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

Volpe, Richard J., III; Okrent, Abigail M.; Leibtag, Ephraim S..

Replaced with revised version of paper 09/23/11.

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

Palavras-chave: Food purchases; Supercenters; Obesity; Consumer behavior; Food retail; Agribusiness; Consumer/Household Economics; Health Economics and Policy; Industrial Organization; L66; P46; D12; L11.

Ano: 2011

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103448

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....

Do Sales Matter? An Exploration of Price Discounting in UK Food Retailing

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

Lloyd, Tim A.; Morgan, C. Wyn; McCorriston, Steve; Zgovu, Evious.

This paper assesses the impact of promotional activity in the prices of food products on supermarket shelves. The study analyses a unique, high frequency panel of supermarket prices consisting of over 230,000 weekly price observations on around 500 products in 15 categories of food stocked by the UK’s seven largest retail chains. In all, 1,700 weekly time series are available at the barcode-specific level including branded and own label products. Prices are inclusive of promotions and thus allow the frequency, magnitude and duration of sales to be analysed in greater detail than has hitherto been possible with UK data. Using this price data, sales periods are indentified. Results show that around 8% of products are on sale at any one time, and that sales...

Building trust in agri-food chains: the mediating role of effective communication

Palavras-chave: Food retailing; Pricing; Sales; Demand and Price Analysis; Industrial Organization; Marketing; L16; L66; Q13.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51572

Fischer, Christian.

Using recent survey data (n = 1,430) on trust levels in agri-food supplier-buyer relationships in six different European countries, two commodity chains (meat and cereals) and two chain stages (farmer-processor and processor-retailer), main determinants of trust are identified and discussed. The structural equation modelling estimation results indicate that trust can be significantly improved by effective communication and by a positive collaboration experience. The existence of personal bonds does not seem to play a direct role in the retailer-processor relationship but is important when dealing with farmers. In both chain stages a positive collaboration experience as well the existence of personal bonds also indirectly enhance trust by promoting...

FUNCTIONAL FOODS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: AN OVERVIEW OF THE SECTOR'S MAIN ISSUES

Palavras-chave: Trust; Agri-food Chains; Europe; Agribusiness; Marketing; Q13; L14; L66.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50106

Castellini, Alessandra; Canavari, Maurizio; Pirazzoli, Carlo.

In Europe the demand of functional foods varies remarkably from country to country, on the basis of the alimentary traditions, the enforced legislation and the different cultural heritage that people have acquired. The opportunities of expansion on the market seem to be quite favorable and the interest of the consumers is rather high. But the diffusion of these products in the community area is slowed down by some obstacles. One of main ones is the lack of an official law-recognized definition for these references, necessary in order to clearly assign these products to the food sector rather than to the pharmaceutical one. In a such situation, we note that nowadays it is impossible to carry out a complete survey of this world, due to the lack of...

DER SLOWAKISCHE MARKT FUR MILCH UND MILCHPRODUKTE -- VOM BEGINN DER TRANSFORMATION BIS ZUM EU-BEITRITT

Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Q13; Q18; L65; L66.

Ano: 2002

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14456

Glitsch, Kristina; Eerits, Alena.

Like in other CEEC, transition in the beginning of the 1990s had significant consequences for the agricultural and food sectors in Slovakia. For example, Slovakian consumers reacted to the abolition of consumer subsidies by drastically reducing their consumption of milk and milk products. Concurrently, milk production declined and now stands at fifty percent of its 1989 level. Dairies were closed down while those remaining carried on producing under constantly increasing overcapacities. In the years prior to EU accession, activities in the milk sector were primarily aimed at the adoption of EU standards. Meanwhile, the Slovakian milk processing industry is predominantly in the possession of foreign investors. Present per capita consumption of milk and milk...

THE REGULATORY REGIME AND ITS IMPACT ON INNOVATION ACTIVITIES IN AGRO-FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY IN THE EU AND USA

Palavras-chave: Slovakia; Dairy industry; Milk consumption; Milk production; Milk processing; Structural change; Livestock Production/Industries; L11; L66; Q13.

Ano: 2004

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14873

Menrad, Klaus.

Paper prepared for presentation at the Conference: “Seeds of Change: Intellectual Property Protection for Agricultural Biotechnology” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), April 8 to 10th, 2004

Milchverarbeitung und -vermarktung in Deutschland - eine deskriptive Analyse der Wertschöpfungskette

Palavras-chave: Agro-food Biotechnology; Innovation; European Union; United States; Regulations; Industrial Organization; L5; L66; O32.

Ano: 2004

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91014

Strategic Vertical Pricing in the U.S. Butter Market

Friedrich, Carina.

