When food prices shoot over import parity, this often leads to social and political unrest and even the toppling of governments. If markets behaved efficiently and in the absence of trade barriers, food prices should not exceed the price in world markets plus the cost of importing it to domestic...

School feeding program as a social safety net has been popular in developing countries as an instrument for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. These programs are frequently targeted towards populations that are food insecure and reside in areas with high concentrations of families from...

O estudo do comportamento do consumidor tem sido tema cada vez mais presente nas estratégias mercadológicas das empresas, haja vista a mudança dos hábitos de consumo, proporcionada por uma oferta cada vez maior de produtos. O setor de alimentos no Brasil, seguindo esta tendência, vem...

A busca por alimentos saudáveis, isentos de resíduos e contaminantes químicos e a conservação do meio ambiente tornou-se realidade. A agricultura orgânica tornou-se mercado em expansão, com perspectivas de crescimento. O café orgânico destaca-se, no Brasil, devido ao histórico de...

The goal of this paper is to provide evidence of shifts in food consumption patterns in the ECOWAS countries of West Africa from 1980 through 2009.1 In particular, the analysis is intended to identify major contributors to diets, changes in the levels as well as in the composition of food supply...

O estudo do trade-off na produção de açúcar e álcool nas usinas da região Centro-Sul do Brasil demonstra como ocorreu a decisão alocativa de produção nas unidades que produziram conjuntamente estes dois produtos nas safras 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003- 2004 e 2004-2005. Os produtos...

Historicamente, o mercado agrícola tem sido caracterizado por grandes variações nos preços dos produtos, o que possibilita a transferência de renda entre os elos das cadeias agroindustriais envolvidos, tais como produtores rurais, atacadistas, varejistas e consumidores. Neste cenário...

Livestock products and fish form an important component of urban consumers’ diet accounting for about one third of the total monthly budgetary expenditure on food. The budgetary share of livestock products increases with affluence or household income while the opposite is true for fish; 2) The...

Rapid urbanization in Zambia means that increasingly heavy demands are being placed on urban food marketing systems. Investment in these systems has been woefully inadequate for many decades, creating supply bottlenecks and health hazards that work against the interests of both farmers and...

The ability of a firm to differentiate their product hinges critically on an accurate understanding of the perceptions consumers hold regarding the implications of a credence labeling claim. Building upon existing work evaluating other food attribute labels (e.g., genetically-modified products,...