113th Seminar, September 3-6, 2009, Chania, Crete, Greece

Obesity problems are no longer limited to the USA as, in recent years, obesity rates in the EU countries have increased dramatically, leading to serious consequences in t [...]

The purpose of the current paper is to explain how one can forecast the effect of an elected tax on saturated fat on the demand for butter. The tax is to take affect from [...]

The social responsibility of businesses has developed into a highly debated issue in recent years. Especially in agribusiness, recent scandals as well as information asym [...]

Although food quality and food safety issues seem to dominate discussion and research in Europe, price inflation and economic recession may pose questions over food abund [...]

The number of products bearing a Geographical Indication (GI) has increased steadily in recent years. The EU Commission considers GIs as a useful tool in fostering simult [...]

Results of national and pan-European consumer surveys and the growth in the demand for so-called “animal friendly” food products suggest that consumers within the Eur [...]

The paper investigates the impact of the EU Biofuels Directive (BFD) on the EU agri-food supply chain using the computable general equilibrium model of the world economy [...]

One of the main problems facing all countries at the European agri-food market is achieving agricultural specialization. Such specialization can bring additional advantag [...]

According to the World Trade Organization agreements frameworks, individual countries can agree to lower customs tariffs and other trade barriers, in order to open and ke [...]

Starting point of our analysis is that independent privately owned farm organisations in transition countries like Hungary can not countervail the market power of their b [...]