Andrea Marescotti

University of Florence | UNIFI · Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa

In contrast to harmonised international food quality standards, local producers of food that is protected as geographical indication can adapt production rules. In a comparative multi-method case study approach, we analyse how constitutional and collective choice rules affect the negotiation of diverse interests and the adaptability of food quality...

Nas zonas rurais, o desenvolvimento é reorientado de forma a valorizar os recursos locais - físicos e socioculturais - com o objetivo de reter os benefícios na área o máximo possível. Os objetivos de desenvolvimento são definidos com base nas necessidades, capacidades e perspectivas dos agentes locais, enquanto a participação da população é um prin...

The international and European literature and institutional contexts are fostering agrobiodiversity as the foundation of a new paradigm for localized agri-food system development and sustainability. Accordingly, new systemic and holistic theoretical approaches and conceptual models are needed. This paper aims to identify and apply a new conceptual...

L’objectif de ce guide est de fournir aux acteurs locaux un cadre conceptuel, des méthodologies et des exemples concrets pour la promotion et la préservation des produits de qualité liée à l’origine et pour la mise en oeuvre d’une démarche IG. Le présent guide propose une approche en quatre étapes pour renforcer le cercle vertueux de qualité liée à...

El objetivo de la presente guía, fruto de experiencias de campo de la FAO y de la red de investigación SINERGI en todo el mundo, es ofrecer a los actores locales un marco conceptual, ejemplos y metodologías concretas para la promoción y la preservación de productos de calidad vinculada al origen y la implementación de IG. En la guía se propone un p...

The 'Piana del Cibo' is the project through which five municipalities within the Lucca Plain (Capannori, Lucca, Altopascio, Porcari and Villa Basilica) have committed to sharing the development of a food policy with the local community. In this area, which has long been rich in terms of initiatives and projects on sustainable food practices, the pa...

Protected designations of origin (PDO) and Protected geographical indications (PGI) in the European Union have been recognized through a sound legal framework for more than three decades. We are recently witnessing an increased number of amendments to the product specifications of registered PDO/PGI. This paper aims to understand how PDO/PGI for th...

Food producers can define collective quality standards and legally protect the origin, characteristics, traditions and the reputation of a place-based product through geographical indications (GIs). Producers, processors and other relevant actors in the GI production system codify and adapt their production rules via the GI Product Specification an...

Purpose – The protection of Geographical Indications (GIs) supports producers to define common quality standards while highlighting the geographical origin of food products with specific qualities. Adaptations of quality standards are driven by international competition, new production technologies or environmental change. The purpose of this paper...

In the debate surrounding the sustainable future of food, claims like “buy local” are widespread in publications and the media, supported by the discourse that buying “local food” provides ecological, health and socio-economic benefits. Recognising the lack of scientific evidence for this claim, this paper aims to compare the results of sustainabil...

The protection of Geographical Indications (GIs) is being explored more and more worldwide as a tool for supporting local sustainable development. Focusing on wine and coffee value chains, this paper will set out in what way GI protection schemes can contribute to the provision of public goods, and illustrate how this contribution is being threaten...

The protection of Geographical Indications is an issue of growing importance all over the world, as it offers local producers a tool to differentiate their products on the market and escape price competition. In the European Union the legal protection of Geographical Indications dates back to 1992, and aims at both preventing misuses and abuses of...

The registration of Geographical Indications (GIs) under the European Union (EU) legislation requires collective action and considerable efforts borne by multiple actors such as producers, processors, public authorities and research centers. We analyze their efforts, risks and benefits by comparing two EU GI registration processes in Italy and Aust...

For many years coffee has been regarded as a commodity. Recently, new trends both at consumption and production level created new opportunities for de-commodifying the coffee market, by a differentiation based on social, environmental and territorial resources, and consequently for strengthening local agro-food systems and improving the position of...

The registration of Geographical Indications (GIs) under the European Union (EU) legislation requires collective action and considerable efforts borne by multiple actors such as producers, processors, public authorities and research centers. We analyze their efforts, risks and benefits by comparing two EU GI registration processes in Italy and Aust...

Prologue to special issue of International Agricultural Policy, Vol 1/2014

Over the 2000s', consumers' food purchases have been increasingly informed by supply chain-related issues, with growing concerns about the sustainability of chains differing for their geographical scope. As a result, short food supply chains and local food systems have risen to policymakers and food chain stakeholders' attention as more sustainable...

The link between food and the environment constitutes a core issue from the consumer’s point of view andin the political debate. Geographical indication products, due to their association with specific territories and links to specific local resources, can improve economic, social and environmental sustainability.The present paper investigates the...

Agro-food typical products are the expression of the area of origin, and they are therefore one of the most evident manifestations of locality both for people belonging to the area and not. For this reason typical products often play a central role in the development strategies carried out by local actors in rural areas, though with different point...

There is an increasing interest in the potential of local foods and short food supply chains to overcome the unsustainable practices of global/industrial food supply chains. The opposition between local and global food systems is being questioned together with the actual sustainability performance of food chains. The assessment of the sustainabilit...

A number of developments in the last decades have increased the importance of place and the "local" in the production and consumption of food. These include a number of safety issues of food products, a growing demand of regional and/or quality products, due to the need of consumers to turn away from standardized and mass produced products and re-l...

