This paper examines the existence of convergence and distribution dynamics of food price inflation rateswithin the European Union. Differences in such specific price index inflation rates and changes in their regionaldistributions reflect largely differences and developments in market conditions...

Palm oil is the most consumed and traded vegetable oils in the EU and the world. Increasing non-food uses forvegetable oils in especially feedstock of biofuels in recent years have caused the price volatility to rise in both EUand global market. The most efficient pricing of crude palm oil (CPO)...

The globalization of markets, increased specialization in customers services, shorter lead times,are among the main factors influencing the change in firms organization. The firms disintegrationis growing, leading to an increased demand for collaborative management along the supplychain. The...

Farmers Markets are receiving an increasing attention by both food chains actors and socialscientists. Economic and sociological studies are contributing to the comprehension of theseforms of exchange. Both consumers and producers are fostering their expectations about therenewal of a mode of...

Food consumers often query or ignore the risk assessments of scientists, the food industry andpublic bodies. This is widely acknowledged. It has been suggested that this ‘expert-lay discrepancy’is a relatively straightforward upshot of the fact that lay people lack the knowledge andtechnical...

This paper aims at comparing the innovative potential of leading food processing companies inemerging and developed economies. We asked ourselves how the clearly differing economicand social conditions of two areas that are only comparable in terms of their number ofinhabitants (about 16 to 18...

As national economies have integrated through removal of trade barriers, the potential for offshoringproduction was quickly recognized as a strategy to enhance firm performance. At thesame time, labor market reforms opened the door for outsourcing of labor services to specialistfirms that supply...

The paper investigates the evolution from corporate social responsibility to supply chain responsibilityvia the examination of a leading UK food retailer. These two concepts differsubstantially and illustrate contrasting approaches in terms of social responsibility developmentand application. A...

The knowledge of the overall willingness-to-pay and the specific price premiums consumers accept when buying foods with less fat, saturated fat, sodium, sugar and more fiber shapes food manufacturer and distributor marketing strategies and supports the development of public health strategies....

Taxing sugar-sweetened beverages has been proposed as a means to reduce calorie intake, improve diet and health, and generate revenue that governments can use to address the obesity-caused health and economic burden. Two beverage demand systems were estimated using beverage purchase data for...