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New Economy, Food, and Agriculture
(Springer Netherlands, 2019)
Consumers are becoming increasingly more informed about food systems and are interested not only in healthy, safe, and tasty food but also sustainable production, animal welfare, climate changes, and food waste. Consumers ...
Technology Transfer
(SAGE Publications, 2015)
Technology transfer is the movement of technical and organizational skills, knowledge, and methods from one individual or organization to another for economic purposes. This process usually involves a group that possesses ...
Work-Family Balance
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)
The concept of work–family balance was introduced in the 1970s in the United Kingdom based on a work–leisure dichotomy, which was invented in the mid-1800s. It is usually related to the act of balancing of inter-role ...
Emotion Work
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)
Emotion work is usually defined as the psychological processes necessary to regulate emotions that are desired in specific private life conditions. When controlling the intensity and quality of the individual's feelings ...
Innovation in Food and Agriculture
(Springer Netherlands, 2019)
Innovation means change. In a case of food and agriculture, it can be the application of new proposals for raw material processing technology, packaging of products, new food additives, and new agricultural technologies. ...
Core-Periphery Model
(Springer International Publishing, 2019)
Core-periphery imbalances and regional disparities figure prominently on the agenda of several disciplines, which result from their enormous impact on economic and social development around the world. In sociology, ...
Organic Agriculture
(Springer International Publishing, 2020)
Consumers are increasingly aware of the health- and safety-related implications of the food which they can buy in the market. At the same time, households have become more aware of their environmental responsibilities. ...
New Technology: Risks and Gains
(SAGE Publications, 2015)
New technologies are often radical innovations that change current activities across different areas of social and economic life. At the beginning of the 21st century, some of these technologies are information and ...
Social and Solidarity Economy
(SAGE Publications, 2015)
The social and solidarity economy concept refers to enterprises, organizations, and innovations that combine production of goods, services, and knowledge with achieving economic and social goals as well as solidarity building.
Trust in Food
(Springer Netherlands, 2019)
Trust is important in the food sector. This is primarily because households entrust some of the tasks related to food preparation to food processors. The public is concerned about pesticides, food additives, preservatives, ...