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Recently agritourism has been strongly argued as a tool for rural development and investigating determinants that boost its performance is of paramount importance for policy design. This study examined the impact on agritourism performance of origin products (i.e. products whose specific quality is essentially attributable to geographical origin) a...
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...
This text delves into the elements on which the notion of quality of a product is built. We believe that, in addition to the standards that regulate a given quality seal, there are other elements that consumers link to the excellence that distinguishes them. In order to deepen these notions, we have chosen two localised agri-food systems (LAS), the...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the interplay of skill-enhancing human resources (HR) practices, innovativeness and firm performance.
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Data from 211 valid cases were gathered through an online survey and face-to-face interviews with Albanian tourism firms. Structural equation modeling was implemented...
Abstract Marginal rural areas are undergoing major pressures from the effects of globalization, especially when no alternative has been found to conventional extensive agriculture and a lack of investments and vision squeezes the income of farmers. The objective of the paper is to show how Integrated Supply Chain Projects (Progetti Integrati di Fil...
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...
In the new global economy, intensive production models based on high-yield varieties of wheat have become a central issue for the fight against hunger, undernourishment, and poverty. Nonetheless, this intensive model - and the related globalized processing and marketing system – poses a challenge to the conservation of biodiversity and to environme...
ROBUST believes that creating strong, mutually supportive linkages between rural and urban areas is key to realising smart, circular and inclusive development for a sustainable Europe. This report shows how culture can be used to create and strengthen synergies between rural and urban areas. 'Culture' is a broad concept that can have several meanin...
Rural development (RD) is considered the key concept that foster development of rural areas and specifically agricultural sector. Aiming to have a sustainable rural development it means to support stakeholders who directly contribute on the shape of the rural economy such as farm enterprises. To this, recently, a huge number of studies are strongly...
This special issue includes a collection of articles dealing with territorial governance of short supply chains in local food systems in different countries, that were presented during the Congress organized by the European Research Groups SYAL (Systèmes agroalimentaires localisés), held at Soderthorn University, Stockholm, May 2016.
As a counterw...
Organic and low-input food systems are emerging worldwide in answer to the sustainability crisis of the conventional agri-food sector. "Alternative" systems are based on local, decentralized approaches to production and processing, regarding quality and health, and short supply-chains for products with strong local identities. Diversity is deeply e...
The article aims to characterise the organisational model and the discourse of the food
consumer groups located in Lavapiés, a district in central Madrid (Spain), in order to test whether these groups can be conceptualised as forms of political and social innovation based on the principle of cooperation between producers and consumers. The methodol...
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...
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During the last few decades, localized agri-food systems (LAFS, or SYAL according to the French acronym) have become increasing...
In the new global economy, high yield variety wheat has become a central issue in the fight against hunger, undernourishment, and poverty. Nonetheless, intensive wheat production challenges biodiversity conservation and environmental sustainability. In addition, volatility in world cereal markets is threatening farmers’ income triggering diversific...
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...
Priority setting between local versus global food chains continues to be subject of debate among food, rural and agricultural scholars with an interest in how to support more sustainable food provision and consumption patterns. Recently the FP7 European GLAMUR project targeted to assess and compare the performances of local versus global food chain...
Prologue to special issue of International Agricultural Policy, Vol 1/2014
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...
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...
In the context of growing consumers' awareness about the impact of food products on the environment, their health or on social aspects, a careful analysis needs to be conducted to compare the sustainability performance of local VS global food value chains. The EU research project GLAMUR (Global and local food assessment: a multidimensional performa...
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...
Analysis of reputation through "quality premia" models enhances the ability of explaination that the reputation concept has in the case of typical products. The commonly accepted meaning of reputation as simply "renown" becomes inadequate, and the information mechanism it generates becomes associated with a set of (firm) product-specific investment...
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 designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concerning the legal or development status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the deli...
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...
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...
The multifunctionality of agriculture represents a problem of public policy when it comes from the joint production of commodity and non-commodity outputs. In this situation a market failure arises: in fact the non-commodity output level of production is sub-optimal compared to the socially desirable one. The solution to this market failure require...
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...
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Projects (5)
1. To identify the sustainable food networks in Castilla y León and the city-region of Madrid, and to characterise their economic, social, political, and environmental features.
2. To analyse the sustainable food networks of Castilla y León and the city-region of Madrid as chains of economic, social, political, and environmental values.
3. To analyse and evaluate the organisation and territorial network of the SFN through the research of the centrality and spatial accessibility of their nodes.
4. To identify and evaluate public policies aimed at promoting food transition in Castilla y León and the city-region of Madrid.