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As countries develop, agriculture's role as domestic employer declines. But the broader agri-food system also expands, and the scope for agriculture-related job creation shifts beyond the farm. Historically, technological revolutions have shaped[...]E-Book
This informative book reviews the challenges of agribusiness in the Southeast Mediterranean. The author focuses on sugarcane cultivation in Egypt to illustrate the impact of climate change on agribusiness, and his method and findings may be help[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
The COVID-19 pandemic placed unprecedented short-term stresses on food supply chains around the world. However, rapid responses by both private-sector actors and policy makers mostly managed to prevent severe disruptions. Yet, even before the ou[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Les emballages des produits alimentaires jouent un rôle primordial dans le stockage, la protection ainsi que la préservation des aliments quils renferment, et ceci de la fabrication jusquà lutilisation finale par les consommateurs. Cependant,[...]Article
Despite the different elements that regard Food Supply Chains (FSCs) and the Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) as possessing opposing models, substantial changes are happening in them, such as economic, social and environmental sustainability pra[...]Article
El objetivo de este artículo es presentar una visión general de las principales tendencias del sistema agroalimentario global tras la pandemia del COVID-19. La crisis económica resultante, las transiciones climática y digital, y las cada vez may[...]Article
En el seno del Proyecto de Cooperación Transfronteriza para la Valorización Integral de la Dehesa-Montado (PRODEHESA-MONTADO), cofinanciado por el Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) a través del Programa INTERREG España-Portugal, se ha[...]Article
Food systems are plagued by the grand sustainability challenge of food waste, which represents a urging issue from economic, environmental and social point of view. The Circular Economy paradigm can open up different actions which are framed wit[...]E-Book
C. Basset-Mens, coord. ; A. Avadi, coord. ; C. Bessou, coord. ; I. Acosta-Alba, coord. ; Y. Biard, coord. ; S. Payen, coord. | Versailles [France] : Editions Quae | Savoir Faire, ISSN 1952-1251 | 2021Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is the internationally recognized method to assess the environmental impacts of products and services. Its application to agri-food systems in developing or emerging contexts is recent and represents many challenges o[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Les coproduits sont générés par les industries agroalimentaires au cours du processus alimentaire de transformation/production de denrées destinées à lalimentation humaine. Leur valorisation sinscrit dans une démarche déconomie circulaire bas[...]Article
Green agri-food supply chains are increasingly attracting research interest, owing to their potential capacity for resilience against recent crises (e.g., financial, COVID-19) as well as end-consumers concerns on sustainability issues. In this [...]Article
J.A. Aznar-Sánchez ; J.M.F. Mendoza ; C. Ingrao ; S. Failla ; A. Bezama ; T. Nemecek ; A. Gallego-Schmid |Agriculture and the food sector plays a crucial role in the preservation and sustainable use of natural resources. Moreover, it has an enormous potential to mitigate climate change if compared to other economic sectors. The development of agricu[...]Article
A. Antonelli ; G. Brunori ; J. Jawhar ; D. Petruzzella ; R. Roma |This paper is the outcome of a reflection on the MIP report 2020, a collection of information and data used to describe the scenario on youth innovation and entrepreneurship in agrifood sector in Mediterranean countries. In particular, it highli[...]Article
C. Contini ; G. Marotta ; B. Torquati |This special issue of Agricultural and Food Economics consists of four articles that were part of the scientific programme of the First SIDEA-SIEA Joint Conference, held in Bisceglie in September 2017. The conference afforded agricultural econom[...]Article
A certain number of factors can affect the functioning of the distribution chains of large agrifood companies and impact their efficiency. Among them, poor adaptation to fluctuations in demand, imperfect control of production and transport costs[...]Article
Short food supply chains (SFSCs) are increasingly garnering attention in food systems research, owing to their rising popularity among consumers, producers and policy-makers in the last few decades. Written with the aim to identify research gaps[...]Article
The agri-food industry plays an important role in the manufacturing industry in the Autonomous Community of Extremadura (Spain). The main objective of this study is to identify which business factors influence the success of the innovative perfo[...]Article
The current public and private policies pursuing environmental sustainability targets mandate incisive management of packaging waste, starting with those sectors that use virgin materials most. Food industries and food supply chains adopt huge v[...]Article
L.A. German ; A.M. Bonanno ; L.C. Foster ; L. Cotula |Sustained interest by the business community in commercial agriculture in the global South has been welcomed for its potential to bring capital into long neglected rural areas, but has also raised concerns over implications for customary land ri[...]Article
La tendance à la restructuration des groupes coopératifs agricoles crée des situations économiques critiques qu'il faudrait limiter par des plans de sauvegarde agricole.Article
K. Benazzi ; M. Razzouki ; M. Gharrafi |Dans tout environnement économique mondialisé, les secteurs d'activité économique se comportent et résistent différemment selon les causes des turbulences. Certains secteurs ont une attitude résiliente et jouent un rôle stabilisateur, soutenant [...]Article
J. Popovic ; G. Kvrgic ; G. Coric ; J. Avakumovic ; D. Milosevic |The subject of the research is to explore the operational risks - the risk of emergencies and specific Coronavirus pandemic risk that are SMEs from agribusiness sector, from Western Balkan countries exposed to, and the significances of their eff[...]Article
The present study aims at analysing the sustainable growth in the agro-food cooperatives of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). To this end, the study examines the impact of the corporate social responsibility (hereinafter CSR) on the performance of the[...]Article
A. Berardy ; T. Seager ; C. Costello ; C. Wharton |Researchers use life cycle assessment (LCA) to evaluate the environmental impacts of foods, providing useful information to other researchers, policy-makers, consumers, and manufacturers. However, LCA is ill-equipped to account for desirable, of[...]Article
S. Liu |The food supply has been disrupted by COVID-19. Shopping in supermarkets and grocery stores in the pandemic may not be a pleasant experience, as it can often lead to disappointment and anxiety since a lot of food items are not available or out o[...]Article
Les attentes des consomacteurs évoluent fortement du fait des modifications des modes de vie, de consommation et de distribution, ainsi que des médias et des outils de notation. Les entreprises doivent anticiper ces nouvelles demandes qui sont [...]Article
Les industries agroalimentaires jouent un rôle de pivot au sein dune chaîne se composant de trois maillons : un maillon « amont » qui rassemble les agriculteurs et les producteurs de matières premières alimentaires à transformer, un maillon « c[...]Article
Un système alimentaire représente la manière dont les hommes et les sociétés sorganisent pour produire et consommer leur alimentation. La trajectoire dévolution des systèmes alimentaires distingue une cohabitation entre un système agro-industr[...]Article
Traditional approaches and debates in Agrifood Governance (AFG) have focused exclusively on the role of market forces and public policies. The emergence of alternative food movements, such as Territorial Short Food Supply Chains (TSFSCs), sugges[...]Article
In recent decades, the confluence of different global and domestic drivers has led to progressive and unpredictable changes in the functioning and structure of agri-food markets worldwide. Given the unsustainability of the current agri-food prod[...]