This paper reviews available cross-disciplinary evidence on how culture affects food
security. We discuss the impact of culture on all four dimensions (availability, access and …

The proliferation of social media applications such as online communities, social networking
sites, or blogs gives the public new means for receiving, and importantly, providing …

Food consumers face uncertainty and demand high quality and safe food products,
apparently with as much information as possible. Today's agriculture and food industry aims …

The objective of this paper is, first, to determine which information cues on beef labels really
attract consumer interest, specified as the level of perceived importance attached to and …

In recent years, it seems that consumers are generally uncertain about the safety and quality
of their food and their risk perception differs substantially from that of experts. Hormone and …

Consumers' food choices and dietary behaviour can be markedly affected by communication
and information. Whether the provided information is processed by the receiver, and thus …

Spikes in food prices have pushed food security to the top of the global policy agenda. Price
increases have mixed effects on poverty and hunger: They increase the cost of food for …

The assessment and improvement of animal welfare are the tasks and joint responsibility of
many stakeholders involved in the agro-food chain. This paper first looks at the supply side …

Consumers are increasingly exposed to labels communicating specific processing aspects
of food production, and recent state and federal legislation in the United States has called for …

The agri‐food trade has expanded considerably over decades, with a remarkable increase
in the market share of developing countries. The upward trend in trade flows has been …