Als Folge des Brexit steht eine Neuausrichtung der Handelsbeziehungen zwischen dem Vereinigten Königreich mit der Europäischen Union ganz oben auf der politischen Agenda der britischen Regierung. Hiervon wären insbesondere auch die deutschen Agrar- und Nahrungsmittelmärkte betroffen, für...

Beside the mixed evidences on transmission of international food price volatility to local markets and the desirability or otherwise of reliance on stabilisation policy to cushion the effects, very little is known about the key drivers of price spikes and volatility in sub-Saharan Africa. This...

I use the quasi experimental nature of the roll-out of the mobile phone network in Mozambique to estimate the impact of search costs on the dispersion of maize prices and transport costs. The introduction of mobile phone services from 1997 to 2009 explains a 4.5-11% percent reduction in price...

Innovative local agrifood governance -- The rise of municipal food movements / Kevin Morgan, Raychel Santo -- Grassroots responsible innovation initiatives in SFSC / Cristina Grasseni -- Food localization and agency : the cases of Regionalwert AG and Luzernenhof in Freiburg, Germany / Lena...

The food system in contemporary Russia -- Domestic food policies and food security -- Food policy and household food security -- External food trade and food security -- Sustainability and food security -- Russia's future food policy and food security

"This book explains influences of trade liberalizations, gravitational effects of various regional trade blocks, sustainable development of agricultural production and rural territories, food security issues in the developing world. The book developed conceptual approaches to insurance of food...

Health and nutrition -- Food safety and food fraud -- Creating shared value -- Technology coding life -- Farm labor -- Large scale farming -- Small scale farming and economic development -- The importance of China -- Creating a fair and responsive food system -- Future trends and the impact on...

In this paper, we use semi-structured interviews with firm representatives and original survey data to study the factors influencing farmers' participation in modern supply chains in the Ecuadorian blackberry sector. Previous research has emphasized the important role of farm size and non-farm...

This paper presents the results of a doctoral study within the program “Biodiversity and Society” of the Graduate School of Social Sciences at the Georg-August University, Göttingen. Food safety and organic consumption are key concepts of the study, focussing on the current situation in the...

A banana in every bowl -- An island like ours -- The perfect pathological storm -- Escape is temporary -- My enemy's enemy is my friend -- Chocolate terrorism -- The meltdown of the chocolate ecosystem -- Prospecting for seeds -- The siege -- The grass eaters -- Henry Ford's jungle -- Why we...

Introduction : what's the problem? -- Sustainable diets : welcome to the arguments -- Methodologies : measuring what matters while not drowning in complexity -- Health : nutrition science and the messy effects of diet on health -- Environment : why food drives ecosystems stress -- Culture : the...

В статье определены проблемы, возникающие в процессе производства сельскохозяйственной продукции, представлены объемы и основная номенклатура производства и...

В статье анализируется современное состояние российского продовольственного рынка с точки зрения согласования интересов населения и корпоративных интересов...

Transmission of price shocks from one market to another one has long been investigated in the economic literature. However, studies have namely dealt with the relationship between financial and energy markets. With the recent changes in market conditions, investors, policy-makers and interest...

This paper estimates the household income growth rates implied by food demand in a sample of urban Chinese households in 1993?2005. Our estimates, based on Engel curves for food consumption, indicate an average per capita income growth of 6.8 percent per year in 1993?2005. This figure is...

Авторами обобщены новые тенденции в развитии органического земледелия в странах Европейского Союза и Украине. Обоснованы предложения по усилению...

В статье исследуется место рынка молочной продукции в структуре продовольственного рынка Казахстана, состояние и проблемы. Анализируются различные подходы к...