SABIIA - Sistema Aberto e Integrado de Informação em Agricultura (Sabiia)

Sottomayor, Miguel; Souza Monteiro, Diogo M.; Teixeira, Mario Sergio.

The Portuguese olive oil market had a remarkable development in recent years. Production is rising steadily is response to a EU program supporting a renewal of olive groves. Moreover there is a proliferation of national brands and private labels. These are often associated to regional collective labels or to organic production. The aim of our research is to determine how consumers value these nested names or co-brands. We conducted a pilot survey on a convenience sample of 103 consumers in the Oporto and Lisbon metropolitan areas as well in a rural area. Our results reveal some contradictions, for instance while origin is an important purchasing criteria, few PDO olive oils are recognized. Moreover, only 25% of respondents identify organic olive oils sold...

Economics of Robust Surveillance on Exotic Animal Diseases: the Case of Bluetongue

Palavras-chave: Olive oil; Nested names; Valuation.; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Labor and Human Capital.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/95233

Carrasco, Luis Roman; Souza Monteiro, Diogo M.; Cook, Alasdair J.C.; Moffitt, L. Joe.

Control of emerging animal diseases critically depends on their early detection. However, designing surveillance programs for exotic and emerging diseases is very challenging because of knowledge gaps on the probability of incursion and mechanisms of spread. Using the example of Bluetongue Virus, which is exotic to the UK, we develop a metapopulation epidemic-economic modelling framework that considers the incursion, detection, spread and control of a disease in a livestock production system composed of heterogeneous subpopulations. The model is then embedded in an information gap (info-gap) framework to assess the robustness of surveillance and vaccination policies to unacceptable outbreaks losses and applied to the case of Bluetongue in the UK. The...

Economic Evaluation of Food Traceability Systems through Reference Models

Palavras-chave: Compartmental epidemic model; Emergent animal disease; Knightian uncertainty; Sentinel surveillance system; Livestock Production/Industries.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61817

Brofman, Freddy; Garcia Martinez, Marian; Souza Monteiro, Diogo M..

Food supply chains complexity present a real challenge to perform economic evaluation of food traceability systems and their innovation/upgrades. In order to perform a supply chain wide economic evaluation a conceptual framework is developed using food traceability reference models. Reference models allow interaction with chain members’ requirements that come from legal and/or customer sources. The paper demonstrates how the requirements will have a definite effect on the costs and design of food traceability systems through the resources they demand. Even though this is a first step into addressing the challenge, more investigation is needed to clarify the boundaries of the two requirements and their economic effects on food traceability systems and their...

Traceability Adoption at the Farm Level: An Empirical Analysis of the Portuguese Pear Industry

Palavras-chave: Food traceability; Food traceability systems; Reference models; Economic evaluation.; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Industrial Organization.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49772

Traceability is becoming a condition for doing business in European food markets. Retailers are adopting standards that are more stringent than what is mandatory. An example is EurepGAP, a quality standard for good agricultural practices that includes traceability as a main requirement. We analyze EurepGAP implementation in the Portuguese pear industry and find that implementation cannot be distinguished from sales to British supermarkets. Discrete choice models show the odds of traceability adoption increase with farm size and previous compliance with quality assurance schemes, while farm productivity has a negative impact on the probability of adoption.

Can an Industry Voluntary Agreement on Food Traceability Minimize the Cost of Food Safety Incidents?

Palavras-chave: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies.

Ano: 2006

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21132

McEvoy, David M.; Souza Monteiro, Diogo M..

In the recent past the United States has had a number of severe food-safety outbreaks in the produce, vegetable and beef industry that greatly disrupted the food system. In all these outbreaks here were severe disruptions on sales that affected the whole industry, and it took an extended period of time to correctly locate the source of the outbreak. Traceability can be an effective tool to reduce the impact of food safety incidents my expediting the search for the origin of outbreaks. This paper investigates to what extent an industry-led voluntary agreement for providing traceability can reduce the cost of a food-safety outbreak. We find that a voluntary agreement on traceability can successfully reduce the cost of a food-safety outbreak but will unlikely...

The Economics of Traceability for Multi-Ingredient Products: A Network Approach

Palavras-chave: Traceability; Voluntary agreements; Food safety; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43860

The consumption of multi-ingredient foods is increasing across the globe as consumers spend less time preparing meals. Traceability is now extensively used to reduce information imperfections in food markets and recent EU law suggests it will be implemented for manufactured meals as well. We present a model developed to understand how information on different ingredients flows through supply chains for multi-ingredient food products. The network model has three tiers linked by contracts for levels of quality and information. The model is useful for analyzing tradeoffs and network effects emerging in the choice of traceability levels.

