CONTEXT Food systems worldwide are under enormous pressure. Over the past decades,
local food systems have been promoted by governments and civil society organisations as a …

The understanding of what the consumer considers as craftsmanship is a sensitive question
in the food sector. Despite food label regulations on this issue having undergone partial …

This comprehensive overview of local food systems explores alternative definitions of local
food, estimates market size and reach, describes the characteristics of local consumers and …

In recent years, consumers' interest in local food has significantly increased. Several studies
in the agricultural economics and marketing literature have analyzed mainly consumers' …

This research examines consumer preference and compares their willingness‐to‐pay for a
host of value‐added attributes of processed blackberry jam, and focuses on various organic …

This study investigates organic consumers' preferences for local production of apples. The
analysis is based on a choice experiment among 637 Danish consumers used in …

A contingent valuation framework is used to evaluate South Carolina consumers' willingness
to pay for the “locally grown” characteristic (defined here as South Carolina grown) in …

Consumers' interest in locally produced foods is increasing. Hence, there is a need to
decipher and quantify consumers' desire for local foods and understand the underlying …

The organic food industry is continuously growing worldwide. Critical for sustaining this
expansion is an adequate understanding of consumer behaviour. However, reported results …

Using stated preference data from Kentucky and Ohio, USA, we estimate consumer
willingness-to-pay for varieties of a processed food product (blackberry jam) that are …