested in how consumers react to food safety and new food technologies. This led to a series of laboratory experiments that asked people to reveal their preferences in an auction environment in which they spent...

Rural development, Euro-style?(Includes bibliography.)
March 22, 2002... Simple calculations suggest that the best rural development policy is not larger subsidies to agriculture, but the best farm policy may well be greater support for rural communities. In fact, farmers are perhaps the greatest beneficiaries of...

Grassland dynamics. (Graphically Speaking).
March 22, 2002... Historically, grasslands occupied approximately one billion acres in the U.S. -- about half the land mass of the 48 contiguous states (Figure 1). Grasslands west of the Rocky Mountains (approximately 332 million acres) were largely...

Federal land acquisition and payments-in-lieu of taxes: one piece in the puzzle of county finance.(Includes tables. Includes bibliography.)
March 22, 2002... Federally owned lands deprive counties of property tax revenue opportunities, but government payments in lieu of taxes help feed the kitty. Here's how the program looks in practice, in several Western states. The federal government owns...

Yo Quiero Taco Bell Amarillo.(removal of Starlink corn products from menu)
March 22, 2002... Last spring (2001 -- editor), I walked in to a Taco Bell restaurant, and saw this sign: "Attention: due to a nationwide shortage of yellow corn, we are serving tacos and tostadas made with white corn. Be assured, however, that these white tacos...

An E-merging revolution agricultural exchanges?(Electronic trading.)
March 22, 2002... WAITING FOR THE FUTURE TO ARRIVE: ELECTRONIC TRADING HAS THE POTENTIAL TO REVOLUTIONIZE COMMODITIES TRADING. HOWEVER, A NUMBER OF FACTORS--INCLUDING THE OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE OF U.S. AGRICULTURAL EXCHANGES--WILL HAVE TO BE OVERCOME TO SPEED...

One plant, patent pending: property rights protection in international agriculture; intellectual property protection provisions under the WTO threaten to pit developing countries against the developed world.
March 22, 2002... In the seven years since the Uruguay Round negotiations for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, stakeholders and observers have devoted much attention to the agreement governing trade in goods. They have paid less attention to the World...

And then there were 4 is concentration affecting biotechnology industry R&D performance?
March 22, 2002... The pace of consolidation in ag biotech is a cause for concern in some quarters. What will happen to R&D? And, with only four main suppliers, will farmers be able to get the biotech seed products they really need, or just the nearest thing...