《国际食物和农商管理评论》2022年第5期目录【转】

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International Food and Agribusiness Management Review

Vol. 25, No. 5, 2022

本 期 目 录

Table of Contents

EDITORIAL

• Special Issue: Opportunities and challenges of EU farm-to-fork strategy
  Mariantonietta Fiore, Loïc Sauvée, Joanna Wiśniewska-Paluszak

RESEARCH ARTICLE

• Traceability issues of honey from the consumers' perspective in Romania
  Cristina Bianca Pocol, Peter Šedík, Alexandra-Ioana Glogovețan, Ioan Sebastian Brumă 

CASE STUDY

• Collective smart innovations and corporate governance models in Italian wine cooperatives: the opportunities of the farm-to-fork strategy
  Concetta Nazzaro, Marcello Stanco, Anna Uliano, Marco Lerro, Giuseppe Marotta 

RESEARCH ARTICLE

• Are there any differences in rural development challenges within European countries? Social and economic contexts from EU rural leaders
  Tomasz Kusio, Joanna Kudełko, Alexandra Borges, Anamarija Delic, Iulia Stroila 

• Resilience in the food sector – environmental, social and economic perspectives in crisis situations

  Justyna Franc-Dąbrowska, Nina Drejerska 

• Too much power or no power: when does intermediary’s power result into better wine and happier farmers?
  Orjon Xhoxhi, Drini Imami, Jon Hanf, Ekrem Gjokaj 
• Research and innovation challenges for better policies in food systems and bioeconomy transitions – evidence from Poland
  Paweł Chmieliński, Barbara Wieliczko
• Operationalizing circular economy. Reflections on a by-product upcycling value chain construction in the brewing sector
  Gaëlle Petit, Samira Rousselière, Sibylle Duchaine, Emilie Korbel, Véronique Cariou, Sergey Mikhaylin, Luc K. Audebrand 

EDITORIAL

1. Special Issue: Opportunities and challenges of EU farm-to-fork strategy

✺Mariantonietta Fiore, Loïc Sauvée, Joanna Wiśniewska-Paluszak

Abstract

In the context of the Farm-to-Fork strategy towards climate and natural resources neutralization, all players in agri-food value chain actors and stakeholders – citizens, consumers and business – cope with new challenges based on a better understanding of the complex interrelations between public health, ecosystems, value chains, consumption patterns, and planetary boundaries. From a managerial perspective, several dimensions appear crucial. The first one is circularity, i.e. the move from line to circular models which brings opportunities and threats in terms of quality management standards, procurements arrangements and skills for this circular turn. The second dimension is inclusiveness, with the renewed roles of farming systems as part of complete sustainable agri-food chains, with the core topic of social-environmental inclusivity within either existing agri-food companies or business models from scratch. The third dimension is path-dependency for conventional firms, with knowledge, technological and/or organizational lock-in, along with roles for newcomers and startups in this business model transformation, as well as the place and role of innovation ecosystems.The articles of this special issue offer constrasted view of these challenges.

Keywords: agribusiness, business models, farm-to-fork, food industry, rural development, R & D policy, system innovation

RESEARCH ARTICLE

2. Traceability issues of honey from the consumers' perspective in Romania

✺Cristina Bianca Pocol, Peter Šedík, Alexandra-Ioana Glogovețan, Ioan Sebastian Brumă 