Does traceability play a role in retailer’s strategies for private labels?

Palavras-chave: Traceability; Multi-ingredient foods; Network models; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 2005

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19143

Banterle, Alessandro; Souza Monteiro, Diogo M.; Stranieri, Stefanella.

Traceability is helping retailers manage food safety risks and support product differentiation. This paper aims to investigate how traceability may be used to screen supplier for private labels dedicated provider pools. Retailers in the UK and Italy have several private label product lines and increasingly select dedicated suppliers. The choice of providers is a typical agency problem as retailers contract the production for their private labels, having incomplete information on types and effort of their suppliers. Different contracts must be designed for suppliers of private labels depending on position of the product line and its food safety risk. A case study, based on the second largest Italian retailer reveals that traceability and quality assurance...

STOP OR GO? HOW IS THE UK FOOD INDUSTRY RESPONDING TO FRONT-OF-PACK NUTRITION LABELS?

Palavras-chave: Traceability; Dedicated providers; Food products; Retailing; Vertical coordination; Marketing; Q13; Q18; L81; L66; L15.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50933

Van Camp, Debra; Souza Monteiro, Diogo M.; Hooker, Neal H..

Food nutrition labels have been used for over a decade to aid consumers in making more informed diet choices and to potentially reduce societal costs from diet-related diseases and health conditions. While there is some evidence of the effectiveness of nutrition labels in changing consumption patterns, the scale of such improvements have been marginal. This has led certain government agencies to consider alternative forms of nutrition information. One such approach is front-of-pack (FOP) nutrition labels which provide simple, easily accessible information on a limited number of key nutrients. The use of FOP labels may facilitate healthier diets by influencing consumer behaviour and by providing an incentive for industry to formulate healthier products....

Portuguese Retailers’ Motivations to Adopt Front of Pack Nutrition Labels: A Qualitative Analysis

Palavras-chave: Front-of-pack; Nutrition labelling; Traffic light; Guideline daily allowance; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; Q18; L66; L81.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116400

Caldeira, Monica; Sottomayor, Miguel; Souza Monteiro, Diogo M..

Nutrition is an important food marketing differentiation criterion. There is growing evidence of the relation between diets and health conditions. Thus there is a potential conflict between industry and public health authorities over the use of nutrition labels. Understanding industry motivations for simplified nutrition labels use is paramount to scrutinize market dynamics, improve label policy design and its evaluation. The aim of this research is to ascertain how retailers perceive consumer’s attitudes to nutrition labels and what motivates their use. We conducted in-depth semi-structure interviews with senior managers in leading Portuguese retail chains. Our results suggest that retailers’ adopt FOP to aid their customers’ food choices, as a response...

Objectiveness in the Market for Third-Party Certification: Does market structure matter?

Palavras-chave: Nutrition labels; Retailers; Semi-structured interviews; Content analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Q18; M31; M38; M14.

Ano: 2011

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/109189

Anders, Sven M.; Souza Monteiro, Diogo M.; Rouviere, Elodie.

The globalization of trade in high quality foods is stimulating the development of international food standards and certification systems. Third-party certification as evolved as a means of ensuring that product information and signals on quality and safety attributes are sound and reliable. Certification can only provide credible market signals if it operates objectively and independently. This paper investigates the potential trade-off between certifiers objectivity and the level of competition in the rapidly expanding market for third-party certification of quality foods. Based on a theoretical supply chain framework a nested panel analysis is applied to a set of accredited certifiers for the EurepGAP fruits and vegetables standard. Our results...

Optimal choice of Voluntary traceability as a food risk management tool

Palavras-chave: Third-party certification; Objectiveness; Market structure; Nested panel analysis; EurepGAP; Marketing.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7894

Traceability systems are information tools implemented within and between firms in food chains to improve logistics and transparency or to reduce total food safety damage costs. Information about location and condition of products is critical when food safety incidents arise. This paper uses a principal-agent model to investigate the optimal choice of voluntary traceability in terms of precision of information on a given attribute at each link of a food chain. The results suggest that four scenarios may emerge for the supply chain depending on the costs of a system and whether or not the industry can internalize total food safety damages: no traceability, traceability for one link, equal traceability for all links, or different positive traceability levels...

What Determines the Success of a Geographical Indication? A Price-based Meta-Analysis for GIs In Food Products

Palavras-chave: Traceability; Food safety; Principal-agent model; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44394

Oana, Deselnicu; Costanigro, Marco; Souza Monteiro, Diogo M.; Thilmany, Dawn D..

THE ECONOMICS OF IMPLEMENTING TRACEABILITY IN BEEF SUPPLY CHAINS: TRENDS IN MAJOR PRODUCING AND TRADING COUNTRIES

Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 2011

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/104000