Dear colleagues,

I would like to share with you some very interesting events and calls just around the corner.

Professor Cecilia Mancini (University of Parma), Guest Editor of the Special Issue of Sustainability "Motivations, Drivers, and Barriers to the Development of Sustainable Agri-Food Systems and Consumption Patterns" welcomes papers which focus on: analyse the socioeconomics of sustainable agri-food systems; study or propose new sustainable paradigms for conventional agri-food production and distribution systems; propose potential paths of sustainable development in term of consumption patterns; use innovative methodologies to evaluate or describe the stakeholders’ motivations, drivers and barriers to the development of sustainable agri-food systems and consumption patterns. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/agri_food_systems_consumption

 

The next International Food Marketing Research Symposium 2019 will be held at the Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia next June 12-13, 2019. They are accepting abstracts and papers and will have them reviewed and acceptance communicated as we receive submissions. Submission & Registration deadline: April 15th, 2019

 

The next summer school "Experimental Auctions: Theory and Applications in Food Marketing and Consumer Preferences Analysis", organized by Professor Maurizio Canavari, will take place in Montpellier, France,  at the Campus la Gaillarde INRA / Montpellier SupAgro from July 2 - 9th. This summer school is aimed at learning the fundamentals and the recent advances of experimental auctions. It will provide the appropriate techniques to construct an experimental design, with software applications and workshops regarding specific problems in the fields of food market valuation.