Louis-Georges Soler's research while affiliated with Université Paris-Saclay and other places

Publications (84)

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The objective of this work was to study the reaction of consumers to a technological innovation (a radically new manufacturing process) applied to a traditional product (cheese). A traditional cheese and two cheeses resulting from a new sustainable process were evaluated by 142 consumers. These cheeses were first evaluated blind, giving rise to lik...
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Consumers increasingly demand information about the environmental impacts of their food. The French government is in the process of introducing environmental labelling for all food products. A scientific council was set up, and its main conclusions are presented in this article, through six questions: What environmental issues should be considered?...
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Most of the time, Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) of food products are performed only on one representative of a food category. This doesn't allow us to understand the possible variations of environmental impacts within a food product category and the responsible factors for these variations. For this reason, LCAs were conducted for 80 different indus...
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There is an urgent need to reduce the strong environmental impact of food production and consumption, which are expected to increase in the coming years due to the growing world population. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a known method for environmental evaluation worldwide. In the case of food products, LCAs are often carried out on a single repre...
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The future of European fisheries and aquaculture depends not only on their capacity to innovate (e.g., introduce new products) but also on their ability to realize sustainable production given the environmental concerns surrounding fisheries. Market tools can be used to signal sustainability to consumers by balancing sustainability and competitiven...
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Advice on replacing unhealthy foods with healthier alternatives within the same food category may be more acceptable and might ease the transition towards a healthy diet. Here, we studied the potential impact of substitutions within the pizza category on the risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D). The study sample consisted of 2,510 adults from the INCA2 Fr...
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In the context of climate change, diet is a key driver of environmental impacts. Previous research has emphasized the environmental benefit of increasing consumption of fishery and aquaculture products (FAPs) in Europe. However, increasing the proportion of FAPs in consumer diets could also lead to a transfer of environmental damage from earth to s...
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Résumé Une des voies d’action pour prévenir les risques de santé liés à l’âge réside dans la conception de produits présentant des caractéristiques nutritionnelles adaptées aux besoins spécifiques des personnes âgées. L’étude réalisée auprès de 472 consommateurs de plus de 65 ans avait pour objectif de comparer leurs consentements à payer et leurs...
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No one would dispute that agricultural systems and food diets are not sustainable from an environmental and health point of view, and that increasing their sustainability must be a major objective of farm and food policies. Simultaneously, climatic, environmental, and health shocks are likely to increase in the coming years. This note defends the i...
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In the scientific literature, the debate on health and environmental benefits of a reduction in the share of animal-sourced food, in particular beef, in consumer diets is mostly focused on demand-side versus supply transitions. We discuss in this paper the necessary conditions for a win–win scenario to exist, where consumer preferences for diets wi...
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In line with sustainability issues, we are currently seeing a transition towards a lower consumption of animal protein. How ongoing gradual rearrangements in protein patterns impact sustainability and climatic change remains unknown. We used data from a French representative survey and selected for each individual the dual substitution of a serving...
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The CAP post 2020: Insights from research This paper offers a preliminary assessment of some aspects of the legislative proposals for the CAP after 2020, which were presented by the European Commission on June 1, 2018. In the first section, we analyze the objectives of the new CAP and their implementation in the form of national strategic plans. Th...
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Cet article propose une analyse de plusieurs aspects des propositions législatives pour la PAC de l’après 2020 présentées par la Commission européenne le 1er juin 2018. La première section, de nature transversale, aborde les questions des objectifs de la future PAC et de leur déclinaison en instruments mis en œuvre dans le cadre de plans stratégiqu...
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This summary report is based on the referenced contributions of scientists and professionals gathered together over a period of several months in a multidisciplinary committee (representing epidemiology, public health, nutrition, economics and sociology). It reports on the current state of knowledge regarding determining factors affecting food and...
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Background/objectives: The goal of this article is to present and demonstrate the applicability of an original method to assess the economic and health impacts of compliance with food-based recommendations. The method takes account of consumers' preferences and the associated adoption cost in the assessment of various recommendations. Subjects/me...
