Biodiversity is a highly complex and abstract ecological concept. Even though it is not one
physical entity, it influences human well-being in multiple ways, mostly indirectly. While …

Participants tasted two cups of coffee, decided which they preferred, and then rated each
coffee. They were told (in lure) that one of the cups contained “eco-friendly” coffee while the …

We endowed consumers with conventional apples and auctioned local, organic and organic–
local apples to elicit consumers' valuation and the response to two experimental treatments …

With the diffusion of commercial apple varieties since the second half of the last century,
hundreds of different local cultivars rapidly disappeared from orchards in Italy, and the …

While biodiversity loss is an ecological phenomenon, it also has further dimensions–
political, social and, last but not least, economic. From the economic perspective, the rapid …

We present an econometric analysis of the marketing of apples in Morocco that investigates
the relationship between vertical coordination arrangements and the prices of apples for …

This study presents an analysis of consumer preferences for a new food product: Tinned
Chianina meat. Respondents (N= 249) participated in a sensory test, where they were also …

The use of experimental methods to determine consumers' willingness to pay for “quality”
food has been gaining importance in scientific research. In most of the empirical literature on …

The differentiation process by quality attributes continues to be an ongoing issue in the
Spanish olive oil market. In addition, there is a significant percentage of uninformed …

Systematic studies of the relative importance of apple traits for US apple producers to inform
US apple breeding programs have been lacking. To fill this gap, a series of audience …