Food consumption in the European Union: Main determinants and country differences

Gracía, Azucena; Albisu, L. M.

doi:10.1002/agr.1030

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“…In the present study traits such as plant for a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) or a Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) label (EC, 2006). Usually, products with a PDO or PGI label are perceived as unique having an added value in the market and getting a higher price (Gracia & Albisu, 2001;McLaughlin, 2004). Therefore it is necessary to devise tools for the certification of the uniqueness and authenticity of those products in order to protect and enhance them (Muñoz-Falcón et al, 2011;Hurtado et al, 2014).…”

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Assessing diversity among traditional Greek and foreign eggplant cultivars using molecular markers and morphometrical descriptors

Augustinos¹,

Petropoulos

Karasoulou

et al. 2017

Span. j. agric. res.

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Eggplant is a widely cultivated vegetable crop of great economic importance. Its long lasting history of domestication, selection and breeding has led to the development of numerous cultivars with variable traits. In the present study, we assessed the diversity levels within and among eleven Greek and foreign cultivars, using 22 morphological descriptors and two different classes of molecular markers (retrotransposon microsatellite amplified polymorphism-REMAP markers and nuclear microsatellites). Our results, in accordance with other studies in the field showed: a) the limited levels of genetic polymorphism within the cultivars; b) the high morphological and genetic divergence existing among them as indicated by the genetic distance values calculated, which could be attributed to selection, inbreeding and bottleneck effects; and c) the lack of concordance among morphological descriptors and molecular markers. Despite these, our analysis showed that the utilization of combinations of markers is an effective method for the characterization of plant material providing also useful diagnostic tools for the identification and authentication of the selected Greek cultivars.

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Assessing diversity among traditional Greek and foreign eggplant cultivars using molecular markers and morphometrical descriptors

Augustinos¹,

Petropoulos

Karasoulou

et al. 2017

Span. j. agric. res.

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“…Gracia y Albisu (2001) abordan desde una perspectiva global los principales determinantes del consumo de alimentos en la Unión Europea poniendo de manifiesto cómo a pesar de encontrarnos con mercados de alimentos cada vez más homogéneos todavía se aprecian importantes diferencias entre los consumidores de los distintos países. En el caso de España, son numerosos los trabajos que han abordado el análisis de la demanda de alimentos utilizando tanto datos de series temporales 1 como de corte transversal 2 .…”

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Análisis de la demanda de alimentos en España considerando el impacto de la dieta sobre la salud

Angulo

Mtimet²,

Gil

2011

EARN

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RESUMEN:En este trabajo se analiza la demanda de alimentos en España considerando la relación existente entre salud y dieta. Se plantea la maximización de una función de utilidad que depende de las cantidades demandadas de los distintos alimentos y del nivel de salud alcanzado, sujeto a dos restricciones: la presupuestaria y la relativa a la función de producción de salud. La solución al problema conduce a la estimación conjunta de un sistema de ecuaciones con dos componentes, una ecuación referida a la calidad de la dieta y un sistema de demanda de alimentos. Los resultados obtenidos indican, por un lado, que la introducción de la calidad de la dieta en un sistema de demanda (frente a un modelo que incluya únicamente renta y precios) modifica las elasticidades renta, aumentando en el caso de los productos más saludables. Por otro lado, se pone de manifiesto que un aumento en el nivel de calidad de la dieta conlleva un aumento en la valoración de los cereales y las patatas y una disminución en el grupo de aceites y carnes, principalmente.PALABRAS CLAVE: Demanda de alimentos, salud, calidad de la dieta, España.Clasificación JEL: D12, D13, Q11. Spanish food demand analysis taking into account the impact of diet on healthSUMMARY: This work analyses the Spanish demand for food taking into account the relationship between health and diet. Consequently, a utility function which depends on both food quantities and the level of health reached by consumers is maximized subject to two types of restrictions: a traditional budget constraint and a restriction associated with health production. The solution of the maximisation problem leads to a joint estimation of an equation system with two components, an equation referred to the diet quality and a food demand system. Results indicate that the introduction of the quality of diet in a demand system (in relation to the traditional model which only considers income and prices) modifies income elasticities, becoming greater in the case of healthier food groups. Moreover, an increase in diet quality implies an increase in the valuation of cereals and potatoes and a decrease of oil and meat groups. KEYWORDS:Food demand, health, diet quality, Spain. Agradecimientos: Los autores agradecen las sugerencias recibidas del profesor Agustín Ariño así como la financiación recibida a través del proyecto con código SEJ2006-02328/ECON del Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia del Gobierno de España. Los autores quieren agradecer también los comentarios realizados por dos revisores anónimos que contribuyen a mejorar substancialmente el contenido y la presentación de este artículo. Los autores asumen la total responsabilidad de cualquier error adicional que contenga el presente trabajo.

