... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Farming British Sustainable agriculture Forestry Anthropogenic climate change is pushing key ecosystems towards irreversible tipping points (Boulton et al., 2022 ; Fewster et al., 2022). Agriculture is one...

... widespread changes in the modern world’s eating habits. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Food Food industry Farming Lifestyles Case studies McDonald’s is the world’s leading food service retailer with more than 30,000 restaurants in 121 countries serving 46 million customers each day. We’re...

...Damir Kovacic´; Marija Radman The goal of this research is to empirically test one of the direct selling models – the farmers’ fair. We examined how the fairs can influence general recognition and improve the image of wines produced on family farms in Croatia, and how they affect the sales...

...Helen Barton This article describes the experiences, perceptions and attitudes of farmers in Canterbury, New Zealand, towards the use of the Internet for farming purposes. It also illustrates the appropriateness of the qualitative case study method for explaining the underlying research questions...

...Leo Paul Dana The eastern‐most lands of New Zealand are the Chatham Islands. Farming and fishing form the backbone of the local economy. These islands have great potential, in terms of food production and food exports. Yet, over the years, local entrepreneurs have encountered difficulties beyond...

...). When the internal temperature reached 22°C, the cooked samples were covered and stored at 1‐4°C overnight. Meat Farming Food industry Animal feeds The increasing proportion of beef sold through supermarket outlets has led to “specification buying”, where the main objectives...

...Vangelis Tzouvelekas; Christos J. Pantzios; Christos Fotopoulos Estimates the output‐oriented and input‐specific technical efficiency in two samples of Greek, durum wheat farms – organic and conventional ones – using Kalirajan and Obwona’s stochastic varying coefficient regression model. Findings...

...Erkan Rehber; Sule Turhan Especially after the Second World War, both in developed and to some extent developing countries, agriculture became highly mechanized and specialized as well as heavily dependent on agro‐chemicals. Such intensification of farming has produced higher yields and greater...

... Limited 2002 Organic food Farming Green issues Consumer behaviour A “green consumer” movement emerged in the 1980s, when mounting concern for the environment translated into sales of environmentally‐friendly products such as recycled paper and ozone‐free fridges and freezers...

... Supply chain Farming Green issues Organic food Belgium The following part will discuss the main reasons for not converting to organic farming such as the problems related to the marketing of organic products and the consumers’ willingness to pay a higher price. Marketing possibilities seem...

... factors can affect the farmers’ decision to participate. These factors refer mainly to the socio‐economic and farm characteristics of the surveyed farmers. Agricultural education/training of the farmers, the farm’s economic size, participation by neighbors or relatives, age and general education, can...

... that they were fed BSE‐contaminated feed, then, as the frequency of infected feed batches to the farms increased towards June 1988 then it would be expected that younger cattle would have been exposed to the agent more frequently and hence the age of infection would have fallen. This would not have been seen...

... Entrepreneurship Growth Export Tourism Farming During the late 1990s, Aline Alègre and Pascal Blanchard were trying to expand their business. Pascal suggested that exporting to Canada would be great, although, for logistical considerations, it might be more sensible to export to Spain, about 100km away...

... consumer confidence and allow consumers to make informed choices. Openness by scientists, the food and farming industries alike will be crucial to building public confidence. Ultimately, the success of biotechnology in food production and processing will depend on the ability of the food industry...

... be answered. Currently research in the UK puts this country at the forefront of these technologies and the emerging commercial opportunities must not be lost. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Agriculture Biotechnology Farming United Kingdom 1. 1genetic modification through gene transfer...

... supermarkets, in healthfood/wholefood shops, at local markets or at farm gate. Some of the constraints to development of the industry are limited range and supply of products. Premium levels are also a constraint on development as consumers generally perceive organic products to be too expensive. Reports...

...David Corbett The Ukraine Vegetable Project is one of several British Food Consortium activities currently operating in the Kiev region of Ukraine. Describes how the UK team took over the management of a 70‐hectare field on Iskra State Farm,growing a range of vegetables for consumers in Kiev...

... for farming, and possibly also for human health, are grave. BSE: THE GATHERING CRISIS 17 The number of BSE cases continues to rise despite the feed ban in July 1988; and has grave implications for farming and human health. BSE: The Gathering Crisis Richard W. Lacey British Food Journal, Vol. 95 No. 4, 1993...

...R.W. Lacey Food‐borne infections due to campylobacter, shigella, salmonella and E. coli 0157 have shown a real increase three to four fold. Argues that between the mid‐1980s and 1992 the reasons are multifactorial and include unsafe farming methods, possibly a deterioration in water...

... performance. In contrast, UK producers, whilst generally keeping variable costs below the four‐country average, sacrificed yield performance and found themselves, on occasion, amongst the lowest gross margin achievers. The results of the survey also suggest that on aggregate, arable farming will become more...