Short food supply chains play a vital role in connecting local producers with consumers, promoting sustainability, supporting local economies, and providing access to fresh, high-quality products. However, their market is still underdeveloped due to the mismatching between consumer demand and producer supply. The aim of this work is to identify a c...
Green public procurement (GPP) schemes emerged as environmentally responsible public procurement systems. However, despite the increasing interest in the topic, little is known about how these schemes create value and what types that value encompasses. In the present study, concentrating on the GPP of agrifood products in France, we aim to address ...
Small farms’ contribution to food and nutrition security (FNS) is widely acknowledged; however, the diversity of context-specific characteristics of small farms is still barely documented in terms of farm strategies and household dynamics. The paper analyses this contribution in connection with the strategies related to the destination of the produ...
The importance of small farms is well established and recognized in developing countries, but far less is known about their role in Europe, where agriculture is largely industrialized. In this paper we use a comparative analysis of evidence from 15 European countries to assess the contribution of small farms to regional food production and availabi...
This paper presents the results of a cold chain field study in France in 2013 carried out in the framework of a European project named Frisbee. A comparison with the results obtained in a previous field study in France in 2002 was presented. These two studies enabled us to have a real picture of the cold chain because temperature monitoring was car...
The structure of dairy supply chains in developing countries often shows a large diversity of organization usually based on smallholder farmers' involvement. This paper investigates how a dual supply chain combining both formal and informal markets with predominantly smallholder farmers impacts farmer–processor interactions at technical and organiz...
In the tradition of the French school of agri-business and rural economy, the objective of this chapter is to analyse the challenges and opportunities of the citrus industry in two Maghreb countries: Tunisia and Morocco. This chapter complements Chap. 7 on global value chain analysis, which stressed consumer value as the most important parameter in...
Talking 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 ...
Dans un contexte de mondialisation et d’une Méditerranée en plein bouleversement sociopolitique, le développement du commerce agricole méditerranéen est de plus en plus déterminé par les capacités des pays à se doter d’infrastructures modernes pour fluidifier les échanges, faciliter la circulation des marchandises et garantir une meilleure sécurité...
L’utilisation du bois-énergie, encouragée par les politiques publiques, ne s’inscrit pas nécessairement dans un développement durable des territoires. Le projet Benefits s’est attaché à décrire les conditions actuelles de valorisation de cette ressource en Auvergne, de manière à identifier d’éventuels freins ou effets non désirés, pouvant justifier...
