Technology transfer in the poultry industry: An examination of supply factors and externalities associated with increased production

Growing populations and rising per capita incomes have led to an increasing worldwide demand for livestock products--in particular poultry. Most countries have attempted to meet this demand by raising domestic production. This dissertation investigates the types of policies that have been used to enable countries to meet this demand, and second the effect of rapid growth in terms of the environment. A supply response function is used to relate poultry supply to a vector of input and output prices and supply shifters related to technology, research, and institutional factors for a group of thirty-six countries over thirty-two years and it is estimated in fixed effects. These analysis indicate that the rate and direction of technology change in the poultry industry appears to reflect the relative factor scarcity of inputs such as the price of meat relative to the price of corn, as well as access to new technologies (hatching eggs and compound feed) and institutional services such as veterinary care.;A problem associated with increased production is increased manure, the improper disposal of which may lead to water and air pollution. To determine the extent of the problem, future growth in the livestock industry was extrapolated to the year 2005. From this, total nutrient deposition from livestock and chemical fertilizers in terms of nitrogen (N) and phosphate (P...