A Modern Guide to Food Economics

Jutta Roosen, Jill E. Hobbs (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

384 Seiten

2022
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80037-204-7 (ISBN)

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This Modern Guide provides detailed theoretical and empirical insights into key areas of research in food economics. It takes a forward-looking perspective on how different actors in the food system shape the sustainability of food production, distribution, and consumption, as well as on major challenges to efficient and inclusive food systems.

Analysing the main characteristics of modern food markets, chapters introduce readers to the economics of food systems, product differentiation, the mediating role of food retailers, and the increasing significance and complexity of international trade in food. Encapsulating new methods in the study of food economics and policy, this Modern Guide explores changes in food value chains and consumption. It further pushes the boundaries of food economics to include economic perspectives on the role of social media and technology such as genomics in shaping food systems.

Offering key insights into the state-of-the-art debates in the field, this Modern Guide will be critical reading for graduate students and researchers of food economics. It will also be a timely book for practitioners in the field wishing to take a fresh look at issues shaping food systems.

Edited by Jutta Roosen, Technical University of Munich, Germany and Jill E. Hobbs, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Contents:

Introduction to A Modern Guide to Food Economics 1
Jutta Roosen and Jill E. Hobbs

PART I CHANGES IN THE FOOD SYSTEM
1 The economics of food systems 7
David Zilberman
2 The supplier–retailer relationship in contemporary food markets 23
Alessandro Bonanno and Metin .akır
3 Product differentiation in food 47
Jill J. McCluskey and Jason A. Winfree
4 Technical regulation of agri-food trade 62
David Orden, Caesar B. Cororaton and Khadija Rouchdi

PART II CHALLENGES WITH REGARD TO
SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALTH
5 The economics of the nutrition and sustainable diet transition 89
Xavier Irz and Mario Mazzocchi
6 Health-oriented nutrition policies 113
Jill E. Hobbs and Jutta Roosen
7 The economics of food loss and waste 144
Brenna Ellison and Mary K. Muth
8 Food safety and traceability 170
James Mitchell, Lee Schulz and Glynn Tonsor

PART III DEVELOPMENTS IN METHODS AND DATA
9 Behavioural economics, policy interventions and food 193
David R. Just
10 Discrete choice models and continuous demand systems in the
scanner data age 215
Beatrice Biondi, Sara Capacci and Mario Mazzocchi
11 Recent developments in inference: practicalities for applied
economics
235
Jeffrey D. Michler and Anna Josephson

PART IV NEW ISSUES
12 Who reacts to food taxes? How a multiple-selves model
can help to explain the effects of food taxes 270
Sinne Smed, Chiara Lombardini and Leena Lankoski
13 Food, beverages, and social media: trends and tools
for economic research 297
Sean B. Cash, Saleem Alhabash, Gabriela Fretes and
Mengyan Ma
14 How the use of genomics may continue to influence consumer
behaviour 327
Ellen Goddard

Index 352

Erscheinungsdatum	18.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Elgar Modern Guides
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
	Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-80037-204-3 / 1800372043
ISBN-13	978-1-80037-204-7 / 9781800372047
Zustand	Neuware