In a process of world economic domination by an agro-industrial and agro-tertiary food system, the author wonders about the feasibility of an alternative model. The intensive agro-industrial model (financiarized, concentrated, specialized and globalized), allows remarkable results in terms of...

Previous research has extensively studied environmental implications of conventional and globalized food supply chain. Local food supply chains are supposed to reduce the environmental impacts of "food miles", the distance that foodstuff travels between the production location and the...

This paper explores those dimensions of the image of a "country" and "region" of origin influencing consumers preferences. In order to take in account cultural differences, we conducted interviews with consumers and experts from two countries, France and Tunisia. Our results suggest that the...

O governo brasileiro favorecendo a participação nas decisões políticas e a descentralização, nomeadamente pela instauração de territórios, a demanda de formações para capacitar os atores faz-se mais necessária. No Nordeste do Brasil, uma Universidade Camponesa foi assim instaurada em...

In order to implement and comply with food safety and traceability regulations, companies may use a number of methods, including specialized information and communications technologies developed for this express purpose. As a result, compliance with regulatory obligations, and the use of...

The objective of the project is to assess the strengths and weaknesses of different forms of coordination in the development of quality chains in developing countries. Such forms of coordination include: signs of quality (labels, brands, geographical references); horizontal coordination...

It was the title chosen in January 2004 for the 12 pages of the "Agreste" restitution of the primary results obtained through this second investigation, to the partners and interviewed firms, which was intended to question the evolutions of the regional agro-food sphere over 5 years (1998-2003)....

The capacity of family agriculture in Brazil to meet the challenge of producing a large diversity of food products, characterized by subjective attributes, corresponding to specific needs, and using the appropriate technologies or know-how, represents, jointly with proximity, its main...

Ideas and values of "sustainable development" are transfered from the international to the national level in policy-making processes and give way to a recomposition of rural development policies : we study that policy transfert. In Mali and Madagascar, sustainable development policies are quite...

The question of how information and communications technologies impact the economic development of businesses has come to the fore in recent years with the emergence of what have been called "platforms for collaborative working" or simply "collaborative platforms". This technological development...