Alessandra Samoggia
Biographic Data
| ID | 308147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alessandra Samoggia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alessandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Samoggia |
| SIGNATURE | SAMOGGIA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3930-6173 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Shaping the Protein Transition From the Niche
The agri‐food sector, most notably intensive livestock production, stands as a major driver of climate change, prompting a shift towards plant‐based alternative protein production and consumption. Such protein transition is widely recognised as central to the development of an environmentally sustainable food economy. Previous academic research mainly focused on consumer behaviour. In contrast, the production side, specifically how its trajectory…
Applying Q methodology to explore food system stakeholders’ perspectives on the marketability of alternative protein products
The transition towards sustainable food systems for the future requires innovations that balance nutritional adequacy, environmental performance, and social acceptance. Alternative protein (AP) products have gained attention for their potential to offer sustainable, nutritious, and protein-rich food options. However, their market penetration remains limited and constrained by factors such as high prices and limited availability across retail and …
Consumer Disposition Toward Fairness in Agri-Food Chains (Fairfood)
Fairness in agri-food supply chains receives increasing consumer, industry, and political attention but is currently under-conceptualized and lacks appropriate frameworks for measurement. Therefore, building on a theoretically grounded conceptualization of consumer dispositions toward fairness in agri-food supply chains, we developed and validated a 14-item fairness measurement scale (FAIRFOOD). The scale comprises of four dimensions (economic, e…
Enabling the sustainable protein transition
Unveiling farmers' perspectives on urban food policies
Harvesting connections
Farmers’ markets (FMs) represent a crucial player in urban food systems, being the interconnection of local agricultural production and consumption, and serving as spaces for both economic exchange and community building. Despite their transformative potential, there is a scarcity of research that comprehensively investigates the dynamics of FMs network structure and the influence of the actors shaping FMs. The present article delves into the net…
Cultivating change
City Region Food System (CRFS) initiatives exist in various forms, featuring a diversified set of social, economic and environmental performances and impacts. The CRFS approach includes all actors, processes, and relationships involved in the food chain (from production and processing to the distribution and consumption of food) in a given geographical area. Therefore, it encompasses the most crucial elements for facilitating interactions between…
Identifying food policy coherence in Italian regional policies
Achieving a coherent set of food-related policies is a challenge for policymakers worldwide, as food matters are addressed at more than one level of governance and across several policy domains. Policies in different domains can sustain each other by sharing the same objectives and actions or they can hinder each other, resulting in different levels of coherence. Focusing on the case study of the region Emilia-Romagna (Italy), the present researc…
Market Expansion of Caffeine-Containing Products
Mate is the most consumed beverage in South America. There is interest in expanding yerba mate sales into the old and new markets by promoting its health properties and energizing effects. The research study aims to explore Argentinian and Italian purchasing and consumption behavior and perception of yerba mate. The exploration includes agro-food chain stakeholders' views, and consumers' habits, perception, knowledge of yerba mate in relation to …
Social media exploration for understanding food product attributes perception
Purpose Food companies and consumers are increasingly interested in healthy food and beverages. Coffee is one of the most commonly consumed beverages worldwide. There is increasing consensus that coffee consumption can have beneficial effects on human body. This paper aims at exploring Twitter messages' content and sentiment towards health attributes of coffee. Design/methodology/approach The research adopted a utilitarian and hedonic consumer be…
European Rural Development Policy Approaching Health Issues
Malnutrition, obesity, type 2 diabetes, micronutrient deficiencies, and the increase in non-communicable diseases are among the future European key challenges in health and welfare. Agriculture and rural development policies can positively contribute to a healthier and nutritious supply of food. The objective of the research is to analyze to what extent European 2007-2013 and 2014-2020 rural development programmes address the nexus between agricu…
Neonatal mortality, cold weather, and socioeconomic status in two northern Italian rural parishes, 1820-1900
Cold-related conditions represent one of the most common causes of neonatal death in many developing countries. The effects of cold external temperatures on neonatal mortality at the onset of demographic transition recently have attracted scholarly interes
Does socioeconomic status matter? The fertility transition in a northern Italian village (marriage cohorts 1900-1940)
The paper explores the mechanisms of the European fertility transition in northern Italy by social group
Evolution différentielle et mouvement saisonnier de la mortalité infantile et enfantine dans la banlieue de Bologne (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles)
Cette recherche sur la banlieue de Bologne pendant les XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles montre que si la mortalité infantile a connu une baisse, elle reste toutefois à un niveau élevé à la fin du XIXe siècle : il s'agit-là d'un des traits majeurs de l'ensemble de la mortalité dans la Péninsule. On peut expliquer ce taux élevé par la permanence de certaines maladies infectieuses ou parasitaires, dont l'étude graphique révèle à la fois le caractère sa…
Neonatal mortality, cold weather, and socioeconomic status in two northern Italian rural parishes, 1820-1900
Cold-related conditions represent one of the most common causes of neonatal death in many developing countries. The effects of cold external temperatures on neonatal mortality at the onset of demographic transition recently have attracted scholarly interes
Does socioeconomic status matter? The fertility transition in a northern Italian village (marriage cohorts 1900-1940)
The paper explores the mechanisms of the European fertility transition in northern Italy by social group
Unveiling farmers' perspectives on urban food policies
Harvesting connections
Farmers’ markets (FMs) represent a crucial player in urban food systems, being the interconnection of local agricultural production and consumption, and serving as spaces for both economic exchange and community building. Despite their transformative potential, there is a scarcity of research that comprehensively investigates the dynamics of FMs network structure and the influence of the actors shaping FMs. The present article delves into the net…