Zusammenfassung: Die Wertschöpfungskette Milch in Deutschland steht vor der Herausforderung, sich in einem zunehmend liberalisierten Milch- und Milchproduktmarkt zu behaupten. Neben der Milchproduktion hat in der Wertschöpfungskette vor allem die Milchverarbeitung eine zentrale Funktion. Diese veredelt den international relativ homogenen Rohstoff Milch zu sehr unterschiedlichen Produkten. Die speziellen Produkteigenschaften von Milch (geringe Transportwürdigkeit und Lagerfähigkeit) erfordern zudem eine sehr enge Kopplung der beiden Wertschöpfungsstufen Milchproduktion und -verarbeitung. Dabei stehen sich in der Wertschöpfungskette viele Landwirte und einige Molkereien einem stark konzentrierten Lebensmitteleinzelhandel gegenüber. Die Molkereistruktur ist...

Tipo: Report

Palavras-chave: Wertschöpfungskette Milch; Milchwirtschaft; Molkereistruktur; SAtrukturanalyse; Dairy supply chain; Dairy economy; Structure of milk processing; Structure analysis; Agribusiness; Livestock Production/Industries; Q11; Q13; L66.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/108262

Du, Ying; Stiegert, Kyle W..

This article develops a methodology for empirically analyzing vertically strategic interactions in a multi-level supply channel. The model is used to analyze the vertical channel for U.S. butter manufacturing and retailing. Aggregating products to the firm level and using a nonlinear AIDS demand system under alternative strategic pricing assumptions is estimated using full information maximum likelihood (FIML) for seven geographic markets from 1998-2002. The market demand for butter was found to very price elastic. Furthermore, cross price elasticities between private labels and the two large national brands were also very elastic. The selected market structure was one indicating category profit maximization of national brands (separate from private...

Food Safety Regulation and Firm Productivity: Evidence from the French Food Industry

Palavras-chave: Vertical interaction; Market structure; Strategic pricing; Market power; AIDS model; Butter.; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Industrial Organization; L13; L22; L66.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51712

Requillart, Vincent; Nauges, Celine; Simioni, Michel; Bontemps, Christophe.

The purpose of this article is to assess whether food safety regulations imposed by the European Union in the 2000s may have induced a slow-down in the productivity of firms in the food processing sector. The impact of regulations on costs and productivity has seldom been studied. This article contributes to the literature by measuring productivity change using a panel of French food processing firms for the years 1996 to 2006. To do so, we develop an original iterative testing procedure based on the comparison of the distribution of efficiency scores of a set of firms. Our results confirm that productivity decreased in the poultry processing industry at the time when safety regulation was reinforced.

Tipo: Presentation

Palavras-chave: Total factor productivity; Safety regulation; Food processing sector; Panel data; Non-parametrics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; C14; D24; L66.

Ano: 2012

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124378

Price Linkage and Transmission between Shippers and Retailers in the French Fresh Vegetable Channel

Hassan, Daniel; Simioni, Michel.

The existence and the kind of asymmetry that characterize the relationships between shipping-point and retail prices are investigated for two major French fresh vegetables: tomatoes and chicory. Weekly data allow considering these relationships at very detailed levels such as region or supermarket chain. Moreover, the methodology proposes an implicit treatment of asymmetries in price transmission by using recently developed threshold cointegration methods. Our results do not give evidence to the widespread assertion that shipping-point price increases are completely and rapidly passed by middlemen on to consumers while there is a slower and less complete transmission of shipping-point price declines. As already emphasized in the literature, these results...

FUNCTIONAL FOODS AS DIFFERENTIATED PRODUCTS

Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; L66; L81; Q13.

Ano: 2002

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24794

Bonanno, Alessandro.

Food products providing health benefits beyond nutrition, or functional foods, draw consumers’ attention and promise growth opportunities for innovator food manufacturers. European functional food manufacturers may be facing future challenges, mainly due to the European Union Regulation (EC) No.1924/2006 regulating food products’ health-claims. However, in spite of the interest shown by academics to understand the acceptance of these products no study exists that analyzes the profitability of functional foods. Using a relatively novel methodology – an adaptation of the LA/AIDS model by means of Pinkse Slade and Brett’s (2002) distance metric (DM) method – this article treats functional foods as differentiated products and provides estimates of demand and...

Protection of Intellectual Property while Outsourcing

Palavras-chave: Functional Foods; Differentiated Products; Distance Metric; Yogurt; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; L15; L25; L66.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116420

Sen Gupta, Rajorshi; Love, H. Alan.

Food and Beverage companies need to share their Intellectual Property (IP) when they outsource production and/or R&D to contract agents. IP sharing can facilitate misappropriation and the contractor may eventually start competing with the client. We design an incentive compatible contract that can protect company IP. A two-pronged strategy is proposed: Companies should share less know-how and give high incentive payments to deter IP misappropriation. Strategies like product differentiation may be highly useful to deter piracy.

The Relationship between Innovation and Marketing in SMEs in the EU Food Sector

Palavras-chave: Intellectual Property Protection; Outsourcing; Product Differentiation; R&D; Agribusiness; Industrial Organization; Risk and Uncertainty; L14; L21; L23; L66; 031; 032; 034.

Ano: 2011

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103856

Banterle, Alessandro; Cavaliere, Alessia; Stranieri, Stefanella; Carraresi, Laura.

