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      Pulse Producer Decision Making Under Risky Conditions: Will End-Point Royalties Change Preferences?

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      Date
      2017-12-12
      Author
      Fransoo, Stephen 1982-
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      In 2015, the Agriculture for Growth Act (C-18) came into effect in Canada. This Act modernized plant breeding by including amendments that aligned it with the 1991 International Convention for the Protection of New Plant Varieties (UPOV91) (CFIA, 2017). Regulations within the Act grant plant breeders the right to charge an end-point royalty (EPR) on harvested grain. This thesis is interested in assessing how provenance and framing, influence pulse producer seed choice decisions. This study created a prospect theory behavioral experiment to answer this question. The study concluded that producers are not overly influenced by provenance and framing and instead make decisions based on the expected utility model, except when questions are manipulated by both EPR and negative framing. The study also concluded that most producers (56%) are willing to tolerate a level of risk. This provided a way to profile producers by risk tolerance and found many similarities and few minor differences between those that are always risk-seeking, always risk-averse, and occasionally risk-seeking.
      Degree
      Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.)
      Department
      Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy
      Program
      Public Policy
      Supervisor
      Phillips, Peter W.B.B
      Committee
      Agblor, Kofi; Smyth, Stuart; Feist, Gina
      Copyright Date
      June 2018
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/8298
      Subject
      Lentils
      UPOV 91
      End Point Royalty
      Decision Making
      Risk
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