Author: Mir B. AliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Field crops
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
State-level Costs of Production
Author: Mir B. AliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Field crops
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Exploring Health and Environmental Costs of Food
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309265835
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
The U.S. food system provides many benefits, not the least of which is a safe, nutritious and consistent food supply. However, the same system also creates significant environmental, public health, and other costs that generally are not recognized and not accounted for in the retail price of food. These include greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, soil erosion, air pollution, and their environmental consequences, the transfer of antibiotic resistance from food animals to human, and other human health outcomes, including foodborne illnesses and chronic disease. Some external costs which are also known as externalities are accounted for in ways that do not involve increasing the price of food. But many are not. They are borne involuntarily by society at large. A better understanding of external costs would help decision makers at all stages of the life cycle to expand the benefits of the U.S. food system even further. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council (NRC) with support from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) convened a public workshop on April 23-23, 2012, to explore the external costs of food, methodologies for quantifying those costs, and the limitations of the methodologies. The workshop was intended to be an information-gathering activity only. Given the complexity of the issues and the broad areas of expertise involved, workshop presentations and discussions represent only a small portion of the current knowledge and are by no means comprehensive. The focus was on the environmental and health impacts of food, using externalities as a basis for discussion and animal products as a case study. The intention was not to quantify costs or benefits, but rather to lay the groundwork for doing so. A major goal of the workshop was to identify information sources and methodologies required to recognize and estimate the costs and benefits of environmental and public health consequences associated with the U.S. food system. It was anticipated that the workshop would provide the basis for a follow-up consensus study of the subject and that a central task of the consensus study will be to develop a framework for a full-scale accounting of the environmental and public health effects for all food products of the U.S. food system. Exploring Health and Environmental Costs of Food: Workshop Summary provides the basis for a follow-up planning discussion involving members of the IOM Food and Nutrition Board and the NRC Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources and others to develop the scope and areas of expertise needed for a larger-scale, consensus study of the subject.
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Author: Economic Indicators of the Farm Sector
Author: The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309444454
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration finds that the long-term impact of immigration on the wages and employment of native-born workers overall is very small, and that any negative impacts are most likely to be found for prior immigrants or native-born high school dropouts. First-generation immigrants are more costly to governments than are the native-born, but the second generation are among the strongest fiscal and economic contributors in the U.S. This report concludes that immigration has an overall positive impact on long-run economic growth in the U.S. More than 40 million people living in the United States were born in other countries, and almost an equal number have at least one foreign-born parent. Together, the first generation (foreign-born) and second generation (children of the foreign-born) comprise almost one in four Americans. It comes as little surprise, then, that many U.S. residents view immigration as a major policy issue facing the nation. Not only does immigration affect the environment in which everyone lives, learns, and works, but it also interacts with nearly every policy area of concern, from jobs and the economy, education, and health care, to federal, state, and local government budgets. The changing patterns of immigration and the evolving consequences for American society, institutions, and the economy continue to fuel public policy debate that plays out at the national, state, and local levels. The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration assesses the impact of dynamic immigration processes on economic and fiscal outcomes for the United States, a major destination of world population movements. This report will be a fundamental resource for policy makers and law makers at the federal, state, and local levels but extends to the general public, nongovernmental organizations, the business community, educational institutions, and the research community.
Intermediate Microeconomics
Author: Patrick M. EmersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Agriculture Economics Reports
Author: SJVN Exam PDF-SJVN Ltd Field Officer F & A Finance & Accounts Exam PDF eBook
Author: Chandresh AgrawalPublisher: Chandresh Agrawal
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
SGN.The eBook PDF SJVN Ltd Field Officer F & A Finance & Accounts Exam Covers Commerce & Financial Management Objective Questions Asked In Various Exams With Answers.
PGCIL Exam PDF-POWERGRID Officer Trainee (Finance) Exam-Commerce Subject Only PDF eBook
Author: Chandresh AgrawalPublisher: Chandresh Agrawal
ISBN:
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
SGN. The PGCIL Exam PDF-POWERGRID Officer Trainee (Finance) Exam-Commerce Subject Only PDF eBook Covers Objective Questions With Answers.
GETCO-Gujarat Energy Transmission Corporation Ltd. Accounts Officer Exam: Commerce Subject
Author: Chandresh AgrawalPublisher: Chandresh Agrawal
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
SGN.The Ebook-PDF GETCO-Gujarat Energy Transmission Corporation Ltd. Accounts Officer Exam: Commerce Subject Covers Similar Previous Years' Papers With Answers.