1st Edition

Sustainability in High-Excellence Italian Food and Wine

By Laura Onofri Copyright 2022
110 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

110 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

110 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book presents contemporary case studies on selected Italian food and wine products to explore how traditional production and consumption models address and adapt to the sustainability challenges in the Italian high-excellence agri-food sector. Sustainability in High-Excellence Italian Food and Wine adopts a transaction cost economics approach, which is applied to five case-study... Read more

1. Introduction

Part I: Background 

2. Economic Thinking and Methodological Analytical Toolbox  

PART II: Applications. Case studies that apply the analytical framework

3. The Case of Parmigiano Reggiano

4. The Case of Mozzarella di Bufala Campana

5. The Case of Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco DOCG Wine

6. The Case of Amarone della Valpolicella Wine

7. The Case Prosciutto di San Daniele del Friuli

8. Conclusion

Biography

Laura Onofri, MSc (from Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium), PhD (from Maastricht University, the Netherlands) is Research Professor with the Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry at the University of Padova, Italy.