INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL LEGISLATION TO CONTROL MICTOXINS IN FOOD: REVIEW

Food Safety Evaluation - National and International Perspectives

The maintenance of good health demands that food should not only be nutritious but also safe and of good quality. There has been growing concern regarding environmental contamination of food and excessive use of chemicals in food production and processing in the country in recent times. The growth of the food processing industry in India has consequently been very rapid, about 24 per cent in 19...

International Food and Agribusiness Management Review

The Wageningen Innovation Assessment Tool (WIAT) assesses a company’s drivers and barriers to innovation and benchmarks the critical success and failure factors of its innovation projects with data of agrifood prospector companies around the world. The present paper discusses its application in 12 multinational agrifood prospector companies in the Netherlands and France. It is concluded that WI...

International Food and Agribusiness Management Review

The role of middle managers in agriculture and agribusiness has been neglected by applied—as well as disciplinary—research, while gaining increasing importance in practice. This study provides an overview of middle management research and analyzes middle managers’ authority in human resource decision-making and human resource management practices based on in-depth interviews analyzed through a ...

National and International Policies to Control Illegal Forest Activities

International Food and Agribusiness Management Review

Willingness to pay (WTP) estimates for novel products are needed to assess consumers’ valuation of these products as well as for product adoption and optimal pricing strategies. Using experiments in a retail setting, we compare hypothetical and non-hypothetical WTP values between a Becker-DeGroot-Marshak (BDM) auction mechanism and conjoint analysis. Our results suggest that the auction WTP val...