Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maurizio Canavari Author-Name: Sedef Akg?ng?r Author-Name: Valeria Borsellino Author-Name: Alessio Cavicchi Author-Name: Catherine Chan Author-Name: Alessio Ishizaka Author-Name: Simona Naspetti Author-Name: S?ren Marcus Pedersen Author-Name: Stefanella Stranieri Author-Name: Maro Vlachopoulou Title: Editorial Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: x Note: Pages:1-4 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=68524&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:ecaqec:v:html10.3280/ecag1-2021oa11894 Number: 1 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Isabella Procidano Author-Name: Christine Mauracher Author-Name: Marco Valentini Title: Consumers? perception of Prosecco wine packaging: A pilot study in Padua and Milan Abstract: This paper aims to illustrate and discuss the importance of packaging attributes in the wine market. A survey was conducted in the north of Italy to assess how different attributes affect the probability of choosing a bottle of Prosecco wine. Two hundred face-to-face interviews based on a structured questionnaire were administered in Milan and Padua supermarkets to elicit preferences. Each respondentranked three new bottles of Prosecco wine and expressed the importance of different packaging characteristics in its choice.Product attributes include Label?s form, Label?s colours, the Label in its entirety, the Writing ?Prosecco?, the Band on the bottle?s neck and the Bottle?s shape. The interviews allowed us to recognise the bottle customers found the most attractive, and rank-ordered logistic regression was able to disentangle whichpackaging characteristic led to their decision. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Packaging, Label, Wine, Rank-ordered logit Note: Pages:1-23 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=68525&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:ecaqec:v:html10.3280/ecag1-2021oa11546 Number: 2 X-File-Ref: http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/References.ashx?idArticolo=68525 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Silvia Andr?s Gonz?lez-Moralejo Author-Name: Mildrey Garc?a Cort?s Author-Name: Juan Francisco L?pez Miquel Title: Are small and medium-size food industry firms profitable? Explaining differences in their performance: The case of the Valencia Region Abstract: The main aim of this study was to determine the factors that influenced profitability of companies involved in the Valencia food industry between 2006 and 2015. For this, macroeconomic, sector and company variables were the key elements used in the statistical analysis, together with their dependenceon the economic cycle in indicating the present state of the sector in the Valencian Region. The panel data was obtained from the sabi data base and combined with transverse data and time series. Economic and financial profitability are both influenced by certain common factors, especially the sales margin. The higher the margin the higher the profit, although this relationship also depends on where the business company is located. Rotation of assets also contributes to raising profits in times of economic expansion. The Economic Crisis saw profits fall in 2009 and 2012, two of its worst years. Finally, differences were also found between large and small enterprises. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Food industry, Sales margin, Assests rotation, Firm size, Economic crisis Note: Pages:1-24 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=68526&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:ecaqec:v:html10.3280/ecag1-2021oa11547 Number: 3 X-File-Ref: http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/References.ashx?idArticolo=68526 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Biancamaria Torquati Author-Name: Lucio Cecchini Author-Name: Chiara Paffarini Author-Name: Massimo Chiorri Title: The economic and environmental sustainability of extra virgin olive oil supply chains: An analysis based on food miles and value chains Abstract: Following the growing trend towards globalisation of the agrifood system over the last few years, a number of scientific publications with different aims and methodological approaches have addressed the issue of the progressive link loss between the place of consumption and production of food. In part, thescientific debate has focused on the various agri-food production commercial outlets, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of both the dominant models like mass market retail, as well as emerging models like solidarity purchasing groups The present study can be classified as concerning the sustainability of agri-food supply chains. It compares five different extra virgin olive oil (evoo) supply chains in terms of the distance between the agricultural producer and end consumer, from both an economic perspective (the number of intermediaries) and a geographical one (production and consumption places). The examined aspects are 1) all the supply chain segments in which value is added to what will be the final food product purchased by the consumer, with a focus on trade and the transport cost estimated in relation to food miles; 2) the environmental impact of transport along the entire supply chain up to the distribution of evoo to the final consumer; and 3) the trade-offs between the environmental impact and economic results.The results obtained confirm some existing general evidence in the literature, such as the greater enhancement of agricultural products through short supply chains, and they emphasize as combining the value chain results with the environmental impact based on FMs, no real trade-offs, but rather trends, emerge. