The general objective of this contribution is that one to bring back the results of a study lead in the Italy territory relatively to the various elasticity regarding the price of determined olive oil producers and to estimate empirically a question system (using A.I.D.S. model). Moreover an...

After a deep review of the main economic studies and applications about the emerging problem of obesity, this paper focuses on a particular aspect of the issue: the improvement of fruit and vegetable purchasing in retailing sector. First of all it has been analyzed the actual presence of...

The process of product selection in the large retail stores is increasingly influenced by food merchandising techniques (Stocchetti and Volpato, 2002).. In this context, the products positioning on the shelves is as strategic and critical variable, both for manufacturers and for the distribution...

Nowadays many countries and governments must confront one of the most challenging food and health disasters ever to face human-kind: an epidemic of obesity. Even though several factors can lead to obesity, mostly food industry has been blamed for making people fat. Hence, this article provides a...

After a deep review of the main economic studies and applications about the emerging problem of obesity, this paper focuses on a particular aspect of the issue: the improvement of FRUIT AND VEGETABLE purchasing in retailing sector. First of all it has been analyzed the actual presence of...

Italy is, together with France, by far the most important in the world for the production, processing and marketing of the nose. In this context, the segment of fresh truffles presents some peculiarities that differentiate it significantly from other markets in the Italian market agroalimentari....

After a deep review of the main economic studies and applications about the emerging problem of obesity, this paper focuses on a particular aspect of the issue: the improvement of fruit and vegetable purchasing in retailing sector. First of all it has been analyzed the actual presence of...

The problem of the competitiveness of the agricultural products has always animated the analyses of the agricultural economists. At the present, them competitive context is influenced from two phenomena of bottom: the progressive increase of the markets segmentation process, fed from the...

The hospital catering is characterized for the necessity to satisfy the nutritional and dietetic principles, and the several therapeutic requirements of the patient. The main problem is to coordinate the production with the always various number of the requirements. On the other hand, emerging...

The aim of this paper is to provide some elements of synthesis useful for economic analysis of the general field of fresh truffle in Italy. In particular, this work focuses on aspects of production and trade (import/export) sector, analyzing, through specific indicators of performance, the...