Standards are replacing tariffs as the main trade barriers facing African agro-food exports. This book examines the challenges and opportunities that new public and private standards present to African countries - focusing on food safety, environmental and climate change, and social and labour...

The increasing resistance of microorganisms to antimicrobials that help to treat and control spread of infections is a major public health problem around the world. Antimicrobial resistance is aggravated by inappropriate use of antimicrobials in human and animal health and in plant and animal...

Cover -- Editorial advisory board -- Editorial -- A multi-product approach for detecting subjects' and objects' covariates inconsumer preferences -- Consumer preferences in food packaging: CUB models and conjoint analysis -- Price-quality heuristic correlation with rates of product consumption...

In food and agriculture, the creation of value is paramount to any company's survival, and even more so at a time where dramatic changes in business and industrial marketing's context are leading to fundamental changes in what companies should be analysing, creating, and delivering.Although...

Food and eating has always been endowed with meanings. It is one of the most visible and important symbols of identity and difference, uniting the members of a community and segregating them from other communities. This inclusion and exclusion can be observed not only in what they eat or what...

Bringing together a range of case studies from Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Poland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Greece, this book compares and contrasts different models of food re-localization. The richness and complexity of the international case studies provide a broad...

The Handbook of Organic and Fair Trade Food Marketing provides a practical guide to successful marketing in these two dynamic sectors, underpinned by case-histories and lessons from companies that have been successful in these areas, including Green & Black's, Yeo Valley and Duchy Originals. It...

This work addresses key issues in market development for genetically modified foods. It focuses on: consumer reactions to GM food information; regulatory issues; farmer acceptance of biotech products; changes in industrial organization in life science and food sectors.

This special issue of the British Food Journal includes the contributions of a group of management researchers working in different Italian universities. Despite the geographical scatter of their head offices, they share a scientific interest in a particular category of food productions, whose...

FrontMatter -- Reviewers -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Setting the Stage -- 2 Health, Diet, and Eating Patterns of Children and Youth -- 3 Factors Shaping Food and Beverage Consumption of Children and Youth -- 4 Food and Beverage Marketing to Children and...