Authors:P. A. Luning, F. Devlieghere, R. Verhe,
Publisher: Wageningen Academic Publishers
Keywords: chain, food, agri, safety
Number of Pages: 684
Published: 2006-02-28
List price: $147.00
ISBN-10: 9076998779
ISBN-13: 9789076998770

Increasing public demand for adequate and safe food supply has led to extensive development in the field of plant-animal production, food processing, quality and safety procedures, food analysis and control and regulations. However, safety of food can only be guaranteed by the integration of control systems in the complete food chain "from stable to table". This book covers the total agri-food chain. The first section includes a chapter giving a clear overview of the food production chain, followed by chapters about distinct safety risk factors (biological, chemical, physical and others) occur

Authors:Christien J.M. Ondersteijn, Jo H.M. Wijnands, Ruud B
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: wageningen, frontis, series, chain, supply, agri, food, quantifying
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2006-05-16
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 1402046936
ISBN-13: 9781402046933

This book offers a coherent view on agri-food supply chains by discussing the possibilities and limitations of quantifying performance, risks and investments in the agri-food chain. A wide variety of approaches was used to analyze the complex systems of agri-food supply chains and develop appropriate models for management decision support. Research gaps and discussion points are identified by an international forum of researchers.

Authors:Kostas Karantininis, Jerker Nilsson,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: agri, food, industry, cooperatives, role, markets, cooperative, hierarchies, vertical
Number of Pages: 285
Published: 2007-02-02
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 1402040725
ISBN-13: 9781402040726

This book collects sixteen essays that provide clarification to issues pertinent to contemporary cooperatives. Twenty three internationally recognized scholars of agricultural cooperatives from a variety of disciplines such as industrial organization, finance, sociology, networks, and political theory contributed theoretical work and empirical observations from different countries.

Authors:Christian Fischer, Monika Hartmann, C Fischer, M Hart
Publisher: CABI
Keywords: relationships, chain, food, agri
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2010-01-09
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 1845936426
ISBN-13: 9781845936426

The integration into global and local agri-food value chains requires farmers, food processors and grocery retailers to develop and maintain close and sustainable business relationships with buyers and suppliers. While agricultural value chains have been promoted for decades, more attention is needed on how to enable economic agents to develop trust and lasting relationships within value chains. Using qualitative and quantitative empirical results, Agri-food Chain Relationships provides an overview of existing relationship economics and management, offering an insight into the sustainability o

Author: Christina Stringer and Richard Le HeronChristina
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: dynamics, economic, space, networks, globalising, food, commodity, chains, agri
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 2008-07-08
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 0754673367
ISBN-13: 9780754673361

Within the international agri-food community at least four theoretical targets are attracting increasing attention. They are: the established notions of network and commodity chain that are being revisited by way of critical engagement informed by the insights of in depth empirical work, the metrics of calculation and institutional embedding that underpin the rise and functionality of governance technologies, the place of regional networking in creating conditions that make possible agri-food producer participation in local provisioning and supply, and the geo-historical dimensions of intercon

Authors:Michael M Cernea, Amir H Kassam,
Publisher: CABI
Keywords: culture, agricultural, development, cabi, international, research, agri, social, researching
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2005-12
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 0851990037
ISBN-13: 9780851990033

This book analyzes the functions, content, methods, findings, and impacts of social and cultural research carried out by the worldwide network of 16 International Agricultural Research Centers of the CGIAR(Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research). Its two main parts - "insiders" and "outsiders" - bring together the perspectives of over 50 eminent scholars and social researchers from 30 countries, working within the Centers or within outside academic and development institutions. The authors examine critically the priorities, strengths, and weaknesses of research on the socio-