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“…a diet comprising meals that offer much of utility-increasing characteristics relative to the most restrictive utility-decreasing one), the higher the overall utility will be at the end of the period (Fischer 2007). The current food consumption patterns, partly a result of reduced household sizes and increased female participation rates in the workforce, seem to be shaped by several researchers (Poole 1997;Gracia, Albisu 2001;Kretter, Ubrežiová 2006;Živělová, Jánsky 2006;Nagyová, Kročanová 2007) to: (1) more out-of-home food consumption, (2) higher value-added products with greater convenience attributes, (3) a greater presence and diversity of ethnic foods, (4) heightened consumer concerns for nutrition, safety, and health, and (5) growing sensitivity to environmental and social externalities such as production technologies, distribution systems, ecological sustainability and animal welfare. These common movements seem to be present in many of the industrialized economies, and thus it appears that these countries are becoming increasingly similar in their food consumption pattern (Fischer 2007).…”

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Marketing attitudes towards the functional food and implications for market segmentation

Horská¹,

Sparke²

2007

AGR ECON-CZECH

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Abstract:The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the opportunities for further expansion in the segment of the functional food as highly innovative products based on market segmentation done from the consumer perspective. The survey analysed consumers and their relationship to Functional Food. The relationship between nutrition and health was evaluated as well as their trust towards some actors in the field of food, e.g. producers and retailers and their promotion claims on the one side and medical doctors and nutritional consultants and their advices on the other side. Germany, Poland, Spain and England were the analyzed countries of this survey. About 600 consumers have been interviewed. Afterwards they were grouped into five segments of buyers and three groups of non-buyers of Functional Food.Key words: functional food, market segmentation, innovative food, consumer, nutrition Abstrakt: Cieľom príspevku je skúmať príležitosti pre ďalšiu expanziu v kategórii funkčných potravín ako vysoko inovatívnych produktov na základe segmentácie trhu zo spotrebiteľského hľadiska. Prieskum analyzoval spotrebiteľov a ich vzťah k funkčným potravinám, vzťah medzi výživou a zdravím ako aj dôveru k určitým subjektom na trhu potravín, ktoré formujú verejnú mienku (konzultanti, lekári, propagácia). Riadených rozhovorov sa zúčastnilo 600 respondentov v Nemecku, Poľsku, Španielsku a Veľkej Británii v priebehu roka 2006. Výsledkom prieskumu je definovanie 5 trhových segmentov, ktoré nakupujú funkčné potraviny a 3 trhových segmentov, ktoré majú k funkčným potravinám negatívny postoj.

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Food consumption in the European Union: Main determinants and country differences

Cited by 93 publications

References 11 publications

Assessing diversity among traditional Greek and foreign eggplant cultivars using molecular markers and morphometrical descriptors

Assessing diversity among traditional Greek and foreign eggplant cultivars using molecular markers and morphometrical descriptors

Análisis de la demanda de alimentos en España considerando el impacto de la dieta sobre la salud

Marketing attitudes towards the functional food and implications for market segmentation

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