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The Soybean Through World History: Lessons for Sustainable Agrofood Systems
Baraibar, Matilda; Deutsch, Lisa - 2023
reflects the complex processes of agrofood globalization. The book uses a historical lens to analyze the processes and features … global soybean chain, or the wider agrofood system of which it is a part, without looking at both their long and short … historical development. However, a history of the soybean and its changing roles within equally changing agrofood systems is …
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Economic model of regenerative agriculture and factors of agri-food system change
Trifan, Daniela; Toaders, George; Enea, Cătălin-Ioan; … - 2021
The basis of regenerative agriculture is represented by its main element, namely the soil. Ensuring good soil health will lead to many beneficial effects on agricultural ecosystems. Among the main beneficial effects of soil health we can list the management of groundwater resources and...
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COVID-19: Emergence, spread and its impact on the Indian economy and migrant workers
Gulati, Ashok; Jose, Shyma; Singh, B. B. - 2021
This study examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the related nationwide lockdown on the Indian economy, particularly on food systems. It also takes up an important issue of millions of migrant workers in India who seem to have suffered the most during this period. The loss of their...
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Financial and competitive implications of the European Green Seal: Perceptions of retail managers
Baicu, Claudia Gabriela; State, Olimpia; Gârdan, … - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 24 (2022) 61, pp. 683-700
Tackling climate change is one of the highest challenges which the world economy is currently facing. The European Green Deal, adopted in 2019, sets the European roadmap towards a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions economy. The food system is heavily responsible for greenhouse gas emissions and...
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UN Food Systems Summit 2021 - What role science and innovation in the summit and in countries' plans and why?
von Braun, Joachim - 2023
The UN Food Systems Summit 2021 was different from all six previous food summits held in the past eight decades. New features of this Summit included the fact that it was anchored in the Sustainable Development Goals, focused on food systems, was based on multi-stakeholder engagement, had a...
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Economic model of regenerative agriculture and factors of agri-food system change
Trifan, Daniela; Toader, George; Enea, Cătălin-Ioan; … - 2022
The basis of regenerative agriculture is represented by its main element, namely the soil. Ensuring good soil health will lead to many beneficial effects on agricultural ecosystems. Among the main beneficial effects of soil health we can list the management of groundwater resources and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015049640
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Who buys from farmers’ markets and farm shops: The case of Germany
Bavorova, Miroslava; Unay-Gailhard, İlkay; Lehberger, Mira - In: International Journal of Consumer Studies 40 (2016) 1, pp. 107-114
In this article, we analyze the influence of sociodemographic factors and consumer attitudes toward direct marketing products and sources (outlets) on the frequency of buying food from farmers’ markets and farm shops. By conducting an intercept survey with pedestrians in 2011 and 2012, we...
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Local food shopping: Factors affecting users' behavioural e-loyalty
Lopez, Maria Francisca Blasco; Virto, Nuria Recuero; … - In: Administrative Sciences 8 (2018) 3, pp. 1-20
While most research on electronic commerce has focused on customer behaviour according to websites' functional tasks, consumers are influenced by many other factors such as website content and design, especially in online food shopping. This is the first study that aims to examine which...
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How alternative food networks work in a metropolitan area? An analysis of Solidarity Purchase Groups in Northern Italy
Baldi, Lucia; Bertoni, Danilo; Migliore, Giuseppina; … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-21
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 characterization of them. To this end, we carried out a survey of 795 participants...
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Alternative food shoppers and the 'quantity dilemma': A study on the determinants of their purchases at alternative markets
Cicatiello, Clara - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-13
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...
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