Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Towards a More Democratic and Sustainable Food System: The Reflexive Nature of Solidarity Purchase Groups and the Migrants’ Social Cooperative “Barikamà” in Rome

   • Daniela Bernaschi, Giacomo Crisci

   Pages 1-19

3. Role of Buffalo Production in Sustainable Development of Rural Regions

   • Ibrahim Soliman

   Pages 21-38

4. What Does the Young Generation Want to Eat and Do for Being Healthy from the Perspective of Today and the Future?

   • Püren Veziroğlu, Kenan Çiftçi, Bülent Miran, Ayça Nur Şahin

   Pages 39-48

5. Tourist’s Behaviour Towards Local Cretan Food

   • A. Malek Hammami, John L. Stanton, Drakos Periklis, George Baourakis, Gert van Dijk, Spyridon Mamalis

   Pages 49-61

6. Exploring-Valuing Alternative Distribution Channels: A Systematic Literature Review of the Agrifood Sector

   • Kallirroi Nikolaou, Foivos Anastasiadis, Efthimia Tsakiridou, Konstadinos Mattas

   Pages 63-84

7. Opportunities of Price Risk Limitation in Horticultural Sector in Poland

   • Lukasz Zaremba

   Pages 85-93

8. Willingness to Pay for Malaria Prophylaxis in Ethiopia

   • Simon O. Soname, Garth J. Holloway

   Pages 95-107

9. Alternative Distribution Channels of Fruits and Vegetables

   • Kallirroi Nikolaou, Efthimia Tsakiridou, Foivos Anastasiadis, Konstadinos Mattas

   Pages 109-120

10. Evaluation of Irrigation Efficiency Effect on Groundwater Level Variation by Modflow and Weap Models: A Case Study from Tuyserkan Plain, Hamedan, Iran

    • Abdollah Taheri Tizro, Konstantinos Voudouris, Christos Mattas, Morteza Kamali, Meysam Rabanifar

    Pages 121-141

This book brings together research on cooperative management from the agriculture and food sector. By examining issues from food-policy, trade and environmental perspectives and presenting both methodological and empirical work, it allows readers to develop a deeper understanding of collective management processes and cooperative initiatives, and provides a theoretical background for promoting research in the various sectors in which market communities operate.
On a more global level the offers insights into how to building powerful tools for decision making, particularly at a time when agriculture and the economy alike are affected by a volatile political, social and economical environment and are forced to undergo major structural changes.

• consumer perceptions
• sustainable food system
• tourist behaviour
• local food supply chain
• price risk limitation
• alternative distribution channels
• water level management
• sustainability

• Department of Agricultural Economics, School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

  Konstadinos Mattas

• Business Economics and Management, Mediterrean Agronomic Institute Chania, Chania, Greece

  George Baourakis

• School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece

  Constantin Zopounidis

Konstadinos Mattas is a Professor of Agricultural Policy at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has published in more than 100 international refereed journals, in collective volumes and proceedings, and he acts as managing editor of the international scientific journal "Agricultural Economics Review" and is a member of the Editorial Board of several international scientific journals.
George Baourakis is the Director of the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, CIHEAM–MAICh since June 2012, and the Studies and Research Coordinator of the Business Economics and Management Department of MAICh since 1989.He has co-ordinated and participated in a large number of EU (FP 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th, INTERREG I, II and III-Archimed, MED, ENPI CBC MED, Tempus, Phare, Life, Lifelong Learning, Leonardo Da Vinci, European Social Fund, etc), international and national-regional research projects. He is an Affiliate Professor in Marketing and Supply Chain Management, at the Centre of Entrepreneurship, Nyenrode University, The Netherlands Business School, while he has been appointed as Distinguished Research Fellow in Food Marketing-Management at several universities. He has published numerous papers in internationally refereed scientific journals, presented extensively at international conferences and authored/co-authored several scientific and academic books and special issues which have been distributed by renowned publishing houses.




Constantin Zopounidis is Professor of Financial Engineering and Operations Research at the Technical University of Crete (Greece), Distinguished Research Professor at Audencia Nantes, School of Management (France), Senior Academician of the Royal Academy of Economics and Financial Sciences of Spain, and President of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society (FEBS). He has edited and authored 70 books with international publishers and more than400 research papers in scientific journals, edited volumes, conference proceedings and encyclopedias, in the areas of finance, accounting, operations research and management science. In recognition of his research work, he has received several awards from international research societies such as the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, the Decision Sciences Institute, the MOISIL International Foundation, ESCP Europe and the Hellenic Operational Research Society.

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