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Quality and Price Setting by Producers in AFNs

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This chapter deals with the problem of setting prices and quality conventions among small-scale agro-food producers. Barbera, Dagnes, and Di Monaco first show how producers decide sales prices for their products and, more precisely, how relational mechanisms (e.g., imitation) mix with the moral economy (e.g., legitimate price thresholds) and economic fundamentals (e.g., labor cost, demand levels). They then show how different mechanisms bring about specific disputes and compromises within and between quality conventions on the producers’ side.

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  1. Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

    Filippo Barbera, Joselle Dagnes & Roberto Di Monaco

  2. Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino, Italy

    Filippo Barbera

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  1. Department of Economics and Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis”, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

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  2. Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

    Filippo Barbera

  3. Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

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  4. Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Torino, Grugliasco (TO), Italy

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Barbera, F., Dagnes, J., Di Monaco, R. (2018). Quality and Price Setting by Producers in AFNs. In: Corsi, A., Barbera, F., Dansero, E., Peano, C. (eds) Alternative Food Networks. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90409-2_11

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