Spanish Abstract: Este artículo desarrolla una teoría de la demanda de bienes finales basada en la jerarquía de las necesidades y las preferencias lexicográficas según la relación de dominancia existente entre los bienes. Se muestra que la demanda tiene una inclinación negativa solo como...

Considered as relevant levers for developing countries and territories, terroir products have focused the attention of many actors, researchers and policy for over 30 years. Indeed, if the products GI protection approaches have been successful in the EU countries, and particularly in France,...

After the two studies of 1998 and 2003, the latest “EAA-LR” research, undertaken in 2010 and based on the results of 2009, is permeated by a context of recession, both economic and agricultural, and even more apparent than during the 2003 study, having particularly affected the wine growing...

The document summarises the results of twenty years of coordination of research programmes on urban food supply in Africa and Asia in collaboration with national researchers. The main research questions are the following ones: What is the role of geographical and relational proximity in the...

In order to implement and comply with food safety and traceability regulations, companies may use a number of methods, including specialized information and communications technologies developed for this express purpose. As a result, compliance with regulatory obligations, and the use of...

The experiential marketing is born in 1982, with M.B. Holbrook and E. Hirschmann works. They demonstrated that in products and services choices, the playful and hedonic parts of the consumption experience are more important than the useful part. Then Holbrook developed this topic about the...

Our paper deals with free-riding issues in product safety control at the collective marketing level. It focuses on the empirical findings of the exhaustive face to face survey that has been conducted in 2007 by the authors with the quality managers of the tomato growers'unions of France. Our...

This paper dealts with the economic impact of agricultural trade liberalization on the fruit and vegetable marketing chains of five EU mediterranean countries. The theoretical tools of this research are based on industrial organization (Scherer, 1973), strategic analysis (Wernerfelt, 1983) and...

The objective of the project is to assess the strengths and weaknesses of different forms of coordination in the development of quality chains in developing countries. Such forms of coordination include: signs of quality (labels, brands, geographical references); horizontal coordination...