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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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Climate-Adapted Soil Cultivation as an Aspect for Sustainable Farming –
Guenther-Lübbers, Welf; Arens, Ludwig; Theuvsen, Ludwig - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2013
Due to global climate change and its impact on local weather conditions, decision support systems are becoming more important in agriculture. Such systems allow farmers to adapt more effectively to the complex changes affecting their farms. Marginal production sites must apply new tillage...
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010914918
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010914922
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Modelling Fresh Strawberry Supply “From-Farm-to-Fork” as a Complex Adaptive Network
Engelseth, Per; Karlsen, Anniken; Verwaart, Tim - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2011
The purpose of this study is to model and thereby enable simulation of the complete business entity of fresh food supply. A case narrative of fresh strawberry supply provides basis for this modelling. Lamming et al. (2000) point to the importance of discerning industry-specific product features...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011069847
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853573
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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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