Tran, Thuy Thanh Herzig, Christian
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International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
VietGreen, headquartered in the South of Vietnam, is a bottled mineral water company striving towards becoming a leading mineral water producer with a strong reputation for social responsibility and integrity. This case describes VietGreen’s decision to explore the potential of material flow cost accounting (MFCA) for enhanced eco-efficiency and ac...
Xin, Wang Yanping, Song Tan, Li
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International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
To evaluate whether small farmers are willing to accept the policy of sustainable use of cultivated land such as green manure planting, we analyze the payment preference and the source of heterogeneity of small farmer’s environmental attributes of leguminous green manure. A choice experiment method is conducted to learn about small farmer’s prefere...
Martínez-Filgueira, Xosé-Manuel Peón, David López-Iglesias, Edelmiro
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International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
The development of a sustainable rural world must have an innovative agri-food industry as one of its bases. This article offers a comprehensive analysis of the main drivers of innovation by small and medium agri-food companies in Spain. A combined multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) and structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) is performed to id...
Hunter, Erik Norrman, Andreas Berg, Eva
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International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
Alternative food networks (AFNs) have the potential to enhance and redistribute value in favour of producers and consumers through novel ways of organizing supply chain activities. What is more, AFNs are often characterized by their ‘sustainability promise’ – or the idea that their networks foster social, ecological or environmental improvements ov...
Manoel, Aviner Augusto Silva da Costa Moraes, Marcelo Botelho Santos, David Ferreira Lopes Pündrich, Gabriel Pereira
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International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
Evidence is mixed regarding the economic benefits achieved by companies hiring large firms to audit their financial statements. The studies approaching this theme concentrate mostly on public companies in developed markets, while the effect on private firms in emerging markets is still an open question. This research explores this gap by analyzing ...
Krampe, Caspar Fridman, Adar
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International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
This case study outlines the steps Oatly has taken so far to achieve its goal of becoming the largest ‘dairy and milk’ producer in the world. Oatly develops, produces and markets dairy and milk analogues, with an overriding ambition to promote structural changes in the dairy industry. Oatly’s approach relies on state-of-the-art technologies that ca...
Li, Sheng Wu, Feng Guan, Zhengfei Luo, Tianyuan
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International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
The US produce industry faces intensifying competition from imports, particularly those from Mexico, the largest exporter of produce to the United States. Fresh produce imports from Mexico have grown dramatically in recent years. This study examines the impact of increasing fresh tomato imports from Mexico on market price and revenue of US growers....
Leschewski, Andrea Sellnow, Cole
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International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
Fortified fruit juice represents a growing segment in the otherwise contracting juice industry. Health concerns and changing food policy have driven US consumers to demand fruit juice fortified with micronutrients. Fruit-juice manufacturers have responded by expanding their portfolio to include juice products fortified with vitamins and minerals. T...
Ingutia, Rose Sumelius, John
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International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
Production by smallholders in rural Kenya is limited by institutional, technical and investment constraints. Female farmers are the majority among smallholders and have significant roles in agriculture; nonetheless, they face constraints in accessing resources. Recent primary data of 347 farmers (proportional random sampling) was used to examine: (...
Martins, Franco Müller Trienekens, Jacques Omta, Onno
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International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
This paper analyses how the technical and managerial support of buyers affects the performance and investment capacity of Brazilian pig farmers. The paper also analyses the influence of the farmers’ investment capacity on their own performance and how that performance in turn influences the investment requirements demanded by buyers. We developed a...
