Consumers motivations for buying local and organic products in developing vs developed countries.

Despite numerous studies reporting on organic consumer profiles, little is known on consumers motivations for buying local and organic products. More precisely, do consumers prefer local products because they want to support local producers or do environment and the question of food miles matter in their choice ? Besides, very little is known about organic consumers in developing countries, since most surveys are generally conducted in developed countries. Our purpose is to fill this double gap. By conducting qualitative surveys based on individual interviews in four developing countries (Brazil, Egypt, Uganda and China) and two European countries, France and Denmark, we plan to study consumers choice for organic products from supermarkets, farmers markets or local organic food network respectively. Products are selected to cover examples of imported organic products that compete with comparable products of local origin. First results from Brazil and France show that French consumers are more concerned by the environment than Brazilian consumers, but that most consumers in both samples are not concerned by food miles and their subsequent environmental impacts. Results also shed light on different patterns related to commitment of supporting small or local farmers, and suggest implications for policy makers.

The women role in the agroenvironmental activities of Amazon agroforeststry systems.

This paper presents the results of a research on the way which shows the role of the farmer women to contribute to overcome the life hindrances in the Amazonian agroforest environment, for food safety and familiar income. The sample was the women of the Associação de Produtores Alternativos - APA, Ouro Preto do Oeste, Rondônia, Brazil. Questionnaires were applied to 50 women of this community, in 2004/2005, with additional interviews in 2006, taking into account their role in the farms, and their several invisible activities. The role of APA?s women was compared to that of other Amazonian women, like rubber tappers and riverine people. The APA?s women perform tasks as field manpower - 78.0% of them, making decisions about what to plant - 18.0%, harvest destination - 32.0%, which animals to raise -14.0% and animal products destination -34.0%. Traditionally, in rural zone, the women with their children play a role as non-paid manpower, getting some monetary income with occasional commercialization of on-farm processed products as cheese, pickles, jellies and fruit liqueurs. They are responsible for the cultures practiced around the house. All these Amazonian women edaphoclimatic conditions, greatly contributing to the biodiversity, conservation, and to ecological, social and economic stability.are guardians, perpetuators and disseminators of a rich germplasm adapted to local.

Methodology for climate risk assessment of maize intercropped with Brachiaria in the Cerrado of Brazil.

2015

The women role in the agroenvironmental activities of Amazon agroforeststry systems.

2008

Ractopamine stability in meat and bone meal samples store under freezing and ambient conditions.

2016

Ractopamine depletion through urine in swine fed increasing doses of contaminated meat and bone meal.

2016

The Brazilian grape juice: market and prospects.

This article aims to analyze the market of Brazilian grape juice.

Marca coletiva dos vinhos finos de Santa Catarina, Brasil: uma estratégia alternativa.

Com a abertura da economia brasileira a partir de meados da década de 1990, o setor vitivinícola nacional passou a enfrentar uma forte concorrência externa, registrando-se taxas significativas de importações. No período de 2002-2010, o crescimento das importações de produtos vitivinícolas (vinhos, espumantes, vinhos licorosos, etc.), pelo mercado brasileiro foi de aproximadamente 183%. Portanto, de modo semelhante a outros setores do agro-negócio mundial, o setor vitivinícola tem se caracterizado pela crescente competição entre blocos econômicos, a qual tem sido marcada por um ambiente empresarial cada vez mais intenso em tecnologia e gestão. Diante deste cenário e da evidência de que, para competir neste mercado, é necessário uma performance diferenciada, em 2008, a Associação Catarinense dos Produtores de Vinhos Finos de Altitude - ACAVITIS, com o apoio institucional e financeiro do Serviço Nacional de Apoio a Micro e Pequena Empresa - SEBRAE-SC e, sob a coordenação técnica da Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária - Embrapa Uva e Vinho e da Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária e Extensão Rural de Santa Catarina - EPAGRI, implantou o projeto para criação da Marca Coletiva ACAVITIS (MCA), objetivando garantir qualidade e imagem diferenciada para seus produtos diante da concorrência. Em 2009, o registro da MCA foi protocolado junto ao Instituto Nacional de Propriedade Industrial - INPI e, na safra de 2011, serão certificados seus primeiros vinhos.

The influence of climatic conditions on the phenolic composition of tropical Brazilian wines.

2012

Determination of bioactive amines in tropical wines produced at Brazilian's Northeast.

The wine production in the region of the Sub-middle São Francisco river Valley has started there are few years ago.The region has a climate variability that allows to obtain two or three harvests per year, which influences significantly the composition of the grapes. This work aimed to evaluate the amount of amines present in white and red tropical wines produced in the Northeast of Brazil. The winemaking was done by the traditional method. After stabilizing the wines were bottled and then analyzed for the determination of the amines putrescine, spermidine and spermine, by thin layer chromatography (TLC). The harvests were in June (harvest I) and November (harvest II) 2009. The results showed that the edaphoclimatic conditions of the two harvests had significant influence (p> 0.05) on bioactive amines concentration, with high values for red wines. In addition, tropical wines from Sub-middle São Francisco river Valley showed adequate correlation between bioactive amines as compared to other wines in the world.

Development of methodology for the determination of organic acids in must, grape juice and wine by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).

2012