This issue of Economia agro-alimentare / Food Economy presents a collection of Regular Articles that, together, reflect the journal’s increasingly international reach, with empirical evidence drawn from Europe, Africa, and across Asia and the Pacific.
Several contributions address the economics of food quality, origin, and consumer choice: an experimental auction measuring the combined effect of PGI and organic labelling on willingness to pay, an assessment of the achievements and challenges of Geographical Indications in Côte d’Ivoire, and an analysis of how Generation Z is reshaping food behaviour in the digital age. A second group turns to smallholder livelihoods and agricultural development, examining contract farming and farmer welfare among red chili producers, gendered labour allocation in smallholder vegetable production and marketing, and the behavioural determinants of adaptation and maladaptation among coastal farmers facing climate pressures. Further studies broaden the picture towards food security and the agri-food industry, with evidence on food access, spatial differences, and the targeting of social protection, and on employment trends in large food and beverage companies in Italy.
Spanning willingness-to-pay elicitation, experimental auctions, econometric modelling, and household survey analysis, and ranging across Albania, Indonesia, the Philippines, Côte d’Ivoire, and Italy, the issue offers a timely cross-section of current research in agri-food economics, value chains, and policy.