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Resilience and risk management: application to farms in the Etang de l'Or catchment area (Mauguio, Hérault)
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La responsabilité sociétale de l’entreprise dans le contexte des PME agroalimentaires
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Alternative food systems: the case of agri-food SMEs
No full textInternational audienceTalking about food sustainability, including environmental, social and economic issues concerns the whole product life-cycle (i.e., from the production to the consumption as well as transportation, distribution, waste and losses). Thereby, new forms of food supply chain have emerged over the last decade such as farmers markets, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), organics and Fairtrade stores, online sales. These different marketing channels are called Alternative Food Networks (AFN’s) and are considered as an alternative to conventional system (Renting et al. 2003; Ilbery and Maye 2005a; Sonnino and Marsden, 2006). It will be noted in this respect that conventional system dominated by the retail sector is characterized by products standardization, specialization and concentration of the actors, globalized procurement and buyer-driven chains (Gereffi, 1994). Furthermore, consumers are increasingly looking for healthy and natural products and are more conscious about environmental and social issues. However, costumer’s perceptions, motivations and attitudes toward local, organics and fair trade products are ambiguous. Several studies assessing consumer perceptions and attitudes about food highlight the importance of a multidimensional approach of quality (i.e., environmental, health, taste, quality (Codron et al. 2006). Other studies have showed that consumer perceptions about food miles are unclear and the distance could be perceived positively and negatively by consumers (Siriex et al. 2008; Zapeda and Deal, 2009). In this context, the main objective of the AFN’s is rethinking the market and non-market relationships between producers and consumers (Winter, 2003; Goodman, 2003; Kirwan, 2006; Sage, 2003). They address questions about the redefinition of governance processes and social relations in the food supply chains (Watts et al. 2005)
Developing the typical dairy products of the Bekaa and Baalbeck-Hermel: diagnosis and local strategy
No full textPublication du projet européen LACTIMED (ANIMA / CIHEAM-IAMM) avec le CCIAZ en collaboration avec le Ministère de l'Agriculture du LibanLactimed carried out a diagnosis of the dairy chain in the Bekaa and Baalbeck-Hermel (Lebanon) to help local authorities and support structures adopt a strategy for promoting the typical dairy products of their territory. This diagnosis report includes an overview of the dairy chain, the analysis of the results of field survey with producers, the identification of typical dairy products with their production specifications and information on the domestic market
Environmental sustainability, nutritional quality, socio-economic impacts in the fruit and vegetables sectors: a closer look at the tomato
No full textDocument élaboré dans le cadre du projet ANR : FLONUDEP Promotion de filières s'inscrivant dans le développement durable à travers un outil d'aide à la décisio
Las agriculturas familiares como uno de los actores del futuro de la agricultura
No full textInternational audienceLas recomendaciones de este taller se organizaron en tres partes. La primera ofrece un inventario de las interacciones que establecen las agriculturas familiares con los actores del sistema alimentario mundial. La segunda hace referencia a los debates y controversias surgidos en el taller La tercera examina el papel de la investigación en la transformación de la agricultura familiar como elemento del sistema alimentario
The role of market forces and food safety institutions in the adoption of sustainable farming practices: the case of the fresh tomato export sector in Morocco and Turkey
No full text[Departement_IRSTEA]Territoires [TR1_IRSTEA]DTAMInternational audienceFresh produce growers are the main source of food contamination by chemical pesticides. In their choice of farming practices, producers are influenced by market forces as well as public and private safety regulations – or “macro-drivers” – as opposed to farm-level micro-drivers. Growers respond to their business and regulatory environment by implementing integrated pest management (IPM) and other good agricultural practices (GAP), where profitable through certification schemes. Our paper attempts to analyse the adoption of sustainable farming practices beyond farm and farmer characteristics, focusing on the role of structural and institutional macro-drivers. The empirical research is based on the comparison between Turkey and Morocco, two Mediterranean countries with high export activity in the fresh tomato sector but with contrasting features in terms of both sustainable farming practices and micro/macro-drivers. With regard to the latter, we simultaneously consider supply-side and demand-side aspects (i.e. the requirements of buyers in importing countries). The analysis draws on the literature examining both IPM/GAP adoption and the impact of food safety regulation on firms’ strategies. We call on face-to-face interviews with a relatively large number of tomato growers in the main production areas (N = 86 in Morocco and N = 186 in Turkey). Our findings show that the average level of sustainable practices is greatly affected by national market and institutional particularities, in particular on the demand side. Moreover the surveys confirm the initial assumption of the major role played by private actors in managing safety risk when there are high business stakes, as in export chains oriented towards rich Western countries
Transport, logistics and agro-food development in Algeria
No full textChapitre 19International audienceWith a surface area of 2.38 million km2 and a coastline of 1,200 km, Algeria is the vastest country of the Mediterranean even if it does not have the longest maritime border. These two parameters reveal the potentialities but also the challenges which characterize the logistics sector and the agribusiness infrastructures of this country. Its economy is essentially based on hydrocarbons representing more than 50% of the GDP and 98% of income from exports. The strategic sectors including agriculture and the agro-food industry were ignored in development policies in the past. It is only during these last ten years that the decrease in food dependence is considered as a priority of the government
AquaFej: a simulation game for planning water management: an experiment in central Tunisia
No full textInternational audienceUntil the 2000s, water resources in Tunisia were managed solely by government bodies without any consultation with water users. At the local level, Commissariats Régionaux de Développement Agricole [Regional Agricultural Development Committees (CRDAs)], which represented the government bodies, managed water resources. The Tunisian Government then decided to involve farmers in the local management of water resources by creating Agricultural Development Associations (GDAs). Water resource management by CRDAs must now take into account water demand from farmers belonging to GDAs and, in return, farmers must acknowledge water scarcity and accept the need for resource-sharing. How can CRDAs and GDAs work towards cooperative water management? In this paper, we present a simulation game requested by officials at the Kairouan CRDA in order to develop cooperative management of the water resources in a typical small watershed in central Tunisia. Our aim was to use the game to increase both farmers' awareness of water resource-sharing, scarcity, and the impact of overexploitation, and CRDA officials' awareness of different uses that determine water demands. The game is based on a hydrological model of the watershed and an agro-economic model of farming systems that use water resources for irrigation