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Food fraud: economic insights into the dark side of incentives

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  • Mariah Dolsen Ehmke
  • Alessandro Bonanno
  • Kathryn Boys
  • Trenton G. Smith

Abstract

In this review, we contextualise the articles in this special issue, relating them to existing food fraud research, and identify food fraud research trends, challenges and priorities for the near term. We accomplish these aims through a comprehensive review of research by food scientists, economists, other social scientists, legal experts, government research groups and international trade organisations. Existing food fraud research is heavily weighted towards food science, packaging and labelling, and legal areas of knowledge discovery. Moving forward, research is needed pertaining to general economic welfare outcomes from food fraud incidences, economic incentives to deter frauds, economic spillovers from fraud incidences to other food products and markets (domestic and international) and further delineation of the effect of different types of food fraud on consumer and producer welfare. The articles in this special issue make significant contributions to understanding of the role of food fraud in consumer decisions, measuring consumer welfare losses from fraud, food fraud spillover effects to other markets and new frameworks for fraud analysis.

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  • Mariah Dolsen Ehmke & Alessandro Bonanno & Kathryn Boys & Trenton G. Smith, 2019. "Food fraud: economic insights into the dark side of incentives," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 63(4), pages 685-700, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajarec:v:63:y:2019:i:4:p:685-700
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-8489.12346
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