Claudio Bellia

Claudio Bellia
University of Catania | UNICT · Department of Agriculture Food and Environment (Di3A)

Degree in Economics and Business (four-year degree programme)from the University of Catania, Faculty of Economics

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November 2006 - December 2015
University of Catania
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Publications (57)
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This paper presents the first results of marketing studies for the positioning of a new sustainable biobased plastic packaging for fresh food, as part of the research project "CItrus waste ReciCLing for added valuE products-CIRCLE" for improving the sustainability of the citrus processing production chain through the valorization of processing wast...
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Consumers are changing their food preferences in favor of healthier foods that have a beneficial effect on health and that embrace sustainable consumption patterns. To meet the demand of modern consumers, the food sector is undergoing a major revolution as more and more new products are appearing on the market. This trend has encouraged the food in...
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Introduction In recent years, issues related to environmental and ecosystem protection have been given greater consideration than in the past. The goal of adopting sustainable development models is vigorously pursued in the European Union and is reflected concretely in the new Common Agricultural Policy 2023-2027. The circular economy can certainly...
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Introduction The combination of knowledge, personal skills and company resources influences, all things being equal, such as the availability of new technologies, market conditions and other factors external to the company, farmers in their innovation choices. This study is an attempt to understand which psychological constructs influence the decis...
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Introduction Most previous studies have investigated consumer purchasing behavior for food products in urban areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. In contrast, the present study is one of the very few to investigate consumer purchasing behavior for food products within rural areas. Methods To this end, research was conducted in Sicily taking as a ca...
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Wine Routes develop inside the larger context of wine tourism (WT), which is increasingly important for rural communities. Italy is one of the most important countries in the world for wine production and tourism. Sicily is one of the leading regions in Italy for wine production and wine tourists. This study focuses on the Sicilian wine routes (SWR...
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This is the first study on the brand–land link for quality wines with a strong identity produced in extreme territories using the Policy Delphi methodology. The objective of this study is to assess the existence of a relationship between the wine brand and the territory of origin for wines produced in the Etna valley in Sicily (southern Italy). Awa...
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Spumante wines produced in Sicily region (southern Italy) have sensorial characteristics significantly different from those produced in other Italian regions, because of the great differences of terroir. Offering a product included in a coherent and consistent context allows consumers to differentiate in the marketplace. The aim of this study is to...
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Street food (SF) consists of ready-to-eat food prepared and sold on the street. This food constitutes the food traditions of local populations in many countries of the world. SF characterizes a large number of cities around the world, from New York to Paris, from Palermo to cities of North Africa, China, India and Japan. SF is inexpensive and prepa...
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The choice of influencer marketing as an endorser for promoting products and services is becoming a more and more effective communication strategy of open innovation. Their use of social media platforms, such as Instagram, allows them to be reached by millions of followers all over the world. As a response to the economic crisis that affected Italy...
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the commoning heritage processes find application for the production of agro-environmental public goods in contexts of high socio-economic marginality and environmental vulnerability, characterized by abandonment and from the consumption of agricultural land for food use. The purpose is to understand how...
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This paper aims to achieve an economic feasibility and life cycle assessment of three different olive cultivation systems in the Mediterranean area through the joint use of economic and environmental indicators, in order to identify the key elements to optimize their economic performance and a lower environmental impact. Three different management...
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Biofortification is a strategy to reduce micronutrient deficiency in humans by fortifying food through natural processes, agronomic practices and genetic modification. In this study, we seek to shed light on what consumers understand by the term 'biofortified products' and thus to understand their level of knowledge about these products, as well as...
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The Francigena Way (Via Francigena) is a long international itinerary that was awarded recognition as a Culture Route of the Council of Europe. It starts in Canterbury (UK), touches 13 European regions and ends in Rome. An ancient track of this route is in Sicily (Southern Italy), and its name is Magna Via Francigena (Great Francigena Way). This tr...
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The aim of this study is to provide a literature review on biofortified products and their role in the scientific sphere. Despite the large number of studies conducted on biofortified products in the last 20 years, many defining issues are still debated in the literature and several research questions should be clarified. It is therefore relevant t...
