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Consumer inability to make healthy food choices and to maintain a balanced diet is one of the main determinants that … investigating if consumer time preference could be related to overweight or obesity problems, also considering other factors which … are predicted to affect BMI. In order to carry out an empirical analysis we conducted a consumer survey using face to face …
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Aquaculture is criticized for its potential negative impacts on the environment and for its consequences on fish welfare. One solution to these problems and a promising development track for the German aquaculture sector is the adoption of sustainable production methods. The establishment of a...
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debate on appropriate framework, tools and methods to evaluate food and feed along the chains. This paper presents literature review for evaluation of triple bottom line impacts of soy and beef chains in particular, and food chains in general. We reviewed literature on the sustainability of soy...
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Approaches for prospective estimation of economic consequences until the last stage of the agri-food chain can rarely be found. Hence, we see the necessity of working out a conceptual assessment model for cost-benefit evaluation of food safety measures along the supply chain. Based on the...
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growing public pressure on agribusiness firms to implement more sustainable management practices. In this paper we present the … results of an explorative empirical study of sustainability management in German agribusiness firms. The study shows that … agribusiness firms have developed a broad understanding of sustainability management and perceive a multi-facetted spectrum of …
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Signalling CSR activities by firms have gained considerable relevance over the last decade with enterprises having a large variety of instruments to design their CSR communication. Different communication means can complement one another as the information distributed refers to different...
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kinds could improve consumer choices. Moreover, we investigate the attitude of consumers with respect to innovative …
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information requirements on consumer choices, costs and benefits. The field of food information is complex, since it includes …
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Corporate responsibility (CR) is becoming a key issue in the food chain. In order to make sense of this phenomenon, a seminal aper by Maloni and Brown (2006) called for further empirical investigation on the criteria of responsibility in the food supply chain. The purpose of this paper is to...
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consumer demands and expectations, in policies, and in the strategies of enterprises and food processing systems. Initially, in …
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