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La sostenibilità ambientale del biologico. Un' analisi LCA di differenti stili alimentari.
Full text linkIl presente volume illustra le analisi svolte dall’unità operativa dell’Università degli Studi
di Bari Aldo Moro nell’ambito del progetto “Stili Alimentari e Sostenibilità delle FilierE
BIOlogiche” (SAFEBIO), coordinato dall’Istituto Nazionale di Economia Agraria (Responsabile:
Carla Abitabile) e finanziato dal Ministero delle politiche agricole alimentari e forestali. Il
Progetto SAFEBIO si è posto l’obiettivo di studiare stili alimentari con diverso grado di
sostenibilità valutandone i profili economici, nutrizionali e ambientali, e confrontando in
particolare uno stile alimentare caratterizzato dal consumo di alimenti biologici con uno stile di
consumo convenzionale. Scopo ulteriore del Progetto, oltre a quello di migliorare la conoscenza
delle metodologie di analisi, delle caratteristiche qualitative del consumo e delle relative
dinamiche, è stato di orientare l’elaborazione di strategie e politiche per contribuire ad uno
sviluppo sostenibile del settore agroalimentare. Per la realizzazione degli obiettivi progettuali,
si è costituito un collettivo di unità familiari su cui sono state congiuntamente realizzate tutte le
analisi relative agli stili alimentari, quelle economiche, nutrizionali, ambientali.La valutazione dell’impatto ambientale degli stili alternativi, in funzione non solo delle
diverse tecnologie di produzione (biologico, convenzionale, utilizzo di fonti rinnovabili nel
processo produttivo, ecc.) ma anche della distanza tra luogo di origine e consumo e delle
relative soluzioni logistiche è stata svolta dall’Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro -
Dipartimento di Scienze agroambientali e territoriali
Food household consumption and environmental impacts: a comparison among organic and non-organic foods.
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Adaptation processes of agro-food companies toward responsibility
No full textThis article presents an overview of the concept of Corporate Social
Responsibility (csr), analyzing firstly its development and theoretical approaches.
As many authors highlight, csr originated and developed along with the growing
number of relationships in which companies engage; on the one hand, csr derives
advantages from the different kinds of stimuli arising from the size and complexity
of these relationships, but on the other hand, there are new demands that society
makes on the business community as a consequence. csr is very important for agrofood
companies because of the great degree to which agro-food sector activities
depend and impact on the economy, the environment and society.
Themes related to csr have featured in EU and national policy for some time,
not only in Italy but also in other European and non-EU States. The need to
give visibility to their involvement in “social responsibility” has led companies
increasingly to adopt charters of values and codes of ethical conduct that legitimize
their activities, as well as adhering to the legal framework and ensuring individual
morality. This social accounting fulfills the need for transparency, so that companies
monitor their own performances and communicate the results to customers, with
positive effects on the company image. csr is increasingly important: the reasons lie
in the need to create a new system of rules, or to supplement those already existent
in production processes involving increasingly numerous and complex relations
and widening groups of stakeholders. At the end of the work, two case studies are
presented as examples of successful agro-food companies that have put responsible
behavior into practice, also involving in this process other companies above and
below them in the same production chain
Different consumer behaviours for organic food in Tunisia. A cluster analysis application
Full text linkIn recent years, both politics and the literature have shown considerable interest in organic farming with a view to sustaining healthy and environmentally-friendly consumption. Currently, organic consumption has increased almost everywhere and has extended even in countries that were initially producers and suppliers for western countries. Tunisia is one of the countries that have only recently shown an interest in organics. Our objective was therefore to identify organic consumers in Tunisia, carrying out a cluster analysis on a sample of 370 consumers. Five different consumer types were identified. Among them, regular consumers (25%) and promising consumers (36%) revealed the greatest awareness of the benefits related to organic foods and are those who can contribute to expanding the organic market, although marketing innovations are necessary to make organic foods available at affordable prices especially to promising organic consumers
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