Economics of Agricultural and Food Markets

The agricultural and food sectors are very important components of economies around the world at national, regional, and global levels. Although production agriculture constitutes a very small percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP) in developed countries, the food system (incorporating the transportation, processing, distribution, and retailing of food products) represents a much higher percentage of the GDP. The main aim of this special issue is to publish highquality economic research investigating supply and demand issues related to the agricultural and food markets. This is because during recent decades there has been a significant change in various components of the world agricultural and food sectors. This special issue publishes six research articles related to issues such as commodity food prices, food price inflation, food production and ecocertified food markets, consumption and demand for particular goods, that is, milk and vegetables, and financial and economic risks due to the aflatoxin contamination of peanuts as follows.