3. Institutional and Organizational Aspects
This theme includes organizational economic aspects of, for example, agri-food value chains, contract farming and agri-environmental schemes. The growing importance of vertical and horizontal coordination and the use of contracts in global agri-food value chains provide ample opportunities for extended research on the Bioeconomy within this theme.
Projects
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Strength2Food
Recently in the European Union, both EU quality policy and Public Sector Food Procurement have witnessed recent reforms. These changes focus on... -
WO-WOTRO
WO-WOTRO / cooperation with CSIR-CRI partnership CORAF/WECARD DONATA; Solidaridad and SNV Ghana - Partnership arrangements as strategic action for... -
COMPETE
International comparisons of product supply chains in the agro-food sectors: determinants of their competitiveness and performance on EU and...
Key Publications
- Dries, L., Gorton, M., Urutyan, V. and J. White (2014). Supply chain relationships, supplier support programs and stimulating on-farm investment: evidence from the Armenian dairy sector, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 19(1), pp. 98 - 107.
- Peerlings, J, N. Polman and L. Dries (2014). Self-reported resilience of European farms with and without the CAP. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 65(3): 722-738.
- Ali, M. and J. Peerlings (2012). Farm household’s entry and exit into and from non-farm enterprises in rural Ethiopia: Does clustering play a role? Agricultural Economics, 43(3): 253-266.