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In light of increasing attention on biofortified products from the institutional, scientific and industrial worlds, we investigate consumer knowledge, consumer choice, the relationship between consumer choice and lifestyles, willingness to pay, and factors influencing consumer groups regarding biofortified foods. Complicating the matter is the lack...
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The protection of geographical indications (‘GIs’) within the UK is placed into doubt by the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union (‘Brexit’). The default legal position is that after Brexit, there would be no legal provision for GIs in UK law. This default position can only be changed if the UK and the EU agree the terms of the UK’s withdrawal a...
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The world scenario for the cultivation of Cannnabis Sativa L. shows a trend in recent years that is clearly on the rise. The growth of small, medium and large enterprises that cultivate and market products deriving from Cannnabis Sativa L. in European countries is also exponential. This trend also effects Italy, a country which in the past was inte...
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This research analyzes consumers' different purchasing attitudes in traditional and on-line markets. Italy's on-line direct selling process for organic farm products is still in its formative phase, and the prospective developments mark an interesting research area, not least because it may represent a tool to integrate the relationship with custom...
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This paper, effecting an analysis comparative of the different regional typologies, it analyzes the concept of weakness, with reference to the phenomena of degrade and disarrangement of the grounds, inside the processes of identification of functional territorial articulations to the statistical analysis and the decisions of policy, showing as desp...
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Research in the field of tourism in the Caribbean is rather limited despite the fact the industry is capital for the area. This industry is very important for the French Overseas Departments and yet, the local corporate doing business in the sector are limited. Out of the 59 big French Overseas Department corporate, only 14 (24%) have tourism relat...
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The issues of quality and food safety, as a resource for the enterprise that adopts them, and consequently a source of competitive advantage, they are, today, spread far beyond the borders of Europe and receive progressively greater attention at international level, even in virtue of a widespread and more intense consumer attention towards the cont...
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In the last few years there seems to have been a growth of interest in green spaces with agricultural activities in the urban environment that have become expressions of a urban agriculture that represent a mode of agricultural exploitation of these green spaces by citizens, able to offer a response to renewed social, alimentary, environmental, and...
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Destinations with a negative image struggle to attract tourists (Alvarez and Campo, 2014). Research addressing the issues of these destinations remains limited. Séraphin, Butcher and Korstanje (2016) have provided evidence that the education of tourists at pre-visit stage using visual online learning materials can contribute to improve the image of...
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The concept of agricultural multi-functionality is affirmed in European countries in the 1990s of the XX century to contrast the agricultural crisis, sustain the farmers income and protect the biodiversity of rural landscapes. In 1996, the Declaration of Cork, after revealing incoherence in CAP and underlining that public support for rural developm...
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What link is there between tourism, street food, and regulations on food safety for street food? Street food is characterized by three elements: it is cheap, it's convenient and is easily obtainable around the city through kiosks and/or vans, located at street markets, festivals and especially in highly frequented tourist locations. One element tha...
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Among effects generated by the intense and prolonged financial, economic and labor crisis which has affected the economically advanced countries, we could also include on the one hand food poverty and on the other food losses and wastage that exist alongside the food system. The occurrence of Food Losses and Wastage assume different proportions in...
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The valorization of an agro-food product is an articulated process that interacts with different variables and goes beyond the strictly economic dimension of the business system. Quality products, in particular, are closely related to the environment and to landscape, biodiversity culture and traditions. The valorization of the product in this case...
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Although strawberry cultivation represents only a small reality in the field of vegetable and fruit production, being included in the category of the so-called niche products, its potentials deserve great interest at the production, commercial and industrial levels. This scientific article is inspired by previous research and analyses the case of s...
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This study springs from a reflection on the concept of the Slow Network as a tool to strengthen the connection between a territory and its inhabitants, through the rediscovery of the agro-environmental, landscape, historical, artistic, and cultural value of each territory. Creating a slow network means utilising slow means of mobility, thus creatin...
