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Using Price Rigidities to Explain Pricing Strategies in the Organic Milk Chain

Hellberg-Bahr, Anneke; Pfeuffer, Martin; Spiller, Achim; … - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2011

The stickiness of prices and reasons for price changes are widely discussed in market analyses and marketing theory. Explanations and reasons of rigidities have shown that prices do not change as often in small retail stores and in markets with high concentration (Powers and Powers 2001, Hannan...

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Identifying Expectations for Innovations in Management Practices in Dairy Sector by Using Q Methodology

Latvala, Terhi; Mandolesi, Serena; Nicholas, Phillipa; … - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2013

In this paper, expectations along the Finnish dairy supply chain for innovation to achieve more sustainable farming systems are identified. Four focus group discussions and three interviews for low input and organic dairy supply chain members were performed. The Q Methodology was used to...

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Importance of the Main Agribusiness Products to the Brazilian Economy

Galvão, Aziz; Júnior, da Silva; Bruna, do Valle … - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2013

Brazilian economy, which is currently the sixth largest in the world. The sector is responsible for 27% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Moreover, it also accounts for nearly 40% of the values generated in the export and employs around 26% of the economically active population of the...

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Impacts of Biogas Production on the Production Factors Land and Labour – Current Effects, Possible Consequences and Further Research Needs

Emmann, Carsten H.; Guenther-Lübbers, Welf; Theuvsen, … - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2013

tion from agricultural sources. However, many other EU member states are creating the necessary conditions for rapid growth in this area. The German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), which sets payments over a long time period for electricity supplied from renewa-ble sources, often serves as a...

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Solvency and Performance of French Wineries in Times of Declining Sales: Co‐operatives and Corporations

Declerck, Francis; Viviani, Jean-Laurent - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2010

The paper assesses the ability of French wineries to prevail over the crisis of French wine in the years 2000 …). Co‐operatives were able to absorb part of the impact of the wine crisis at the expense of their members, in increasing … French wine crisis has not been strong enough to shake the financial structure of cooperatives and corporations. But co …

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Dynamic Markets – Dynamic Relationships: The Example of Grain Marketing in Germany

Schulze, Birgit - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2011

Grain markets in Germany, as in the rest of the world, are becoming more and more volatile. At the same time, the consolidation process on the level of the first hand, buying the grain from farmers, is moving forward in a strong pace, leaving farmers with less local alternatives to sell their...

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Spot and Futures Prices of Agricultural Commodities: Fundamentals and Speculation

Baldi, Lucia; Peri, Massimo; Vandone, Daniela - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2011

This paper investigates the long-run relationship between spot and futures prices for corn and soybeans, for the period January 2004 -September 2010. We apply cointegration methodology in the presence of potentially unknown structural breaks in the commodities prices and we then study the...

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Political Consumerism and Food Community Networks

Cembalo, Luigi; Migliore, Giuseppina; Schifani, Giorgio - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2011

specialization. The study means to tackle issues related to organizational frameworks, at farm and chain level, and to assess those …

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Future Scenarios of the Food System: Insights from the Consumers’ Perspective

Contini, Caterina; Casini, Leonardo; Fabbrizzi, Sara; … - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2011

A careful analysis of contemporary society shows a radical evolution of the role and function of consumption. So-called post-modernity, along with the technological, economic and social transformations that have brought it on, inaugurate a different way of conducting relationships, of existing...

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The Dynamics of the Innovation System for Functional Foods in South Brazil

Barcellos, Marcia Dutra de; Pozzo, Daniele; Ferreira, … - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2011

This study aims at identifying the dynamics of the innovation system for functional foods (FF) in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Functional food is any healthy food claimed to have a health-promoting or disease-preventing property beyond the basic function of supplying nutrients. Health has been...

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