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Agri-food and Agribusiness Systems

2021
Agriculture in many developing countries have witnessed tremendous transformation in recent years owing to the significant strides governments and other key stakeholders have made at strengthening agri-food systems and agribusiness linkages to make the sector an integral part of the market economy. This is to ensure that the sector achieves accelerated
Margaret Atosina Akuriba, Mamudu Abunga Akudugu, Abdul-Razak Alhassan   +2 more
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Sustainable Agri-Food Systems

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ICT-Enabled Agri-Food Systems

2021
Today, despite increased information demand from consumers and food chain players alike, Europe’s food businesses and farmers are slow at adopting digital technologies. This is due in part to the inherent complexities of relevant products and processes, and in part to the dynamically changing open network organization of the food sector with its ...
Gaspar, Pedro Dinis, Soares, V.N.G.J., Caldeira, J.M.L.P.   +2 more
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Agri-Food Systems and the Anthropocene

Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2020
Understanding the Anthropocene—as both a set of physiological phenomena and as an existential crisis of modernity—requires interrogating Earth-changing transformations in food and agriculture.
Emily Reisman, Madeleine Fairbairn
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Private agri-food standards: Implications for food policy and the agri-food system

Food Policy, 2005
Abstract This paper provides a brief introduction to the evolution and nature of private food safety and quality standards, highlighting the resultant impacts on the structure and modus operandi of supply chains for agricultural and food products and the challenges posed for processes of agricultural development.
Spencer Henson, Thomas Reardon
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Rethinking food loss and waste to promote sustainable resource use and climate change mitigation in agri-food systems: A review

Waste Management Research
The sustainable agri-food system is an important sector recognized for promoting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals on food security, resource conservation and climate change mitigation.
B. Adelodun, Oyebankole O Agbelusi, Tammara Soma, G. Odey, Q. Adeyi, Pankaj Kumar, F. O. Ajibade, M. Goala, L. F. O. Silva, Yasser S Mostafa, Rattan Singh, Kyung-Sook Choi, E. Eid   +12 more
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Financing Agri-food Systems and Agribusinesses

2021
Finance is critical in agri-food and agribusiness systems in developing and low-income countries. However, financial investments in agribusinesses are often low partly due to a perceived risky and low returns to financial investments into the sector.
Margaret Atosina Akuriba, Mamudu Abunga Akudugu, Abdul-Razak Alhassan   +2 more
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Global Agri-food Systems

2005
Ein neuer Fachausdruck beginnt den offentlichen Diskurs uber die Zukunft von Landwirtschaft und → Ernahrung zu beherrschen: globale Agrar-Nahrungssysteme (global agri-food systems). Dieser Ausdruck fur einen neuartigen Sachverhalt verdrangt als z.T. noch umstrittener Trendbegriff altere Bezeichnungen wie Weltagrarstruktur oder -markt, die ihrerseits ...
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Biotechnology in the global agri-food system

Trends in Biotechnology, 2002
The advent of biotechnology presents fundamental challenges to the global agri-food industry. While the scientific base for agri-food production is being revolutionised, it is not clear if or how the technology will be used. Proponents of biotechnology and a large portion of agri-food policy makers around the world project a positive future in which ...
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