a State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, PR China b Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China c Agri-Environmental Services Branch (AESB), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), 960 Carling Av. Ottawa, ON, Canad...

The causes of agriculture-related conflicts over environmental goods are typically diffuse, making their governance costly compared with point-source conflicts (Wills, 1997). Over the last couple of decades, moreover, there has been a noticeable acceleration in the onset of these ‘agri-environmental’ conflicts as more and more of the environmental goods relied upon by agriculture have become fu...

Zur Gewährleistung der Kontrollmaßnahmen und für einen reibungslosen Informationsfluss zur Umsetzung von Verordnungen und Vorschriften der EU und des Bundes aus dem Bereich des EAGFL erteilten im August 1998 sechs Bundesländer der Zentralstelle für Agrardokumentation und -information (ZADI) den Auftrag zum Betrieb eines Dokumenten-Managementsystems (DMS), aus dem inzwischen das Wissens-Manageme...

Malaysia agricultural sector has been severely affected by the pandemic, as a result, Agri-food supply chain disrupted since early 2020. The problems of labor shortages, reduced productions, restricted movement, and market closures have all led to dramatic drop in income or even zero-income specially for smallholder farmers. agri-food needs be strengthened through tighten collaboration between ...

—Are the conservation requirements of pseudo-steppe birds adequately covered by Spanish agri—environmental schemes? An ex-ante assessment. Aims: To assess ex-ante the adequacy of available agri-environmental schemes towards the agriculture-related conservation requirements of pseudo-steppe birds and their habitats in Spain. Methods: A literature review was made on these requirements, based on w...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the concept of supply chain collaboration and to provide an overall framework that can be used as a conceptual landmark for further empirical research. In addition, the concept is explored in the context of agri-­‐‐food industry and particularities are identified. Finally, the paper submits empirical evidence from an exploratory case study in the...

Abstract One might reasonably invoke Dickens in describing AFSs and AVCs today: “it was the best of times, it worst times.”

Most Alternative Agri-Food Networks (AAFNs) have been developed to counter the mainstream agri-food network dominated by huge multinational corporations. They have attempted to challenge the mainstream network on grounds of sustainability, nutritional value, local control, fair trade and the like. However, they have largely ignored the capacity of the mainstream to absorb, mimic, re-package and...