Geographical Indications (GIs) are important quality signs adopted by firms to underline that reputation, qualities and characteristics of a product are strictly linked to its geographical origin. The protection granted to GIs by the law may exert strong effects on firms' profitability. The extent by which firms use the protected GI for marketing t...

The use of voluntary quality standard by Italian large retail chains. The case of Global G.A.P. standard Voluntary standards have gained in importance all over the world. The choice to set-up voluntary standards and their consequent widespread application came from the private stakeholders’ need to gain the trust and increase the security on the p...

Geographical Indications (GIs) are tools adopted by firms to underline that reputation, qualities and characteristics of a product are strictly linked to its geographical origin. The protection granted to GIs by the law may exert strong effects on firms’ profitability. The extent by which firms use the protected GI for marketing their products depe...

In recent years, short supply-chains initiatives show a growing diffusion, proposing themselves as an alternative to long supply-chains, dominated by firms and institutions accused of imposing on farmers and consumers production models with negative effects on economy, society, environment, nutrition. Indeed, the word "short supply-chain" encompass...

The commodity nature of green coffee is the main cause of the 'coffee paradox' (falling producer prices and rising consumer prices). Geographical Indications (GIs) may be an effective 'decommodifier' of the coffee market, but many constraints have to be overcome. Based on an analysis of how the characteristics of the coffee production system shape...

Nowadays the problem of valorisation of marginal rural areas in Europe is significant. In Italy some traditional agricultural crops with high added value may play an important role for the environmental preservation and social and economic development of some marginal rural areas. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the problems and potential o...

In recent years, short supply-chains initiatives show a growing diffusion, proposing themselves as an alternative to long supply-chains, dominated by firms and institutions accused of imposing on farmers and consumers production models with negative effects on economy, society, environment, nutrition. Indeed, the word "short supply-chain" encompass...

This book seeks to set geographical indications (GIs) in the context of the overall development of today's economies and societies as marked by globalization and the interaction of cultures that this entails. The book is divided into two parts. The first part (chapters 1-6) sets out the findings of a decade of research into GIs in Europe in the glo...

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The commodity nature of green coffee is the main cause of the "coffee paradox" (decreasing prices at production level and rising prices at consumption level). So, a requirement to reach a less unfair distribution of the added value between the supply chain would be to decommodify the coffee market not only at the final consumer level, but also at t...

The paper aims at categorising and qualifying costs and benefits of using Protected Designations of Origins or Protected Geographical Indications through a case -study analysis. The paper shows how the amount and the distribution of the direct certification costs among the actors of the chain also depend on product certification bodies and their re...

Qualification schemes have become popular tools for supporting regional foods, yet little is understood about the impacts they have on the rural development contribution of such foods. Qualification processes may stimulate new networks and community actions, but they may also be incompatible with strategies of extended territorial development becau...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the roles Geographical Indications (PDO and PGI) can play in the internationalisation process of some small-medium scale agri - food products from Tuscany (Italy). The analysis of the selected case studies highlighted among the driving motivations of firms for the use of PDO/PGIs on international markets both...

This paper provides a specific take on the issues of the r ecent CAP reform impacts on the European farming. Results have been illustrated through working at micro-level (case st udy area), specifically focusing on the durum food supply chain in Tuscany. Traditionally, much of the past analyses and theoretical deb ate on policy impacts has been mai...

Dans le cadre de la globalisation des économies, les négociations de l'OMC (Organisation mondiale du commerce) débouchent sur une normalisation des produits et de l'échange qui structure la concurrence. La définition et la protection des indications géographiques (IG), qui fait l'objet de négociations internationales et de nombreuses conventions bi...

En s'appuyant sur les résultats du projet européen DOLPHINS (Development of Origin Labelled Products : Humanity, Innovation and Sustainability) , le but de ce papier est de contribuer à la compréhension des controverses dans les débats internationaux par l'analyse des réseaux d'acteurs qui participent de près ou de loin à la construction de ces ins...

Qualification processes have existed for agrifood products for a very long time, in particular typical products, where qualification is based on the link to territory. Benefits of these processes have long been realised for the particular qualified producers involved, in terms of competition and marketing advantages. More recently however, product...

Marginal rural areas are suffering the isolation and lack of communication with the outside. The renaissance of rural values and food quality-related issues has brought many urban people to approach again rural areas and actors, sometimes with the intermediation of other more or less professional actors. The case-study we selected allows us to stud...

Rural development is progressively becoming one of the major objectives of the EU policies. Both a widespread literature and the policy adopted by the EU stress the importance of supporting typical products to attain this objective. As a matter of fact typical products are strictly tied to their area of origin, as they derive their characteristics...

Empirical evidence shows how, even within the agro-industrial system, the relationship between agriculture and the food-processing industry is regulated to a lesser extent on the basis of pure market forms.

080814707 After the implementation of the Mid Term Review (MTR) of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), European Union has started the process of under-standing which possible impacts the introduction of the Single Farm Payment Scheme can generate on European agriculture. This book reports part of the results of the research activities carried out...

Nowadays the problem of valorization of marginal rural areas in Europe is significant. In Italy, despite the wide globalization that has developed in the agro-food system, some traditional agricultural crops with high added value may play an important role for the environmental preservation and social and economic development of some marginal rural...