literature review was carried out on the Resilience approach definition and its application to the Social Assessment in rural … capabilities of the communities in managing changes. The Resilience perspective embraces the dynamic character of communities and … resilience are intertwined in guaranteeing social sustainability which, in turn, is strictly interrelated with environmental and …

The paper assesses the ability of French wineries to prevail over the crisis of French wine in the years 2000 …. 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 …

Construction of the Itaparica dam and reservoir induced changes in the agricultural production systems of the Itaparica …

Mediterranean alternative dietary scenarios. A range of impacts occurred depending upon the relative changes in food items. The … direction of changes was similar in the three alternative scenarios. The greatest and smallest impact occurred in the WHO and … the Mediterranean scenarios respectively. Total changes in output in WHO, WCRF and Mediterranean dietary scenarios were …

security. Food security generally encompasses both availability and accessibility. In Western Europe, availability per se has … declined in importance with the development of national and international transportation networks. During the past decade …

This paper makes a case for harnessing indigenous knowledge (IK) for sustainable national development in Ghana. IK … scientific research builds. In Ghana the Government has recognized the need to harness IK for sustainable national development … no evidence however that scientific research in Ghana actually takes IK into consideration during the research process …

owners and senior managers in SMEs in the Scottish food and drink industry. Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) and …

, information systems) and social embedding. It uses three representative case studies from the regional pork sector in Spain …

The present paper aims at answering the question how cluster organization functions are implemented in a high-tech, a … in the Netherlands, an agri-food cluster (as an example of a low to medium-tech cluster), a green biotech cluster (medium … differences among the investigated clusters. Only in the low-to-medium tech agri-food cluster there was a clear need for …

Firms in the agri-food industry are embedded in a system of institutions, regulations and policies that shape their … economic environment and affect their conduct and performance. Changes in this system can propose new challenges for the firms … deep structural changes in the institutional and regulatory setting can be effectively addressed by organizational …