Terrorism, Infrastructure Protection, and the U.S. Food and Agricultural Sector
نویسنده
چکیده
a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of its research sponsors. The RAND testimony series contains the statements of RAND staff members as prepared for delivery. The opinions and conclusions expressed in this written testimony are the author's alone and should not be interpreted as representing those of RAND or any of the sponsors of its research.
منابع مشابه
Hitting America’s Soft Underbelly The Potential Threat of Deliberate Biological Attacks Against the U.S. Agricultural and Food Industry
The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit research organization providing objective analysis and effective solutions that address the challenges facing the public and private sectors around the world. RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical ...
متن کاملConstruction of Effective Livestock Insurance Model in Ukraine
The problem of food security during the last few decades has acquired a global character. Population growth, reduction of farmland suitable for agriculture and ecological factors has led to a sharp increase in food demand. In such conditions, the role of countries which are able to increase the export of agricultural production in short-term periods is rising. Ukraine has great opportunities fo...
متن کاملاگروتروریسم، تعاریف، اثرات و راهکارهای پیشگیری
Background: Food security means giving people access to enough food at all times, to have a healthy lifestyle; this can be analyzed from the three aspects of the availability of food, food accessibility and food sustainability. On the other hands, agro terrorism is a form of bioterrorism in which, an individual or a group of people, for example, cause the contamination and disease of livestock,...
متن کاملInfrastructural Investment Opportunities for the Development of Agricultural Businesses Based on Public- Private Partnership Approach
Agricultural infrastructured included the entire body of basic services needed for the growth of an economy and for the improvement of the efficiency of the markets related to food and dietary fiber. Investment in agricultural infrastructure calls for a wide- spread collaboration among the various organization involved in the sector. The main purpose of the present research was to identify...
متن کاملThe Theory of Political Tariff Protection for Agricultural Sector in Developing Countries
This paper aims to analyze tariff protection policies in the agricultural sector of developing countries. The agricultural tariff structure in developing countries is characterized by: i) high average tariffs, ii) the existence of tariff escalation, iii) dispersion of nominal tariffs across tariff lines, and iv) a wide gap between average nominal tariffs and import-weighted average tariffs. Con...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
دوره شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001