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This article aims to identify the key groups of regions with respectto farms oriented to fruit and citrus production.Twenty variables of fruit and citrus oriented farms corresponding toforty-one regions of the European Union were analyzed. Seven groupsemerged from cluster analysis. Only two of them showed good perspectives. Regions in the South of the Community need an important modernisation and restructuring process, which entails serious social consequences.

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The objective of this study is to measure the impact of the national subsidy scheme on the olive and fruit sector in two regions of Albania, Shkodra and Fier. From the methodological point of view, we use a non- parametric approach based on the propensity score matching. This method overcomes problem of the missing data, by creating a counterfactual scenario. In the first step, the conditional probability to participate in the program was computed. Afterwards, different matching estimators were applied to establish whether the subsidies have affected sectors performance. One of the strengths of this study stays in the data. Cross-sectional primary data was gathered through about 250 interviews.. We have not found empirical evidence of significant effects of government aid program on production. Differences in production found between beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries disappear after adjustment by the conditional probability of participating into the program. This suggests that subsidized farmers would have performed better than the subsidized households even in the absence of production grants, revealing program self-selection. On the other hand, the scheme has affected positively the farm structure increasing the area under cultivation, but yields has not increased for beneficiaries compared to non beneficiaries. These combined results shed light on the reason of the missed impact. It could be reasonable to believe that the new plantation, in particular in the case of olives, has not yet reached full production. Therefore, we have reasons to believe on positive impacts in the future. Concerning some qualitative results, the extension of area under cultivation is strongly conditioned by the small farm size. This together with a thin land market makes extremely difficult the expansion beyond farm boundaries.

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En este trabajo se describen algunas actuaciones llevadas a cabo en el sector frutero leridano de cara a la concentración de oferta y la creación de las cooperativas de segundo grado. A continuación se analizan las acciones adoptadas por una entidad de segundo grado, de la provincia, que es la que ha conseguido integrar a un mayor número de entidades. Seguidamente se analiza comparativamente el grado de eficiencia técnica y económica que presentan las cooperativas asociadas a la entidad de segundo grado en contraposición a las que no han ejercido la opción de asociarse. En el periodo analizado no aparecen grandes diferencias entre los niveles de eficiencia obtenidos por ambos grupos de entidades.

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In Chile, the cherry tree has been one of the fastest growing and most profitable crops in the last ten years. However, increasing production costs, the scarcity of hired labor, and unfavorable exchange rates have reduced the productivity and competitiveness of the Chilean fruit sector. The aim of this article is to evaluate the harvest labor quality in cherry growing in Chile through the use of productivity indicators. A harvest labor evaluation system (HLES) was designed and four indicators were measured: Average Weight of Harvested Box, Average Daily Production per Worker, Percent of Export Fruit, and Percent of Fruit Discarded. Significant differences werefound between the 2010/11 season (with the HLES implementation) and the previous seasons without HLES. The average worker yield, average weight of a filled box, and fruit quality improved, while the amount of discarded fruit decreased. Hired labor management in agriculture is crucial for improving the productivity of the fresh fruit export producers. The use of HLES and the adoption of new technologies could help to solve the competitiveness problem in the Chilean fruit sector.

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La investigación de mercado de la mora en la Asociación FRUSAN se plantea como una de las necesidades básicas dentro de la búsqueda de mejoras competitivas y aumentos de calidad de vida del municipio de San Bernardo – Cundinamarca y sus productores, en la medida que permite optimizar esfuerzos productivos y comerciales en el alcance de una operación rentable y sostenible. En este sentido, el presente trabajo parte de un análisis exhaustivo de las variables del macroentorno que pueden afectar la actividad de mercadeo de la Asociación y su producto, de allí enfoca sus esfuerzos para comprender a nivel micro la dinámica del sector frutícola y de la mora en Colombia brindando un panorama amplio que permite plantear los cursos de acción que debe seguir FRUSAN en su calidad de intermediario y regulador de precios en el municipio, identificando oportunidades importantes y recomendables en mercados diferentes a los cubiertos actualmente, a través de un portafolio más diversificado con mejores estándares de competitividad y diferenciación. Palabras Clave: Investigación de mercado, Asociación FRUSAN, mejoras competitivas, calidad de vida, esfuerzos productivos y comerciales, operación rentable y sostenible, variables del macroentorno, nivel micro, sector frutícola, cursos de acción, intermediario y regulador de precios, oportunidades, portafolio diversificado, estándares de competitividad y diferenciación.

