Search results for "Timo"

Competitiveness and sustainability of extreme viticulture in Pantelleria Island

2011

The environmental and land protection could be obtained promoting an agricultural activity that encourages the business competitiveness respecting the traditions. In Pantelleria, ‘black island’ in the middle of Mediterranean, the viticultural surface has significantly decreased in the last years, causing a massive rural exodus. The University of Palermo, to block this phenomenon and to contain the progressive abandonment of vineyards, carried out several experimental proofs in order to increase the mechanization of cultural practices in the vineyards cultivated according to ‘alberello a conca’ farming system. In this context, the aim of this paper is to analyze as the process innovations co…

Web site quality: an empirical study of the flower and plant firms in the Convergence objective Regions in Italy

2012

In the last few years the growing diffusion of ICTs has been playing a crucial role in the developmental process of the economic, social and cultural fabric, by deeply affecting organization size of firms. The present research, which is set in the framework of “Business to Consumer” relationships, plans to analyze web marketing strategies adopted by flowers and ornamentals firms of Italian Convergence Regions. In particular, the study aims to analyze the websites factors that are able to draw the consumers’ attention and to influence their decisions, as well as the number of attributes which determine as a whole the “quality” of a website. The knowledge of these aspects is extremely useful …

Wine label design as a strategic tool to attract consumers. A marketing study to know wine product positioning

2011

Wine and quality. A cluster anlysis to assess certain representative aspects relating to the quality

2009

This research, in which the technique of Cluster Analysis is used, will provide information on how wine producers can evaluate certain characteristics (variables) of their product more widely associated as indicative of quality. The analysis identified homogeneous groups containing within them other, related variables, which can be considered similar. Those attributes which are by themselves most representative of the product's quality are also highlighted. Finally, the cluster analysis made it possible to comment on the behaviour of producers, and looking at how they seek to meet market expectations based on their knowledge of customer's habits in the buying and consuming of wine.

Women of wine in Sicily: analysis of their role, motivation and work

2012

Recent surveys on female employment show that, in Italy, the number of Women Entrepreneurs has constantly increased. This work aims to study the "Women of Wine" in Sicily, those entrepreneurs or managers who hold leadership and decision-making roles within the wineries, focusing on age, qualification, type of activity, motivations that led to undertake the task, difficulties encountered, and also on changes made by women in the firm. By calculating the coefficient of contingency we intended to measure the association between some factors of development of women-run wineries in Sicily, namely between professional characteristics of women managers deemed most important for this investigation,…

Food sustainability perception at universities: Education and demographic features effects

2022

The 2030 Agenda of the United Nations merged in 17 goals the strong need to change the pattern of human life on the planet in a path of strengthening sustainability especially in an era that is widely defined as Anthropocene. The Global Action Program (GAP) on Education and Sustainable Development was adopted based on the power of education and knowledge with the idea of 'green universities' aimed at improving the perception of sustainability for future policy decisions. Based on a Best-Worst (BW) scaling methodological approach, in this study we quantified the preferences of generation Y at University of Turin as they relate to issues explicitly connected to the ordinary consumption of foo…

Manuale di agricoltura biologica in Sicilia.

2014

Sensory quality and suitability for conservation of fresh-cut peach (cv Settembrina of Bivona)

2013

Stato attuale e potenzialità di mercato del Mango (Mangifera Indica L.) coltivato in Sicilia

2012

La coltivazione della Papaya in Sicilia: qualità dei frutti e prospettive

2018

Data la numerosità dei genotipi di papaia coltivati in Sicilia si è resa necessaria una caratterizzazione qualitativa degli stessi. In questo studio sono stati confrontati, da un punto di vista pomologico, chimico-fisico, nutraceutico e sensoriale, i frutti di 5 differenti genotipi di papaia nell’ottica di individuarne e definirne qualità e rispondenza per il mercato locale ed europeo.