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European Consumers’ Acceptance of Beef Safety-Improving Interventions at Different Stages of the Beef Chain: Primary Production, Slaughtering, Processing and Packaging
Van Wezemael, Lynn; Verbeke, Wim; Kugler, Jens O.; … - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2011
Following the occurrence of meat safety incidents during the nineties (Verbeke et al., 1999), considerable effort has been done to improve safety in the beef chain, both by policy and beef chain actors. Nowadays, a wide array of interventions to improve beef safety is applied at different stages...
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A System Approach on Organizational Innovations in the Agro-Food Sector: The Case of AFSCs in Flanders
Vandermeulen, Valerie; Vuylsteke, Anne; Van … - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2011
Together with the evolution from the agro-industrial model to the sustainable rural development model (Roep and Wiskerke 2004), a part of the agro-food market has evolved from an anonymous, mass food market to a quality-food market. This shift is driven by factors, such as the changing relations...
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Estimating the Carbon Footprint of Florida Orange Juice
Spreen, Thomas H.; Dwivedi, Puneet; Goodrich-Schneider, … - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2010
This study is a part of a comprehensive study which attempts to create a baseline of global warming impact (expressed in total greenhouse gas emission and measured in terms of carbon equivalent) associated with the production and consumption of a gallon of orange juice available in the form of...
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Trust in the US‐EU Fruit and Vegetable Chain: Do US Exporters Understand EU Importers?
Ameseder, Christoph; House, Lisa; Haas, Rainer; … - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2010
Research on organizational and inter‐organizational trust has become an important field in management and marketing literature, as it is perceived as a pivotal aspect of business transactions. However, clarifications are still needed on the issue of whom we trust; is the person whom we are...
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European Preferences for Pork Product and Process Attributes: A Generalized Random Utility Model for Ranked Outcome
Caracciolo, Francesco; Cembalo, Luigi; Cicia, Gianni; … - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2010
The agri‐food sector and food consumption models have experienced both worldwide and in Europe a process of change that still appears ongoing. The main effects of this change are clearly visible in a whole series of new developments. The most interesting of these appears to be the role played...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853574
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Meat Standards Australia as an Innovation in the Australian Beef Production and Marketing System
Griffith, Garry R.; Thompson, John M.; Polkinghorne, Rod; … - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2010
present some 850,000 cattle are graded annually, about 25% of the total domestic kill. This paper first describes the …, and the extent to which premiums paid by consumers are transmitted back along the value chain to cattle producers. WTP …. The remaining $0.14/kg was passed back to cattle producers. Despite accelerated use of MSA in the wholesale trade …
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Perception of Innovative Crop Insurance in Australia
Meuwissen, Miranda P.M.; Molnar, Tams A. - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2010
Worldwide, extreme climate risks cause stakeholders in food supply chains to search for new risk management tools. In Australia, recently so‐called crop yield simulation insurance has been introduced based on an integrated agrometeorological simulation model. Current uptake is relatively low,...
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Naturalness and Consumer Choices: The Case of Microfiltered Milk
Coppola, Adele; Verneau, Fabio - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2010
Food is a very sensitive area and the most intimate form of consumption. Consumer choice is known to be strongly affected by emotional factors usually not taken into account in economic analysis. At the same time it is clear that such emotional factors can affect consumer behaviour and market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853581
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The Relationship between Innovation and Marketing in SMEs in the EU Food Sector
Banterle, Alessandro; Cavaliere, Alessia; Stranieri, … - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2010
In the EU market small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) represent the greater part of the food industry, specially with regard to traditional food products (TFPs). However, the growth of competition, connected mainly to globalisation, is making it very difficult for SMEs to survive. On the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853584
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Impact of Firm Characteristics on Expected and Actual Traceability Costs and Benefits in the Italian Fishery Supply Chain
Asioli, Daniele; Boecker, Andreas; Canavari, Maurizio - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2010
Since 2005, the implementation of a traceability system is mandatory to all European food chain operators. The balance of costs to build and maintain the traceability system and benefits of traceability depends on the firm's traceability objectives and its resources, as reflected in...
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