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Helping farmers innovate to harvest more from less

Nicholls, Trevor - Crawford Fund - 2012

By 2050, we face the challenge of feeding 50% more people within the finite and diminishing resources on the planet. Significant investment is going into the development of new crop varieties that will offer higher yields, greater pest resistance or better tolerance of adverse conditions. There...

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International Trade in Biofuels: Legal and Regulatory Issues

de Beer, Jeremy; Smyth, Stuart J. - In: Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy 13 (2012) 1

Governments around the world are betting heavily on biofuels as one part of a solution to a wide range of public policy challenges, from environmental sustainability in the face of climate change, to energy security given rising geopolitical instability, to economic growth especially in rural...

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NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN RUSSIA-EU TRADE WITH AGRICULTURAL GOODS: INFLUENCES OF TRADE INTEGRATION

Erokhin, Vasily; Ivolga, Anna - In: Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy 60 (2013) 2

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The World Wheat Situation, 1925-26: A Review of the Crop Year

In: Wheat Studies (1926) 02

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Indonesia's Modern Retail Food Sector: Interaction With Changing Food Consumption and Trade Patterns

Dyck, John H.; Woolverton, Andrea E.; Rangkuti, Fahwani … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2012

Indonesia’s food market has changed in response to a changing and growing economy. The report examines changes in the food consumption pattern and measures the growth of modern food retail chains, packaged food purchases, and food imports in the world’s fourth-most-populous country. The...

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Networks as Drivers for Innovation – Experiences from Food Networks in Canada and New Zealand

Hamann, Karen - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 03 (2012) 3

A common feature among networks is the focus on innovation but the approach to driving innovation and to supporting companies’ innovation work differs widely between networks. Some networks strive to be THE forum of an industry, and these networks generally focus on promoting innovations that...

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Exploring the Relations, Bargaining Forms and Dynamics of the EU Food Supply Chain under the Perspective of the Key Actors: Evidence from Greece and Denmark

Galanopoulos, Konstantinos; Karantininis, Konstantinos; … - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 02 (2011) 3

The objective of this paper is to offer qualitative and quantitative insights on the perceptions of the actors in the EU food supply chain on a broad spectrum of topics that characterise its operation and conduct, highlighting also potential differences in North and South European countries....

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Communicating Ethical Arguments to Organic Consumers: A Study Across Five European Countries

Naspetti, Simona; Zanoli, Raffaele - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 02 (2011) 3

Additional ethical claims were tested with mock organic egg labels in five EU countries. The attitudes towards the advertising labels were assessed by multiple copy testing measures. A total of 156 individual responses were analysed. The study confirms the difficulty of conducting advertising...

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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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Raising Rivals’ Costs Strategy and Localised Agro-Food Systems in Europe

Barjolle, Dominique; Philippe, Jeanneaux - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 03 (2012) 1

For some Localised Agro-Food Systems (LAFS) in Europe, the cheese and milk prices are above average whilst others are similar or even below average. The objective of this paper is to shed light on levers, which the agents activate to assure their uniqueness is irrevocable, and uphold the...

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