- An Analysis of the Costs and Benefits to Consumers and Growers from the Consumption of Recommended Amounts and Types of Fruits and Vegetables for Cancer Prevention, 2004 - The full 66-page report to the California Department of Health Services and California Nutrition Network. University of California Agricultural Issues Center.
- Appellation, Variety, and the Price of California Wines. This research paper by Oh Sang Kwon, Hyunok Lee, and Daniel A. Sumner shows how variety and California appellation interact to affect premium wine prices. University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. ARE Update. Vol. 11, No. 4, March/April 2008.
- The Availability and Cost of Healthier Food Items, AIC Issues Brief No. 29, March 2005 - This study examines the availability of healthier food items in grocery stores and compares the cost of a standard market basket of foods to a healthier basket with low-fat meat and dairy, and whole grains.
- Current Economic Trends in the California Wine Industry. The number of wine grape growers is growing slowly but the number of wineries has doubled in the past decade. Rachael E. Goodhue, Richard D. Green, Dale M. Heien and Philip L. Martin. University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. ARE Update. Vol. 11, No. 4, March/April 2008.
- Does 5-a-Day Pay?, AIC Issues Brief no. 27, September 2004 - This study examines potential gains to growers from increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables to recommended levels in a cancer prevention diet.
- Farm Subsidies and Obesity in the United States. Julian M. Alston, Daniel A. Sumner and Stephen A. Vosti. November/December 2007. This University of California study finds no evidence to support the claim that farm subsidies have contributed significantly to obesity.
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Health Information and the Choice of Fish Species: An experiment measuring the impact of risk and benefit information, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Working Paper 06-WP 421, Iowa State University, April 2006 - The impact of health information on consumers' choice between two different types of fish was evaluated in France. The results showed the significance of order and type of information as well as information about risks, rather than about benefits.
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Industry Initiated Regulation and Food Safety: the New Federal Marketing Order for Pistachios University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. ARE Update, Vol. 8, No. 6, July/August 2005.
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Industry-Mandated Testing to Improve Food Safety: the New U.S. Marketing Order for Pistachios, Agricultural Issues Center, University of California - 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.
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Nutrition Issues to Address in the Farm Bill 2007: A California Perspective, by Lucia Kaiser and Catherine Lamp, AIC Farm Bill Brief #2, July 2007 - The Nutrition title of the 2007 Farm Bill provides Congress the vehicle to revise these programs and reorient the outlays to the most important national priorities. California consumers, producers and taxpayers have a major stake in assuring that revisions be undertaken in the interest of more effective programs.
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Recent Trends in the California Wine Grape Industry. Over the last 30 years the wine grape industry has expanded rapidly in acreage and production. As shown in this paper by Richard Volpe, Richard Green, Dale Heien and Richard Howitt growth has has been driven by changes in consumer demand and has not been uniform across grape varieties or in the major growing regions. University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. ARE Update. Vol. 11, No. 4, March/April 2008.
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Traceability, Liability and Incentives for Food Safety and Quality, Sébastien Pouliot and Daniel A. Sumner, November 2006 - Pouliot and Sumner show how exogenous increases in food traceability create incentives for farms and marketing firms to supply safer food by increasing liability costs.
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Trends in the Marketing of Fresh Produce and Fresh-cut Products. Roberta Cook. Agricultural Issues Center, University of California, November 2007.
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