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Agriculture market instability impedes achieving the global goal of sustainable and resilient food systems. Currently, the support to producers reaches the mammoth USD 540 billion a year and is projected to reach USD 1.8 trillion by 2030. This gigantic increase requires a repurposing agricultural support strategy (RASS), considering the market country-specific circumstances. These circumstances may vary with geographic locations, marketing structures, and product value chains. The fruit production system is crucial for health-conscious consumers and profit-oriented producers for food and nutritional security. Export is one of the main driving forces behind the expansion of the fruit sector, and during the year 2010-2018, trade significantly outpaced production increases. The previous literature states that irregular and unpredictable behaviour — Chaos — can arise from entirely rational economic decision-making within markets. Different markets' direct/indirect linkages through trade create trade hubs, and uncertainty may function as an avenue to transmit adverse shocks and increase vulnerability rather than contribute to resilience. Therefore, distinguishing Chaos into an endogenous and exogenous pattern of behaviour is cradled to formulate an effective RASS for resilient food systems and to understand global food crises. The present research is aimed at studying the market dynamics of three regional trade hubs, i.e., Brazil (South America), Italy (Europe), and Pakistan (Asia), each representing advanced to traditional value chains to control uncertainty (risks). The present research encompasses 1) a systematic review to highlight the research dynamism and identify grey-areas of research. Based on the findings, we have investigated the 2) nonlinear impacts of climate-induced price responsiveness in monopsony markets. Once we highlighted the importance of marketing structures/arrangements, 3) we developed a risk transmission framework to address the co-evolving impacts in complex dynamic interactions.

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Agri-food supply chains extend beyond national boundaries, partially facilitated by a policy environment that encourages more liberal international trade. Rising concentration within the downstream sector has driven a shift towards “buyer-driven” global value chains (GVCs) extending internationally with global sourcing and the emergence of multinational key economic players that compete with increase emphasis on product quality attributes. Agri-food systems are thus increasingly governed by a range of inter-related public and private standards, both of which are becoming a priori mandatory, especially in supply chains for high-value and quality-differentiated agri-food products and tend to strongly affect upstream agricultural practices, firms’ internal organization and strategic behaviour and to shape the food chain organization. Notably, increasing attention has been given to the impact of SPS measures on agri-food trade and notably on developing countries’ export performance. Food and agricultural trade is the vital link in the mutual dependency of the global trade system and developing countries. Hence, developing countries derive a substantial portion of their income from food and agricultural trade. In Morocco, fruit and vegetable (especially fresh) are the primary agricultural export. Because of the labor intensity, this sector (especially citrus and tomato) is particularly important in terms of income and employment generation, especially for the female laborers hired in the farms and packing houses. Hence, the emergence of agricultural and agrifood product safety issues and the subsequent tightening of market requirements have challenged mutual gains due to the lack of technical and financial capacities of most developing countries.

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This work project regards a challenge presented by a Portuguese organization on the retail sector, SONAEMC, which is a case study of how and why fruit shrinkage occurs in the fruit supply chain within their convenience stores. A qualitative research methodology enabled to infer in which stages throughout the chain shrinkage’s causes occur and, to conclude that internal rules for procedures and processes are not always followed and whose compliance would be enough to reduce fruit shrinkage. The key conclusion is that if fruit stock loss is reduced by as much as 15% the category’s profitability could increase about 8%.

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El Parc del Garraf (PG) ha estat tradicionalment una important zona agrícola, encara que actualment és molt reduïda (representa el 3% del total de la superfície del parc) i està repartida entre unes poques masies. Aquesta activitat humana conviu amb la fauna silvestre de la zona, que en alimentar-se parcialment dels cultius (cereal, vinya, oliveres, arbres fruiters i hortalisses), hi causa diversos impactes. És el cas de diverses aus, com ara la garsa (Pica Pica) i el pardal (Passer domesticus), i també d’alguns mamífers com el porc senglar (Sus scrofa). Hem observat que l’impacte produït per les aus i el porc senglar (Sus scrofa) és molt petit, el que pot ser degut a dos motius principals: possiblement per una elevada producció de fruits salvatges, esdevenint aquest aliment suficient per a les aus; i la baixa densitat poblacional de porc senglar (Sus scrofa) al parc. Els impactes observats presenten una alta variabilitat i depenen de l’època de l’any en que ens trobem. Per tant, cal fer-ne un seguiment més acurat on s’impliquin administració i pagesos per a millorar el coneixement de l’impacte de la fauna salvatge.

