Slides from presentations given at past workshops of the Cal/Med
Consortium (html)
Public
Funding for Research into Specialty Crops (pdf, 342kb)
This paper considers public funding for R&D directed to specialty
crops. Specific questions to be addressed include whether R&D
for specialty crops has been underfunded, both in absolute terms
and relative to other crops and agriculture more generally.
Authors: Julian M. Alston and Philip G. Pardey
EU
Market Access for Mediterranean Fruit and Vegetables: A Gravity
Model Assessment (doc, 457kb)
This paper uses a gravity model to measure the extent that protection
influences trade for fruit and vegetables in Mediterranean countries
compared to other countries, and the impact that greater trade
liberalization in fruit and vegetables between the EU and Mediterranean
countries would have.
Authors: Charlotte Emlinger, Emmanuelle Chevassus Lozza and
Florence Jacquet
Agricultural
Trade Liberalization in the Mediterranean Region: A Complex
and Uneven Process (doc, 666kb)
This paper provides an overview of the current negotiations
and their status. It addresses three main questions: what are
the main components of trade liberalization in the Mediterranean
region?; What are the economic stakes involved in that process
and how can they be assessed?; and what is the likely future
of this liberalization process?
Author: Michel Petit
Modelling
Euro-Mediterranean Agricultural Trade (pdf,
480kb)
This paper examines the methodological problems
to define a modelling approach to assess the impact of full
or limited bilateral liberalisation of agricultural trade flows
in the Euro-Mediterranean region.
Authors: Jose-Maria Garcia-Alvarez-Coque, Victor Martinez-Gomez
and Miquel Villanueva
The
Negotiations on Agriculture in the Doha Development Agenda
Round: Current Status and Future Prospects (html)
The paper briefly discusses developments
in the negotiations on agriculture in the WTO Doha Development
Agenda Round from January 2000 to September 2005 and identifies
the main elements to be considered when speculating on the outcome
of the Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong.
Authors: Giovanni Anania and Jean-Christophe Bureau
Public
Regulation as a Substitute for Trust in Quality Food Markets:
What if the Trust Substitute cannot be Fully Trusted? (pdf,
347kb)
This paper presents an analysis of the decisions
of producers and consumers of a credence good in three institutional
scenarios, which reflect different levels of credibility of
the regulation providing consumers with a substitute for the
trust they lack and, consequently, different levels of trust
consumers place in the quality of the product.
Authors: Giovanni Anania and Rosanna Nisticò
Policy
Vision for Sustainable Rural Economies in an Enlarged Europe
(pdf, 211kb)
The approach followed in this paper is to start
with a vision for a desirable and sustainable agricultural and
rural policy for an enlarged Europe in about 25 years from now
and in a second step to spell out in broad terms how it might
be put in place.
Authors: West European Working Group and the Délégation
à l’Aménagement du Territoire et à
l’Action Régionale (DATAR)
Does
7 to 9 a day pay? The Economic Benefits to Fruit and Vegetable
Industries Should People Consume the USDA Recommendations
(pdf, 264kb)
This article estimates the economic impact on fruit and vegetable
industries in the U.S. from an increase in consumption to levels
recommended in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005. This
study represents the first attempt to quantify the effect on
growers who could expect to gain from such an increase.
Authors: Karen M. Jetter, James A. Chalfant, and Daniel A. Sumner
Domestic Support and Border Measures for Processed Horticultural
Products: Analysis of EU Tomato Protection and Subsidies (pdf,
379kb)
This study examines, specifically, the effects
of domestic support applied to a non-traded farm-produced commodity
together with border measures applied to value-added products
in the processed tomato industry.
Authors: Bradley J. Rickard and Daniel A. Sumner
EU
Support of its Processing Tomato Industry and the Competitive
Consequences for California (pdf, 77kb)
This article models and measures the impacts
on global markets and on the California industry of potential
reductions of import barriers and subsidies established for
the processing tomato industry in the European Union.
Authors: Bradley J. Rickard and Daniel A. Sumner
Mediterranean
Agriculture in the Global Marketplace: A Project Comparing Policy
Approaches in California and the Southern EU States (pdf,
768kb)
This project explores the similarities and the
differences in the policies influencing the market for five
key Mediterranean commodities. The commodities are olives (including
table olives and olive oil), grapes (including table grapes,
wine and raisins), tree-nuts (primarily almonds), citrus (primarily
oranges), and tomatoes (including fresh and canned tomatoes).
