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This paper investigates the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on food waste using an original dataset from 176 agrifood business operators in the European Union (EU). Our objective is to assess whether and why the pandemic crisis affected food waste level. Unlike previous studies that addressed the issue at a consumer level, our research focuses on pre-consumption waste covering stages of the agrifood supply chain from input suppliers to retailers. Considering the importance of waste reduction for the sustainability of food production, the study provides an insight into the ability of the agrifood supply chain to cope with a major shock and its resilience. A multinomial logit regression model is used to estimate the effect of Covid-19, testing whether the ability to innovate, the role in the supply chain, the magnitude of the shock and policy support were drivers of changes in food waste. We find that three main factors affect the change in a firm’s food-waste level during the Covid-19 pandemic: The magnitude of the disruption of the sale channel, the firms’ ability to adapt the business model to the new pandemic environment, and the adoption of public policies mitigating the lockdown effects. The first driver was associated with an increase in food waste, while the others were associated with a decrease.
Federica Di Marcantonio; Edward Twum; Carlo Russo. Covid-19 Pandemic and Food Waste: An Empirical Analysis. Agronomy 2021, 11, 1063 .
AMA StyleFederica Di Marcantonio, Edward Twum, Carlo Russo. Covid-19 Pandemic and Food Waste: An Empirical Analysis. Agronomy. 2021; 11 (6):1063.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFederica Di Marcantonio; Edward Twum; Carlo Russo. 2021. "Covid-19 Pandemic and Food Waste: An Empirical Analysis." Agronomy 11, no. 6: 1063.
In this paper, we investigated educated millennials’ evaluation of credence attributes in food products containing genetically modified organisms (GMO products). Our goal is to assess whether beliefs about GMO products are determined by scientific knowledge alone or if they are affected by other factors such as trust in information providers and use of social media. The focus on millennials is motivated by the increasing relevance of this social group in the public debate and by their extensive use of social media. We surveyed a sample of 215 Italian college students, confronting them with questions about safety, environmental impact and ethical issues in GMO product consumption. Using an ordered probit regression model, we found that educated millennials build their beliefs using a mix of scientific knowledge and trust in information providers. The role of the two drivers depended on the issue considered. Scientific knowledge drove beliefs in health claims, while trust in information providers was a driving factor in almost all claims. After controlling for trust effects, we did not find evidence of impact of confidence in the reliability of traditional and social media on beliefs. This result contradicts previous literature.
Carlo Russo; Mariarosaria Simeone; Maria Angela Perito. Educated Millennials and Credence Attributes of Food Products with Genetically Modified Organisms: Knowledge, Trust and Social Media. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8534 .
AMA StyleCarlo Russo, Mariarosaria Simeone, Maria Angela Perito. Educated Millennials and Credence Attributes of Food Products with Genetically Modified Organisms: Knowledge, Trust and Social Media. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (20):8534.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCarlo Russo; Mariarosaria Simeone; Maria Angela Perito. 2020. "Educated Millennials and Credence Attributes of Food Products with Genetically Modified Organisms: Knowledge, Trust and Social Media." Sustainability 12, no. 20: 8534.
Food made with upcycled ingredients has received considerable attention in very recent years as a result of the need to both reduce waste and increase food nutritional properties. However, consumer acceptance of these novel foods is fundamental to their market uptake. This paper aims to assess the likelihood of the acceptance of food obtained from upcycled ingredients of olive oil productions and its association with some relevant recent consumption trends, such as organic food consumption and attention to food origin. In addition, particular attention is given to age group behaviors to appraise the differences between generations. Results suggest that, despite the negative influence of food technophobia, a core of sustainability-minded consumers seems to emerge that is interested in organic or local products, that could also favor the uptake of these novel food made with upcycled ingredients in the market. Results suggest that developing organic or “local” food products with upcycled ingredients can increase the probability of consumer acceptance.
