Do fish scales matter? Diversification and differentiation in seafood commodity chains

Seafood allergies: Fish and shellfish

Enzymes in Fish and Seafood Processing

Enzymes have been used for the production and processing of fish and seafood for several centuries in an empirical manner. In recent decades, a growing trend toward a rational and controlled application of enzymes for such goals has emerged. Underlying such pattern are, among others, the increasingly wider array of enzyme activities and enzyme sources, improved enzyme formulations, and enhanced...

Fish and seafood consumption in Norway

The assignment Fish and other seafood contain substances that have a positive effect on the public health, but they may also contain contaminants and other undesirable substances. At the request of the Norwegian Food Safety Authority, the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety (VKM) conducted an assessment of the nutritional benefits of consuming fish and other seafood compared to the h...

From Commodity Chains to Value Chains and Back Again?

This paper assesses the achievements and limitations of the commodity chains framework as it has evolved over the last near-decade, and concludes by suggesting directions for future research. First, I examine the evolution of the chain approach by briefly discussing the differences between the two camps that employ the commodity chain concept: the world-systems school (whose proponents coined t...

Agro-Commodity Chains: an introduction

This paper combines the GCC and Convention Theory frameworks to compare the value-chains for agro-commodities before and after the decade 1980-90. Crudely, this period was a watershed between producer-driven and buyer-driven forms of organisation. Subsequently, two types of buyer-driven chain have become differentiated: one with low entry barriers that is experiencing downgrading, and one with ...