The overarching aim of this paper is to examine empirical findings on the arena of consumers' behavior and attitude towards intake of street-foods (SFs) and fast foods (FFs) status as well as associated risks of consumption in China. Presently, consuming SFs and FFs have become a popular trend and is counted as the manifestation of modernity in most fast growing countries, for instance, China. The SFs and FFs are believed to be a panacea to the major socio-economic problems for countries having a large population. Over one-quarter of the century FFs and SFs become rapidly expanded in China through the quick service provision of already prepared foods with reasonable prices and source of employment for swarming open country and city inhabitants end to end to its supply. FFs and SFs are the most preferred by consumers because of safety issue, reasonable price, ready-made nature, easily accessible, portability, and so on. Concurrently, the nutritional and health concerns in China revealed that the government is very committed to quarantine and certifies FFs and SFs of food safety and public health, particularly after melamine was detected in milk in the year 2008. This later stimulated the Chinese regime to put into practice food safety law (FSL) in 2009 next to food hygiene law (FHL). FFs and SFs consumers in China are very conscious of food quality and give credit for safety than purchasing prices. Broadly speaking, most examined the papers indulged that FF and SF choice rely on 'safety first' by consumers in China. To sustain vendors stock and satisfy consumers' demand for SF and FF, avoiding health risks, change in the existing perception and trust building is a priority issue.
In Ethiopia, cereal production and marketing are the means of livelihood for millions of households. Teff is the major cash crop grown in the study area mainly for market. However, the teff marketing has not been given due attention, which has potential production volume and marketability. The objective of this paper is to identify the factors affecting market participation and intensity of teff marketed surplus. A two stage random sampling procedure was used and a total of 154 smallholder farmers were randomly and proportionally selected to collect both primary and secondary data. Heckman two-stage model was used. The first stage model result indicated that lagged price, family size and credit access were factors that influenced market participation and second stage model result indicated that amount of teff produced, family size, land size, livestock and age were factors that determined the extent of teff marketed. Providing adequate size of credit, improving production of teff which enhances its productivity and relying on intensive cultivation are strategies to increase farmers' participation in teff marketing.
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