The challenges faced by the contemporary food system across ecological, human health and ethical fields has given rise to an eclectic variety of local food initiatives that seek to demonstrate practical alternatives to business as usual. Such initiatives have moved beyo...

The gradual restructuring of international food and agriculture (or agri-food) systems over the past several decades has established industrialisation, productivism, and corporatisation as overriding imperatives governing contemporary food provisioning. The resultant in...

International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management (13th. 2019. Gijón)

This paper assesses the potential for technological modernisation and innovation based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in agri-food companies located in the central region of Portugal. The survey was applied to 50 agri-food companies of Cereals, Chee...

Presentations from a panel of agri-food experts sharing methods and strategies to best reach your target audience to effectively share knowledge.

Since the demise of the Bretton Woods system and the introduction of a flexible exchange rate regime, Canadian dollar depreciated relative to the U.S. dollar. The favorable Canada-U.S. exchange rate has been cited as an important reason for the growth in exports of proc...

Obiettivo di questo lavoro di tesi è quello di mettere in luce alcune tra le principali sfide cui il settore agroalimentare è chiamato a far fronte nel prossimo futuro al fine di migliorare la propria sostenibilità ambientale. Nel presente elaborato sono riportati diver...

This paper investigates why, how and to what degree supermarkets stimulate upstream eco-innovation in UK milk, beef and bread chains. To answer this question, we aim to enrich the environmental supply chain management literature with insights from innovation studies. Th...