Authors: Lee Ann Patterson and Tim Josling
Traceability,
Liability, and Incentives for Food Safety and Quality (pdf,
96kb)
This paper provides information about suppliers
that allows application of liability for food safety or other
product quality problems.
Authors: Daniel A. Sumner and Sébastian Pouliot
Bee-conomics
and the Leap in Pollination Fees (pdf, 412kb)
According to entemologists and other experts,
pollinators available to service California agriculture has
fallen steadily. At the same time, demand for pollination services
has risen. This article examines the forces behind these market
adjustments and some of the consequences for California agriculture.
Authors: Daniel A. Sumner and Hayley Boriss
Marketing Profile
of Important California Commodities
This website contains short industry profiles
on important California commodities with an emphasis on production,
marketing, consumption, value added, trade and price trends
for these commodities in the last one to two decades.
Evaluation of Quality Testing for California Pistachios
(pdf, 133kb)
This study discusses the economic rational for
an industry's collective action and presents the federal marketing
order for California pistachio as an example. It further
details the process and requirements for establishing of a marketing
order.
Authors: Julian M. Alston, Henrich
Brunke, Richard S. Gray, and Daniel A. Sumner.
Chapter 14 in H. Kaiser, J.M. Alston, J. Crespi,
and R.J. Sexton (eds).
Commodity Promotion Programs in California:
Economic Evaluation and Legal Issues. Peter Lang Publishing
(2004 in press).
Industry-Mandated
Testing to Improve Food Safety: the New US Marketing Order for
Pistachios (pdf, 79kb)
This study investigates the federal marketing
order and outlines how collective action in the form of a marketing
order can serve as a useful tool to ensure a safe food product
and increase benefits to producers and consumers.
Authors: Henrich Brunke,
Julian M. Alston, Richard S. Gray, and Daniel A. Sumner.
German Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Special Issue on Food Quality, Incomplete Consumer Information and
the Role of Markets and the State. (2004
in press).
An Economic Survey of the Wine and Winegrape
Industry in the United States and Canada. (pdf, 145kb)
Paper by Daniel A. Sumner ,
Helene Bombrun, Julian M. Alston,
and Dale Heien
Revised draft December
2, 2001
The
Agricultural Issues Center's Winegrape
Outlook Workshop III (html)
This
site contains papers and abstracts from the workshop held in
Oakville,
California, October 25, 2000.
Contracts,
Quality, and Industrialization in Agriculture: Hypotheses and
Empirical Analysis of the California Winegrape
Industry (pdf)
Paper by Rachael E. Goodhue, Dale M. Heien,
Hyunok Lee and Daniel A. Sumner, revised December 25, 2000.
Economic
Impact of Eutypa on the California
Wine Grape Industry (pdf, 104kb)
Appendix
1 (pdf) Appendix 2 and 3 (pdf)
Draft report by Jerome B. Siebert that estimates
the economic impact of Eutypa which is one of the most common canker diseases of
grapevines in California. September
15, 2000.
German
Wineries on the Web: A Survey of Web Sites of Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
and Pfalz Wineries (pdf,
32kb )
Paper by A. Bernert
and S. Stricker that reports results
of a survey of web sites by wineries from the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer and Pfalz regions in Germany.
Wine on the Web
- Rapid Appraisal of Web Sites by Wineries and Wine Merchants
from Australia, California, and Germany (pdf,
36kb)
Paper by Susanne Stricker,
Rolf A.E. Mueller, and Daniel A. Sumner, submitted for the 75th
European Seminar of the European Association of Agricultural
Economics, 2001.
Economic
Consequences of European Union Processing Tomato Subsidies
(pdf, 375kb)
Daniel A. Sumner, Bradley J. Rickard, and David
S. Hart analyze the impacts of EU processed tomato industry
export subsidies, import barriers, and domestic subsidies on
EU producers, consumers and taxpayers and on processed tomato
market participants outside the EU.
Agricultural
Issues Center (AIC) Wine and Winegrape
Research (html)
This webpage provides results from AIC research
on wine and winegrapes as well as
related work by other individuals.
Ex ante Economics
of Exotic Disease Policy: Citrus Canker in California
(pdf,178kb)
Draft paper by Karen M. Jetter,
Daniel A. Sumner and Edwin L. Civerolo, prepared for presentation
at the Conference: “Integrating Risk Assessment and Economics
for Regulatory Decisions,” USDA, Washington, DC, December
7, 2000.