Cultivating change
City Region Food System (CRFS) initiatives exist in various forms, featuring a diversified set of social, economic and environmental performances and impacts. The CRFS approach includes all actors, processes, and relationships involved in the food chain (from production and processing to the distribution and consumption of food) in a given geographical area. Therefore, it encompasses the most crucial elements for facilitating interactions between…
Identifying food policy coherence in Italian regional policies
Achieving a coherent set of food-related policies is a challenge for policymakers worldwide, as food matters are addressed at more than one level of governance and across several policy domains. Policies in different domains can sustain each other by sharing the same objectives and actions or they can hinder each other, resulting in different levels of coherence. Focusing on the case study of the region Emilia-Romagna (Italy), the present researc…
Evolution différentielle et mouvement saisonnier de la mortalité infantile et enfantine dans la banlieue de Bologne (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles)
Cette recherche sur la banlieue de Bologne pendant les XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles montre que si la mortalité infantile a connu une baisse, elle reste toutefois à un niveau élevé à la fin du XIXe siècle : il s'agit-là d'un des traits majeurs de l'ensemble de la mortalité dans la Péninsule. On peut expliquer ce taux élevé par la permanence de certaines maladies infectieuses ou parasitaires, dont l'étude graphique révèle à la fois le caractère sa…
Does socioeconomic status matter? The fertility transition in a northern Italian village (marriage cohorts 1900-1940)
The paper explores the mechanisms of the European fertility transition in northern Italy by social group
Neonatal mortality, cold weather, and socioeconomic status in two northern Italian rural parishes, 1820-1900
Cold-related conditions represent one of the most common causes of neonatal death in many developing countries. The effects of cold external temperatures on neonatal mortality at the onset of demographic transition recently have attracted scholarly interes
European Rural Development Policy Approaching Health Issues
Malnutrition, obesity, type 2 diabetes, micronutrient deficiencies, and the increase in non-communicable diseases are among the future European key challenges in health and welfare. Agriculture and rural development policies can positively contribute to a healthier and nutritious supply of food. The objective of the research is to analyze to what extent European 2007-2013 and 2014-2020 rural development programmes address the nexus between agricu…
Social media exploration for understanding food product attributes perception
Purpose Food companies and consumers are increasingly interested in healthy food and beverages. Coffee is one of the most commonly consumed beverages worldwide. There is increasing consensus that coffee consumption can have beneficial effects on human body. This paper aims at exploring Twitter messages' content and sentiment towards health attributes of coffee. Design/methodology/approach The research adopted a utilitarian and hedonic consumer be…
Market Expansion of Caffeine-Containing Products
Mate is the most consumed beverage in South America. There is interest in expanding yerba mate sales into the old and new markets by promoting its health properties and energizing effects. The research study aims to explore Argentinian and Italian purchasing and consumption behavior and perception of yerba mate. The exploration includes agro-food chain stakeholders' views, and consumers' habits, perception, knowledge of yerba mate in relation to …
Identifying food policy coherence in Italian regional policies
Achieving a coherent set of food-related policies is a challenge for policymakers worldwide, as food matters are addressed at more than one level of governance and across several policy domains. Policies in different domains can sustain each other by sharing the same objectives and actions or they can hinder each other, resulting in different levels of coherence. Focusing on the case study of the region Emilia-Romagna (Italy), the present researc…
Harvesting connections
Farmers’ markets (FMs) represent a crucial player in urban food systems, being the interconnection of local agricultural production and consumption, and serving as spaces for both economic exchange and community building. Despite their transformative potential, there is a scarcity of research that comprehensively investigates the dynamics of FMs network structure and the influence of the actors shaping FMs. The present article delves into the net…
Cultivating change
City Region Food System (CRFS) initiatives exist in various forms, featuring a diversified set of social, economic and environmental performances and impacts. The CRFS approach includes all actors, processes, and relationships involved in the food chain (from production and processing to the distribution and consumption of food) in a given geographical area. Therefore, it encompasses the most crucial elements for facilitating interactions between…
Consumer Disposition Toward Fairness in Agri-Food Chains (Fairfood)
Fairness in agri-food supply chains receives increasing consumer, industry, and political attention but is currently under-conceptualized and lacks appropriate frameworks for measurement. Therefore, building on a theoretically grounded conceptualization of consumer dispositions toward fairness in agri-food supply chains, we developed and validated a 14-item fairness measurement scale (FAIRFOOD). The scale comprises of four dimensions (economic, e…
Enabling the sustainable protein transition
Unveiling farmers' perspectives on urban food policies
Shaping the Protein Transition From the Niche
The agri‐food sector, most notably intensive livestock production, stands as a major driver of climate change, prompting a shift towards plant‐based alternative protein production and consumption. Such protein transition is widely recognised as central to the development of an environmentally sustainable food economy. Previous academic research mainly focused on consumer behaviour. In contrast, the production side, specifically how its trajectory…
Applying Q methodology to explore food system stakeholders’ perspectives on the marketability of alternative protein products
The transition towards sustainable food systems for the future requires innovations that balance nutritional adequacy, environmental performance, and social acceptance. Alternative protein (AP) products have gained attention for their potential to offer sustainable, nutritious, and protein-rich food options. However, their market penetration remains limited and constrained by factors such as high prices and limited availability across retail and …
Business (8 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Food security (4 works) · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Food policy (3 works)