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This paper provides an overview of problems posed by transgenic food. It covers the consumers’ opinions, survey results, and analysis of material from various national and foreign sources connected with the subject of genetically modified food. Moreover, the paper shows benefits from and...
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The significance of bee families as pollinators for agriculture was presented on example of the Mazovia province. The changes in the needs of pollination of the main plants cultivated in this region in 2000-2009 were analyzed. The value of yields as a result of pollination and the losses of...
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The aim of the paper was to evaluate the information included on packaging of selected food products (liquid fruit-vegetable goods like juices, nectars, drinks), especially information having influence on the formation of consumers dietary knowledge. The research was conducted in shops of two...
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The purpose of the paper was to point out causations and changes concerning fruit and vegetable quality in the domestic market. For this end attention was paid to legal aspects of assuring fruit and vegetable quality in the European Union market. Results of commercial and health quality of fruit...
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With over a billion people in Africa, the issue of agricultural development and food security is extremely important. The paper investigates the historical engagement of China in the economic cooperation with Africa, as well as the Chinese and African alimentary needs leading to enhanced...
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This scientific paper presents a consequent research of actual problems, trends and challenges in agricultural sector worldwide, in Europe and Latvia starting from global outlook and ending up with Latvian nationwide scale. The analysis of global and EU agricultural trends and problems has...
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Requirements of food law contributed to an increase of competitiveness of meat and dairy industry thanks to a modernization of plant infrastructure. The implementation of the HACCP system from the point of view of company management should be treated as an investment which in the future brings...
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The awareness of animal welfare and animal well-being is growing all over Europe and the world. The concerns are related to the applied policy regimes, economic sustainability of the production methods, food quality and safety, consumers’ health and behaviour and their willingness to pay for...
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responsibility [CSR] strategies. Against this background, we conducted an online survey of 170 agribusiness firms in order to shed … other, the rejection of GMOs by European consumers. The empirical results show that many agribusiness firms perceive the use … of GMOs as a highly relevant management issue that shapes their CSR strategies. All in all, agribusiness firms apply a …
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The aim of the article was to present systems of beef classification in the context of revenue from production of beef of high and repeatable quality, on the basis of literature data on beef carcass classification systems in the world and on the possibility of beef quality prediction within the...
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