In (food) economics, finance and marketing-management literature, the utility concept (total satisfaction received from consuming a product/service) plays a crucial role in determining market participants’ benefit–risk trade-offs that drive economic phenomena. This utility is often derived from outcomes such as wealth, income, profit ...

Food economics refers to the study of the international political economy of food, including the establishment and evolution of nation-states in relation to agricultural production and trade. AI generated definition based on: International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2009

Food Policy is a multidisciplinary journal publishing original research and novel evidence on issues in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of policies for the food sector in developing, transition, and advanced economies. Our main focus is on the economic and social aspect of food … View full aims & scope

Aug 1, 2020 · The SA region, has the lowest per capita food consumption in cereal equivalents, perhaps partly reflecting the large fraction of people who are vegetarian in this region (Alexandratos & Bruinsma, 2012). Despite this, food demand in the region rose with income over the 1992 to 2009 period.

Motivation for Global Food Security arose from concern about the difficulty for scientists and policy makers to keep up with the expanding volume of information published about the challenge of ensuring food systems are meeting human food safety and nutritional requirements whilst protecting the environment, securing livelihoods, mitigating against climate change, and …

Nov 7, 2020 · Economics is a social science aiming at understanding human behaviour in the production, consumption and distribution of scarce goods and services. Food Safety Economics (FSE) is a relatively new research domain in which the …

May 1, 1999 · Many forces, most outside the consumer's direct control, shape food demand and food consumption behavior. In Senate testimony more than 20 years ago, Dr Winikoff of the Rockefeller Foundation said of nutrition, “it is affected by governmental decisions in the area of agricultural policy, economic and tax policy, export and import policy, and involves questions …

Jan 1, 2022 · The agricultural economics field is uniquely positioned to integrate these devices into traditional methods to study food Acknowledgments I received useful comments from Brian Roe, Chris Barrett, David Just, two anonymous referees, and participants of the 2021 AAEA workshop for the Handbook of Agricultural Economics.

The Journal of Agriculture and Food Research is a peer-reviewed open access journal focusing on research in the agricultural and food sciences. The journal welcomes full length research articles, reviews, short communications, perspectives, and commentaries from researchers in academic institutions, international research centers, and public ...

Mar 1, 2025 · Conversely, from consumer polls, the expected wait time for fast food among U.S. adults that eat fast food is less than 5 min (Gallant, 2023), whereas the average time spent grocery shopping per shopping trip is 41 min (Goodman, 2008). 19 We conjecture that increased traffic delay on the commute home reduces the amount of time available for ...