Options for the Reform of Supply Management in Canada with Trade Liberalization (2009)
Richard Barichello, John Cranfield, Karl Meilke
Canadian Public Policy - Volume 35, Number 2, June/juin 2009
Poverty Analysis Using an International Cross-Country Demand System (2006)
Cranfield, John, Preckel, Paul, Hertel, Thomas
This paper proposes a new method for ex ante analysis of the poverty impacts arising from policy reforms. Three innovations underlie this approach. The first is the estimation of a global demand...
Hertel, Thomas, Ivanic, Maros, Preckel, Paul, Cranfield, John
Poverty reduction is an increasingly important consideration in the deliberations over multilateral trade liberalization. However, the analytical procedures used to assess the impacts of multilateral...
Trade Liberalization and the Structure of Poverty in Developing Countries (2003)
Hertel, Thomas, Ivanic, Maros, Preckel, Paul, Cranfield, John
"Globalization increases poverty" is a common assertion made by critics of globalization. The proliferation of low-wage jobs and higher food prices are some of the arguments brought forward in...
Hertel, Thomas W., Maros Ivanic, Paul Preckel, John Cranfield
Poverty reduction is an increasingly important consideration in the deliberations over multilateral trade liberalization. However, the analytical procedures used to assess the impacts of multilateral...
Implicit Additive Preferences: A Further Generalization of the CES
Paul Preckel, Thomas Hertel, John Cranfield
The CES is generalized by extension of the work of Hanoch (1975) resulting in implicit, direct and indirect relationships between utility and consumption. Expressions for substitution and income...
Changes in the Structure of Global Food Demand
Cranfield, John, James Eales, Thomas W. Hertel, Paul Preckel
May 1998 Purdue AGEC Staff Paper #98-5 A newly developed demand system is used to estimate the response of food and food product demand to per capita expenditure changes. The resulting Engel...
Poverty Analysis Using an International Cross-Country Demand System
Cranfield, John, Preckel, Paul, Hertel, Thomas
This paper proposes a new method for ex ante analysis of the poverty impacts arising from policy reforms. Three innovations underlie this approach. The first is the estimation of a global demand...
Trade Liberalization and the Structure of Poverty in Developing Countries
Hertel, Thomas, Maros Ivanic, Paul Preckel, John Cranfield
“Globalization increases poverty” is a common assertion made by critics of globalization. The proliferation of low-wage jobs and higher food prices are some of the arguments brought forward in...
Henson, Spencer, Jaffee, Steven, Cranfield, John, Blandon, Jose, Siegel, Paul
This paper provides the results of an international survey of practitioners with experience in facilitating the participation of African smallholder farmers in supply chains for higher-value and/or...
Cranfield, John, Herath, Deepananda, Henson, Spencer, Sparling, Dave
Growing consumer interest in functional foods and nutraceuticals has been seen as a significant business opportunity for the agri-food sector. Many of the new firms in this sector are small and...
Options for Supply Management in Canada with Trade Liberalization
Barichello, Richard, Cranfield, John, Meilke, Karl
Following the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations Canada replaced its import quotas on sensitive products with tariff rate quotas. The over-quota tariffs on those products operating under domestic...
MISASSESSED RISK IN CONSUMER VALUATION OF FOOD SAFETY: AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH
Brown, Jennifer, Cranfield, John, Henson, Spencer
This study estimates Canadian consumers' willingness to pay for food safety improvements and identifies systematic misassessments of food-borne risks. Non-hypothetical experimental auctions were used...
The Canadian Bioproducts Industry Analysis of the Bioproduct Development Survey – 2004
Sparling, David, Cranfield, John, Henson, Spencer, Laughland, Pamela
Bioproducts are often presented as one of the potential saviours of Canadian agriculture, offering non-food applications for agricultural products. However, relatively little is known about the...
Approximating Bayesian Posteriors using Multivariate Gaussian Quadrature
Cranfield, John, Preckel, Paul V., Liu, Songquan
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods,
Factors Influencing the Body Mass Index of Adults in Canada
This paper explores socio-demographic, economic and behaviour factors influencing body mass index (BMI) amongst 20 to 64 year old adults in Canada. BMI scores in Canada have increased, with gains...
Hailu, Getu, Thangaraj, Rawlin, Cranfield, John
The purpose of the study is to examine the differential effects of relative prices and diet-health link information on the degree of substitution between corn and cane sugar in the U.S. food...
The Financial Performance of Non-farm Microenterprises in Ghana
Masakure, Oliver, Cranfield, John, Henson, Spencer
Summary This paper analyzes the effect of firm and other characteristics on the incidence and intensity of improved financial performance among non-farm microenterprises in Ghana, using data from the...
Modeling Bioterrorism in the Livestock Sectors of NAFTA Members
Huff, Karen M., Meilke, Karl D., Turvey, Calum G., Cranfield, John
Until two years ago, most citizens of Canada, the United States and Mexico experienced terrorism as a distant reality viewed from the safety of their living rooms. Today, North Americans encounter...
Evaluating Consumer Preferences for Organic Food Production Standards
John Cranfield, B. James Deaton, Shreenivas Shellikeri
"In 21st century agriculture, standards are increasingly used to define new food products, such as organic food and fair trade. In some cases these standards are privately determined but in other...
Bioproducts Development Survey: Analysis of the Summary Results
Sparling, David, Cranfield, John, Henson, Spencer, Laughland, Pamela
Sparling, bioproducts, Bioproduct Development Survey, Agribusiness, Agricultural and Food Policy, Agricultural Finance, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Consumer/Household Economics, Crop...
Jose Blandon, Spencer Henson, John Cranfield
This paper explores the role of transaction costs and collective action in shaping small-scale farmer participation in the fresh fruit and vegetable (FFV) supply chain to supermarkets (SSC) in...