In 2013, an opportunity arose in England to develop an agri-environment package for wild pollinators, as part of the new Countryside Stewardship scheme launched in 2015. It can be understood as a 'policy window', a rare and time-limited opportunity to change policy, supported by a narrative about pollinator decline and widely supported mitigating actions. An agri-environment package is a bundle...

As both major economies and the agri-food systems around the world transit from versions of central planning towards integration with the modern mixed market economy, the question of the appropriate role of government is seen as fundamental. The intellectual and academic bases for identifying the appropriate roles of government is examined and found wanting. Governments are presently pictured a...

The increasing exchange of knowledge is characteristic for the growing knowledge intensity of co-operations also within the agri-food sector. This development forms the need for reference-models to ensure the flexible and demand-oriented provision of internet-based information-portals and to support the knowledge communication between the individual members of the co-operation.

1Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 2Department of Clinical Studies-Philadelphia, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 3Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 4Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; and 5Agriculture and Agri-Food Ca...

1Center of Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, University of São Paulo, 2Department of Chemistry, Federal Technological University of Paraná, 3Department of Agri-Food Industry, Food and Nutrition, “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, 4Department of Physiological Sciences, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas, 5Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Federal Univ...

Agri-food systems are fundamental to development. Over and above their contribution to a country’s gross domestic product (GDP), which is less than the contribution of the manufacturing and services sectors, the multiple strategic functions of agriculture in economic, social, and environmental development determine that its participation is far greater than its share of GDP. The agri-food secto...

1 Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden 2 Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA 3 US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, USA 4 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA 5 Palmer Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA 6 Alfred Wegener Institute, Potsdam, Germa...

1 Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 5640, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011-5640, USA 2 Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse, Dr., Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. 3 Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0C6, Ca...

This paper gives an overview of Chinese food safety problem during recent seven years and whether the Alternative Agri-food Networks (AAFNs) probably enhance food safety in China mainly in a business perspective. Both economic analysis and empirical results are provided to answer several crucial questions related with Chinese food safety problem.

(1) Intermap Technologies, 200-2 Gurdwara Rd, Ottawa Ontario, K2E 1A2, [email protected] (2) Carleton University, Dept. of Geography and Environmental Studies, 1125 Colonel By Dr. Ottawa, Ontario K1S5B6, Canada, [email protected] (3) University of Leicester, Department of Geography, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK , [email protected] (4) Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Otta...