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  1. Existing literature has not yet identified the common determinants of price volatility transmission in agricultural commodities from international to local markets and has rarely investigated the role of self-...

    Authors: Jin Guo and Tetsuji Tanaka
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:27
  2. The organic food certification system in Italy, based on the EU legislation, relies on private control bodies (CBs) that are supervised by national authorities. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether ...

    Authors: Annalisa Zezza, Federica Demaria, Tiziana Laureti and Luca Secondi
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:26
  3. Consumption smoothing and temporal price arbitrage are the two main economic motives for grain storage in semi-subsistence economies. Nonetheless, little has been documented on the determinants of households’ ...

    Authors: Wondimagegn Tesfaye and Gebrelibanos Gebremariam
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:25
  4. Rapid population growth and urbanization in West Africa have led to profound changes in the lifestyles and diets of urban dwellers. These changes are marked by greater preference for healthier and more nutriti...

    Authors: Claudia E. Kpossilande, Barthélemy G. Honfoga and Thierry Ferre
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:24
  5. As urban expands into peripheral areas, peri-urban indigenous farmers lose their land and highly vulnerable to negative externalities of urbanization. The aim of the study is to assess the economic linkage bet...

    Authors: Idris Mohammed, Abdella Kosa and Nuredin Juhar
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:21
  6. This study analyzed the adequacy between credit supply and the expectations of rice farmers in Central Benin to define policies for improved agricultural-oriented financial services. A survey was conducted in ...

    Authors: Smith A. R. Dossou, Augustin K. N. Aoudji, Albertine M. Houessou and Rodrigue S. Kaki
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:20
  7. The effect of the United States (US) sugar program on sugar-using firm profitability from 2000 to 2017 is examined using firm financial data and the relative US-to-world sugar price ratio. Return on assets and...

    Authors: Carlos J. O. Trejo-Pech, Karen L. DeLong, Dayton M. Lambert and Vasileios Siokos
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:16
  8. This study investigated the consumers’ preference and willingness to pay for enriched snack product traits. Using a choice experiment framework, we generated 8400 observations from a random sample of 700 respo...

    Authors: Jemal Ahmed, Tewodros Tefera and Girma T. Kassie
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:14
  9. Food insecurity and malnutrition are still major challenges for large proportions of households in Sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical literature on food demand, however, suggests mixed evidence on the roles of ...

    Authors: Aimable Nsabimana, Ranjula Bali Swain, Yves Surry and Jean Chrysostome Ngabitsinze
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:11
  10. The debate about the contribution of urban agriculture to urban household food security has not considered the possible differential effects by geography of production activities, focusing either on urban hous...

    Authors: Hayford Mensah Ayerakwa, Fred Mawunyo Dzanku and Daniel Bruce Sarpong
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:10
  11. In this article, we demonstrated the dynamic impact of a bumper harvest and drought shocks on the maize market and on the trade regime in Ethiopia. Regional market integration of Ethiopia’s white maize market ...

    Authors: Mesay Yami, Ferdi Meyer and Rashid Hassan
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:8
  12. Environmental policies are becoming an important part of agricultural policy portfolio in the EU, which is binding on Croatia. This paper seeks to evaluate potential sectoral effects of several nitrogen pollut...

    Authors: Ozana Nadoveza Jelić and Jurica Šimurina
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:9
  13. This special issue of Agricultural and Food Economics consists of four articles that were part of the scientific programme of the First SIDEA-SIEA Joint Conference, held in Bisceglie in September 2017. The confer...

    Authors: Caterina Contini, Giuseppe Marotta and Biancamaria Torquati
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:7
  14. Increasing fish consumption along with rising competition in the global seafood market has brought fisheries and aquaculture producers to adopt several differentiation and marketing strategies. Labelling schem...

    Authors: Paolo Prosperi, Daniele Vergamini and Fabio Bartolini
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:6
  15. Marginal rural areas are undergoing major pressures from the effects of globalization, especially when no alternative has been found to conventional extensive agriculture and a lack of investments and vision s...

    Authors: Silvia Scaramuzzi, Giovanni Belletti and Paola Biagioni
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:5
  16. About one third of global edible food is lost or wasted along the supply chain, causing the wastage of embedded natural and economic resources. Life cycle methodologies can be applied to identify sustainable a...

    Authors: Fabio De Menna, Jennifer Davis, Karin Östergren, Nicole Unger, Marion Loubiere and Matteo Vittuari
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:2