Socioeconomics of Food

Daria Loginova finished her Ph.D. in Economics in 2022 and is a Postdoc at the University of St. Gallen and at the Socioeconomics research group at Agroscope, the Swiss Confederation's center of excellence for agricultural research. Daria Loginova is focusing at land and food socioeconomic research harmonized with strong applied statistics and econometrics and also at social care, acting as Paramedic in Firebrigade team and as member of the Green Party Switzerland.Stefan Mann pursued one Ph.D. in agriculture in 1997 and one in economics in 2004. After collecting professional experience in Germany’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rostock University, he today works for the Agricultural University Bucharest and Agroscope, the Swiss Confederation's center of excellence for agricultural research. After he did a degree in Peace and Conflict Management in 2019, Stefan Mann is increasingly focusing on our attitudes toward non-human-animal lives. Stefan has been President of the Swiss Society of Agricultural Economics and Sociology and is Acting Clerk of German Quakers.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Producers.- Chapter 3. Consumers.- Chapter 4. Dealing with Externalities.- Chapter 5. Food Policies and Prices.- Chapter 6. Food Trade.- Chapter 7. Databases and Their Potential.- Chapter 8. Research Approaches.- Chapter 9. Concluding remark.