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This data article contains annotation data characterizing MultiCriteria Assessment (MCA) Methods proposed in the agri-food sector by researchers from INRA, Europe's largest agricultural research institute (INRA, http://institut.inra.fr/en). MCA can be used to assess and compare agricultural and food systems, andsupport multi-actor decision making a...
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We investigate ex-ante the effects of promoting simple climate-friendly diet recommendations in Denmark, Finland and France, with the objective of identifying cost-beneficial recommendations that lower greenhouse gas emissions and improve public health. The simulation approach combines a behavioural model of consumption adjustment to dietary constr...
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Discipline Expérimental/mécanismes cellulaires et moléculaires. Introduction et but de l’étude Le diabète de type 2 (DT2) est responsable d’environ 1,5 million de décès [1] chaque année dans le monde. Le style de vie, et en particulier l’alimentation, est un facteur important impliqué dans cette maladie métabolique chronique. Pour réduire le DT2,...
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While the adverse climate and health impacts of the Western diet have been demonstrated, the place of fish/ seafood in climate-friendly and healthy diets is unclear.We tackle that question with a model simulating how a rational consumer urged to consume more fish would modify his diet. Those adjustments are translated into health outcomes by an epi...
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Background/objectives: We aimed to quantify the contribution of food reformulation to changes in the nutritional quality of consumers' food purchases, and compare it with the impact of substitutions made by consumers. Subjects/methods: Using a brand-specific data set in France, we considered the changes in the nutrient content of food products i...
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The Food and Agriculture Organization defines sustainable diets as nutritionally adequate, safe, healthy, culturally acceptable, economically affordable diets that have little environmental impact. This review summarizes the studies assessing, at the individual level, both the environmental impact and the nutritional quality or healthiness of self-...
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Prescriptive labels, which include the use of "traffic light" rankings on food products and energy efficiency classifications on electrical appliances, modify firms' decisions. Thus, a labeling policy that accounts only for consumer responses may not achieve its intended outcome. This study uses a vertical differentiation model in which three firms...
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This paper defines the research agenda of the SUSFANS project, describes its history and its potential societal impacts. It contributes to balanced and encompassing views on how to strengthen food and nutrition security outcomes in the EU and how to improve the performance of the food system in the EU from the perspective of social, environmental a...
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The paper develops a framework combining a model of rational behaviour under dietary constraints, an epidemiological model of diet-related mortality, and a life-cycle-analysis model of environmental impact, which permits the ex-ante assessment of dietary recommendations in multiple sustainability dimensions (i.e., taste cost, welfare effect, deaths...
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The goal of this paper is to better understand firms' strategic reactions to nutritional policies targeting food quality improvements and to derive optimal policies. We propose a model of product differentiation, taking into account the taste and health characteristics of products. We study how two firms react to alternative policies: an MQS policy...
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Convenience, taste, and prices are the main determinants of food choices. Complying with dietary recommendations therefore imposes a "taste cost" on consumers, potentially hindering adoption of those recommendations. The study presents and applies a new methodology, based on economic theory, to quantify this taste cost and assess the health and wel...
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Sustainable food concerns have pushed public authorities to act by means of regulations, standards and other devices, and businesses to innovate in their products and production processes. We argue that the Porter hypothesis—which asserts that properly designed and implemented environmental regulation might be good for society as well as the target...
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This paper defines the research agenda of the SUSFANS project. It aims to contribute to balanced and encompassing views on how to strengthen food and nutrition security outcomes in the EU and how to improve the performance of the food system in the EU from the perspective of social, environmental and economic sustainability. The research is led by...
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Review of published research studying the compatibility between the environmental and nutritional/health dimensions of diet sustainability based on the analysis of self-selected existing diets in European countries.
