This paper focuses on the environmental and ethical attributes of food products and their production processes. These two aspects have been recently recognized and are becoming increasingly important in terms of signaling and of consumer perception. There are two relevant thematic domains:...

This paper is an original empirical attempt to explain the outcome of collective action in the domain of food safety. We examine conditions and institutions that influence pesticide residue levels in vegetables using econometric analysis on data gathered from 60 farmer organisations in Vietnam....

Si la maîtrise de la qualité organoleptique et de la fraîcheur reste la cause principale de l'insatisfaction du consommateur, les distributeurs anticipent d'ores et déjà les effets que pourrait avoir une crise de confiance des consommateurs vis-à-vis de la qualité sanitaire des fruits et...

[fre] À partir de l'analyse des transactions entre importateurs de fruits de contre saison et grande distribution, nous montrons qu'aucune forme de gouvernance définitivement supérieure aux autres parce que moins coûteuse ne s'impose. La coordination «marchande» permet les ajustements en...

[eng] Glasshouse farms growth and financing in Loire-Atlantique. The region of Loire-Atlantique has a long tradition in vegetable growing. It has built one of the largest areas of glasshouses of the northern half of France. As most of the septentrional european regions, its growth was strongly...

Are changes in consumer demand and concentration in food retail altering market structures so that integrated production practices like IPM and ICM will become not only widely adopted but essential if growers want to maintain access to markets? Data on the European fresh produce sector are...

In the past decade, supermarkets have spread rapidly in the low-income Mediterranean countries. Focusing on a case of advanced supermarket diffusion (Turkey) and of incipient diffusion (Morocco), this article examines this development and its impact on the fresh fruits and vegetable sector,...