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2020
This chapter looks at how food systems are organized in a globalized economy. The chapter also differentiates between mainstream food systems, which aim for economic efficiency and rely on the intensive use of technology, including machinery, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides, and alternative food systems, which prioritize quality over efficiency in
Oosterveer, P.J.M., Brons, A.J.
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This chapter looks at how food systems are organized in a globalized economy. The chapter also differentiates between mainstream food systems, which aim for economic efficiency and rely on the intensive use of technology, including machinery, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides, and alternative food systems, which prioritize quality over efficiency in
Oosterveer, P.J.M., Brons, A.J.
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The Vulnerability of Food Systems
2020Abstract This chapter focusses on food systems' vulnerability. In a rapidly and unpredictably changing world, vulnerability of farming and food systems becomes a key issue. The conceptual bases for food vulnerability analysis and food vulnerability assessment are discussed in a systemic perspective with an eye to the transition ...
Brunori G. +7 more
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The Food Safety Management System
Veterinary Research Communications, 2005A comprehensive food safety strategy involves establishing risk management goals, food safety objectives and, for production systems, performance objectives and performance criteria. The working instructions for each step of the process should be validated for their effect before integration within a specific HACCP plan.
STECCHINI, Mara Lucia, DEL TORRE M.
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1990
As a company grows, the need for formal departmental operating procedures and reports generally produces a large volume of standard manuals. The Quality Department in a food manufacturing company may be the last one to assemble a written system. There are perhaps more excuses than reasons for this: The products change from year to year, and ...
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As a company grows, the need for formal departmental operating procedures and reports generally produces a large volume of standard manuals. The Quality Department in a food manufacturing company may be the last one to assemble a written system. There are perhaps more excuses than reasons for this: The products change from year to year, and ...
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2018
Nature generates the raw materials for food, fuelled by energy from the sun. However, before food can be consumed, (mineral) energy is required for cultivation, transportation, preparation and conservation purposes. This paper presents and discusses the energy requirements for various categories of food and many operations in the food chain.
Dutilh, C., Blonk, H., Linnemann, A.R.
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Nature generates the raw materials for food, fuelled by energy from the sun. However, before food can be consumed, (mineral) energy is required for cultivation, transportation, preparation and conservation purposes. This paper presents and discusses the energy requirements for various categories of food and many operations in the food chain.
Dutilh, C., Blonk, H., Linnemann, A.R.
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2013
As western-style food systems extend further around the world, food sustainability is becoming an increasingly important issue. Such systems are not sustainable in terms of their consumption of resources, their impact on ecosystems or their effect on health and social inequality.
Esnouf, Catherine +2 more
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As western-style food systems extend further around the world, food sustainability is becoming an increasingly important issue. Such systems are not sustainable in terms of their consumption of resources, their impact on ecosystems or their effect on health and social inequality.
Esnouf, Catherine +2 more
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2013
This chapter focuses on food systems using an innovative dual approach. First of all, by considering them in interaction with energy and chemical systems within ecosystems, it poses the question of resource allocation (land and biomass). Second, a socioeconomic approach then highlights the diversity of these food systems.
Colonna, Paul +2 more
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This chapter focuses on food systems using an innovative dual approach. First of all, by considering them in interaction with energy and chemical systems within ecosystems, it poses the question of resource allocation (land and biomass). Second, a socioeconomic approach then highlights the diversity of these food systems.
Colonna, Paul +2 more
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System analysis and the world food system
European Journal of Operational Research, 1985Abstract The current world agricultural system generates persistent hunger, economic instability, and ecological degradation. Quantitative analysis has been used primarily to predict or optimize small parts of this system, not to engage with its larger problems, and not to redesign the system to eliminate those problems.
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