Alexandre Silva

University of Lisbon | UL

Objective According to the World Health Organisation’s estimates, food contamination is linked to 23 million cases of illness and 5,000 deaths per year in Europe. While changes in food production and distribution play an important role in managing contamination risk, foodborne illnesses can originate in food-handling practices at home. This study a...

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O presente livro apresenta um conjunto de resultados obtidos no âmbito do projeto STRINGS. Importa referir que alguns dos resultados aqui divulgados foram já objeto de análise e discussão em conferências internacionais e nacionais sobre temáticas relacionadas com as várias dimensões estudadas no projeto. É igualmente importante referir que alguns d...

The SafeConsume educational suite was designed to improve knowledge about undertaking safer food practices and avoiding food-borne illnesses among young people. The resources were designed to support educators and members of the community who teach young people (aged 11–18 years) and include lesson plans and supporting teacher training resources. T...

1. PURPOSE Despite the increase in policies regarding food certification labels and processes, there are distinct levels of knowledge and dissemination about European Union schemes and their impact is still less significant than other food quality criteria (Grunert and Aachman 2016). The present contribution focuses on how the main actors of rural...

1. PURPOSE This presentation explores the promotion of rural provenance products, comparing what aspects and specificities do urban specialty shops’ owners, producers and distributors choose to emphasize. It aims at contributing to the yet little explored topic of promotion of rural provenance foodstuffs from a multi-actor perspective. 2. METHODOLO...

1. PURPOSE A visible element of urban landscapes, particularly in city centers, is the display of products for sale in shop windows. The spatial arrangement and organization of goods and services have been a longstanding subject of consumption research. Studies placed closer to marketing studies tend to focus on assessing the effectiveness of this...

1. PURPOSE Rural food producers, especially small-scale farmers and artisans, often face difficulties in accessing market conditions that provide them enough income to ensure the sustainability of their businesses and the communities they live in. Though the literature on Short Food Supply Chains has highlighted potential economic, social, and envi...

This article analyzes how rural provenance foods are portrayed by the promotional materials, websites and social media issued by urban specialty stores in Portugal. Even though provenance food may be defined in multiple ways as, among others, local, regional, traditional, and authentic, provenance is mostly about territories of origin: their biophy...

Rural provenance food is gauging interest among consumers increasingly aware and knowledgeable about what they eat (Caputo et al., 2018). This interest has been accompanied by theincrease of specialty shops in urban context. The role played by these stores in fostering the consumption and in modelling how these products are portrayed and communicat...

Consumers’ food preferences increasingly meet concerns of authenticity, health, origin, and sustainability, altogether attributes embodied in rural provenance food products. The dynamics of production, commercialization, and availability of these products in urban centers are growing stronger. This study aims to explore rural provenance food consum...

the present paper focus is on how traditional rural food products are advertised and promoted within Gourmet or Specialty stores located in Aveiro, Lisbon and Porto, not only concerning their physical properties but also the narratives, symbols and images used to describe their producers, ways of production or preparation and, also, provenance rura...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore and typify the characteristics and diverse features of urban speciality stores selling rural provenance food, taking the case of three cities in Portugal. Design/methodology/approach The study was based on hierarchical cluster analysis, performed upon data collected from a survey to 113 shops, locate...

Construction of Portuguese rural provenance food as gourmand by urban specialty stores STRINGS-Selling The Rural IN (urban) Gourmet St ores-est ablishing new liaisons between t own and country t hrough t he sale and consumption of rural product s (PTDC/GES-OUT/29281/2017) https://www.stringsproject.pt/

Nas três últimas décadas algumas transformações dos sistemas agroalimentares, como o crescimento do poder dos grandes retalhistas sobre os sistemas de produção e distribuição alimentar e a diminuição dos retornos das inovações tecnológicas, têm pressionado os pequenos produtores e retalhistas e colocado em causa a sustentabilidade das suas atividad...