It was the title chosen in January 2004 for the 12 pages of the "Agreste" restitution of the primary results obtained through this second investigation, to the partners and interviewed firms, which was intended to question the evolutions of the regional agro-food sphere over 5 years (1998-2003)....

The capacity of family agriculture in Brazil to meet the challenge of producing a large diversity of food products, characterized by subjective attributes, corresponding to specific needs, and using the appropriate technologies or know-how, represents, jointly with proximity, its main...

In order to implement and comply with food safety and traceability regulations, companies may use a number of methods, including specialized information and communications technologies developed for this express purpose. As a result, compliance with regulatory obligations, and the use of...

Our paper deals with free-riding issues in product safety control at the collective marketing level. It focuses on the empirical findings of the exhaustive face to face survey that has been conducted in 2007 by the authors with the quality managers of the tomato growers'unions of France. Our...

The objective of the project is to assess the strengths and weaknesses of different forms of coordination in the development of quality chains in developing countries. Such forms of coordination include: signs of quality (labels, brands, geographical references); horizontal coordination...