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Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2021 9:24
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Organizational forms and technical efficiency of the dairy processing industry in Southern Brazil
The objective of this article is to assess the determinants of the technical efficiency of dairy processing firms in Southern Brazil while accounting for their different organizational forms, namely cooperativ...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2021 9:23 -
The impact of pest risk management measures on trade: the case of apples from France and Chile
In this article, we investigate how pest risk management protocols may affect trade flows of fresh apples. We apply our analysis to two major players in the international trade of fresh apples: France and Chil...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2021 9:21 -
Food consumption patterns, nutrient adequacy, and the food systems in Nigeria
Previous studies in Nigeria examined food and nutrition security mainly using anthropometric indicators, total calorie intake, or the household dietary diversity score (HDDS). However, recent evidence on nutri...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2021 9:16 -
Vertical price transmission in Swiss dairy and cheese value chains
In Switzerland, there are separated value chains for dairy and cheese products, which differ in terms of industry concentration, value chain governance, and product characteristics. We analyze how milk prices ...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2021 9:13 -
Economic benefits of livestock management in Ghana
The traditional system of producing small ruminants (sheep and goats) contributes significantly to the socioeconomic wellbeing of farm households in northern Ghana. Besides serving as an important source of in...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2021 9:17 -
Does it pay to switch from free grazing to stall feeding? Impact of stall feeding practice on household welfare in Tigrai Ethiopia
In this paper, efforts were made to the impact of full and seasonal stall feeding technology on households’ economic, ecological, and social welfare outcome indicators in rural Northern Ethiopia using data obt...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2021 9:4 -
Effects of climate adaptation on technical efficiency of maize production in Northern Ghana
Climate adaptation is an essential strategy for responding to climate change at local levels and required for sustainable food production to meet the growing food demand. In this light, this study analyzed the...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2021 9:14 -
Commoning of territorial heritage and tools of participated sustainability for the production and enhancement of agro-environmental public goods
The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the commoning heritage processes find application for the production of agro-environmental public goods in contexts of high socio-economic marginality and environmen...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2021 9:10 -
Adoption analysis of agricultural technologies in the semiarid northern Ethiopia: a panel data analysis
Agricultural technology change is required in developing countries to increase the robustness to climate-related variability, feed a growing population, and create opportunities for market-oriented production....
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2021 9:12 -
Technical efficiency and productivity of farms: a periurban case study analysis
Periurban farming systems are characterized by the need to adapt the farming practices coping with a modified natural and social environment. Questions are thus posed on the efficient use of the inputs. The pu...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2021 9:11 -
Measuring circularity: an application of modified Material Circularity Indicator to agricultural systems
The transition from a linear to a circular economy is a research trend topic, as well as the possibility to measure the degree of circularity of products and systems. In a linear economy, raw materials are tak...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2021 9:9 -
Label information and consumer behaviour: evidence on drinking milk sector
The purpose of the research is to evaluate the impact of different kinds of information disclosures of milk labels, investigating the interest among consumers based on their consumption behaviours and characte...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2021 9:8 -
Insights into organic wine consumption: behaviour, segmentation and attribute non-attendance
Several studies have focused on the behaviour of consumers towards organic wine, finding varying and sometimes conflicting results. Some scholars have noted that consumers may perceive wine labelled as organic...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2021 9:7 -
Consumer perception of sustainable practices in dairy production
Home-grown protein crops as an alternative to soya in dairy cattle meals, as well as other sustainable ethical-based practices, have been proposed to increase the sustainability of dairy production. Data on co...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2021 9:1 -
Agricultural business economics: the challenge of sustainability
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2021 9:6 -
Exploring beyond the conjunctural rhetoric: sociocultural drivers for the “cassava crisis” in Côte d’Ivoire
Despite considerable improvement of food security in low- and middle-income countries over the last decades, food shortages remain persistent in sub-Saharan Africa. The driving forces are often related not onl...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2021 9:2 -
Do consumers’ values and attitudes affect food retailer choice? Evidence from a national survey on farmers’ market in Germany
New trends in food consumption are shaping consumers’ preferences and buying behavior. Non-traditional food retailing and short supply chains (SSCs) are offering bundles of attributes that fit the needs of lar...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2021 9:3 -
Examining the determinants of global and local price passthrough in cereal markets: evidence from DCC-GJR-GARCH and panel analyses
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-...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:27 -
Supervising third-party control bodies for certification: the case of organic farming in Italy
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 ...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:26 -
Consumption smoothing and price enhancement motives for grain storage: empirical perspectives from rural Ethiopia
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’ ...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:25 -
Economic potentials of artisanal food processing microenterprises in West Africa: case of “atta” production in Cotonou (Benin)
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:24 -
Sustainability and food security after COVID-19: relocalizing food systems?
