**About the Editors**

#### **Alessandro Suardi**

Dr. Alessandro Suardi is a senior researcher and agricultural engineer for forestry and the environmental management with a PhD in science and technology. A senior researcher at the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA) in Italy since 2008, he has worked on nine national and eight international projects for the development of new prototypes to optimize agricultural mechanization logistics, improve farm mechanization, harvesting and management, valorise agricultural residues, and perform environmental sustainability assessments of agricultural supply chains with the Life Cycle Assessment method (LCA). He is the author of more than 100 national and international scientific publications.

#### **Nadia Palmieri**

Dr. Nadia Palmieri is researcher and economist, with both a Ph.D and a national scientific qualification in agricultural economics. She is researcher at the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA) in Italy. Her main areas of research are consumer behaviour, willingness to consume, willingness to accept, agricultural economics as well as environmental and economic assessment of agricultural systems. On these subjects, she was the scientifist responsible for the economic aspect of 8 research projects and has published more than 50 papers.
