The roles of government and the private sector in the provision of food safety in Russia are explored. The establishment and operation of a private food‐safety company are described and its competitiveness is analysed in the context of the evolving food‐regulatory, policy and economic...

The agricultural and fisheries sectors of Spain and Portugal, the new member states of the European Community, are relatively more important than those in the rest of the Common Market, making a greater contribution to production, but needing more in the way of funds from the Common Agricultural...

Suggests that the study of marketing margins can provide a useful indication of the efficiency with which a food commodity is produced and distributed, or the extent to which weaknesses within a marketing system are producing undesirable effects on incomes of producers/distributers or on prices...

Reviews some of the important changes that have occurred during the 1970s in the UK food market. Consider the marketing implications of these changes. Reveals that, although the total food market has not grown very much, there have been important changes in the structure of demand, which it...

This paper addresses objectivity in economics. It criticizes a closed science, "view from nowhere" conception of economics and defends an open science, "view from somewhere" conception of objective science. It ascribes the first conception to mainstream economics, associates it with its...