AbstractThe Romanian honey market is facing a problem related to traceability, especially when honey is produced in more than one country and its origin is indicated as a blend of EC and non-EC honeys. The increase of honey adulteration has consequences on both consumers and honey producers with considerable negative effects. The aim of the study was to identify the factors that influence honey purchasing behaviour and to evaluate consumers’ awareness related to honey adulteration in Romania among selected age segments. An online survey was conducted between 2020-2021 on a sample of 1,233 respondents. The questionnaire covered aspects related to purchasing behaviour and honey adulteration, complemented with socio-demographic questions. The data were evaluated using descriptive, non-parametric and multivariate statistics. The results showed that the most important factors considered during the purchasing process by Romanian honey consumers were health factor and country of origin followed by producer reputation and ecological aspect, while the least important were discounts, promotion and brand reputation. The older respondents are more aware of honey adulteration and know better that crystallisation is an indicator of quality. This study provides important information for policymakers and the whole beekeeping chain in Romania. Education in terms of honey authenticity and traceability will help consumers to choose local honey of high quality and to avoid adulterated products. This consumption and purchasing behaviour will discourage producers from honey counterfeiting.Keywords: honey authenticity, consumer behaviour, traceability, adulteration

CASE STUDY

3. Collective smart innovations and corporate governance models in Italian wine cooperatives: the opportunities of the farm-to-fork strategy

✺Concetta Nazzaro, Marcello Stanco, Anna Uliano, Marco Lerro, Giuseppe Marotta Abstract

European policies, especially the ‘farm-to-fork strategy’, address the challenge posed by the ecological transition in agriculture setting up a new technological paradigm. In this context, collective smart innovations may play a crucial role, enabling to meet current citizen-consumers’ needs as well as producing positive environmental and social externalities. Lately, wineries, in the attempt to improve the sustainability of production process and the creation of competitive advantages, reoriented their investments in research and development embracing smart innovations. The latter, when supported by appropriate models of corporate governance, can facilitate business decisions and create shared value. Despite its relevance, literature on the topic is still scarce. This study aims to investigate the role played by collective smart innovations and corporate governance in the sustainable and ecological transition of wineries and, specifically, wine cooperatives. The case study methodology was adopted investigating the collective innovation ‘I mille per l’Aglianico’ implemented by the Italian wine cooperative ‘La Guardiense’. Results show that the collective smart innovation experienced by ‘La Guardiense’ had impacts in terms of internal economies, such as increase in sales and costs reduction; and in terms of external social economies, such as local development and environmental protection.

Keywords: innovation, sustainability, cooperatives, governance, value creation

RESEARCH ARTICLE

4. Are there any differences in rural development challenges within European countries? Social and economic contexts from EU rural leaders

✺Tomasz Kusio, Joanna Kudełko, Alexandra Borges, Anamarija Delic, Iulia Stroila Abstract

Rural development has become a significant policy challenge in Europe. More employment opportunities have increasingly been concentrated in urban areas, leaving rural regions with ever-continuing down-fall in terms of population size and economic growth. In this context, rural entrepreneurship activity that positively influences rural communities is embedded in broader social or structural policies at the European level. The aim of the article is to investigate societal and economic challenges and their innovative solutions in five European rural regions: Croatia (Slovania), Germany (Münsterland, Saxony-Anhalt), Poland (Małopolska), and Portugal (Alto Minho). This study follows a multi-case method which investigates the diversity of challenges and solutions in selected European rural areas. The comparative analysis reveals that most essential activities aimed at alleviating the development problems of rural areas include education of local communities, improvement of economic and digital infrastructure, activities supporting production and promotion of local products, promotion of cooperation between local communities and producers, and stronger orientation of local policy towards financial support of production enterprises and farms. The conclusions resulting from the study lead to formulating recommendations concerning rural policies in the context of developing entrepreneurship strategies in rural areas.

