Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview -- SECTION I: Policy Perspective -- Chapter 2. Modern Organised Retail and Its Impact on Agriculture -- Chapter 3. Contribution of Organized Retailing to Agriculture Distribution System: Prospects and Challenges -- Chapter 4. Retail Trade in Agriculture,...

The proposed book provides an assessment of an important yet controversial policy initiated by the Indian government and governments of several other developing countries. Marketing reforms, it is claimed, can be a crucial answer to solving the problem of rural poverty in agrarian economies...

Should more water be diverted to or from electricity generation? This timely question is addressed in this short volume. Two different approaches are introduced and compared: The first is a cost-benefit analysis, examining the case of re-regulating a Swedish hydropower plant in which water is...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license What are the challenges and action points for agricultural sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa? This collection of papers offers technical analyses, policy recommendations and an overview of success stories to date. Each carefully selected...

This book proposes measures to promote regional industrial development in East Asia from the perspective of three industries: agriculture, food, and tourism. The authors argue that for regional agriculture to develop, collaboration with the food industry is essential. Further, by linking...

This book provides an introduction to operational research methods and their application in the agrifood and environmental sectors. It explains the need for multicriteria decision analysis and teaches users how to use recent advances in multicriteria and clustering classification techniques in...

Das vorliegende Buch erläutert die Bedeutung des CSR-Ansatzes als Differenzierungskriterium im Wettbewerb für die Lebensmittelwirtschaft. Versierte Fachautoren legen dar, wie Nachhaltigkeit in der Unternehmensstrategie verankert werden kann und Erfolgspotentiale in der Food Value Chain gehoben...

PART I: Background and Concept -- 1. Innovative Environmental Management Tools For the Agri-Food Chain -- PART II: Integrated Management Systems (IMS) -- 2. The Integration of Quality Management and Environmental Management Systems -- 3. A Model of Integrated Management System for Agri-Food...

1 Einleitung -- 1.1 Problemstellung -- 1.2 Zielsetzung und Abgrenzung der Forschungsgegenstandes -- 1.3 Vorgehensweise -- 2 Digitale Marktplätze in der Literatur -- 2.1 Ausgewählte allgemeine Arbeiten zu Marktmittlern -- 2.2 Nicht-empirische Arbeiten zu digitalen Marktplätzen -- 2.3...

Das Buch beschreibt die Probleme und Gefahren, die im Großprojektmanagement auftreten können. So steht bei der Case Study die Betrachtung ethischer, moralischer und wirtschaftlicher Konflikte zwischen Unternehmen und Stakeholdern im Vordergrund. Am konkreten Beispiel der Projektplanungen für...