Federica Demaria
Adjunct professor
Adjunct professor
Biography
Federica Demaria is a researcher in Economics at CREA - PB (Council for Research in Agriculture and Analysis of Agricultural Economics - Center for Policies and Bioeconomics, Rome).
He obtained a PhD in Applied Economics from the Department of Economic, Statistical and Financial Sciences "Giovanni Anania”, University of Calabria in 2009. He is also an Associate Researcher at UMR MOISA, INRA, Montpellier University, CIRAD, CIHEAM-IAMM, Montpellier SupAgro (France).
The research activity is mainly linked to the effects of tariff and non-tariff measures such as sanitary, phytosanitary and technical regulations on trade; International trade in the agri-food sector; Preferential trade agreements, European trade policies; EU agricultural and environmental policies. Other activities and fields concern consumer attitudes towards genetically modified foods and the implementation of various statistical and econometric methods on time-series and cross-sectional analyzes at the farm level.
Curriculum
Current position: Researcher at CREA-PB since 02/01/2018 (Rome office).
Education and training:
- 2005-2009 PhD in Applied Economics. Department of Economic, Statistical and Financial Sciences “Giovanni Ananias”, (Acavacata di Rende - CS).
- June 2000 Degree in Economics and Commerce - University of Messina.
Academic Experiences:
- 2019: Applied Econometrics with STATA – Course for PhD students in Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods - University of Tuscia DEIM – Department of Economics, Engineering, Society and Business. (15h)
- 2018: Introduction to Econometrics – Course for Master of Business and Science Vineyard & Winery Management students, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, France. (30h)
- 2017: Economic Policy, Faculty of Political Sciences and European Institutions. University of Campobasso (54h).
- 2016: Economic Policy and International Trade – Faculty of Economics. University of Campobasso (54h).
- 2016: Economic Policy and International Trade – Faculty of Economics. (54h) University of Campobasso (54h).
- 2011: Mathematics for Economics – Faculty of Economics. University of Calabria (60h).
PUBLICATIONS
1) Manetti, I., Demaria, F., Pupo D'Andrea, M.R., Henke, R., D'Annolfo, R., Morandi, F. and Romano, S., Carillo, F., Hoang, V., & Nguyen, C. (2026) . "Key factors boosting sustainable tea production in Vietnam's Central Highlands region." Discover Sustainability 7.1 (2026): 338.
2) Romano, Sara, Federica Demaria, and Anna Carbone. "A systematic review of the impacts of voluntary sustainability standards on the cocoa global value chain." Discover Sustainability (2026).
3) D'Annolfo, Raffaele, and Federica Demaria. "How do the voluntary sustainability standards contribute to enhancing smallholder farmers' livelihoods and progress towards SDGs? A systematic review of crop-based food commodities in Ghana and Vietnam." International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 24.1 (2026): 2616059.
4) Morandi, Federica, Demaria Federica. Felicetta Carillo, Simona Romeo Lironcurti, Luca Morucci (2025). "Consumer's attitude in driving choices towards wine products derived from New Genomic Techniques (NGTs)." Agri-food Economics: XXVII, 2 (2025): 195-223.
5) Agnoli, L., Vasileiou, E., & Demaria, F. (2025). Barriers and Drivers in the Adoption of New Genomic Techniques for Grapevines. Wine Economics and Policy, 14(2), 25-39.
6) Maria Rosaria PUPO D'ANDREA, Roberto HENKE, Angelo QUARTO and Federica DEMARIA (2025). Trade and sustainability: analyzing Specific Trade Concerns (STCs) through the Theory of Change. Studies in Agricultural Economics 127 (2025) 53-66. https://doi.org/10.7896/j.3045.
7) Fort, F., Manetti, I., Pupo D'Andrea, M.R., Henke, R., D'Annolfo, R., Morandi, F. and Demaria F. (2025). Does sustainability fit in the EU-Tunisia trade relations? Evidence from the olive oil sector. NEW MEDIT, 1.
8) DeMaria F, Romeo Lironcurti S, Morandi F, Pesce A, Gazza L, Nocente F. Consumers' response to genetically modified food: an Italian case study. GM Crops Food. 2024 Dec 31;15(1):303-315. doi: 10.1080/21645698.2024.2417473. Epub 2024 Nov 6. PMID: 39504095; PMCID: PMC11545258.
9) Romeo Lironcurti S, Demaria F, Quarto A and Solazzo R (2024) The ongoing debate on NBTs and possible roads for the future. Front. Polit. Sci. 5:1284527. doi: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1284527
10) Mariarosaria Agostino & Ercan Enzo Comert & Federica Demaria & Sabrina Ruberto, 2023. "What kinds of subsidies affect technical efficiency? The case of Italian dairy farms," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 40(1), pages 116-138, January.
