2014 AAEA/EAAE/CAES Joint Symposium: Social Networks, Social Media and the Economics of Food, May 29-30, 2014, Montreal, Canada

Successfully engaging consumers in a dialogue may provide opportunities for better tailored and more effective communication about food-related risks and benefits. Using [...]

In recent years the issue of animal welfare in intensive livestock production systems has been subjected to increasing attention from media, politicians and the wider pub [...]

Decisions about food choices in terms of products, preparation, and venue are technology choices in the context of the household production function where consumers consi [...]

Novel technology applications such as cloning and genetic modification in livestock production have not been widely supported by the public. In this study the relationsh [...]

There has been a growing interest in the U.S. to study local and regional food systems with respect to economic, social, and enterprise development. This paper discusses [...]

Social interactions can lead to a variety of phenomena including consumption externalities and complementarities. Consumption externalities arise when the choices of othe [...]

Using a unique dataset from a household survey containing explicit social relationships among individual farmers, this study estimate the effect of peers on the revenue f [...]

among consumers and between consumers and brands. Social media users can now interact with brands directly through Facebook and Twitter. These new features make social me [...]