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Compiling and matching databases in order to create a unique food database able to provide information for several sustainability dimensions
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The effect of consumers’ compliance with nutritional recommendations is uncertain because of potentially complex substitutions. To lift this uncertainty, we adapt a model of consumer behaviour under rationing to the case of linear nutritional constraints. Dietary adjustments are derived from information on consumer preferences, consumption levels,...
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Up to now, most nutritional policies have been set up to inform consumers about the health benefits induced by more balanced diets. Reviews of the impacts of these policies show that the effects are often modest. This has led governments to implement, in more recent times, policies focused on the market environment, especially on the characteristic...
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Sustainable diets, as defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization, need to combine environment, nutrition, and affordability dimensions. However, it is unknown whether these dimensions are compatible, and no guidance is available in the official recommendations. To identify foods with compatible sustainability dimensions. For 363 of the most c...
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Studies on theoretical diets are not sufficient to implement sustainable diets in practice because of unknown cultural acceptability. In contrast, self-selected diets can be considered culturally acceptable. The objective was to identify the most sustainable diets consumed by people in everyday life. The diet-related greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE)...
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En s’appuyant sur diverses études portant sur l’évaluation des politiques nutritionnelles, ainsi que sur les travaux réalisés par l’Observatoire de la qualité de l’alimentation (Oqali), on caractérise, dans cet article, les impacts de ces différentes politiques sur la qualité nutritionnelle de l’offre alimentaire. On tente ainsi d’évaluer dans quel...
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Observing prices and margins along the food chain for analysing retail prices: the case of dairy and beef meat products In a context of price volatility and tensions between stakeholders in agrifood product marketing chains, several countries are envisaging the setup of observatories to monitor food prices and margins in order to deliver public in...
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As western-style food systems extend further around the world, food sustainability is becoming an increasingly important issue. Such systems are not sustainable in terms of their consumption of resources, their impact on ecosystems or their effect on health and social inequality. From 2009 to 2011, the duALIne project, led by INRA and CIRAD, assemb...
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As western-style food systems extend further around the world, food sustainability is becoming an increasingly important issue. Such systems are not sustainable in terms of their consumption of resources, their impact on ecosystems or their effect on health and social inequality. From 2009 to 2011, the duALIne project, led by INRA and CIRAD, assemb...
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Background: Healthy diets are supposed to be more environmentally friendly because they rely mainly on plant-based foods, which have lower greenhouse gas emissions (GHGEs) per unit weight than do animal-based foods. Objectives: The objectives were to estimate the GHGEs associated with the consumption of self-selected diets in France and to analy...
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The objective of this article is to gain a better understanding of firms' strategies towards nutritional tax policies and to assess their impacts from a public health point of view. We determine how new products that are nutritionally improved can successfully emerge in an asymmetrical context in which firms do not have the same strategic incentive...
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This article gives a theoretical analysis of a new type of private labels in the food sector. We propose an original model of vertical relationship between producers and retailers which takes into account two supply sources through (i) a competitive spot market and (ii) supply contracts. We study how the producers and retailers could cooperate to s...
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This section presents some examples of actions conducted at the country level to improve food offer towards a better adequacy to the recommendations and objectives of the Nutrition Health Policy (PNNS). These examples start from the initial offer (breast feeding), going to the food offer by industry (Voluntary Charters for Nutritional improvements)...
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In many countries, consumption of fruits and vegetables (F&V) is below recommended levels. We quantify the economic and health effects of alternative policy (P) scenarios aiming to increase F&V consumption: (P1) 3.4% reduction in VAT, (P2) €100/year/person F&V stamp policy designed for low-income consumers (LIC) and (P3) €10 M information campaign....
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In many countries, consumption of fruits and vegetables (F&V) is below recommended levels. We quantify the economic and health effects of a F&V stamp policy designed for low-income consumers. The analysis combined two models: an economic model which predicts how F&V consumption is affected by a change in policy and a health model which evaluates th...
