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The Resilience Approach Contribution to Rural Communities Social Assessment for Social Sustainability Based Strategies Implementation
Severi, Claudia; Rota, Cosimo; Zanasi, Cesare - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 03 (2012) 1
Evaluating the rural communities capacity to manage changes is of paramount importance for effective Social Sustainability strategies identification. The aim of the present study is to analyze if social resilience can be integrated into the social assessment of rural communities, with the aim of...
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Urban Gardening Realities: The Example Case Study of Portsmouth, England
Hallsworth, Alan; Wong, Alfred - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 06 (2015) 1
This paper offers an empirical case study of the potential for urban gardening to contribute to individual food security. Food security generally encompasses both availability and accessibility. In Western Europe, availability per se has declined in importance with the development of national...
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Solvency and Performance of French Wineries in Times of Declining Sales: Co-operatives and Corporations
Declerck, Francis; Viviani, Jean-Laurent - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 03 (2012) 2
. Corporations are distinguished from co-operatives: Over the 2000-2006 period in spite of sales fluctuations, French wineries did …). 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 co-operatives and corporations. But co-operatives …
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Mathematical Programming Models to Increase Land and Water Use Efficiency in Semi-arid NE-Brazil
Hagel, Heinrich; Hoffmann, Christa; Doluschitz, Reiner - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 05 (2014) 4
Construction of the Itaparica dam and reservoir induced changes in the agricultural production systems of the Itaparica micro-region, at the lower-middle São Francisco river basin. Extensive traditional systems were replaced by e.g. irrigated fruit production. However, over twenty years after...
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Harnessing indigenous knowledge for sustainable forest management in Ghana
Sraku-Lartey, Margaret - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 05 (2014) 4
This paper makes a case for harnessing indigenous knowledge (IK) for sustainable national development in Ghana. IK according to the World Bank is the basic component of any country’s knowledge system and it is upon this knowledge that scientific research builds. In Ghana the Government has...
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Internationalization and Firm Performance in Agribusiness: Empirical Evidence from European Cooperatives
Heyder, Matthias; Makus, Christian; Theuvsen, Ludwig - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 02 (2011) 1
The ongoing internationalization of markets has become a major issue also for companies of the agribusiness …. Nevertheless, neither the degree of internationalization of agribusiness firms nor the internationalization …-performance relationship in the agribusiness sector have been analyzed thoroughly so far. To help fill this void, we use panel data compiled …
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Networking in Meat Production Systems: The Influence of Cooperative Structures on Farmers’ Participation
Deimel, Mark; Theuvsen, Ludwig - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 02 (2011) 1
slaughterhouses significantly better than farmers dealing with private slaughterhouses. The results provide cooperatives with starting …
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Economic and Environmental Impacts of Dietary Changes in Iran: An Input-Output Analysis
Rahmani, Roham; Bakhshoodeh, Mohammad; Zibaei, Mansour; … - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 02 (2011) 4
Iran's simple and environmentally extended commodity by commodity input-output (IO) model was used to determine the impacts of dietary changes on the Iranian economy and on the environmental load. The original model is based on the status-quo diet and was modified to include the World Health...
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The Influence of Clusters on the Competitiveness of Hog Production: The Example of Northwestern Germany
Deimel, Mark; Arens, Ludwig; Theuvsen, Ludwig - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 02 (2011) 2
In recent decades the northwestern part of Germany (Weser-Ems region) has come to focus on intensive pork production. This has led to public outrage about the disposal of biological waste, farmers’ complaints about the high cost of leasing land, soaring risks of animal diseases, and the...
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Towards a Diagnostic Instrument to Identify Improvement Opportunities for Quality Controlled Logistics in Agrifood Supply Chain Networks
Vorst, Jack G.A.J. van der; van Kooten, Olaf; … - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 02 (2011) 1
Western-European consumers have become not only more demanding on product availability in retail outlets but also on other food attributes such as quality, integrity, and safety. When (re)designing food supply-chain networks, from a logistics point of view, one has to consider these demands next...
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