- the quality turn - manifest in the South African agro-food system. The strong influence of these quality trends on agro …-food systems evolution has been widely discussed in Europe and North America. We show that identifying quality related dynamics is … mainly based on the perspective of the organic sector. Most domestic retailers' food quality positioning is in line with …

The appearance of consumers groups increasingly concerned about the quality of food products, together with an … increasingly competitive environment and domestic saturated markets, has led companies to achieving differentiated quality. The … cannot easily know which properties are intrinsic to products, which are those that give them their quality. There is, thus …

This article highlights the interaction between social capital, pooling and quality premiums and their influence on … cooperative members’ decisions regarding their product quality. A necessary condition for cooperative equitable principles such as … high, the social motivation in the cooperative can guarantee high product quality while economic incentives are weak. When …

countries, where consumer needs are shifting closer and closer towards the search for quality and emotional benefits. This study …

processing and product quality. Quality can be considered a tool for responsible fisheries and at the same time an opportunity …

Consumers look for the highest affordable food quality, given their household budgets and perceptions of product … quality. Such perception is however strictly related to culturally linked variables, and the importance attached to each … component of the overall quality vary greatly among countries. Different perceptions lead to different purchase decisions. This …

competitiveness of the sector and on armouring it with all the essential quality and safety reassurances. This is done in order to …. These proposals form an action plan which provides viable solutions to the quality and safety issue, as well as an …

This paper develops a double-sided moral hazard model of share contract in agriculture, with imperfect quality … measurement by the agent and the principal, who contribute to the final good quality in terms of production effort and marketing … effort respectively. Using this model, we analyse the implications of the share contract for quantity and quality, often …