The implementation of the EU legislation on food contact materials (FCM) requires the EU member states to conduct tests ensuring that the legal requirements of the FCM are met. These tests are performed by laboratories designated for official controls. In line with Regulation (EU) 2017/625 on...

The investigation into the employment-generating capacity of industries has captured the interest of numerous scholars on a global scale. However, there is a paucity of literature on the impact of the capacity underutilization of dairy processing plants (DPPs) on employment multipliers. This...

Climate change mitigation efforts face increasing demand for animal source food consumption and dairy in particular. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the differences in dairy consumption levels and underlying drivers on a global scale. We attempt to estimate drivers of milk consumption...

The paper analyzes comparatively the level of economic efficiency in the production of cow, sheep and goat milk, for the year 2023. The methodology used is economic analysis, based on the calculation of technicaleconomic indicators and economic efficiency indicators. The results indicate that,...

The implementation of the EU legislation on food contact materials (FCM) requires the EU Member States to be able to conduct testing to ensure compliance with legal requirements. These tests are performed by laboratories designated for official controls In 2023, the EURL-FCM organised a PT round...

Climate change is making El Niños more frequent and intense. Therefore, understanding the effects of El-Niño-induced climatic events is essential to designing effective coping and adaptation strategies. We identify the impact of the 2015-16 El-Niño-induced large-scale drought on smallholder...

Manuscript type: Research Article Research Aims: Describing the extent to which belief factors, supporting reasons, and opposing reasons can shape attitudes, thereby creating an intention to purchase plant-based milk products. Design/methodology/approach: Using Behavioral Reasoning Theory. Data...

I examine the effect of exogenous terms of trade shocks on an exchange rate by turning to New Zealand’s dairy auctions. Dairy is New Zealand’s largest export category, making up almost 20 percent of exports. Specifically, whole milk powder accounts for 6 to 11 percent of total exports, and...

The study has been carried out with the main focus of measuring the negative environmental impacts of milk powder secondary packaging throughout its lifecycle. The selected secondary packaging is a 400g full cream milk powder carton. In addition to that, calculating the monetary saving results...

Dairy systems, which are the main pillars of rural livelihoods in north-eastern Europe encounter ecological, economic, and political changes in their operating environments which threaten their capacity to provide dairy supply. As uncertainty increases, there is a need to increase understanding...

Governments spend considerable resources providing goods directly. We show that such behavior may increase welfare when private suppliers have market power. We do this by studying the staggered rollout of hundreds of government milk "ration stores" in Mexico using a proprietary panel of...

The European Union is a large producer of milk and dairy products. It is also a significant market for the consumption of dairy products, which is characterised by effective demand, and it significantly influences the markets of other food products. The main milk producers in the EU are Germany,...

We consider the impact of non-violent religious conflict on firm-level productivity. We zoom in on a Protestant and otherwise very homogeneous country: early twentieth century Denmark. We exploit variation due to the emergence of pietist movements who fought for the hearts and minds of Danes. In...

Despite the progress observed over the past decades, food and nutritional insecurity remain the prominent challenges in Ethiopia. In this respect, improved farming practices and productivity-enhancing agricultural technologies have been identified as pathways out of these problems; these...

Analyses of spatial market integration contributes to the knowledge about market efficiency and provides information to policymakers, as the spatial integration of markets contributes to competitiveness and economic development. Although the integration of agri-food markets is widely discussed...

Milk tea is a well-known beverage that has been popular since 2011. The study investigates the factors that affect the consumer’s loyalty wherein consumer satisfaction and service quality are involved. Including the designs, tastes of milk tea, right measurement of ingredients, quality...

In the ultra-high temperature (UHT) milk category, parent brands introduce line extensions as innovative product designs to address the competitiveness in the market. However, not knowing if consumers will purchase the product results in uncertainty for the product design and marketing team....

We examine the effect of enforcing minimum quality standards (MQSs) on consumer health. In the late 1800s, the urban milk supply was regularly skimmed and diluted with water, but consumers could not easily determine its quality because dyes, caramel, and salt were added. To protect consumers,...

It’s 2021 and powdered human milk is all the rage. Not powdered coffee, powdered soup or powdered cow’s milk, but powdered human milk. Powdered human milk sounds like an infant food tech revolution, but actually, it is at least over a century old. The global comeback of powdered human milk...

An attempt was made to evaluate the engineering properties of an experimental sample of dry crystallized rice flake-milk pudding convenience mix (prepared using an in-house developed mechanical unit) against a control (prepared with manual stirring). Analysis of the proximate composition of the...

This study focuses on the milk tea craze that has first arrived in the country in 2010. This study aims to narrate the existing contexts of the COVID-19 crisis on small milk tea business owners in terms of the challenges they face amidst this pandemic. Using a qualitative approach, the...

We examine the effect of enforcing minimum quality standards (MQSs) on consumer health. In the late 1800s, the urban milk supply was regularly skimmed and diluted with water, but consumers could not easily determine its quality because dyes, caramel, and salt were added. To protect consumers,...

Smallholder producers in developing countries often collaborate in teams that take advantage of scale economies and allocate surplus among members. We experimentally evaluate team-level incentive contracts for quality upgrading among Indian dairy cooperatives where there is a risk of free-riding...