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The haven of the self-service store – A study of the fruit and vegetable department’s influence on customer attitudes towards food chain stores
Bech-Larsen, Tino - Institut for Marketing og Organisation, Aarhus Universitet - 2000
As a result of the increased competition between self-service chains, retail managers try to strengthen store identity and customer loyalty to an increasing degree. In this respect a number of measures, as for example service management and direct marketing programmes, have been instigated. Most...
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Forced Choice Restriction in Promoting Sustainable Food Consumption: Intended and Unintended Effects of the Mandatory Vegetarian Day in Helsinki Schools
Lombardini, Chiara; Lankoski, Leena - In: Journal of Consumer Policy 36 (2013) 2, pp. 159-178
This paper discusses the use of forced restriction of food choice as an instrument of food policy by using the mandatory Helsinki School District weekly vegetarian day as a natural experiment. Overall, the results show that the initiative produced a mixture of intended and unintended effects. On...
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Is it ever Enough? Food Consumption, Satiation and Obesity
Manig, Corinna - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2010
In order to explain the growth of obesity in industrialized and transition economies, a behavioral approach to food intake and overconsumption of calories is presented. It is argued that changes in food consumption patterns are one of the main drivers behind the imbalance of calories consumed...
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Possible Implications for U.S. Agriculture From Adoption of Select Dietary Guidelines
Buzby, Jean C.; Wells, Hodan Farah; Vocke, Gary - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2006
Guidelines for Americans encourage consumption of fruits, vegetables, whole-grain products, and fat-free or low-fat milk or milk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005802925
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Food Consumption and Calorie Intake in Contemporary India
Chatterjee, Srikanta; Rae, Allan; Ray, Ranjan - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper examines how the patterns of India’s food consumption have been changing in recent times as a consequence of its faster economic growth and generally rising affluence levels. The study, also, presents evidence on the nutritional implications of these changes to reinforce some...
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Modelling the consumption of home-produced vegetables with an application to French households
Caillavet, France; Nichèle, Véronique; Robin, Jean-Marc - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 1998
vegetables, we use data from the 1991 French National Food Survey. Due to data limitations, a reduced form of the structural … household production model is estimated. We use Working Leser functional forms for the share of vegetables in total food …
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Dietary Patterns and Non-Communicable Diseases in Selected Latin American Countries
Bonilla-Chacin, Maria Eugenia; Vazquez, Luis T Marcano; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
vegetables. These unhealthy diets are present in both rural and urban areas and in households at different income levels. These …
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Les légumes transformés : diversité des produits, diversité des usages sociaux
Plessz, Marie - In: Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies - … 94 (2013) 1, pp. 13-57
[paper in French] During the last decades, consumption of fresh vegetables has declined while consumption of processed … vegetables has increased. This paper aims at characterizing the purchases of processed vegetables in France by carrying out a … relatively more fresh produce and, when they buy processed vegetables, tend to choose the least processed forms. However the same …
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U.S. demand for food and nutrition in the 20th century
Beatty, Timothy K. M.; LaFrance, Jeffrey T - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493689
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International trade related food miles – The case of Canada
Kissinger, Meidad - In: Food Policy 37 (2012) 2, pp. 171-178
studied, fruits and vegetables had the highest food miles related emissions. …
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