Globalization-driven food trade policies and the transformations of food regimes have led to modernizing food habits and the growing substitution of traditional foods by introduced/industrialized foods in the diets of urban people in sub-Saharan Africa. Such changes in food consumption habits...

Ziel dieses Berichts ist die Darstellung der - im Rahmen des Dialogforums Groß- und Einzelhandel, unter Mitwirkung der teilnehmenden Handelsunternehmen - erhobenen Daten zu Lebensmittelverlusten im Handelssektor in Deutschland für das Jahr 2019. Darüber hinaus sollen die Erkenntnisse der...

Recent increases in basic food prices are severely impacting vulnerable populations worldwide. Proposed causes such as shortages of grain due to adverse weather, increasing meat consumption in China and India, conversion of corn to ethanol in the US, and investor speculation on commodity markets...

Food marketing brings together the producer and consumer. It is responsible for the chain of activities that brings food from the “farm gate to the plate.” While farmer markets are one way that this can occur, more highly processed foods, such as a breakfast cereals or frozen dinners go...

The crisis that hit the Greek economy over 2008-2016, made clear that the economy’s growth model was characterised by structural weaknesses. During the current transition period, it is imperative to develop a new growth model that will rely largely on investment. Moreover, investment should be...

Food banks play a critical part in the food distribution system. In this paper, we examine the impact of food bank donations on retailer markups using a unique store-level data set on donations, labor employment, sales, and capital employment. We frame our empirical model of food bank donations...