Maria Angela Perito; Silvia Coderoni; Carlo Russo. Consumer Attitudes towards Local and Organic Food with Upcycled Ingredients: An Italian Case Study for Olive Leaves. Foods 2020, 9, 1325 .
AMA StyleMaria Angela Perito, Silvia Coderoni, Carlo Russo. Consumer Attitudes towards Local and Organic Food with Upcycled Ingredients: An Italian Case Study for Olive Leaves. Foods. 2020; 9 (9):1325.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaria Angela Perito; Silvia Coderoni; Carlo Russo. 2020. "Consumer Attitudes towards Local and Organic Food with Upcycled Ingredients: An Italian Case Study for Olive Leaves." Foods 9, no. 9: 1325.
More than 25 years after the 1991 reform of the Union for the Protection of New Plant Varieties (UPOV) treaty, the regulation of Plant Variety Protection (PVP) is still controversial. While the incentives to private innovations are unquestionable, concerns have been raised about farmers’ access to resources, the weakening of their bargaining power, their entrepreneurial freedom, and ultimately their welfare. Our paper investigates the effect of PVP regulation on the governance of agri-food value chains (AFVC) with a small-scale survey of kiwi producers in Italy. We found that AFVC trading-protected (club) plant varieties are more likely to exhibit captive governance forms than those trading the free varieties. Nevertheless, the producers of club kiwis achieve higher returns from their investments and bear less risk than others. Because of the high demand for the club fruits, the breeders must give farmers highly profitable contract terms in order to elicit the production and to promote the adoption of the new cultivar. As a consequence, farmers are capturing a share of the value of innovation, even if the breeders have a strong protection. The long-run sustainability of this win-win agreement between breeders and farmers might be jeopardized should the demand for the new varieties fall.
Antonella Di Fonzo; Vanessa Nardone; Negin Fathinejad; Carlo Russo. The Impact of Plant Variety Protection Regulations on the Governance of Agri-Food Value Chains. Social Sciences 2019, 8, 91 .
AMA StyleAntonella Di Fonzo, Vanessa Nardone, Negin Fathinejad, Carlo Russo. The Impact of Plant Variety Protection Regulations on the Governance of Agri-Food Value Chains. Social Sciences. 2019; 8 (3):91.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAntonella Di Fonzo; Vanessa Nardone; Negin Fathinejad; Carlo Russo. 2019. "The Impact of Plant Variety Protection Regulations on the Governance of Agri-Food Value Chains." Social Sciences 8, no. 3: 91.
C. Russo; M.A. Perito; A. Di Fonzo; Gaetano Martino; Konstantinos Karantininis; Stefano Pascucci; Liesbeth Dries; Jean Marie Codron. 8. The apparent paradox of unadvertised private food safety standards. It’s a jungle out there – the strange animals of economic organization in agri-food value chains 2017, 161 -176.
AMA StyleC. Russo, M.A. Perito, A. Di Fonzo, Gaetano Martino, Konstantinos Karantininis, Stefano Pascucci, Liesbeth Dries, Jean Marie Codron. 8. The apparent paradox of unadvertised private food safety standards. It’s a jungle out there – the strange animals of economic organization in agri-food value chains. 2017; ():161-176.
Chicago/Turabian StyleC. Russo; M.A. Perito; A. Di Fonzo; Gaetano Martino; Konstantinos Karantininis; Stefano Pascucci; Liesbeth Dries; Jean Marie Codron. 2017. "8. The apparent paradox of unadvertised private food safety standards." It’s a jungle out there – the strange animals of economic organization in agri-food value chains , no. : 161-176.
Recent developments in modern agri-food markets have called into question the predictive capability of the traditional models and tools used by agricultural economists to assess and measure market power. As a result, agricultural economists are on a quest for novel methods and approaches that surpass the traditional market power construct. In this article, we present an essential overview of the evolution of the literature concerning power relationships in agrifood value chains. The goal of this review is to emphasize recent conceptual and empirical approaches, as well as highlight topics of interest that are likely to shape the direction of future analyses of market power and bargaining in the agrifood sector. [EconLit citations: L1, L2, L3, Q13, Q18].
