Shifting agrifood systems: the contemporary geography of food and agriculture; an introduction

Niles, Daniel; Roff, Robin Jane

doi:10.1007/s10708-008-9174-4

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“…Indeed, the transformation of the agri-food sector has contributed greatly to bridging the gap between supply and demand from a rapidly growing world population, this same transformation has had consequences that have negatively affected the global drive towards sustainable development (Niles & Roff 2008). This must be considered in the expectation of further significant growth in food demand.…”

Section: Sustainable Development and The Agri-food Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Value chain performance improvement for sustainable mango industry development in Pakistan

Badar¹

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Pakistan is one of the world's leading mango producing and exporting countries. However, Pakistan's mango industry is beset with a number of chain-wide challenges that not only lower the value of mangoes to consumers and reduce the profitability of value chain actors, but also hinder the industry's potential contribution to the country's socio-economic development. As a result, there is now a growing realisation that the mango industry must be developed on a sustainable basis. This coincides with an accelerating drive towards sustainable development of agri-food industries around the world, in order to provide growing populations with adequate supplies of safe and affordable food.Thus, this study aimed to find out how the performance of value chains could be improved in order to bring sustainable development to Pakistan's mango industry. It focused on four issues: 1) consumers' mango value preferences and the implications of these preferences for the industry's development; 2) the structure and performance of the mango industry; 3) constraints on sustainable development of the industry; and 4) measures needed to address consumer, economic, social and environmental issues in the value chains so as to promote industry's sustainable development.A conceptual framework that integrated value chain and triple bottom line (TBL) sustainable development approaches was developed arguing that sustainable development could not be achieved without improving economic, social and environmental performance across entire value chains. A case study methodology was adopted and the case study participants included consumers, value chain actors and public stakeholders in the Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh.To understand mango value preferences, five focus group discussions involving 40 consumers and a survey of 450 consumers was conducted. Thematic content analysis was performed on focus group data whereas descriptive statistics and clusters analysis were employed to analyse survey data. In order to understand the industry's structure, performance and constraints, 150 in-depth interviews were held with value chain actors such as retailers, wholesalers, commission agents, exporters, preharvest contractors, growers and input suppliers and representatives of public stakeholders. Data from the interviews were analysed using thematic content analysis.Consumer data showed the importance of both intrinsic (search and experience) and extrinsic (safety and marketing) quality attributes in mango buying. In-depth analysis of these attributes revealed three consumer segments -mango lovers, value seekers and safety conscious. Mango lovers concentrated primarily on search and experience attributes and safety conscious attached more importance to safety related attributes. Value seekers however considered all attributes important. In general consumers expressed their dissatisfaction with the mango value delivered to them because of use of Calcium III carbide for mango ripening, retailer malpractices and ineffective government regula...

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Section: Sustainable Development and The Agri-food Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Value chain performance improvement for sustainable mango industry development in Pakistan

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“…Although food and agriculture have long been of interest across a range of disciplines, geographers have been particularly active in exploring what is commonly regarded as the field of agri-food studies (Goodman, 2016;Niles and Roff, 2008). The changing structures of the agri-food industry within the era of increasing globalization were initially conceptualised by Harriet Friedmann's 'food regime' approach (Friedmann, 1982).…”

Section: Agri-food Geographiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The changing structures of the agri-food industry within the era of increasing globalization were initially conceptualised by Harriet Friedmann's 'food regime' approach (Friedmann, 1982). Food regimes were generally described as broadly coherent configurations of the industrial, institutional and social aspects of food production, distribution and consumption, coordinated by various modes of regulation -or sets of institutions and norms -within specific historically identifiable regimes of capitalist accumulation (Atkins and Bowler, 2001;Buttel, 2001;Le Heron, 2002;Niles and Roff, 2008). A principal contribution of Friedmann's approach was 'to shift the scale and scope of analysis of much research on "agriculture" to include processes that affected farm activity but that originated beyond the farm gate' (Niles and Roff, 2008, p. 2).…”

Section: Agri-food Geographiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transnational Networks of Pork Production: Fragile Linkages between Germany and CEE Countries

Klein

2018

ESR&P

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Abstract The intention of this paper is to explore the internationalization efforts of German pork producers towards Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) with a special focus on recent dynamics, market development strategies and policy conditions. The added-value potentials offered by CEE countries have become increasingly lucrative for the German pork industry, particularly as the domestic market currently shows a certain degree of saturation in terms of consumption. The results of this study which is mainly based on qualitative interviews with selected pork producers from North-West Germany reveal that transnational pork production networks between Germany and CEE are shaped by a high degree of fragility and discontinuity. This is reflected not only by the fluctuating development of foreign trade in piglets, live hogs and pork products, but also by the uncertainty and hesitancy of the interviewed pork producers with regard to business operations in CEE markets. It will be shown that the policy conditions on the national level still have a clear impact on internationalization processes in the pork industry. The paper further illustrates that the configuration of transnational pork production networks can be explained, in part, by insights from the global production networks (GPN) and the agri-food geographies literature.

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“…Many farmers who work under contract to large agri-business conglomerates retain a lower percentage of the food dollar (Kaufman, 2004). Agri-businesses, aided by current agricultural subsidies, often promote value-added products which are high in sugar and fat, and for which farmers will receive even less of the food dollar (Nestle, 2003;Niles & Roff, 2008). But farmers' markets facilitate the direct farmer-to-consumer sale of farm goods, doubling farmers' gross return by eliminating steps between producer and consumer (Kaufman, 2004).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Economic Impact Comparative Analysis of Farmers' Markets in Michigan and Ontario

Sadler

Clark

Gilliland

2013

JAFSCD

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Farmers' markets play a vital role in local economic development by providing a site for local and small business incubation, creating an economic multiplier effect to neighboring businesses, and recycling customer dollars within the community. While several studies have evaluated characteristics of farmers' markets within single metropolitan areas, few have compared the impact of multiple markets in socioeconomically contrasting regions.This research compares shopping habits and economic impacts of customers at farmers' markets in two North American cities: Flint, Michigan, and London, Ontario. Overall, 895 market visitors completed surveys. We conducted statistical and spatial analyses to identify differences between these markets. Though geographically proximate and similar in metropolitan size, the two cities differ greatly in recent economic development, social vitality, and public health indicators. The objectives of this article are to quantify the impact that each market has on its local economy and contextualize these impacts in light of the place-specific attributes of each market.Results indicate that customers come from a mix of urban and suburban locations, but that key urban areas do not draw a substantial share of

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Shifting agrifood systems: the contemporary geography of food and agriculture; an introduction

Cited by 23 publications

References 69 publications

Value chain performance improvement for sustainable mango industry development in Pakistan

Value chain performance improvement for sustainable mango industry development in Pakistan

Transnational Networks of Pork Production: Fragile Linkages between Germany and CEE Countries

An Economic Impact Comparative Analysis of Farmers' Markets in Michigan and Ontario

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