the present crisis in global economy, the issue of climate change and the fast-growing world population,leading to increased demand of food, are signifiantfactors reinforcing moves towards inclusive technologydevelopments. increasing population and consumptiongrowth will lead to the increasing global demand forfood, as well. the growing competition for land, water,and energy affct food producti...

pisciculture, especially in countries which are unable to develop their marine resources, is a desired to provide part of their food and protein needs. this study aims at investigating welfare impacts of energy subsidy removal on fish producers in fars province. to achieve the objective, cross-sectional data obtained from fish producers of fars province in 2010 was used. cost, input demand and ...

Abstract: On December 2010, the government of Iran ended the decades-long subsidy program for bread and energy products and launched the Targeted Subsidy Reform program that considerably raised prices of food products. The objective of the study was to measure welfare impacts of food price changes on Iranian urban households between two survey data of 2009/10 and 2011/12 which were taken from I...

Food products account for a significant amount of the Iranian imports. Despite the rising prices of food products over the last two decades, their imports have been increasing too. In this study import demand of the main imported food products is empirically analyzed using Quadratic AIDS. Welfare impacts are measured using compensated variation. The results indicate that all products, except te...