Food control and biosecurity roles in the global value chain: supporting producers or safeguarding consumers?

Fairtrade Consumers and " Global South " Producers Supply Chain

Fairtrade supply chains lack information linking commodity producers with fairtrade shopper behaviour. This paper aims to show how supermarket loyalty card data of over 1.7 million shoppers can be analysed using paired-samples t-test analysis to objectively profile the fairtrade shopper and address its supply chain management implications. The paper demonstrates the huge marketing potential tha...

Crowdsourcing: Global search and the twisted roles of consumers and producers

Crowdsourcing spreads and morphs quickly, shaping areas as diverse as creating, organizing, and sharing knowledge; producing digital artifacts; providing services involving tangible assets; or monitoring and evaluating. Crowdsourcing as sourcing by means of 'global search' yields four types of values for sourcing actors: creative expertise, critical items, execution capacity, and bargaining pow...

Cattle producers’ perceptions of biosecurity

BACKGROUND The limited use of biosecurity practices by many in the farming community is likely to be due to a range of factors; further understanding of this issue is required. In this study, attitudes and behaviours of producers relating to selected biosecurity practices and the farming industry were studied by interviewing cattle farmers within a 100 km2 study area in north-west England using...

Knowledge Producers and Consumers

IntroductIon In a knowledge-based economy, organizations find it difficult to compete based upon the individual knowledge of a few organizational members. This provides the rationale for knowledge management wherein organizational knowledge must be shared, combined, and reused in order to enable organizations to compete more effectively. Hence, knowledge sharing is considered an essential proce...

The roles of veterinarians in meeting the challenges of health and welfare of livestock and global food security