Increase in Calorie Intake Due to Eggplant Grafting: Proof of Concept With the Use of Minimum Datasets

Eggplant grafting implemented implemented in two field sites in the Philippines, in Nueva Ecija and Pangasinan are used as proofs of concept to illustrate and validate the feasibility of an impact assessment framework for determining the nutritional impact of technology-oriented agricultural activities. Nutritional impacts are assessed by disaggregating the market demand curve into demand curves by income groups using their separate price elasticities of demand. Considering only price effects, the increase in yields following a per unit cost reduction due to eggplant grafting has positive effects on the daily caloric intake per capita in the different income classes with the greatest impact on the lowest income class for both sites. Net increases in calorie intake ranges between 0.09 and 0.6 kilocalories per capita per day.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Agricultural and Applied Economics

Department dc:contributor.department

Agricultural and Applied Economics

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2003

Author dc:creator

• Mutuc, Maria Erlinda Manalo

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Norton, George W.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• McGuirk, Anya M.
• Mills, Bradford F.

• Agricultural Impact Assessment
• Minimum Datasets
• Calorie Intake
• Eggplant Grafting

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

etd-12162003-150912

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/9645