Keywords: economics, entrepreneurship, rural development, social innovations

5. Resilience in the food sector – environmental, social and economic perspectives in crisis situations

✺Justyna Franc-Dąbrowska, Nina Drejerska Abstract

Environmental, social and economic perspectives, derived from the sustainability approach and present within by the resilience concept, are integral parts of food systems. At the same time they are clearly articulated within the EU farm-to-fork (F2F) strategy referring to building up resilience to possible future crises as diseases and pandemics. The aim of this paper is to investigate resilience in the food sector referring to its selected environmental, social and economic dimensions, which in fact rely on each other and cannot be separated, simply because of the character of food system itself (work with living organisms, soil, within natural environment, etc. done by people for business purposes). The issue of resilience in the food sector must be considered multidimensionally. In this approach, the basic direction of activities should be the one focused on the resilience approach, both in environmental protection and society. For a harmonious combination of these activities, it is also necessary to look at economic perspective of food system and entire rural livelihoods (e.g. income and employment diversification). Considering the last shocks discussed (COVID-19, war in Ukraine, drought, embargo on grain exports from Russia, rising inflation), a difficult situation on the food market can be expected in the nearest future, which makes the concept of resilience in the food sector even more relevant than it has been so far.

Keywords:  resilience, food system, biodiversity, finance, labor, inflation

6. Too much power or no power: when does intermediary’s power result into better wine and happier farmers?

✺Orjon Xhoxhi, Drini Imami, Jon Hanf, Ekrem Gjokaj Abstract

The study analyzes the trading relationship performance between farmers and intermediaries and the factors shaping it, with a focus on intermediary’s power, based on a structured survey of vineyard farmers in Kosovo. Confirmatory factor analysis is employed to develop measures for the study latent variables, and ordinary least squares regression is used to test the hypothesis. To further validate the results, machine learning (i.e. random forest) is used to model the factors affecting the relationship performance between farmer and intermediary. The results show that when the intermediary has considerable (excessive) power, it leads to low trading relationship performance with farmers. Also, when the intermediary has little power, the relationship performance with farmers behaves in a similar way. The main contribution of this paper is to further illuminate the debate on the role of power in business-to-business relationships, in that it points out an alternative explanation; stating that there is an optimal level zone that power needs to exist, in order to achieve above average trading relationship performance. Outside this zone, either low or excessive/high intermediary’s power results in poor relationship performance.

Keywords: power, relationship performance, vineyard value chain, Western Balkan, Kosovo

7. Research and innovation challenges for better policies in food systems and bioeconomy transitions – evidence from Poland

✺Paweł Chmieliński, Barbara WieliczkoAbstract

Climate changes and depleting natural resources call for the urgent sustainability transition of the economy. This also refers to food systems, which are a vital part of the economy directly linked to the nature. The first step in creating better forward-looking policies for the transition of food systems is identification of knowledge gaps to target R&D spending. In the paper we focus on the presentation and analysis of research directions that constitute future challenges for the transformation of research and development in Poland. The methodology of research applied in the study is based on participatory action research philosophy. The approach to determine the research challenges and needs included round tables and focus groups under the BIOEAST initiative. The results show that the most important weakness is low level of R&D expenditure in bioeconomy sectors, while the strength is a large number of new active entities for implementation of innovations, supporting bioeconomy and science-practice cooperation. The key recommendation is increasing the R&D spending and prepare national bioeconomy strategy to make use of the large potential of the Polish bioeconomy sector.

Keywords: value chain, food systems, SWOT analysis, research and innovation, BIOEAST, CEEC, Poland

8. Operationalizing circular economy. Reflections on a by-product upcycling value chain construction in the brewing sector

✺Gaëlle Petit, Samira Rousselière, Sibylle Duchaine, Emilie Korbel, Véronique Cariou, Sergey Mikhaylin, Luc K. Audebrand Abstract

The concept of a circular economy has arisen in response to the problems related to the limits of the dominant linear economic system in contemporary societies and of the finite resources of our planet. The transition from waste status to a raw material by reusing it makes it possible to modify its value for future users and thus to redistribute this value. This article focuses on the case of spent grain to illustrate the role of the circular economy in food transition. Bases on a series of interviews, the paper discusses business modeling to operationalize sustainable development in the food sector and presents a discussion and conclusion on the advantages and limitations of the deployment of the circular economy in the brewing industry, taking into account and understanding the interests and constraints of various stakeholders.

Keywords: circular economy, by-product, sustainable development, upcycling, brewer’s spent grain

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