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Agri-food chain, Purchasing patterns, LCA, CO2 emissions Note: Pages:1-28 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=68527&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:ecaqec:v:html10.3280/ecag1-2021oa11391 Number: 4 X-File-Ref: http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/References.ashx?idArticolo=68527 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mikael Oliveira Linder Author-Name: Katia Laura Sidali Author-Name: Gesa Busch Title: Mountain beef and wine: Italian consumers? definitions and opinions on the mountain labelling-scheme Abstract: Despite the importance of mountain areas and mountain farming, the literature on studies on consumers? opinion concerning mountain food products is not numerous. In order to contribute to filling this gap, this study aims at exploring Italian consumers? opinions regarding beef and wine produced in mountain areas as well as their opinions concerning the new European regulation on mountain food products. To do so, a qualitative approach with observations, focus groups and semi-structured interviews were applied. The results indicate that consumers living in mountain areas and those living in non-mountain areas, including rural areas, have different knowledge about the practices in mountain farming and different opinions concerning mountain food products. Nevertheless, both want mountain food products to be healthier and sustainably produced. Furthermore, they associate wine and beef mainly to credence attributes. As for European regulation, most criticisms are directed to the flexibility of the rules. The inclusion of wine in the mountain quality scheme is not a consensus among consumers. However, the analyses point to the existence of consumers who are interested in wines produced in mountain areas, indicating the emergence of a potential niche market for these wines. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Mountain food products, Mountain label, Beef, Wine, Consumers? opinions Note: Pages:1-39 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=68528&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:ecaqec:v:html10.3280/ecag1-2021oa11549 Number: 5 X-File-Ref: http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/References.ashx?idArticolo=68528 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Catherine Macombe Title: Is an alternative to private property durable in agriculture? Abstract: The desire for sustainability calls for new development paths for the agricultural sector. Some suggest creating small to medium size farms, performing agricultural practices that preserve ecosystems, are labour intensive and connected to local markets. New farmers are a necessity in many rural areas, yetthe main obstacle to the settlement of newcomers is access to land. This research suggests an alternative to private property of land, such as experienced by the Foncière Solidaire created by the association «Terre de Liens» in France, which collectively buys land (13,500 shareholders, end of 2019) to lease themto new farmers under long-term basis. The research question is therefore: ?Is this alternative to private property of land durable?? Here, durability means the permanence of farms, despite the on-going upheavals. We suggest that the values are the key, and that values leading to everlastingness describe aconception of Justice. To identify whether or not the values describe a conception of Justice in practice, the discourses should be consistent with the six axioms of the Grammar of Justice by Boltanski and Thévenot (1991) when implemented to a Local Common Good (Thévenot, 1993). The whole movement cannot last without the association Terre de Liens being permanent itself. We will highlight that the discourse(official communication) of the Terre de Liens association calls on Justice, being consistent with the six axioms. We  also underpin that the main challenges are the evolution of regulations, and especially the European laws and French annual financial laws, which set the rules for fiscal exonerations and drive agricultural practices. Whatever these evolutions, it is likely that the association would achieve permanence because of the high number of actors (communes searching for farmers, applicants to taking or transferring farms, donors, shareholders) who are federated around its ?Fair? raison d?être. Yes, there is a potential for durable alternative to land private property in agriculture. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Private property, New comers, Access to land, Collective property Note: Pages:1-11 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=68529&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:ecaqec:v:html10.3280/ecag1-2021oa11350 Number: 6 X-File-Ref: http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/References.ashx?idArticolo=68529 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fabio Gaetano Santeramo Author-Name: Dragan Miljkovic Author-Name: Emilia Lamonaca Title: Agri-food trade and climate change Abstract: Climate change, the agri-food sector and trade are closely related. This contribution aims at presenting issues related to the economic impacts of climate changes on international trade. The agri-food sector is one of the most hit by changes in climate, and it is also responsible of substantial environmentalimpacts. In a globalised world, these effects do not alter only the agri-food domestic markets but propagate across countries.While climate change may trigger changes in trade patterns by altering food availability and access as well as comparative advantages across countries, trade itself may constitute an adaptation strategy. Our note provides elements to be considered in the future debate that will likely be focused on the interrelations between, climate change, trade and global value chains of agri-food products. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Adaptation, Development, Global value chain, Trade Note: Pages:1-18 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=68530&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:ecaqec:v:html10.3280/ecag1-2021oa11676 Number: 7 X-File-Ref: http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/References.ashx?idArticolo=68530