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:23 -
Organic vegetables demand in urban area using a count outcome model: case study of Burkina Faso
This paper designs and tests a model for count outcomes to analyse the effective demand for organic vegetables in the city of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. From a ‘short value chain’ perspective, we show that the...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:22 -
Economic linkage between urban development and livelihood of peri-urban farming communities in Ethiopia (policies and practices)
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:21 -
Microfinance services for smallholder farmers: an assessment from rice farmers’ expectations in Central Benin
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 ...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:20 -
The new CAP must be linked more closely to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:19 -
Box-scheme as alternative food network—the economic integration between consumers and producers
As a growing option for small farmers, alternative food networks (AFN) have attracted the attention of researchers around the world. Nevertheless, not much focus is given to box-schemes as a format itself. The...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:18 -
The impact of US sugar prices on the financial performance of US sugar-using firms
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:16 -
EU wine policy in the framework of the CAP: post-2020 challenges
The EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and with it the EU wine policy, is experiencing a reform process, started in 2018, in order to address ambitious environmental and social objectives, in conjunction wit...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:17 -
Alternative food shoppers and the “quantity dilemma”: a study on the determinants of their purchases at alternative markets
Despite the increasing interest around alternative food networks and their huge growth in the last decades, they are still considered a complementary source of provision by most customers. Alternative food sho...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:15 -
Consumers’ preference and willingness to pay for enriched snack product traits in Shashamane and Hawassa cities, Ethiopia
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:14 -
Women in household decision-making and implications for dietary quality in Bhutan
Despite the wide range of literature supporting the linkages between women’s empowerment and food security, it is not examined in social contexts where females historically enjoy equality and even favoritism, ...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:13 -
Agricultural and Food Economics: the challenge of sustainability
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:12 -
Income and food Engel curves in Rwanda: a household microdata analysis
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 ...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:11 -
Measuring consumers’ preferences for craft beer attributes through Best-Worst Scaling
The current paper investigates consumers’ consumption behavior and preferences for craft beer. More specifically, it uncovers consumers’ consumption habits and perception about craft beer, as well as their pre...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:1 -
The geography of agriculture participation and food security in a small and a medium-sized city in Ghana
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:10 -
The impact of production shocks on maize markets in Ethiopia: implications for regional trade and food security
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 ...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:8 -
Evaluating sectoral effects of agricultural nitrogen pollution reduction policy in Croatia within a CGE framework
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:9 -
Multi-actor approaches to implement cooperative strategies and value chains based on sustainability
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:7 -
Exploring institutional arrangements for local fish product labelling in Tuscany (Italy): a convention theory perspective
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:6 -
Integrated Supply Chain Projects and multifunctional local development: the creation of a Perfume Valley in Tuscany
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:5 -
Consumer stated preferences for dairy products with carbon footprint labels in Italy
Carbon footprint (CF) labels on agri-food products represent one of the most important tools to convey information to consumers about the greenhouse gases emissions associated with their purchase behaviour.
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:4 -
Does training location matter? Evidence from a randomized field experiment in Rural Indonesia
Informal network helps disseminate agricultural knowledge in the rural area where formal extension is lacking. However, how the interplay between formal training and informal network promotes technology adopti...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:3 -
A combined framework for the life cycle assessment and costing of food waste prevention and valorization: an application to school canteens
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2020 8:2 -
Coping with food and nutrition insecurity in Zimbabwe: does household head gender matter?
On the basis of a large-scale nationally representative sample of household data from five pooled cross-section surveys conducted by the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC), this study assesse...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2019 7:24 -
Effects of the Income Stabilization Tool on farm income level, variability and concentration in Italian agriculture
This paper provides an ex ante assessment of the effects of the Income Stabilization Tool (IST), a new risk management tool proposed in the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union. We investigate the ...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2019 7:23 -
Sustainable intensification of beef production in Colombia—Chances for product differentiation and price premiums
To promote the adoption of more sustainable cattle production systems in Colombia (mainly silvopastoral systems with improved forages), some sector stakeholders have proposed the development of differentiated,...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2019 7:22 -
Analyzing Alternative Food Networks sustainability in Italy: a proposal for an assessment framework
The aim of the paper is to evaluate the sustainability of Alternative Food Networks in Italy through the construction of a composite indicator, the Global Sustainability Index. The index is able to provide dec...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2019 7:21 -
How alternative food networks work in a metropolitan area? An analysis of Solidarity Purchase Groups in Northern Italy
Our paper focuses on Solidarity Purchase Group (SPG) participants located in a highly urbanized area, with the aim to investigate the main motivations underlining their participation in a SPG and provide a cha...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2019 7:20
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