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Dans un environnement économique de plus en plus mondialisé et contraint, la notion de chaine logistique (supply chain) a émergé et s'est accompagnée du développement de nombreux outils de collaboration. Cette coordination a eu comme objectifs centraux de diminuer les coûts et d'augmenter l'efficacité globale de la filière. Dans les filières de pro...
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The relationships between retailers and producers are considered for understanding the determinants of quality, variety and prices. In the food sector, some issues have been extensively studied: impacts of private labels, supply contracts, price transmission. Despite an increasing role, the implementation of “Category management” (CM) has been less...
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Food policies can use of two intervention strategies. The first is changing consumer behaviour through information and education. The second is to act on the characteristics of the food supply, on the nutritonal composition of products in the same time on the prices. All require collaboration between governments and enterprises.
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Food policies can use of two intervention strategies. The first is changing consumer behaviour through information and education. The second is to act on the characteristics of the food supply, on the nutritonal composition of products in the same time on the prices. All require collaboration between governments and enterprises.
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The reduction of pesticides use is becoming a priority for the public authorities in many countries. We conducted an experiment with wine consumers to see whether end-consumers value the dissemination of information about environmentally-friendly production practices. The experiment was devised to (i) evaluate whether there is a premium for environ...
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Une bonne compréhension de l'évolution actuelle du secteur de la distribution est importante, à la fois pour les intervenants de la chaîne alimentaire et pour les gouvernements, qui doivent mettre au point des politiques de régulation de la concurrence et des relations fournisseur-acheteur. Les articles du numéro spécial répondent à trois questions...
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In recent years, European retailers have modified the market segmentation in the meat and the fresh produce sectors by implementing new private labels which aim to guarantee higher quality and food safety. As a result, retailers impose more demanding production requirements and rely on contractual relationships with upstream producers. Meat and veg...
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Afin de renforcer la sécurité sanitaire des produits alimentaires, la grande distribution met en place un certain nombre de normes restrictives sur le référencement des producteurs. Cet article étudie le fonctionnement économique de ces normes, dans le cadre d’une formalisation des relations verticales producteurs-distributeurs. Le modèle d’analyse...
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In those sectors faced with questions of food safety (meat, fruit, vegetables), new private labels have been set up in Europe in order to restore consumer trust. In this paper, we perform a theoretical analysis of these private labels. We propose an original model of vertical relationships between producers and retailers which takes into account tw...
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The growth of Private Label brands in the sector of fresh agricultural products is a recent occurrence closely related to the food and food-safety crises of recent years. While the public authorities were creating new control and health-monitoring procedures, tightening regulatory production standards and enhancing regulations related to official m...
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This article treats the interaction between decisions of public policy makers and private enterprises in the definition and implementation of standards, in particular with respect to food safety. Based on the observation that European retail chains are becoming increasingly engaged in specifying the conditions of agrifood production, we describe th...
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At the end of the 1990s European retailers had significantly contributed to restructuring fresh agricultural product food chains (meat, fruit and vegetables), and had turned away from spot markets in order to create their own supply chains, based on private technical requirements and verification systems usually managed from within the firm. Howeve...
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Brands have recently cropped up in the distribution of fresh produce – a phenomenon closely linked to food and health crises in the past few years. Public authorities have been creating new control and monitoring procedures, tightening regulations on production and modifying regulations about official labels of quality. Meanwhile, retailers have be...
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Cet article propose une étude théorique des nouvelles générations de Marques de Distributeurs dans le secteur alimentaire. Nous proposons un modèle original de relation verticale, intégrant l'existence d'un marché intermédiaire de type concurrentiel (marché spot) parallèlement à la mise en place d'une relation contractuelle privilégiée entre une pa...
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[eng] Which justifica tion of supply regulation in the appellations of origin? - Supply control mechanisms are often required by the producers to manage European Protected Appellations of Origin. Such mechanisms are usually criticized by the competition policy makers because they decrease the consumer surplus. Nevertheless, they can have positive i...
