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A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2023 | Viewed by 8058

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Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Timpanaro

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Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy
Interests: economic and environmental sustainability; environmental impact assessment; agri-food economics; efficiency analysis; food supply chain management; strategic marketing planning; consumer economics (theory and empirical applications); agri-food supply chain management; food chain logistics and ICT; economics of technological innovation in the agri-food industry
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Dear Colleagues,

As is well known, there have long been calls for agriculture and food production to become more sustainable in a global context of increasing population and living standards, climate change, and environmental degradation. According to the existing literature, this can be achieved through the development of innovative methods and tools to reduce resource use, material consumption, and waste generation while reversing the trend of biodiversity loss and ensuring sufficient, nutritious, sustainable, and affordable food for society. This general need, shared at the international political level, has now become overwhelmingly urgent as we recover from the crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and the conflict around Europe, which have exacerbated the effects of degrowth. For the Global North and South, a new economic model is needed that is more oriented toward equity, restructuring of production and consumption patterns, sobriety combined with full employment and social security, as well as food security and local agriculture. This is perfectly in line with the importance of food and agriculture in achieving the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, all of which are directly or indirectly related to food, and in accelerating the transition to the 2030 Agenda.

In this general context, contributions of research and reflection, developed in different territorial contexts, are welcome.

Dr. Giuseppe Timpanaro
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agri-food policies at different levels of decision-making
economics of agri-food production
agri-food supply chain and its orientation toward sustainability, according to a holistic view
agri-food marketing
agribusiness and food trade
recovery and resilience of local production systems
price volatility and agri-food production shocks
economic and market aspects of carbon farming
global resilience and actions addressing climate change
analysis of consumption (theory and empirical applications)

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The Vertical Price Transmission in Pork Meat Production in the Czech Republic

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Agriculture 2023, 13(6), 1274; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13061274 - 20 Jun 2023

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The paper aims at vertical price transmission of the agri-food market in the Czech Republic. It is focused on the analysis of price transmission in pork meat by investigating the short-run and long-run relationships within the product and the speed of establishing the equilibrium relationship. For this purpose, there is employed specially VECM (Vector Error Correction Model), impulse-response analysis, and decomposition of variance of VECM, which show the system’s reaction. The applied approach considers five alternatives in the Johansen approach. The results suggest that there is an existence of the equilibrium relationship in vertical markets and this relationship is simultaneous and demand-driven. The impulse-response analyses show the response of the processing price to one standard deviation shock to the agriculture price from approximately 15–20 periods reaching long-run equilibrium. The response of the agriculture price to one standard deviation shock to the processing price reaching long-run equilibrium is also from approximately 15–20 periods. Full article

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Critical Issues Facing the Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resources Industries in the State of Georgia

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Agriculture 2023, 13(6), 1194; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13061194 - 03 Jun 2023

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Throughout the United States, the agricultural, forestry, and natural resource industries are facing a multitude of challenges. While each industry is facing unique challenges on a national level, these challenges vary in scope and topic, and they are not necessarily generalizable to smaller geographic regions. Based on the socio-economic importance of agriculture in the state, along with five distinct geographic regions ranging from coastal to mountainous, this study compiled a comprehensive list of critical issues facing the agricultural, forestry, and natural resource industries in the state of Georgia. The study used the Delphi methodology with an expert panel composed of agricultural, forestry, and natural resource opinion leaders. Using a three-round consensus-building process, a total of 40 critical issues were identified with eight items receiving 100% agreement amongst the panelists. The final list of items were then analyzed using the constant comparative method to identify themes within the retained items. Six themes emerged based on the analysis, including (alphabetically) economic considerations, operations and infrastructure, policy, public perceptions, regulations, and workforce. The proposed themes, and subsumed critical issues, represent a heuristic framework within which to facilitate dialogue amongst agricultural, forestry, and natural-resource-related industries, as well as inform future research and praxis oriented efforts. Full article

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Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Examine the Sustainable Extension of Rural Food Preparation Techniques

