European Commission has recently published the rules on the use of the quality term "mountain product". The new regulation aims to promote the sustainable development of mountain areas and to facilitate the identification of mountain products by consumers. Despite the importance of viticulture...

European Commission has recently published the rules on the use of the quality term "mountain product". The new regulation aims to promote the sustainable development of mountain areas and to facilitate the identification of mountain products by consumers. Despite the importance of viticulture...

Geographical Indications (GIs) are names of regions, specific places or, in exceptional cases, countries, used to describe an agricultural product or a foodstuff (EC 510/2006, Art. 2). They have received much attention in the last years not only at the European level, where they stem from, but...

Prior studies have shown how increasing heterogeneity of commons negatively affects product regulation. This work uses a case-study approach and analyses the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium in Italy. Specifically, we applied a ground-theory approach and interviewed stakeholders at different...

The organic food market grew steadily during the past decade (Hamm and Gronefeld 2004, Spiller 2006). This increase is accompanied by challenges in market structures, distribution channels as well as differentiation of expectations and buying motives of organic food consumers. On this regard,...

Based on a classical approach, this paper analyses the cognitive and affective properties of attitude and develops a structural equation model to explain the determinants of preference for farm tourism. The findings of this study reveal that attitude and large-sized families have a positive...