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Le développement des marques de distributeurs dans le secteur des produits agricoles frais est un phénomène récent dont l'émergence est étroitement liée aux crises alimentaires et sanitaires des dernières années. Tandis que les pouvoirs publics créaient de nouveaux dispositifs de contrôle et de veille sanitaire, resserraient les normes réglementair...
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La mise en oeuvre de contrats visant à relever le niveau qualitatif des vins d'appellation régionale (notamment en Bourgogne) bute sur de nombreuses difficultés liées aux aléas de production et de demande qui induisent des renégociations aboutissant à la rupture de la relation contractuelle. L'article, en étendant un résultat récent de la théorie d...
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[fre] L'article s'intéresse à l'impact du e-commerce sur l'organisation des chaînes d'approvisionnement. On identifie tout d'abord plusieurs schémas d'approvisionnement simultané d'un marché physique et d'un marché Internet. Puis, en s'appuyant sur une modélisation des politiques de commande et de stockage appliquée à l'analyse de ces schémas, on l...
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Le développement des Marques de Distributeurs (MDD) dans le secteur des produits agricoles frais est un phénomène récent, dont l'émergence est étroitement liée aux crises alimentaires et sanitaires des dernières années. Ainsi, en même temps que les pouvoirs publics créaient de nouveaux dispositifs de contrôle sanitaire, resserraient les normes régl...
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Le modèle français des appellations d'origine contrôlée (AOC) viticoles a prouvé qu'il pouvait favoriser une offre particulièrement variée et maintenir une population importante de viticulteurs, avec des effets positifs sur l'emploi et l'aménagement du territoire. Les conditions de succès économique de ce modèle sur le long terme sont néanmoins exi...
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INTERNET AND THE PRODUCERS-RETAILERS RELATIONSHIPS: ANALYSIS OF NEW VERTICAL STRUCTURES IN THE WINE SECTOR A lot of B-to-B and B-to-C projects have been set up by new comers in the wine sector. They lead the traditional stakeholders, involved in physical retailing, to reshape their own distribution strategies. In the first part of this paper, we an...
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A lot of B-to-B and B-to-C projects have been set up by new comers in the wine sector. They lead the traditional stakeholders, involved in physical retailing, to reshape their own distribution strategies. In the first part of this paper, we analyze several models of wine distribution and the stakes raised by the introduction of the Internet technol...
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[fre] Le secteur de la distribution de vins a vu naître de nombreux projets B-to-C et B-to-B à l'initiative de nouveaux entrants qui amènent les acteurs traditionnels de la distribution physique à s'interroger sur leurs stratégies de commercialisation. Caractérisé par une offre fragmentée, une distribution internationale assurée par de nombreux int...
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Coordination between firms and supply organization In this paper, we analyse the inventory and ordering policies of two firms, when (i) each firm has its own supplier and market but, (ii), the first firm may act as a second supplier of the second one. This allows us to study the interest of improving horizontal coordination between producers in ord...
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This paper proposes a model for vertical relationships in several agribusiness sectors for which differences in terms of quality exist in the end-market. Intermediaries justify their position on the grounds of their exclusive access to a market segment (high quality), whereas producers retain the right to supply the low-quality market directly. Our...
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Le modèle français des appellations d'origine contrôlée (AOC) viticoles a prouvé qu'il pouvait favoriser une offre particulièrement variée et maintenir une population importante de viticulteurs, avec des effets positifs sur l'emploi et l'aménagement du territoire. Les conditions de succès économique de ce modèle sur le long terme sont nÃ...
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The aim of our paper is to determine the conditions under which firms tend to offer the best nutritional quality of food products, and the public regulation required to obtain this in a context where diet and nutritional status plays an important part in maintaining health and preventing disease, and with increasing pressure for public intervention...

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... It generally entails research and development costs. It can be difficult to lower the amount of sugar, fat, or salt while respecting the production costs, taste, and safety constraints that primarily drive the conception of products (Soler, Réquillart, Trystram, Abécassis, & Champenois, 2013). The taste constraint is related to the expected impact of reformulation on consumer willingness-to-pay (WTP) for the product, and therefore, on market shares and profits. ...