Alessandro Bonanno; Carlo Russo; Luisa Menapace. Market power and bargaining in agrifood markets: A review of emerging topics and tools. Agribusiness 2017, 34, 6 -23.
AMA StyleAlessandro Bonanno, Carlo Russo, Luisa Menapace. Market power and bargaining in agrifood markets: A review of emerging topics and tools. Agribusiness. 2017; 34 (1):6-23.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlessandro Bonanno; Carlo Russo; Luisa Menapace. 2017. "Market power and bargaining in agrifood markets: A review of emerging topics and tools." Agribusiness 34, no. 1: 6-23.
Agricultural and food prices exhibit several empirical regularities that are not easily explained by conventional perfect competition or market power models, including asymmetric price transmission, food price rigidity, farmgate price volatility, and low correlation between prices at different stages of the supply chain. We focus on this set of market features and conclude that they can be the outcome of a competition model where supermarket use promotions to strategically attract basket shoppers. We present a numerical simulation to show that complex price patterns including all the features indicated above can be obtained from a general store traffic competition model without the need of introducing ad hoc assumptions. [EconLit citations: Q11, Q13].
Carlo Russo; Rachael Goodhue. Farmgate prices, retail prices, and supermarkets' pricing decisions: An integrated approach. Agribusiness 2017, 34, 24 -43.
AMA StyleCarlo Russo, Rachael Goodhue. Farmgate prices, retail prices, and supermarkets' pricing decisions: An integrated approach. Agribusiness. 2017; 34 (1):24-43.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCarlo Russo; Rachael Goodhue. 2017. "Farmgate prices, retail prices, and supermarkets' pricing decisions: An integrated approach." Agribusiness 34, no. 1: 24-43.
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to devise and then test a theoretical model to illustrate the effects of the increasing importance of social media on consumer behavior and market equilibrium in differentiated food industries. Design/methodology/approach The authors use game theory to model the strategic use of social media by firms producing high-value food products. The authors test the predictions of the theoretical model by means of a survey of 722 randomly selected Italian food consumers using an online questionnaire. Findings The model predicts that, as social media become more and more influential, consumers using the new media become more informed, and their concern about food quality attributes increases. At the same time, the consumers using mass media only receive less information and they prefer cheaper products to the high value one. As a result, the emergence of social media favours market segmentation and the hypotheses tested were: Social consumers are, on average, more informed than mass consumers and more concerned about environmental issues than mass consumers. The data support the theoretical model. Originality/value The paper contributes to the debate about the impact of information from interested sources on market equilibrium, providing an innovative analysis of the role of social media.
Carlo Russo; Mariarosaria Simeone. The growing influence of social and digital media. British Food Journal 2017, 119, 1766 -1780.
AMA StyleCarlo Russo, Mariarosaria Simeone. The growing influence of social and digital media. British Food Journal. 2017; 119 (8):1766-1780.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCarlo Russo; Mariarosaria Simeone. 2017. "The growing influence of social and digital media." British Food Journal 119, no. 8: 1766-1780.
Mariarosaria Simeone; Willaim Bruce Traill; Carlo Russo. New dimensions of market power and bargaining in the agri-food sector: organisations, policies and models. British Food Journal 2017, 119, 1650 -1655.
AMA StyleMariarosaria Simeone, Willaim Bruce Traill, Carlo Russo. New dimensions of market power and bargaining in the agri-food sector: organisations, policies and models. British Food Journal. 2017; 119 (8):1650-1655.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMariarosaria Simeone; Willaim Bruce Traill; Carlo Russo. 2017. "New dimensions of market power and bargaining in the agri-food sector: organisations, policies and models." British Food Journal 119, no. 8: 1650-1655.