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ABSTRACT We propose a model to explain how contract terms are selected in the presence of a form of economic power: contract power. The orange juice sector is used to illustrate an analysis that demonstrates the effects of contract power on the economic organization of the sector. We define contract power as the ability to exploit contractual gaps or failures of contractual provisions, which are strategically left incomplete. Empirical evidence from content analysis of antitrust documents supports the logic of contract power in the orange juice sector in three forms: avoiding changes to payment methods from weight to solid contents (quality); using information asymmetries to manipulate indexes that calculate the formula of orange prices; and deliberately harvesting oranges late in order to dehydrate the fruit, which consequently reduces weight and price. The paper contributes to understanding the selection of contract terms and the debate about how antitrust offices can deal with this issue.

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El cooperativismo agrario ha estado ligado desde sus orígenes al sector de las frutas y hortalizas, sector que arrastra desde hace años una problemática de carácter estructural, incrementada, sobretodo en el caso de la fruta, por las graves crisis de precios, la saturación de los mercados y una competencia creciente de las importaciones de terceros países. En este difícil marco, los productores deben seguir invirtiendo para mantener la competitividad y la rentabilidad de sus explotaciones, y las cooperativas, por su importancia económica, deben acometer políticas que permitan garantizar la viabilidad de dicho sector. En el presente trabajo realizamos un análisis del sector cooperativo frutícola catalán, con el fin de detectar sus puntos fuertes y débiles, así como posibles carencias y demandas. Las conclusiones muestran que las cooperativas son importantes en el sector de la fruticultura, debido sobretodo a su contribución activa a la conservación del territorio y su papel generador de empleo en numerosas zonas rurales. Pero se hace necesario la adopción de firmes decisiones y la implantación de medidas de apoyo que permitan garantizar los intereses de los socios y las necesidades de los consumidores.

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Dado que los estudios sobre gremios, en líneas generales, han concluido que estos actores han influido poco en las decisiones de corte económico del Estado colombiano, se ha querido analizar en qué medida las agremiaciones que representan la cadena láctea influyeron en los resultados de la negociación del Acuerdo Comercial entre Colombia y la Unión Europea. Para abordar este desafío se adoptó el modelo de los lugares múltiples y cambio de recursos de Adam Sheingate, Frank Baumgartner y Brian Jones, el cual hace hincapié en las acciones de los grupos de interés en las instituciones donde se elaboran y deciden las políticas de Estado. También se adoptó el enfoque neopluralista por su énfasis en la influencia de los grupos de interés que cuentan con más recursos económicos y financieros. Por otra parte, se reconocen los factores que permitieron a los gremios del sector lácteo influir en este proceso; entre los que se encuentran: las instituciones y los agentes del Estado colombiano responsables de llevar a cabo esta negociación; las presiones de otros actores, como lo fueron la Unión Europea y otros gremios de la producción; y la división de los gremios del sector en la fase final de la negociación. Finalmente, se espera que el fruto de esta investigación aporte a los estudios de los gremios en el país dado el poco interés que ha despertado en las dos últimas décadas.

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El presente estudio de caso tiene como objetivo explicar la incidencia de la adopción del enfoque del concepto de Desarrollo Sostenible en el Acuerdo de asociación entre la Unión Europea y Colombia en el sector hortifructífero colombiano. Se realiza una análisis y se identifica cómo el enfoque adoptado por las partes, no le brinda igual importancia a los tres pilares del desarrollo sostenible, por lo tanto se dificulta su aplicación en el sector hortifructífero. Partiendo del concepto planteado por Jeffrey Sachs, se evidencian las falencias del concepto adoptado en el acuerdo, y se establecen las dificultades de la aplicación del concepto de desarrollo sostenible estipulado en el acuerdo de asociación, dentro del sector hortifructífero atendiendo a las dinámicas del mundo actual. Esta investigación surge a raíz de la creciente importancia que ha tenido el desarrollo sostenible en el ámbito internacional, estableciéndolo como punto fundamental en la agenda internacional. ría