El objetivo del artículo es dar cuenta de la producción de cacao en la gobernación de Girón y su circulación en el mercado interno neogranadino, a fines del siglo XVIII y principios del XIX. Se pretende reconstruir la cadena productiva (commodity chain) del cacao con los diferentes eslabones necesarios para la creación de esta mercancía. Se describ...
International standards result from global policies formulated primarily to address issues on food safety, traceability, environmental impact as well as social accountability. As in other agro-food industries, these rules increasingly regulate aquaculture, especially since it has started to be the object of many criticisms. The standards are genera...
International standards result from global policies formulated primarily to address issues on food safety, traceability, environmental impact as well as social accountability. As in other agro-food industries, these rules increasingly regulate aquaculture, especially since it has started to be the object of many criticisms. The standards are genera...
According to Immanuel Wallerstein, the sixteenth century saw the emergence of a capitalist world economy in which labor was organized on a global scale, and the production, distribution and use of goods and services were integrated across national boundaries. This article argues that, though exceptional, an integrated, hegemonic division of labor o...
Wind energy is commonly thought as part of renewable energies. “Renewable” points to the idea that wind, being a flow-energy, is not exhaustible. In economic terms, it is thought as non-rival: harnessing the energy of the wind does not deprive others from the possibility of doing so. A corollary to this view is the pregnant and reifying idea that w...
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La contribution des ressources naturelles au développement économique des territoires producteurs fait l'objet de nombreux débats. Si certains travaux soulignent que les matières premières constituent une source de richesse, d'autres les considèrent à l'inverse comme une cause de pauvreté, allant même parfois jusqu'à les assimiler à une malédiction...
Between globalization and territorialisation, milk sector is changing. For instance, since World War II we can notice in Western Europe a decreasing of small size farms and of small processing units. In the same time very large enterprises have developed, taking advantage of the world wide dimension of agro- food systems and new technologies. As a ...
This paper analyses the role of ‘clustering’ as a form of cooperative production to improve the environmental performance of shrimp farmers and facilitating them to upgrade their position in the global value chain. Comparing intensive and extensive shrimp farmer clusters in Ca Mau province, Vietnam, we explore how this form of cooperative productio...
