Completed Competitive Grant

Determining the benefits of environmental improvements in pork production and their sustainability: a community-based study of Iowa's pork industry

Project ID: 1997-52

Abstract

What is a sustainable environment worth to pork producers, neighbors, rural community residents, and pork consumers? Surveys and experimental auctions were used to gauge participants' willingness to pay for pork products produced in systems with differing environmental improvements and/ or impacts

Lead investigator: James B. Kliebenstein, ISU Economics, et al

Year of grant completion: 1999

This competitive grant project was part of the Leopold Center's Initiative.

Topics: Economic and environmental impacts, Models and assessment tools

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