... In the context of a national experimentation phase of environmental labelling in the food sector (2020-2021) coordinated by the French Agency for Ecological Transition (ADEME), the results of the present study contributed to inform the development and future implementation of an environmental labelling system for all food products in France. Numerous stakeholders and experts contributed to this experimentation phase providing guidelines on six aspects 1/ environmental issues that should be considered, 2/ objectives that should be targeted, 3/ data that are needed, 4/ methods for assessing environmental impacts, 5/ environmental scores that should be chosen, 6/ label format that should be proposed [38]. Specifically, the present study highlighted that a cross-category traffic-light front-of-pack environmental label that is unique, well understood and informative was effective in reducing the environmental impact of food choices. ...
... For both systems, generic input processes and flow were obtained from the Agribalyse v3.0.1, Ecoinvent v3.8, and World Food LCA Database (WFLDB) v3.5 datasets [32]. Calculations for input values considered for production in both systems are reported in Supplementary Materials (Section S2.1.2). ...
... First of all, thanks to its focus on tuna fish, the study contributes to the literature about the sustainable consumption of fish products where other international species, such as salmon, shrimps, lobster and cod appear to be more investigated. In addition, tuna fish is one of the major species (with salmon and shrimp) sold with at least a sustainable claim on the European market (Lucas, Soler, & Revoredo-Giha, 2021). Another contribution is based on the context of investigation in the Italian country. ...
... As one of the most important components of the modern food industry, aquatic products are especially favored by humans because they not only offer essential calories to the human body but also provide multiple nutrients such as protein and docosahexaenoic acid [1]. According to the official report by fishery and aquaculture products fishery and aquaculture products (FAPs), the consumption of aquatic products is increasing steadily in people's daily diets [2]. China has ranked first in fisheries and aquatic products in the world [3], most of which is consumed by the domestic market and China is responsible for most of the increase in world fish consumption. ...
... It has been granted through third party certification since 2008. challenge for the 2020 CAP reform is to provide incentives to ensure that agriculture contributes effectively to the European Green Deal and to its farm-to-fork strategy in particular (Guyomard et al. 2018). ...
... Due to malnutrition and a lack of micronutrients, Covid-19 and its effects have had a number of detrimental effects on food safety and nutrition [22]. People with diabetes, hypertension, and obesity are more susceptible to COVID-19 [5,70]. The majority of the time, this condition is seen in developed or developing nations with middle-to high-income levels, which are suitable for urban settings. ...
... Livestock farming systems are a major economic activity in Europe (Olesen & Bindi, 2002), and meat production has experienced steady growth since the end of the second world war (Masters et al., 2016). However, consumption of meat per capita has stagnated in many European countries in recent decades and in some cases have even started to decline (de Boer & Aiking, 2018;Soler & Thomas, 2020). While this decline thus far seems moderate, consumption habits are changing rapidly and raise concerns about a sustainable future for these systems (Mitter et al., 2019;Paas et al., 2021). ...
... Le médiateur des relations commerciales agricoles, fonction créée en 2010 au sein du Ministère de l'Agriculture et de l'Agro-alimentaire peut ainsi être saisi pour régler les litiges liés aux relations contractuelles, ou simplement pour donner un avis, prenant ainsi partiellement le relai des interprofessions. Quoiqu'il en soit, la complexité de la construction des marges à chaque maillon de la filière et l'évolution rapide de leur répartition entre opérateurs (Boyer et al., 2013) rendent complexes les négociations entre acteurs. Bien que le statut des différentes professions au sein des interprofessions, avec des organisations professionnelles représentatives, leur garantisse théoriquement un poids égal dans les décisions, le fonctionnement de ces instances traduit souvent le déséquilibre des rapports de force, en particulier entre la production et les premiers acheteurs. ...