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IT | Agriregionieuropa - Numero 30 - Settembre 2012
Rivista dell’Associazione “Alessandro Bartola” in collaborazione con INEA - Istituto Nazionale di Economia Agraria e SPERA - Centro Studi Interuniversitario sulle Politiche Economiche, Rurali ed Ambientali
ES | Investigación e innovación en el sector del aceite de oliva en España
Problemas, oportunidades y prioridades de I+D+i
Javier Sanz Cañada
Isabel Hervás Fernández
Florencio Sánchez Escobar
Daniel Coq Huelva
PT | NEW BOOK: Farming Systems Research into the 21st Century: The New Dynamic
Text from SPRINGER WEB PAGE
Farming Systems Research has three core characteristics: it builds on systems thinking, it depends on the close collaboration between social and biophysical sciences, and it relies on participation to build co-learning processes. Farming Systems Research posits that to contribute towards sustainable rural development, both interdisciplinary collaborations and local actor engagement are needed. Together, they allow for changes in understanding and changes in practices.
This book gives an overview of the insights generated in 20 years of Farming Systems Research. It retraces the emergence and development of Farming Systems Research in Europe, summarises the state-of-the-art for key areas, and provides an outlook on new explorations, especially those tackling the dynamic nature of farming systems and their interaction with the natural environment and the context of action.
We hope this book will serve as an inspiration for all those who seek an alternative approach to research in farming and rural development. One that builds on the reflexivity of researchers, one that takes the role of human subjectivities and perceptions seriously, one that gives voice to farmers, one that emphasises participation and co-learning processes, one that focuses on interactions between the elements, one that allows to capture interdependencies and their dynamics.
There is no doubt that Farming Systems Research has much to offer to answer the challenges faced by rural areas in the current turbulent and uncertain times. The book is thus aimed at practitioners, at graduate students and at researchers who seek new inspiration outside the mainstream, who take into account the ethical dimension of their work, and who seek encouragement to deepen their reflexivity about the meaning of professional practice and about their approach to research.
PT | La Innovacion en el sector Agroalimentario Euroregional Galicia-Norte de Portugal
Esta publicaçõa apresenta os resultados de um trabalho de investigação euroregional, numa perspectiva multidisciplinar, realizado no ambito do Projecto REAL, financiado pelo POCTEP. Com esta publicação atingem-se dois objectivos, permite-se conhecer a actual oferta tecnológica no sector agro-alimentar e, por outro lado, evidenciar quals são as linhas de investigação que actualmente são identificadas pelas empresas agri-alimentares como prioritárias.
PT | Quality: A multi and interdisciplinary perspective
The Journal TMQ QUALIDADE, Number 2, 2011, published in Portugal by SÍLABO Editions has just issued a number on "Quality: A multi and interdisciplinary perspective". This number, edited by Raquel Lucas, Margarida Saraiva and Álvaro Rosa, includes a selection of articles on quality agrifood products form Argentina, Portugal and Spain. Manuel Luís Tibério and Artur Cristóvão, members or ERG SYAL, contributed with an article on "Qualified traditional agrifood products: quality definition in actor networks".
IT | A proposal for analysing the performance of agricultural processing cooperatives
C. Giacomini, D. Menozzi, M. Zuppiroli
IT | Group heterogeneity and cooperation on the geographical indication regulation: The case of the ‘‘Prosciutto di Parma’’ Consortium
D. Dentoni, D. Menozzi, M.G. Capelli
IT | International Marketing and Trade of Protected Designation of Origin Products
C. Mora, D. Menozzi.
This study aims to analyse the international marketing and trade strategies implemented by Italian quality food producers with special attention to the export and trade issues for two important Italian PDO products: Prosciutto di Parma PDO and Parmigiano-Reggiano PDO.
IT | Processes of qualification and spillover effects: the case of Prosciutto di Parma Pdo
Giacomini C., Arfini F., Menozzi D.
The study analyses the spillover effects within the Prosciutto di Parma district and the relations between the interested products, both Pdo and non-Pdo.
SE | Geografi ska ursprungsbeteckningar - En preliminär reflektion
Paulina Rytkönen & Karl Gratzer