There is a huge potential risk on agri-food supply chain due to the specific complex nature of agricultural products. Agri-food supply chain has such character as structural complexity, market uncertainty, market power imbalance and vulnerability. Agri-food supply chain risks mainly represent to technical risks, information risks, organizational management risks and security risks. Based on end...

1 Science and Technology Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge Research Centre, Lethbridge, AB, Canada 2 Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 3 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 4 Science and Technology Branch, National Agroclimate Information Service, Agriculture and...

The paper investigates price and quality competitiveness and comparative advantage in the new and old European Union Member States’ agri-food trade on the global market between 2000 and 2011. The empirical results show that the new and old Member States have become more similar in successful agri-food competitiveness and comparative advantages. The shares of successful price and successful qual...

Over the last decades, the economic, social and environmental sustainability of the conventional agri-food system has and continues to be contested within both academic and public institutions. For small farms, the unsustainability of the food system is even more serious; farms’ declining share of profit and the cost-price squeeze of commodity production has increased barriers to market access ...

Agri-environment schemes (AESs) have been implemented across EU member states in an attempt to reconcile agricultural production methods with protection of the environment and maintenance of the countryside. To determine the extent to which such policy objectives are being fulfilled, participating countries are obliged to monitor and evaluate the environmental, agricultural and socio-economic i...

1 INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laval, QC, Canada 2 Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada 3 Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Summerland, BC, Canada 4 Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc., Ardmore, OK, USA 5 Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, US...

Today’s society faces many challenges when it comes to food production: producing food sustainably, producing enough of it, distributing food, consuming enough calories, consuming too many calories, consuming culturally-appropriate foods, and reducing the amount of food wasted. The distribution of power within the current mainstream agri-food system is dominated by multinational agri-businesses...

Successful implementation of food supply chains in improving the productivity and operational efficiency by some companies made many other firms and researchers courteous about this fast developing field. For successful strategies, organizations in agri-food business are aiming to bring all its stakeholders in close cooperation. The agri-food supply chain aims at optimal warehousing and locatio...

Complete List of Authors: Yan, Honghai; Triticeae Research Institute of Sichuan Agricultural University, Martin, Sara; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Bekele, Wubishet; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Latta, Robert; Dalhousie University, Department of Biology Diederichsen, Axel; Plant Gene Resources of Canada, Agriculture and AgriFood Canada Peng, Yuanying; Triticeae Research Institute of Sic...

Alternative agricultural systems that emphasize ecological and community resilience provide a bridge between traditional agriculture and natural resourcemanagement. These can be referred to as agri-ecological systems and include systems such as Organic Agriculture, Biodynamics, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), Permaculture, Farmers Markets and Community Gardens. This paper reports on curr...