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Agro-food marketing and consumer behavior

About us

The research group Agro-food Marketing and Consumer Behaviour integrates expertise in the scientific disciplines of economics, sociology, agro-food marketing, consumer behaviour, market and marketing research, risk perception, communication, health promotion, and health education. This expertise has been demonstrated in recent high-quality studies on consumer behaviour towards functional foods, nutrition and health claims, nutrition labelling, sustainability and on the role of health-related information on food choice and dietary behaviour. This group has extensive expertise in performing cross-cultural consumer studies and has been a key partner with research and management responsibilities in over 15 EU-funded research projects (FP6, FP7, H2020). This includes involvement in the EU-FP6 Integrated Projects SEAFOODplus, TRUEFOOD, QPORKCHAINS and PROSAFEBEEF, the EU-FP7 Collaborative Projects EATWELL, FOODRISC, ACROPOLIS, SOLID, CLYMBOL, ECsafeSEAFOOD, PHYTOME and FOODINTEGRITY and the EU-H2020 project PROMISS and SEAFOODTOMORROW.

The main research focus within the group is to model and optimize decisions in the broad field of agricultural and environmental economics using tailored integrated models. We collaborate with a variety of regional, national and supranational institutions and regularly engage in high-level research projects.

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Education

  • Economics
  • Consumer behavior and marketing of bio)-industrial products
  • Food marketing and consumer behavior
  • Advanced marketing and agribusiness management
  • Food and nutrition policies<
  • General economics

Contact and staff

Wim Verbeke

Wim Verbeke

Professor

 Christine Yung Hung

Christine Yung Hung

Assistent Professor

Christine Yung Hung received a PhD in Applied Biological Sciences...

 Fien Minnens

Fien Minnens

Assistant

Fien Minnens is an assistant at the Department of Agricultural Economics...

Mulubrihan Bayissa Tullu

Mulubrihan Bayissa Tullu

PhD student

Mulubrihan Bayissa Tullu received his MSc in...

 Hélène Van der Stricht

Hélène Van der Stricht

Assistant

Hélène Van der Stricht obtained a MSc degree in...

Marie Van Espen

Marie Van Espen

PhD student

Marie is a Belgian PhD student, and joined the department of Agricultural...

Maria Ignacia Rodriguez

Maria Ignacia Rodriguez

PhD student

Maria Ignacia Rodriguez received her International...