This paper offers an overview for a special issue on agroindustrialization, globalization, and international development. It sets out a conceptual framework for understanding the links among these three broad phenomena and then discusses emerging issues and evidence concerning the factors...

The paper evaluates diverse impacts of Fukushima nuclear disaster on Japanese agriculture and food chains. First, a framework analysis of multidimensional effects of the disaster is presented. Second, immediate and shortterm radiation effects, effects on nearby population, safety regulation and...

International comparisons are increasingly popular in empirical studies of economic organization, financial-market performance, and political economy. Besides providing a broad set of firms and industries to compare, these studies highlight the interaction between the institutional environment -...

The economic rationale for trade remedy law, while always weak, is undermined by the formation of free trade areas. However, due to political pressure, first CUSFTA and then NAFTA have continued the use of domestic antidumping and countervailing duty laws. With the lowering of border protection,...

International crisis feedbacks weakened Italian agro-food production. Nevertheless, the industry reported excellent results with respect to the total industry and Campania attests as the first national agro-food production centre. In this specific agro-industrial sector, certain criticalities...

The article is devoted to a generalizing analysis of successful practices of the Russian agricultural and industrial enterprises functioning - subjects of medium business. On the basis of the case analysis of 64 most successful enterprises (leaders of success) their features that allow them to...

In this paper we describe and analyze how different actors along the agri-food value chain (producers, processors, wholesale, retail, restaurant/meal and consumers) perceive challenges. The study is conducted in the county of Halland, situated in the southwest of Sweden. Halland – and Sweden...