agrifood Articles
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A review of factors affecting traceability in agrifood supply chain
The efficiency of a traceability system lies on the ability to collect information related to product quality and consumer safety. There is a wide range of traceability systems currently used in food chains; from paper-based to IT enabled. In this paper, the different approaches given in literature on the requirements of a successful traceability support system are reviewed, and the factors that ...
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Capitalizing on a New Public Awareness of Food Security
With more people getting information online, Leanna Sweha from AgStart has just published an article about the role social media plays to educate people about technologies to make our agrifood system more productive, efficient, sustainable and secure. They focused on how WaterBit is a good example of this. The article is titled, “Capitalizing on a New Public Awareness of Food ...
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Property claims in genetically and non-genetically modified crops: intellectual property rights vs. brand property rights in postindustrial knowledge societies
Conceptualising the ongoing conflict over genetically modified vs. non-genetically modified crops in the frame of property rights, one can see that economic valorisation dynamics and aspirations are working on both sides, within two differently evolving agri-food paradigms, with biotechnology companies propagating intellectual property rights on seeds and crops within a productivist strategy, and ...
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Technological capabilities in multinational agribusiness
With a sample of 18,611 utility patents, this paper studies the patent mix of 90 of the world's leading food and beverage multinationals (FBMs) from 1969-1994. It explores the statistical association within companies between patenting in food technology, in agriculture and in ten non-food technological fields. Food patenting is always positively associated with patenting in Biotech, Chemicals, ...
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How biotechnology is changing the structure of the seed industry
The seed industry has been in a state of restructuring for many years now. New firms have entered the industry and old players have merged. Firms from various backgrounds now compete in supplying seed to agriculture and horticulture traditional seed companies, new biotechnology firms, agrochemical companies, food processors and wholesalers/retailers. As biotechnology enables the enhancement of ...
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Quality assurance mechanisms in agrifood: the case of the Spanish fresh meat sector
The largest fresh meat brand names in Spain are analysed here to study how quality is signalled in the agricultural and food industries and how the underlying quality-assurance organisations work. We obtain two main results. First, organisational form varies according to the specialisation of the brand name. Geographical indicators, which focus on achieving high organoleptic product attributes, ...
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Human dietary exposure to lead and cadmium via the consumption of mussels and seaweeds from San Jorge Gulf, Patagonia Argentina
Lead and cadmium were determined by atomic absorption spectrometry in Aulacomya atra, Mytilus edulis, Porphyra columbina and Ulva spp. in two sites of the San Jorge Gulf (Argentina). In Punta Maqueda, M. edulis cadmium concentrations were higher than those measured at the mouth of La Mata stream throughout the year. In A. atra, no statistically significant difference was recorded between the two ...
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Analysis of competitiveness of a dairy property through reverse logistics: a case study
This paper aimed at evaluating the competitiveness of a dairy property located in the Western Paraná State that uses the reverse logistics of the animal waste produced by the activity. Therefore, we collected information related to the property and the activity by questionnaires and in loco observations seeking information regarding the drivers that affect the competitiveness of the property, ...
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Organic vs. Conventional Foods: How to Distinguish Bio from Non-Bio
There is an ever-increasing need for real time and onsite detection for risk related substances (e.g. pesticides, bacteria and antibiotics) and authenticity in agrifood products. Food quality, food frauds and food scandals are becoming a major issue these days. When it comes to authenticity of food, it allows consumers to get the actual value (what they pay for) and increases their overall level ...
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Pates Warda Turn to Trigneration for Efficient Agrifood Production - Case Study
Pâtes Warda is a subsidiary of the Rose Blanche Group, one of Tunisia’s leading agrifood organisations, involved in the selection, transformation, and marketing of wheat and its derivatives, as well as animal food products. The group operates across 17 production sites and has 33 subsidiaries, employing a workforce of 4,000 employees. Clarke Energy has provided a total of 15MWe to ...
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Why are some French farmers sludge-takers? Some agronomic and socioeconomic explanations
The continued spreading of household wastewater sludge on farmlands is a major economic and environmental issue. This practice is being challenged in France, mainly through pressure from the agrifood business. Here, by means of an agronomic analysis performed on 60 farms, we show the relevance of the following variables: proportion of arable land, technical performance of the farm, and quality ...
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Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program: Seeking Solutions for Winery Wastewater
Seeking solutions for winery wastewater How to properly treat and dispose of wastewater is an issue for any production facility. This includes Ontario’s wineries, which face some added challenges: many of their operations are small and the bulk of their wastewater is produced during harvest season. With the help of an investment from the Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP), ...
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Introducing Dr. Beatrice Amyotte, Small Fruit Germplasm Development Program
The berry breeding program at the Agriculture and AgriFood Canada (AAFC) Kentville Research and Development Centre in Kentville, Nova Scotia, is now the Small Fruit Germplasm Development Program. The new approach to plant breeding will allow the fruit industry to be more involved in the release of new Canadian varieties of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and grapes that are developed ...
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Spatial externalities, organisation of the firm and ICT adoption: the specificities of French agri-food firms
The aim of this paper is to define the organisational foundations of the process of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) adaption, and to show the influence of determinants related to the spatial structure of firms. We examine the existence of specificities in the adoption behaviour of agri-food firms. For this purpose, our econometric study makes use of individual data from almost ...
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Testimonial QL Agrofood, Indonesia: Magfans just run and run
Mr. Ang Bee Tiam from QL Agrofood Indonesia first bought and installed 96 units MagFans 18 months ago from PT Ansell Jaya Indonesia. Followed by another repeat order for 84 units. More orders –I have had no issues with the MagFans whatsoever. This is an extremely unusual situation in our part of the world, with high loads on the fans and many running hours, and a poor quality power supply. ...
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Launch of NEW Irish Agri Farm Directory
Agcontacts.com is a central, online resource which specialises in listing and locating ag-related Irish businesses, products and services. The Irish agri-business sector is an integral part of Ireland’s economy contributing eight per cent (8%) of GDP and providing close to 160,000 jobs. Building and maintaining a strong export market, has been the key to Ireland’s success story. To ...
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Competitive behaviour, design and technical innovation in food and beverage multinationals
The main objective of this paper is to analyse long-term regularities in the pattern of generating technical innovation among global food and beverage multinationals (FBMs). In order to investigate persistent technological practices, we study a panel of 16,698 utility and design patents granted to 103 major FBMs from 1977 to 1994 and present econometric evidence on a joint-product formulation of ...
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Bitwise Agronomy Brings a Data-Driven Solution to Vineyard Owners: GreenView
Who is Bitwise Agronomy, and what do they do? Bitwise Agronomy, an emerging agritech company based in Tasmania, has just launched GreenView: a smart imaging and data-collection application that helps vineyard owners assess their vines' conditions and make crop management decisions at a touch of a button. By capturing imagery through a roving camera, GreenView turns a vineyard entire plot into ...
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TEKPRO – A Great British success story…
With Headquarters in Norfolk, UK, TEKPRO Are a family run team of experienced electro-mechanical engineers, with all products made in Britain, using the highest quality materials and equipment, TEKPRO take the time and care to engineer each piece of equipment to the same exacting standards. Traceability of food and food ingredients from ‘farm to fork’ has become an important issue ...
By TEKPRO Ltd.
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Intensity of Italy's agri–food trade with countries outside the EU Mediterranean
This paper aims to present a framework of trade relations between Italy and the countries of southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. More specifically, using the indicators proposed in the analysis of international trade, we want to analyse the intensity of trade in agri–food products and the strength of trade ties between the bordering Mediterranean countries. The analysis of the ...
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