ERG Syal Publications in a glance

  • Rapport de synthèse
  • Evolution des styles alimentaires à Dakar
  • La construction de la qualité des produits alimentaires
  • Le poisson fumé sur la Petite Côte sénégalaise
  • Approches et méthodes
  • La transformation artisanale de l’huile de palme au Bénin et au Nigeria
  • Consommation alimentaire des ménages urbains au Bénin
  • Les pratiques alimentaires à Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
  • L’attiéké au Bénin
  • L’aspiration au changement alimentaire à Cotonou, Bénin
  • Production et commercialisation de l’afitin fon dans la région d’Abomey-Bohicon au Bénin
  • New issue of the journal
  • The reinterpretation of the agri-food system and its spatial dynamics through the industrial district
  • Apprendre à innover dans un monde incertain
  • Alimentos e Manifestações Culturais
  • Sistemas Agroalimentarios Localizados en America Latina. Alternativas para el desarrollo territorial
  • Methods and Procedures for Building Sustainable Farming Systems
  • Agriregionieuropa - Numero 30 - Settembre 2012
  • Investigación e innovación en el sector del aceite de oliva en España
  • NEW BOOK: Farming Systems Research into the 21st Century: The New Dynamic
  • La Innovacion en el sector Agroalimentario Euroregional Galicia-Norte de Portugal
  • Quality: A multi and interdisciplinary perspective
  • A proposal for analysing the performance of agricultural processing cooperatives
  • Group heterogeneity and cooperation on the geographical indication regulation: The case of the ‘‘Prosciutto di Parma’’ Consortium
  • International Marketing and Trade of Protected Designation of Origin Products
  • Processes of qualification and spillover effects: the case of Prosciutto di Parma Pdo
  • Geografi ska ursprungsbeteckningar - En preliminär reflektion
  • D’une production localisée à une indication géographique en Amazonie : les enjeux écologiques de la production de farinha de Cruzeiro do Sul
  • Perspectivas Rurales
  • François Boucher evoca Syal en el momento de su visita en Bolivia
  • Local Agri-food Systems in a Global World: Market, Social and Environmental Challenges
  • De la leche al queso: queserías rurales de América Latina
  • SEGREDO DA TERRA  - A New Food System in a New Economy
  • SEGREDO DA TERRA - One or more Organic Agricultures?
  • Sviluppo rurale sostenibile / Sustainable rural development
  • Gastronomins (politiska) geografi
  • Guía metodológica para la activación de sistemas agroalimentarios localizados (sial)

PT | Agri-food Traditional Products: From Certification to the Market - Portuguese recent evolution

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(EC) Regulations 2081/92 and 2082/92, replaced by Council Regulations (EC) 510/2006 and 509/2006, respectively, are an important contribution to establishing the foundations of European Policy on agri-food quality. They include the protection of agricultural as well as food product designations at European level, particularly those which bear a close relationship with their production area and which, due to their geographical origin and/or specific modes of production, present distinctive characteristics. Under those regulations a thousand designations are estimated to be protected within the European Union, of which about eight hundred are regularly present in the markets, accounting for a 14.2 billion Euro turnover. Portugal alone has 120 protected designations (15% of all European designations) which originate a seventy million Euro turnover (0.5% of the turnover generated by the PDO/PGI at European level). Fifteen years after the first PDO/PGI products have appeared on the national market, we believe it is important to look into the state of the art of these products in Portugal. The main goal of the present paper is to provide an overall view on the main trends of the PDO/PGI products sector at national level. The methodology used consists of a descriptive analysis of a set of specific indicators regarding three main variables: Production; Prices and Commercialization. Globally, this type of products is not very commercially widespread, despite the positive sustained evolution registered by some. As a rule these products have a poor productive dimension, which in a way may explain the lack of internationalization of the sector.

Key-words: Portugal, Protected Designation of Origin and Protected Geographical Indication, policies, market, consumers, perceptions and preferences.

Revista Regional Science Inquiry, December, 2012, pp. 57-68

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