... constructs. Margo Degieter can be contacted at: margo.degieter@ugent.be Stakeholder perceptions Plant-based protein chain Sustainability Resilience Risks Europe With increasing annual incomes, the worldwide meat consumption started to increase, while plant-based protein consumption...

... rights only Short food supply chains Consumers Motivations Barriers Europe Good practices Healthy diets The global food system has undergone significant modernisation and structural change, which has consolidated power towards large-scale actors such as processors and retailers...

... China Demand Europe Imports Mexico Preferences Rolling regression Source-differentiation The generalized dynamic Rotterdam model is used in estimating Chinese beer demand by source (Bushehri, 2003). The model is similar to the static Rotterdam model (Theil, 1980 ; Theil and Clements...

... overlapping critical points in consumer behavior and create educational messages based on the information gathered. Dr Kadri Koppel can be contacted at: kadri@ksu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Europe Food safety Consumer choice Food contamination may occur within...

... of this process. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Retailing Europe Meat Animal products Food history Developmentalist scholars like Elias, Goody and Mennell have theorised that, since the late Middle Ages, western Europe has undertaken a civilising process (Elias, 1978). For them...

...) were used as measures of goodness-of-fit. Values below 0.08 for RMSEA (Browne and Cudeck, 1993) and above 0.90 for GFI and CFI suggest an acceptable model fit. Food Consumers Obesity Food products Europe Consumer behaviour Traditional foods, which are an important part of European...

... with the highest fish consumption within Europe. Romania, Czech Republic and Germany are among the EU‐countries with low fish consumption levels, which ties in with our results. Deviations pertain to the German self‐reported fish consumption frequency, which was expected to be higher than that of Romania and Czech...

... and consumption of wild and farmed fish in Europe. Design/methodology/approach In total, 28 focus groups were conducted in the capitals of seven European countries: France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Norway, Spain and the UK, between January‐March 2009. Data were analyzed with the qualitative software Atlas/ti...

... and grape supply chains' export activities to Europe were investigated. The field research was undertaken in Brazil, Germany, The Netherlands and the UK. In total, 41 face‐to‐face interviews were carried out. Findings The supermarkets' literature tends to generalise the strategies of retailers focusing...

..., the competitiveness and globalisation of today's markets has made traceability obligatory for all firms operating in developed food markets. Traceability Sources of power Integration Food supply chain Supply chain management Food products Europe Tracking Vernède et al. (2003) indicate...

... implementation strategies adopted by consumer‐driven and responsive fruit chains. The significance of addressing the previously mentioned issues stems from the need to increase fruit consumption in Europe, which lags behind the levels suggested by physicians and nutrition scientists. Fruit‐related innovations...

... to assess empirically the qualities and limitations of the Blue Ocean Strategy. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Markets Fruits Vegetables Europe Food industry The European Fruit and Vegetables Industry (EFVI) is one the most competitive industries in Europe, in need of new...

... Consumer behaviour Europe Market value Product information Individual perception Spain It is generally acknowledged that fish is an important part of a healthy and balanced diet (World Health Organization, 2003). A high level of interest among European consumers in health and healthy eating...

... analysis Agricultural and fishing industries Europe Vietnam Chile Supply chain management Traceability has been applied in food supply chains for several years in compliance with legislative and market requirements, such as EC Regulation No. 178/2002 (EU, 2002) and US Bioterrorism Act PL107...

.... Findings Traditional food consumption patterns are stronger in the south than in the north of Europe. TFC across Europe are typically middle‐aged to elderly, health‐conscious, ethnocentric, food connoisseurs, who are attached to familiarity in their food choices and who very much enjoy cooking...

... to the elderly in Europe. Research limitations/implications More research on determinants of healthy ageing, especially in what concerns foods, and satisfaction with food, is required since efficient policies are needed to enable older populations to maintain their independence and a good satisfaction...

..., implementation of the general food law, and the advantages the system can offer for effective risk mitigation. Design/methodology/approach – Delphi methodology was applied to understand experts' views on the efficiency of existing traceability systems in Europe following the implementation of the General...

... poultry meat consumers, aged between 18 and 65 years and in the selected countries of Central and Eastern Europe (Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia). A positive perception of poultry meat was determined since the consumers in all three analyzed countries perceived it as tasty and healthy. Special...

... in one analysis, the technique of meta‐analysis is powerful and may allow the generation of more nuanced findings and the generalisation of those findings. Organic foods Agriculture Europe Environmental management The latter data point has not been retained for the meta‐analysis...

... (and not respondents) in a particular response category. The importance of cultural variation in food choice is recognised within the European context (Askegaard and Madsen, 1998 ; Fieldhouse, 1995). The distinction that is often made in Europe is between the more northern or central countries (e.g. UK...