What are your domain(s) of expertise?
Current research interests include agri-food marketing and marketing research, with specific topics regarding quality food specialties, organic food, ICT in agriculture, e-commerce and wine business. He is a member of several professional associations, such as the International Association of Agricultural Economists IAAE, the European Association of Agricultural Economists EAAE, the Italian Society of Agricultural Economics SIDEA, the Italian Society of Agri-food Economics SIEA. He is co-editor of the academic journal Economia agro-alimentare and a member of the Editorial Board of the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, the Journal of Food Products Marketing , and of the International Journal on Food System Dynamics.
What is your relationship with agricultural information management standards, tools and services?
MC holds the Laurea degree in Agricultural Sciences awarded by the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bologna, Italy, in 1990, and got his Doctoral Degree in Appraisal and Land Economics from the University of Padua in 1996. He was enrolled as researcher at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna in April 1998, and from October 2005 he serves as Associate Professor. He is now a Faculty at the Department of Agricultural Sciences.