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Agriculture 2023, 13(5), 1012; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13051012 - 04 May 2023

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Social transformation has caused traditional rural food preparation techniques and cultural heritage to disappear gradually. Traditional rural women are in charge of rural traditional food preparation techniques, which they inherit through the family. Therefore, this study primarily aimed to employ the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to analyze the effects of attitudes toward rural food preparation techniques, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control on behavioral intention to ultimately understand the behavioral intention of rural women in the sustainable extension of rural food preparation techniques. The TPB was utilized as a basis for conducting a quantitative study using questionnaire surveys. Purposive sampling and snowball sampling were employed, and 800 questionnaires were distributed. In total, 649 valid questionnaires were collected, and the recovery rate was 81.1%. The study tools used included the attitude scale, subjective norms scale, perceived behavioral control scale, and behavioral intention scale. The data were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis, descriptive statistics, Pearson product difference correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis. The results showed that attitudes toward rural food preparation techniques, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control in rural women significantly affected the behavioral intention of sustainable extension. These results can provide agricultural organizations and relevant units with a reference for the sustainable extension of traditional food preparation techniques. Full article

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Research on the Determination of the Factors Affecting Business Performance in Beekeeping Production

Miroslav Čavlin

Nedeljko Prdić

Svetlana Ignjatijević

Jelena Vapa Tankosić

Nemanja Lekić

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Sara Kostić

Agriculture 2023, 13(3), 686; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13030686 - 15 Mar 2023

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A competitive business environment pushes beekeepers to the creation of value at a higher level than the competition in a way that is difficult to imitate. In order to survive in a competitive business environment, beekeeping producers must direct their resources towards innovative solutions, which can include honey quality assurance programmes and further product development, as well as creation of value-added honey products that is translated in good business performance. As the potential of the Republic of Serbia’s beekeeping production can be strengthened and its products exported beyond the national market, there is a need to examine the influence of a set of factors that can impact the beekeeper’s business performance. Therefore, this paper will examine the direct and indirect influence of the competitive environment (the business environment opportunities, threats and the relationships with the consumers) and innovative performance (in the field of marketing, product design, product quality, distribution, manufacturing and time to market) on the business performance of Serbian beekeepers. This research uses the SEM method with the SmartPLS tool. The findings of the model have confirmed that a competitive environment and innovative performance have a direct positive, statistically significant impact on the business performance of Serbian beekeeping production. A weak indirect influence of a competitive environment on the business performance of beekeepers has been confirmed. The model has proven to be significant, and a high percentage of variations in beekeepers’ business performance has been explained by the influence of two independent variables (competitive environment and innovative performance). As there is no previous research on the nexus of the competitive environment, innovative performance and business performance of Serbian beekeepers, these findings may be of special interest to authors and researchers, beekeeping organizations and representatives of agricultural advisory services. Full article

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The Effect of Using Augmented Reality Technology in Takeaway Food Packaging to Improve Young Consumers’ Negative Evaluations

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Agriculture 2023, 13(2), 335; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13020335 - 30 Jan 2023

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This paper examines the use of augmented reality technology in the design of packaging for takeaway food to assist in marketing. The research is divided into three studies for progressive investigation and analysis. Study 1 collected 375,859 negative evaluations of food delivery from the Internet and explored the main reasons that may have impacted the user’s evaluation by Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic modeling. Study 2 evaluated the effectiveness of augmented reality packaging by surveying 165 subjects and comparing it with traditional packaging. We conducted a survey of 1603 subjects in Study 3 and used the technology incentive model (TIM) to analyze how augmented reality technology positively impacts food delivery marketing. It has been established that packaging will influence the negative perception of consumers about buying and eating takeout food. Specifically, augmented reality technology can improve negative evaluations by providing a more conducive user experience than traditional packaging. According to our findings, augmented reality technology has improved the consumers’ perception of interaction, perceived vividness, and novelty experience, and achieved the aim of promoting takeaway food retail by improving negative evaluations posted by users. Full article

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