Food Economics and European Legislation

The course aims to provide students with economic framework and methodologies for the analysis of the agri-food market and the vertical organization of supply chains. The course also aims to provide students with the knowledge related to some problems of the food system (undernutrition, obesity, environmental sustainability) as well as providing knowledge on EU policies and the main intervention tools.

At the end of the teaching course the students will be able to examine and propose solutions to the most common problems of the agri-food market on the basis of their knowledge concerning the organization of food chains, food consumptions and the EU food policy.