Network of German, US and Canadian researchers to organize two food economic seminars (2010 and 2012) and a track session at the 8th World Congress on Health Economics (2011)
Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse
The purpose of the “Network on the Economics of Food Choice and Health” is to provide a platform for young professionals and senior researchers from different disciplines such as economics, food sciences and animal hygiene and from different countries (Germany, the US and Canada) to work together in an interdisciplinary forum. The network’s focus lies on analysing dietary patterns and food safety issues from an economic as well as from a behavioural perspective in order to support healthy food choices of consumers. To benefit from the different research areas covered by the network members several public events were hosted. Among others three seminars on ‘The Economics of Food, Food Choice and Health’ were organized, the first in Germany in 2010, the second in the US in 2012 and a third one in Canada in 2014. In addition, the network organised several track sessions and workshops for example at the Obesity Summit in 2013 in Vancouver, Canada. Malnutrition and unsafe foods are as much economic and behavioural issues as they are nutritional and health issues. Deficiencies and excess in a person’s intake of nutrients and other dietary elements needed for a healthy living on the one hand and toxins on the other hand are the result of individual but as well industrial choices and behaviour with individual, industrial and societal consequences. The aim of the seminars and the track session were to provide insights into the determinants of food choice, food availability as well as regulatory methods and their possible impact on health. At the seminars and at the track session studies from micro-, health- and behavioural economics, food marketing and food science were brought together in order to explain interdependencies among risks resulting from unhealthy diets or unsafe food and to analyse opportunities to manage these risks.
Projektbezogene Publikationen (Auswahl)
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(2013): Consumer choice and the acceptance of production practice: introduction and overview. Special paper collection from the IAAE conference 2012. Agricultural Economics 44(4-5), Editorial, 511-512
Roosen, J. (ed.)
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(2013): The Economics of Food, Food Choice and Health. (Papers from the 1st EAAE/AAEA Seminar). European Review of Agricultural Economics
Hartmann, M., Roosen, J., Grebitus, C.
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Consumers and trust. Food Policy, Volume 52, April 2015, Special section: Consumers and Trust, Pages 71-74
Goddard, E., Hobbs, J.