In the EU market small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) represent the greater part of the food industry, specially with regard to traditional food products (TFPs). However, the growth of competition, connected mainly to globalisation, is making it very difficult for SMEs to survive. On the other hand, market opportunities for SMEs are connected to the evolution of consumer preferences toward food quality. To profit from such opportunities and to survive on the market, SMEs need to adapt their strategies, focusing on innovation aspects in order to meet consumer requirements and to compete on the market. The literature shows that firms’ market orientation and marketing capabilities are very important for innovation in food industries to guarantee that...

Agricultural Prices, Selection, and the Evolution of Food Industry

Palavras-chave: Traditional food products; Innovation; Marketing management capabilities; Linear regression model; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Marketing; Production Economics; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; L25; L66; M31; Q13.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100589

Gaigne, Carl; Le Mener, Leo.

In this paper, we set up a simple model that explains the relation between low input price, high exit rates and industrial oncentration. More precisely, we argue that falling input prices force firms with low productivity to exit and induce expansion of more efficient incumbents at the expense of less productive producers. Our model helps reconcile some well‐established empirical results regarding the food processing industry. Indeed, agricultural prices have been declining between the early 1900s until 2006 while, over the same period, concentration and firm productivity have been increasing in the agri‐food industry.

Tipo: Working Paper

Palavras-chave: Input price; Downstream industry; Entry/exit; Industrial concentration; Firm heterogeneity; Agricultural and Food Policy; Industrial Organization; International Relations/Trade; D24; L11; L25; L66.

Ano: 2012

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/125221

Promotion and Fast Food Demand: Where's the Beef?

Richards, Timothy J.; Padilla, Luis.

Many believe that fast food promotion is a significant cause of the obesity epidemic in North America. Industry members argue that promotion only reallocates brand shares and does not increase overall demand. This study weighs into the debate by specifying and estimating a discrete/continuous model of fast food restaurant choice and food expenditure that explicitly accounts for both spatial and temporal determinants of demand. Estimates are obtained using a unique panel of Canadian fast food consumers. The results show that promotion primarily increases demand and has very little effect on restaurant market shares.

Socially Optimal Taxation of Alcohol: The Case of Czech Beer

Palavras-chave: Consumer demand; Discrete choice; Fast food; Pricing strategy; Promotion; Spatial modeling; Demand and Price Analysis; Marketing; C25; D12; I18; L66; M31.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7711

Janda, Karel; Mikolasek, Jakub; Netuka, Martin.

The proposed paper belongs to the literature on food demand and optimal taxation and to the literature dealing with economics of alcohol production and consumption. We investigate the question of optimal taxation for the commodity whose consumption has positive and negative features both for individual consumer and for the society. The commodity we analyze is the Czech beer.

Estrategias sobre innovacion en las empresas multinacionales agroalimentarias

Palavras-chave: Almost Ideal Demand System; Alcohol; Beer; Brewing industry; Consumption; The Czech Republic; Elasticity; Price; Spirits; Tax; Wine.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Health Economics and Policy; Public Economics; D12; L66; Q18.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61464

Rama, Ruth; Alfranca, Oscar; von Tunzelmann, Nicholas.

Las multinacionales agroalimentarias son las principales innovadoras del sector agroalimentario mundial y agentes económicos fundamentales del cambio tecnológico en el sector agroalimentario español. El estudio del comportamiento innovador de las multinacionales agroalimentarias presenta interés puesto que el 50% de la tecnología relacionada mundialmente con la alimentación procede de este tipo de empresas. Basándonos en una muestra de más de 16.000 patentes concedidas, entre 1969-94, a las mayores empresas multinacionales alimentarias y en los resultados de diversos estudios recientes, este trabajo aborda algunos de los principales aspectos de la innovación en estos importantes agentes económicos, tales como la globalización de sus actividades...

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Agrifood multinational; Patents; Innovation; Food industry; Agribusiness; F23; L66.

Ano: 2003

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28793

INCREASING COORDINATION IN THE PLANT AND PLANT PRODUCT PROCESSING AND HANDLING SECTOR

MILK AND MILK PROCESSING INDUSTRY IN LITHUANIA: AN ANALYSIS OF HORIZONZAL AND VERTICAL INTEGRATION

Boland, Michael A..

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Food Economy; Industry Analysis; Five Forces; Food Processing; Agribusiness; L10; L16; L66; Q13.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100788

Kedaitiene, Angele; Hockmann, Heinrich.

Despite significant progress in recent years, horizontal and vertical integration of the Lithuanian milk sector is not very much advanced. The primary sector is characterised by small-scale farming, the fragmentation of farmland and a low number of livestock per farms. These features cause severe problems regarding the restructuring and modernisation of agricultural production since only a few farmers possess the capital resources to conduct necessary investments. However, despite the unfavourable conditions Lithuanian milk producers have made significant improvements concerning milk quality. In the last decade, the processing sector was due to drastic concentration processes. These were induced by the strong competition processes on the milk market and...