Director: George Vlontzos, Professor

Laboratory Mission

The scope of ‘Agricultural Economics and Consumer Behaviour ” Lab. at the Department of Agriculture Crop Production and Rural Environment of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Thessaly is to serve the educational, laboratory and research needs in the fields of Agricultural Economics and Consumer Behaviour. The Lab. aims to:

• Cover the undergraduate and postgraduate level teaching and research needs of the Department of Agriculture Crop Production and Rural Environment, and other academic units of the University of Thessaly.
• Establish any type of cooperation with research centers and academic institutions domestically and abroad.
• Organize scientific conferences, workshops, seminars, symposia, conferences and other scientific events, as well as making publications and presentations.
• Provide services.

Selected Publications

Vlontzos, G. (2006), “The role of state trading enterprises and their impact on agricultural development and economic growth in developing countries” Current Agriculture Food and Resource Issues (CAFRI), Journal of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, Nu 7, p. 113-119.

Vlontzos, G. (2007) “The impact of the new international cotton policy on the Greek cotton production sector”. NEW MEDIT, Mediterranean Journal of Economics, Agriculture and Environment, Vol.VI – n.2 Giugno 2007, pp. 13-20, ISSN: 1594-5685. IF: 0.203

Vlontzos G., Duquenne MN., (2008), “Greek olive oil: How can its International Market Potential be realized”, Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy, Vol 9, Number 2, Summer, pp 32-47.

Duquenne M-N, Vlontzos G., (2012), “The Greek olive oil

market and the factor affecting it”, Rιvista di Economia

Agroalimentare, Νο 3, p. 101 124, DOI: 10.3280/ECAG2012-03006

Duquenne M-N., Vlontzos G., (2013), “The impact of the Greek crisis on the consumers’ behaviour: some initial evidences?”, British Food Journal, Vol. 116, No 6, pp. 890-903, DOI: 101108/BFJ-11-2012-0279. IF: 0.614

Vlontzos, G. and A. Theodoridis, (2013), “Efficiency and productivity change in the Greek dairy industry” Agricultural Economics Review, Vol. 14, No 2, pp. 14-28.

Giannoulis, K., G., Vlontzos, T., Karyotis, D., Bartzialis, N. Danalatos (2013), “Economic efficiency of different agricultural practices of ‘Panicum virgatum L. (switchgrass)’ for fodder production”, Journal of Agricultural Science, Vol. 5, No 12, pp. 132-144, DOI: 10.5539/jas.v5n12p132

Vlontzos G., Duquenne MN., (2014), “Assess the impact of subjective norms of consumers’ behaviour in the Greek olive oil market”, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 21, pp. 148-157

Giannoulis, K., G., Vlontzos, T., Karyotis, D., Bartzialis, N. Danalatos (2014), “Assessing the efficiency of switchgrass different cultural practices for pellet production”, Land Use Policy, Vol. 41, pp. 506-513. IF: 3.134

Vlontzos G., Duquenne MN., (2014), “Economic crisis and food selection: the financial, social and spatial dimension” International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, Vol.10, No2, pp. 203-215.

Vlontzos, G. (2014), “Measuring efficiency of the Greek flourmill firms using Data Envelopment Analysis”, International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and Informatics, (in press)

Vlontzos, G., Arabatzis, G., Manos, B., (2014) “Investigation of the relative efficiency of LEADER+ in rural areas of Northern Greece”, International Journal of Green Economics, Vol. 8, No1, pp.37-48, DOI: 10.1504/IJGE.2014.064470

Vlontzos, G., Niavis, S., Manos, B., (2014) “A DEA approach for estimating the agricultural energy and environmental efficiency of EU countries” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Vol. 40, pp. 91-96, DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2014.07.153

Vlontzos G., Niavis, S., Duquenne MN., (2014) “Introduction of the market of Tsipouro, a Greek Traditional Liquor, Precursor of Ouzo” International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean Studies, Vol. 7, Nu. 2, pp. 175-188.

Vlontzos G., Duquenne M-N., (2009), “Evolution of trade flows for sheep’s milk cheese: an empirical model for Greece”, In: ‘International Marketing and International Trade of Quality Food Products’, Edited by M. Canavari, N. Cantore, A. Castellini, E.Pignatti and R. Spadoni, Wageningen Academic Publishers, Netherlands, Ch. 2, pp 31-42, DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-661-8

Vlontzos G., Duquenne MN., (2010), “Interrelationship between ethnicity and international trade of Greek virgin olive oil”, In: ‘Market Orientation. Transforming Food and Agribusiness around the Customer’, editors A. Lindgreen, M. Hingley, D. Harness and P. Custance, Eds Gower Applied Research, U.K., Ch 15, pp. 263-273.

Vlontzos G., Niavis, S., (2014), “Assessing the evolution of technical efficiency of agriculture in EU countries: is there a role for the Agenda 2000?”, In: ‘Agricultural Cooperative Management and Policy’, editors C. Zopounidis et al, eds Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, Ch 18, pp. 339-351. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-06635-6

Agrafioti P, Athanassiou CG, Vassilakos TN, Vlontzos G, Arthur FH (2015) Using a Lethality Index to Assess Susceptibility of Tribolium confusum and Oryzaephilus surinamensis to Insecticides. PLoS ONE 10(11): e0142044. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0142044