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The valorization of an agro-food product is an articulated process that interacts with different variables and goes beyond the strictly economic dimension of the business system. Quality products, in particular, are closely related to the environment and to landscape, biodiversity culture and traditions. The valorization of the product in this case...
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Local varieties are an expression of the selection that over time was carried out by different actors within local communities and which still constitute an important source of “economic” and a heritage of “knowledge” in any case to safeguard; they exist and survive on the set of agronomic factors, cultural, sociological typical of a territory and,...
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Sicilian viticulture together with Sicilian agrifood system, now faces a phase of profound evolution linked, on the one hand, to the internal trends sector and, secondly, to the increasingly persistent process of globalization that affects the entire economy world. The present paper starts with a regional research project carried out in 2007, allow...
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The importance and relevance of the direct sales of products of the agricultural sector in the member states of the EU, have led the Commission provide to the European Parliament to get a better view o f to a direct relationship with consumers. This in order to propose the adoption of instruments to support and promote markets directly managed by f...
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The paper presents results of research on the direct sales or organized of food products through a visionary system of sustainable logistics as a strand of optimization processes with regard to transport, productive activity, and social well-being. We focus on some important aspects of direct sales, in particular, on environmental impact issues in...
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This paper summarizes how the food industry is becoming more customer-oriented to deliver safe products for consumers, high quality products to maintain customer satisfaction to gain competitive advantage on the market and needs faster response and improvements to deal with food frauds and incidents. Is it better to put resources into identifying f...
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The contribution to the welfare of citizens that urban gardens can generate represents a "social use-value". The social value of horticulture in cities can be expressed by means of an appropriate set of indicators describing the produced values. The proposed work, which is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration, highlights the potentialit...
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The contribution to the welfare of citizens that urban gardens can generate represents a "social use-value". The social value of horticulture in cities can be expressed by means of an appropriate set of indicators describing the produced values. The proposed work, which is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration, highlights the potentialit...
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Given the current lack of studies concerning the innovation and organization of PDO sweet wines we examined the degree of organization of the wineries producers of a Sicilian wine sweet: Malvasia delle Lipari. This paper aims at analyzing organizational and market aspects of this wine and at suggesting adequate market policies in order to increase...
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The study moves from the observation that, in the last fifty years (1961-2010) the territory of our country, like those of other countries with advanced economies, has undergone extensive economic processes of change in the use of land, mostly due to a strong reduction of Agricultural Area Use (AAU), whose consistency - on the basis of official sta...
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The topic of the change in the economic land use and the corresponding soil consumption is quite complex, also because of the multi-sector economic activities that are set up and that can enter in competition with each other, an activity that predominantly tend to evolve from agricultural and non-agricultural factors. Furthermore, this paper have p...
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Starting from an examination, with multidisciplinary approaches, of issues regarding the concept of food quality from semantic, economic and juridicalnormative perspectives, the aim of this paper is to develop a framework which takes into account, through analysis of the literature and empirical research, social, legal and economic questions concer...
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Starting from an examination∗with multidisciplinary approaches, of issues regarding the concept of food quality from semantic, economic and juridicalnormative perspectives, the aim of this paper is to develop a framework which takes into account, through analysis of the literature and empirical research, social, legal and economic questions concern...
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The global scenario of the GMOs crops, about 148 million hectares, shows in 2010 about 10 main crops. The trend of recent years underlines a constant increasing during the time everywhere in the world. About 15.4 million small, medium and large farms have obtained "biotech" crops in 29 different countries. We must consider other aspects (scientific...
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The present work it inserts himself in that vein of researches which examines the implementation of the marketing, through the development of empiric investigations led on the transformation enterprises, on the basis of those recent theoretical buildings which consider the enterprises as aggregations (sets) of value generatrix activity, by the use...
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The present work it inserts himself in that vein of researches which examines the implementation of the marketing, through the development of empiric investigations led on the transformation enterprises, on the basis of those recent theoretical buildings which consider the enterprises as aggregations (sets) of value generatrix activity, by the use...

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