Supply and the demand for food products have experienced important changes in the last decades. From the supply side, the firms produce a great variety of products and quality and standards requirements are implemented along the supply chain. From the demand side, new preferences for food...

In developed countries, a series of food scares and the overuse of antibiotics in animals have increased consumers' concerns about chicken meat quality since the last decades. In Argentina, consumers are clearly becoming oriented to alternative chicken varieties they conceive as "healthier",...

Throughout these last years, organic agriculture has undergone a remarkable expansion due, among other things, to the greater interest shown by consumers aware of food safety concerns involving real or perceived quality risks [1]. This paper aims to estimate consumers' willingness to pay (WTP)...

La calidad de un alimento es la medida en que las características del producto satisfacen las necesidades de los consumidores. Una forma de analizar los efectos de la implementación de regulaciones y normas sobre la calidad de los alimentos, es calcular la disposición a pagar de los...

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la valoración de los atributos de calidad percibidos por los consumidores argentinos y cuantificar la disposición a pagar por las aromáticas orgánicas, teniendo en cuenta el comportamiento de la producción y de la comercialización de estos productos.

Most food markets do not count on complete information about food quality for consumers. Quality has become a key concept in the new approaches of the Demand Theory (Lancaster, 1966; Antle, 1999), and, therefore, food quality information has turned into a crucial factor when explaining the existing...

Most food markets do not count on complete information about food quality for consumers. Quality has become a key concept in the new approaches of the Demand Theory (Lancaster, 1966; Antle, 1999), and, therefore, food quality information has turned into a crucial factor when explaining the existing...

La disposición a pagar (DAP) es el valor monetario de la diferencia en el excedente del consumidor antes y después de la incorporación o modificación de un atributo específico del producto. Un amplio conjunto de metodologías estiman el valor económico de los bienes sin mercado o cuya...