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• Aquaculture perceptions in the Barcelona metropolitan area from fish and seafood wholesalers, fishmongers, and consumers 

  Reig Puig, Lourdes; Escobar Gonzalez, Cristina; Carrassón Lopez de Letona, Maite; Constenla Matalobos, Maria; Gil Roig, José María; Padrós Bover, Francesc; Piferrer Circuns, Francesc; Flos Bassols, Rosa (2019-05-30)
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  Aquaculture provides more than half of the global seafood production and offers a wide diversity of high-quality products. However, its social acceptability is still not well established. The goal of this study was to ...
• The use of insect meal as a a sustainable feeding alternative in aquaculture: Current situation, Spanish consumers’ perceptions and willingness to pay 

  Ferrer Llagostera, Pau; Kallas, Zein; Reig Puig, Lourdes; Amores De Gea, Diego (2019-08)
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  The growth of aquaculture and the increasing demand of farmed fish have led to a rise in the price of fishmeal and fish oil used in fish feeding during the last years. The experimental use of insect meal as a sustainable ...
• Effectiveness of a carbon tax to promote a climate-friendly food consumption 

  Dogbe, Wisdom; Gil Roig, José María (2018-09-01)
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  Our current dietary habits are a major contributor to climate change because the “seed-to-table” food chain produces an immense amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) (Castellón et al., 2015). For instance, in Spain, the ...
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  Determinant factors of the adoption of improved maize seeds in Southern Mexico: A survival analysis approach 

  Sánchez Toledano, Blanca Isabel; Kallas, Zein; Palmeros Rojas, Oscar; Gil Roig, José María (2018-10-02)
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  Maize is the most important and strategic crop in Mexico, however, this sector suffers from low productivity. Among the various strategies to improve yield by hectare, improved maize seeds play an important role.
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  Are geographical indication products fostering public goods? some evidence from Europe 

  Arfini, Filippo; Cozzi, Elena; Mancini, Maria Cecilia; Pérez Ferrer, Hugo; Gil Roig, José María (2019-01-01)
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  Within the framework of multifunctional conceptualisation, the authors have investigated the level of public goods embedded in Agri-food geographical indication products
• ¿Es el lugar de compra determinante en las preferencias de los compradores de aceite de oliva? 

  Corbeto Fabón, Héctor; Kallas, Zein; Gil Roig, José María (Asociación Española de Economía Agraria, 2018-06-30)
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  El objetivo de este trabajo se centra en determinar si el lugar de compra es relevante en los atributos que los consumidores tienen en cuenta en la compra aceite de oliva. A tal fin se diseña un experimento de elección ...
• Livelihood strategies of cacao producers in Ecuador: Effects of national policies to support cacao farmers and specialty cacao landraces 

  Díaz Montenegro, José; Varela Redondo, Elsa; Gil Roig, José María (2018-10-01)
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  This study identifies the livelihood strategies pursued by small cacao farmers in the Guayas coastal region in Ecuador, where two distinct cacao varieties are grown: the fine flavor variety, Cacao Nacional (CN) and a hybrid ...
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  Catalonia consumers prefer wild mussels. Study finds knowledge of mussel farming limited 

  Escobar Gonzalez, Cristina; Kallas, Zein; Gil Roig, José María (2012)
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• Efficiency of Egyptian organic agriculture: A local maximum likelihood approach 

  Guesmi, Bouali; Serra Devesa, Maria Teresa; Radwan, Amr; Gil Roig, José María (2017-09-20)
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  Productive efficiency analysis is a relevant tool that can be used to evaluate differences in performance between conventional and organic farms. Such study is important for the assessment of the economic viability of these ...
• Heterogeneity and nonlinearity in consumers' preferences: An application to the olive oil shopping behavior in Chile 

  Romo Muñoz, Rodrigo Alejandro; Cabas Monje, Juan; Garrido Henrríquez, Héctor Manuel; Gil Roig, José María (2017-09-11)
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  In relatively unknown products, consumers use prices as a quality reference. Under such circumstances, the utility function can be non-negative for a specific price range and generate an inverted U-shaped function
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  Consumers' sensitivity to androstenone and the evaluation of different cooking methods to mask boar taint 

  Borrisser-Pairo, Francesc; Panella Riera, Nuria; Gil, Marta; Kallas, Zein; Linares, Beatriz; Egea, Marta; Garrido, MD, Maria Dolores; Oliver, Maria Angels (2017-01-01)
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  Boar taint is an unpleasant odour and flavour present in some entire male pigs that is due to the presence of androstenone and skatole. The aim of the study was to assess the sensitivity of 150 consumers to androstenone ...
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  Measuring consumers’ preferences for traditional and innovative pork products 

  Kallas, Zein; Candek-Potokar, Meta; Tomažin, Urska; Carolina, Pugliese; Aquilani, Chiara; Gil Roig, José María (University of Zagreb, 2017-11-30)
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  In this research we proposed an integrated methodological approach to measure the “real” consumers’ preference towards new Traditional (TPP) and Innovative Pork Products (ITPP) from three untapped pig breeds in Spain (Porc ...

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