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Today’s global food production and consumption often stand in sharp contrast to the objectives of sustainable … development. Sustainable food products, characterised by higher environmental or ethical standards than conventional equivalents … crucial for agri-food market actors to understand consumer expectations regarding sustainable food, so they can appropriately …
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European organic food market is continuously growing. In the EU this production method is regulated according to the Council … future success of organic agriculture as one sustainable solution of food production is to a large extent dependent on its … market success, thus the positioning of organic food is a crucial topic for food policy and marketing. This paper analyses …
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nutrient products based on animal manure. In Denmark, there are many collaborative agreements between farmers, and the need for … manure processing is relatively low. Arable farmers typically receive the manure free of charge or for a relatively low cost …
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What is the role of government policies in encouraging healthier food choices to fight the current overweight and … and proposes a four-track policy approach to encourage healthier food choices that is consistent with wider objectives for … the food and agriculture sector. This policy approach includes demand side public interventions, voluntary collaboration …
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Consumers are facing a trade-off between the benefits of an increase in the length of the shelf life of food, such as … low food costs, and the potential health damages caused by food preservatives. However, few studies in the current … literature place emphasis on food preservatives, neither from a scientific perspective nor from an economic perspective. This …
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Digital tools and technologies can assist governments to improve consumer health and the sustainability of food systems … farming practices, as well as to reduce asymmetries of food labelling schemes. They also contribute to more effective food …
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We provide causal evidence on how date marking policies influence consumers' valuation of perishable food products … through three consecutive research steps. In a preparatory in-store survey (n = 100), we identify perishable food items that … price list (MPL) experiment (n = 200) then tests consumers' valuation of perishable food of varying shelf-life (expiry date …
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low quality of animal food. Correction of this market failure is attained by taxing animal food output and subsidizing … animal food quality. With consumer and producer heterogeneity, regulation is the same but sector-specific, with a more …
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We investigate to what extent the roll-out of the mobile phone network in Mozambique reduced transport costs and search costs, and thereby decreased spatial price dispersion and improved market efficiency. Estimations are based on data of transport costs of maize grain and maize market prices....
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I use the quasi experimental nature of the roll-out of the mobile phone network in Mozambique to estimate the impact of search costs on the dispersion of maize prices and transport costs. The introduction of mobile phone services from 1997 to 2009 explains a 4.5-11% percent reduction in price...
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