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| Vandermeulen, Valerie; Vuylsteke, Anne; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| Together with the evolution from the agro-industrial model to the sustainable rural development model (Roep and Wiskerke 2004), a part of the agro-food market has evolved from an anonymous, mass food market to a quality-food market. This shift is driven by factors, such as the changing relations between supply chain actors due to concentration in retail and processing, the growing importance of quality standards, considerable changes in consumer habits and preferences, the increasing attention for the multifunctional dimensions of agriculture and the establishment of new markets for public goods and services (Kirwan, Slee et al. 2003; Jahn, Zerger et al. 2007). As a consequence, the contemporary agro-food markets are more and more characterised by... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Production Economics. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122011 |
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| Vandermeulen, Valerie; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| Changes in consumer preferences and demands, the process of globalisation, etc. together with the pressure of the United States to continue liberalisation of the farm sector in Europe, have caused the European Union to adapt its policy. There has been a shift in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) towards a more decentralised approach. In this paper, it is analysed if this approach is justified for rural development, by describing the case of on-farm diversification in Flanders. Using survey results, it is tested if the decision to do on-farm diversification depends not only on farm and farmer characteristics (e.g. age and gender of the farmer, his or her education, having a successor, arable surface, farm type and financial situation) but also on the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: On-farm diversification; Local policy; Decentralisation; Farm location; Farm strategy; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25718 |
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| Speelman, Stijn; D'Haese, Luc; Ochieng, Cosmas M.O.; Vandermeulen, Valerie. |
| As a result of the growing world population and enhanced by the rising of living standards, competition for water is growing and this causes increased pressure on water resources worldwide. This tendency gave rise to the development of the integrated water resources management approach (IWRM), acknowledging the need to manage water resources in a holistic and integrated way. The IWRM objective to optimize economic, social and environmental outcomes of water management, can however only be reached if impact of water uses is correctly assessed. Nevertheless, often multiple uses of water within sectors are insufficiently recognized in planning and management. One of these neglected uses is the productive water use by households. Nonetheless, this use is... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Productive water uses; Livelihood; Rural development; Kenya; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Q25; O13. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25325 |
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