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3-4 Septembre 2015 - University of Wisconsin - Madison
Food waste is a growing issue. The seminar covered its various dimensions as well as sustainable perspectives :
– Economic, social and environmental impacts of food waste, L. Zepeda (University of Wisconsin, Unitwin)
– Consumers and sustainability : focus on food waste concern,
L. Sirieix & G. Le Borgne & S. Costa (Montpellier Supagro - UMR MOISA)
– How to encourage a change in people’s food waste behavior ?, L. Balaine (Montpellier SupAgro) & S. Costa (UMR MOISA)
– Offering branded remanufactured/recycled products : at what price ?, L. Hamzaoui-Essoussi (Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa) & J.D. Linton (Power Corporation for the Management of Technological Enterprises, University of Ottawa)
– Internal and external motivators for environmentally sound waste management
– Brazilian market demands for organic products and different consumer groups, J. P. Révillion, V. da Veiga Dias & A. Raisa Paiva (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Do Sul - Centro De Estudios E Pesquisa Em Agronegócios Núcleo De Estudos Em Agroecologia)
– Development of a brand equity measurement scale for food labels : an international validation, F. Coderre (Université de Sherbrooke) and L. Sirieix (Montpellier SupAgro)
– The challenge of weed resistance to herbicides in US agriculture, R. Jussaume (Michigan State University)
– The empowerment potential in value-added agriculture, W. Wright (Michigan State University)
– Trust orientations in the organic food market : a complementary approach based on distributors, certification organizations and consumers’ perspectives, L. Hamzaoui-Essoussi (Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa), L. Sirieix (Montpellier SupAgro) & M. Zahaf (Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa)
– Consumer perceptions of food waste : does information matter ?, L. Zepeda (University of Wisconsin, Unitwin) and L. Balaine (Montpellier SupAgro)