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The document summarises the results of twenty years of coordination of research programmes on urban food supply in Africa and Asia in collaboration with national researchers. The main research questions are the following ones: What is the role of geographical and relational proximity in the...
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Quality considerations are increasingly important drivers of production and coordination choices for players in the agrofood chain. Incentive contracts between farmers and processors, shippers, and other buyers are an increasingly popular means of coordinating to improve food quality. This...
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Abstract: Cooperation among firms can be analyzed from different theoretical perspectives. The objective of this paper is to frame the analysis of firms´ networks according to the local economic development approach. Since fostering cooperation between firms is one of the main elements of local...
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management. Second, it outlines the features, factors and efficiency of a new business model of dairy farms inclusion in supply …
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efficiency of alternative market, contract, internal, and hybrid modes of governance; analysis of level of transaction costs and … assessing the needs and efficiency of economic organizations and public interventions in agriculture. Our new approach includes … efficiency, and for improvement of public policies, collective actions, farming and business strategies, and academic analyses in …
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, private, public) mechanisms of risk governance and (natural, technological, behavioral etc.) factors of efficiency; and …Paper presents diverse modes of governance of chemical and biological risks in agri-food sector, assesses their … efficiency, complementarities, and challenges, and suggests recommendations for public policies improvement. It defines …
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The relevance of quality and typical food as strength for Rural Local Systems (rls) is widely recognized in literature (Antonioli Corigliano, 1999; Brunori, 1999; Pacciani et al., 2001; Cecchi, 2002). Generally speaking, the chance of a rls to build a competitive advantage often depends on the specificities...
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We take a broader perspective on the issue of recent price increases in the domestic rice market in Bangladesh. The query that follows is that: what exactly is the nature of competition at different stages of the domestic rice market of Bangladesh? This can be addressed only if we examine the...
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defines the efficiency of risk management and identifies (personal, institutional, dimensional, technological, natural …) factors of governance choice. Next, it presents stages in analysis of risk management and for the improvement of public … intervention in the risk governance. Finally, it identifies contemporary opportunities and challenges for risk governance in agri …
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To address a gap in the literature that deals with official quality labels, the article proposes a methodology for analysis and a conceptual framework that are subsequently applied to two such quality labels from the south west region of France : ‘Volaille Fermières des Landes’ and...
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