food quality and safety standards that farmers have to meet. The presence of HC through a producer organisation (PO … increases and coordination costs decrease, ensuring better compliance with food quality and safety requirements. …

market. Alternative food chains may play a key role in these contexts, especially for their ability to put farms in touch …, an Italian Alpine region where alternative food chains are quickly developing, by comparing the development of … farms to standardize their products according to the requirement of the large retailers. Through alternative food chains …

Over the 2000s', consumers' food purchases have been increasingly informed by supply chain-related issues, with growing … concerns about the sustainability of chains differing for their geographical scope. As a result, short food supply chains and … local food systems have risen to policymakers and food chain stakeholders' attention as more sustainable alternatives to …

At the current time, Hawai?i lacks an established set of benchmark estimates on the availability of food for market … estimation framework to map the existing food supply flows from various sources and to determine the various levels of food … consumption in Hawai?i. The authors suggest modified measures of food self-sufficiency and import dependency to provide a more …

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 shoppers are faced with a "quantity … dilemma", i.e., choosing how much food they want to buy through these channels. This decision affects the importance of …

As a growing option for small farmers, alternative food networks (AFN) have attracted the attention of researchers …

Globalization-driven food trade policies and the transformations of food regimes have led to modernizing food habits …-Saharan Africa. Such changes in food consumption habits are suspected to be associated with the increasing prevalence of some non …-transmittable food-related diseases in the region. The role food markets play in food substitution in the diets needs to be understood …

The aim of the paper is to evaluate the sustainability of Alternative Food Networks in Italy through the construction … debate such as the loss of genetic diversity and the use of packaging for agro-food products. Regarding economic … sustainability, the indicator with the highest value is related to the ability of the Alternative Food Networks to diversify sales …

Social media marketing is a promising tool for successful product placement of new healthy luxury food products, a … competitive advantage in direct marketing channels. Therefore, we integrate media richness theory into the food quality guidance … square analysis. Results show that social media marketing is a viable tool for new healthy luxury food products if media …

While food trends are usually described over an entire population, this paper suggests distinguishing between inter …- and pangenerational food trends. To classify the food trends for the total population as inter- or pangenerational, we … used disaggregated household-based consumption data on 60 food categories over the period from 1990 to 2020 in Switzerland …