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Estimate of wtp for enriched crushed tomatoes in Southern Italy. A new approach
No full textThe concerns about health and personal well-being have changed consumers demand for food. Concerns about health and personal well-being have supported the introduction and conseguent growing of a new products categories: functional foods. The aim of this study is to make a step forward in investigating the willingness to pay for a specific functional product, crushed tomatoes, with a lycopene content increased by 50%, in an italian sample. Our empirical strategy was to carry several session of experimental auctions to analyse participants real willingness to pay; after the auctions, participants were asked to complete a questionnaire about their demographic information and consumption habits and attitudes. They also completed questionnaires on explicit measures validated to explain the behavior of consumer choice for food products, the Food Choise Questionnaire (FCQ) and The Food Technology neophobia Scale (FTNS). Finally, to determine which variables are determinant to the bidding behaviors we run a random-effect Tobit model including sociodemographic variables such as gender and age, and the variables related to explicit measures of consumer’s behavior. Results indicate how much consumers are willing to pay for functional tomatoes and which variables can be consiedered as a driver in choosing functional food products
Elementi organizzativi e governance delle reti alimentari comunitarie (Food Community Networks)
No full textDistributional Effects of Maize Price Increases in Malawi
No full textIn the wake of highly volatile world prices of staple commodities, we examine the impacts of increases in maize prices on various categories of households in Malawi. Using household-level data, changes in household income are calculated taking into account the net maize production status of the household and food price elasticities estimated from a censored demand system. While maize price increases have unequivocal deleterious effects on the incomes of urban households, rural households experience differential impacts. Net producing households in rural areas benefit from price increases with households above the poverty line obtaining proportionally higher incomes
Consumer Preferences for Italian Fresh Vegetable in Germany: A Quantile Regression Estimation
No full textInnovation in Food Network
Consumers willingness to pay for Corporate Social Responsibility
No full textInnovation in Chain and Networ
Sharing values or sharing costs? Understanding consumer participation in alternative food networks
No full text<br/>In this paper we investigate values and transaction conditions in consumer participation in alternative food networks (AFNs). We use and combine a collective action perspective with elements of ethical consumption (individual values) and transaction cost economics as a theoretical background to conceptualise this participation. Our research is motivated by the evidence that the role and interplay between values and transaction conditions is still under-investigated in the socio-economic literature when it comes to understanding participation in AFNs. We use a case study in which we focus on an AFN located in Palermo, a metropolitan area in southern Italy. We collected data related to 303 individuals: 103 participants in the AFN and 200 non-participants. From a methodological perspective we used a propensity score matching approach. We were thus able to build a subsample consisting of only those individuals who were sharing a similar likelihood of participating in an AFN. Individuals with the same propensity score show a substantial equivalence in terms of covariates as if they were randomly selected to join an AFN. Our results indicate a statistically significant difference in some transactional conditions for AFN participants. Namely, when it comes to transactional conditions associated to food purchasing strategies, participants in AFNs are characterised by a higher level of (perceived) information uncertainty (e.g. price uncertainty and product information), negotiation uncertainty (e.g. relevance of the speed of sourcing, transportation hazards, and bargaining), and monitoring hazards (e.g. quality uncertainty), when compared to non-participants. These results are used to account for the heterogeneity of participants in SPGs in particular, and AFNs in general
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