Despite numerous studies reporting on sustainable consumption or organic consumer profiles, there is a gap in thorough understanding of organic consumers in different places, since most of studies only investigate organic consumption in most developed countries. The goal of this paper is thus to...

The literature in marketing indicates that the country (or region) of origin may be an attribute of a product. However practically its use as a competitive advantage is less than efficient, due to insufficient definition of the images associated to these regions. This paper explores some the...

This article suggests a conceptual framework for analyzing the consequences of the recent prices increase on the poorest people in the world. The complexity of mechanisms at work is demonstrated. At the global level, the analysis points out that Sub Saharan Africa exhibits the worst situation...

This paper is an empirical work grounded in the soft budget constraint literature. A loan is soft when a bank cannot commit to hold an enterprise to a fixed initial budget and/or the timing of repayment. Using data collected by the EBRD (BEEPS 2002) in 26 transition economies, we analyze the...

In a process of world economic domination by an agro-industrial and agro-tertiary food system, the author wonders about the feasibility of an alternative model. The intensive agro-industrial model (financiarized, concentrated, specialized and globalized), allows remarkable results in terms of...

Previous research has extensively studied environmental implications of conventional and globalized food supply chain. Local food supply chains are supposed to reduce the environmental impacts of "food miles", the distance that foodstuff travels between the production location and the...

This paper explores those dimensions of the image of a "country" and "region" of origin influencing consumers preferences. In order to take in account cultural differences, we conducted interviews with consumers and experts from two countries, France and Tunisia. Our results suggest that the...

O governo brasileiro favorecendo a participação nas decisões políticas e a descentralização, nomeadamente pela instauração de territórios, a demanda de formações para capacitar os atores faz-se mais necessária. No Nordeste do Brasil, uma Universidade Camponesa foi assim instaurada em...

In order to implement and comply with food safety and traceability regulations, companies may use a number of methods, including specialized information and communications technologies developed for this express purpose. As a result, compliance with regulatory obligations, and the use of...

We use the "symbolic contagion" concept (Rozin and Nemeroff, 1994) and its adaptation to the food modernization framework by Fischler (1994) to analyse the interactions between quality signs and points of sales -street vending, formal and informal open-air market and supermarket- in consumers...