Title:
Livestock productivity enhancers : an economic assessment / edited by Martin Bent.
Author:
Bent, Martin.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Martin Bent -- Growth promotion in animals: an overview / Peter Buttery -- European approval procedures for livestock productivity enhancers / Martin Bent -- Political and social debate / Robert Deakin -- Analysis of immediate economic impact -- Use of econometric models in the evaluation of livestock productivity enhancers / Michael Burton -- Assessing economic impact: the optimization approach / Allan Buckwell -- Farm enterprise budgets and partial equilibrium models / Martin Bent -- Analysis of further economic impacts -- Measuring consumer attitudes / Howard Biggs -- Economic assessment of the environmental impact of livestock productivity enhancers / Ken Taylor -- Measuring economic costs of differential adoption of biotechnologies in animal production / William Hahn.
Publisher:
CAB International,
Publication Place:
Wallingford, Oxon, UK :
ISBN:
0851988008
Subject:
Meat-Packing Industry -- economics -- Europe.
Animal Husbandry -- economics -- Europe.
Animals, Domestic -- growth & development.
Ruminants -- growth & development.
Biotechnology -- economics -- Europe.
Hormones in animal nutrition -- Economic aspects.
Livestock productivity.
Livestock Production
Contents:
Introduction / Martin Bent -- Growth promotion in animals: an overview / Peter Buttery -- European approval procedures for livestock productivity enhancers / Martin Bent -- Political and social debate / Robert Deakin -- Analysis of immediate economic impact -- Use of econometric models in the evaluation of livestock productivity enhancers / Michael Burton -- Assessing economic impact: the optimization approach / Allan Buckwell -- Farm enterprise budgets and partial equilibrium models / Martin Bent -- Analysis of further economic impacts -- Measuring consumer attitudes / Howard Biggs -- Economic assessment of the environmental impact of livestock productivity enhancers / Ken Taylor -- Measuring economic costs of differential adoption of biotechnologies in animal production / William Hahn.
Physical Description:
iv, 162 p. : ill. ;
Publication Date:
c1993.
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