Journal of Food Products Marketing: Special Issue on Food Waste

The Journal of Food Products Marketing will launch a new series of special issues exploring Contemporary Topics in Food Marketing. The first special issue will be guest edited by Dr. Brian Roe and Danyi Qi of the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics at The Ohio State University on FoodWaste: Marketing Strategies.

Possible topics include:

• Labeling innovations
• Consumer response
• Food waste measurement
• Food recovery programs
• Gleaning and markets

Submissions should follow the manuscript style guidelines for the Journal of Food Products Marketing http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wfpm20/current. All manuscripts should be submitted online https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wfpm. The deadline for receiving manuscripts is October 1, 2017.

Colleagues interested in working with the Editorial Board to design and manage other special issues should contact Dr. Neal Hooker, Editor at Hooker.27@osu.edu. Possible topics for future special issues include:

• Advances in Food Advertising
• Grocery Consolidation 
• Digital Marketing for Food Brands and Retailers 
• Food Marketing in Asia 
• Food Innovation/Design

The Journal of Food Products Marketing serves as a forum for the exchange and dissemination of food marketing knowledge and experiences. Designed to study the characteristics and outcomes of food marketing systems around the world, the journal critically examines contemporary food marketing challenges and solutions. Scholars, practitioners, and public policymakers share practical and insightful information-both descriptive and analytical-on food marketing theory and practice. The Journal of Food Products Marketing enables marketing specialists to stay up-to-date through theoretical and empirical insights and to make informed decisions by enhancing our understanding of the functions, institutions, and environments of food marketing systems.