Luanne Lohr

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive overview of local food systems explores alternative definitions of local foods, estimates market size and reach, describes the characteristics of local consumers and producers, and examines early indications of the economic and health impacts of Local Food Systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the long-run cointegration of these prices simultaneously with their multivariate short-run interactions and found no direct long run price relations between fuel and agricultural commodity prices, and limited if any direct short run relationships.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between agricultural commodity prices and ethanol prices using cointegration, vector error corrections (VECM), and multivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedascity (MGARCH) models.

TL;DR: A comprehensive literature-review-based overview of the current understanding of local food systems, including: alternative defi nitions; estimates of market size and reach; descriptions of the characteristics of local foods consumers and producers; and an examination of early evidence on the economic and health impacts of such systems as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, a utility difference model is used with Swedish data to analyze factors that determine whether a subsidy is required to motivate organic conversion, showing that farmers requiring subsidies manage larger less-diversified farms and are more concerned with organic inspection, quality, and adequacy of technical advice.