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Growth of Omnichannel Grocery Retailing and Food Prices

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of the growth of omnichannel grocery retailing on food prices. We first develop a conceptual model of consumer choice and retailer pricing that allows us to evaluate changes in equilibrium prices, quantities, and profits with online channel growth and alternative pricing strategies.
Xiangwen Kong, Metin Çakır, Qingxiao Li   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török, Gréta Maró, Zsófia Jámbor, Zalán Márk Maró, Barbara Tocco, Péter Balogh, Péter Czine   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Metropolitan Areas in Spain and Italy

, 2010
Metropolitan areas concentrate the main share of population, production and consumption in OECD countries. They are likely to be the most important units for economic, social and environmental analysis as well as for the development of policy strategies.
Boix Domenech, Rafael, Veneri, Paolo, Institut d'Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Economic and Environmental Tradeoffs in Cultivating Short Food Supply Chains With Urban Indoor Agriculture

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study advances the literature on sustainable urban agriculture and alternative sustainable food production systems, which have gained momentum due to the need to strengthen regional food supply chains and meet the growing urban demand for fresh food. Indoor agriculture (IA) holds promise for year‐round cultivation of fresh produce even in
Joseph Seong, H. Christopher Peterson, Simone Valle de Souza   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Haitian Consumers' Willingness to Pay a Premium for Aflatoxin‐Compliant Peanut Butter in the Informal Market

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Market‐based solutions are increasingly tested to address aflatoxin issues in peanuts in developing countries. Although previous studies have found that Haitian grocery store shoppers are willing to pay a 21% premium for peanut butter with levels of aflatoxin that meet international standards, no information is available for the much larger ...
Phendy Jacques, Stevens Azima, Maurice Doyon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Metropolitan area network re-architecture

Dianxin kexue, 2018
Digitization and intelligentization have become the main goals of infrastructure construction.As the most important part of the evolution of the network,the re-architecture of metropolitan area network (MAN) has directly determined the advanced level of ...
Huanan CHEN, Xia GONG, Yongqing ZHU, Youming WU, Cancan HUANG   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

1 oder 2 oder 3? Zur Konstituierung möglicher Metropolregionen an Rhein und Ruhr

Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 2010
The article discusses an advancement of the planning concept of “Metropolitan Region Rhine Ruhr”, which has been established in the year 1995, but never realised in practice.
Hans H. Blotevogel, Kati Schulze
doaj   +1 more source

Does surgical intervention contribute to survival for patients with para‐aortic lymph node metastasis from colorectal cancer?

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
Overall survival of patients who underwent surgical resection was significantly better compared to that of patients who underwent chemotherapy without surgical resection. These results highlight the benefit of surgical intervention to survival for patients with isolated para‐aortic lymph node metastasis or with resectable liver metastasis.
Akira Ouchi, Koji Komori, Sono Ito, Yusuke Kinugasa, Soichiro Ishihara, Akio Shiomi, Yukihide Kanemitsu, Takeshi Suto, Hiroki Takahashi, Yoichi Ajioka, on behalf of the study group for PALNM projected by JSCCR, Akinobu Furutani, Akira Hirata, Atsushi Ishibe, Eiji Sunami, Heita Ozawa, Hideki Ueno, Hideyuki Ishida, Hiroyuki Egi, Ichiro Takemasa, Jun Watanabe, Junichiro Hiro, Kay Uehara, Kazushige Kawai, Koya Hida, Manabu Shiozawa, Masaaki Ito, Masakatsu Numata, Masanori Hotchi, Masaya Hiyoshi, Masayuki Ohue, Michio Itabashi, Ryo Inada, Shuntaro Nagai, Takaya Kobatake, Takeshi Kato, Tomohiro Yamaguchi, Yasumasa Takii, Yasumitsu Hirano, Yoshihiro Kakeji   +39 more
wiley   +1 more source

ASSESSING THE VIABILITY OF ROMANIA'S NEWLY ESTABLISHED METROPOLITAN AREAS [PDF]

Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis
The legislation of new metropolitan areas in Romania follows the complicated and confusing experience of previous metropolitan areas, instilling a sense of excessive caution among both public authorities and researchers.
Constantin‐Alexandru Stoian, Octavian Groza, Alexandru Rusu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Initiatives towards Carbon Neutrality in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area

, 2016
Carbon neutrality represents one climate strategy adopted by many cities, including the city of Helsinki and the Helsinki metropolitan area in Finland.
Karna Dahal, J. Niemelä
semanticscholar   +1 more source