scholarly journals Drinking to the Future: Wine in Communist Bulgaria

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 416-430
Author(s):  
Mary Neuburger
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
Wine Production ◽  
Counter Model ◽  
The Future

This article explores wine production, consumption and trade in the context of late socialist Bulgaria and the wider Eastern Bloc. In particular, it connects wine to the process of building legitimacy in Bulgaria, as part of post-Stalinist culture of consumer abundance and even connoisseurship that was steeped in nationalist narratives and meanings, as well as utopian visions of the future. To complicate such narratives, it also delves into the contradictory ways in which late-socialist anti-alcohol narratives and campaigns similarly looked to local, if not national, precursors to ground their counter model of a sober socialist present and communist future.

scholarly journals Marketing analysis of the Villány wine region

2014 ◽  
pp. 119-123
Author(s):  
Klára Törökné Kiss
Keyword(s):  
Wine Industry ◽  
Natural Conditions ◽  
Wine Production ◽  
Wine Consumption ◽  
The Future ◽  
Marketing Analysis ◽  
Wine Region

Hungarian wine is not in such a bad position as it is considered. We have outstanding specialists and the country’s natural conditions are also proper. In Hungary, there are wine production and wine consumption has a major traditions. The role of marketing in our wine industry is growing more and more, and this trend is expected to continue in the future. The development of tourism in wine-growing regions and advertising would considerably promote the popularity of Hungarian wine.

scholarly journals The future potential for wine production in Scotland under high-end climate change

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 723-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Dunn ◽  
Mark D. A. Rounsevell ◽  
Fredrik Boberg ◽  
Elizabeth Clarke ◽  
Jens Christensen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Wine Production ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Potential

Globalising chains – decoupling grape production, wine production and wine exports

2018 ◽  
Vol 120 (3) ◽  
pp. 703-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Mann ◽  
Silviu Beciu ◽  
Antanas Karbauskas
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Effects ◽  
World Market ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Fixed Effects Model ◽  
Wine Production ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Phase ◽  
Wine Trade

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show that globalisation (or de-regionalisation) in the wine business is entering a new phase in which grape production, wine production and wine exports are increasingly decoupled. In order to illustrate the case, the authors present Lithuania, compared to Romania, as a case study. Design/methodology/approach The authors tested the hypothesis that grape production and wine trade are increasingly decoupling. Based on the notion that transformation countries act as an avant-garde where new developments show first, the authors use Central and Eastern Europe as a case in point. The authors apply a mixed and a fixed effects model, where self-sufficiency in grapes explains wine exports to a reducing degree. Findings In the descriptive part the authors demonstrate how Lithuania, since EU accession, has become a major hub for wine trade, importing from the main export countries, and exporting mostly to Russia. In the multivariate section, it can then be shown that this decoupling between grape production and wine exports is a significant development in international terms. Practical implications The division of labour in wine trade has entered a new phase where wine production and wine marketing are decoupled. If extrapolated into the future, this may indicate that in the future world market, grape production and wine production may also decouple. Originality/value The paper has traced a new and un-described phenomenon on the global wine market. It shows that the division of labour is still advancing.

scholarly journals Hungarian Pig Sector: Actual Problems and Prospects for the Future Development

2016 ◽  
Vol 64 (6) ◽  
pp. 1879-1888 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Dunay ◽  
Klára Vinkler-Rajcsányi
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Economic Transition ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Structural Problems ◽  
The Future ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Pork Product

Over the past decades, the Hungarian pig sector has undergone remarkable changes. In the 1980s, the Hungarian pig sector was the main pork product provider of the Eastern bloc, but after the political and economic transition, the sector lost its main markets and the size of pig herds decreased radically. The economic changes have brought negative impacts for all the players of the pork supply chain: the producers have been mostly affected, but slaughterhouses and the processing industry had to face new circumstances as well. The goal of this paper is to review the present situation and the current problems of the Hungarian pig-producing sector and to draw up the main prospects and favourable directions of the future by the findings of the SWOT analysis of the Hungarian pig sector and based on the proposed directions of the government’s new pork strategy. As the pig sector is an important pillar of the Hungarian agriculture and the rural communities, it is worth to summarize the sector’s present market position and to set those opportunities, which could give advantages for Hungary in the international competition. The paper concluded that the most prominent problems of the pig sector are caused by the economic and structural problems of the sector, based on the problem tree and sector’s SWOT analysis the main external and internal factors were detected, and the results were compared to some measures of the government’s pork strategy.

Downscaling of climate change scenarios for a high resolution, site–specific assessment of drought stress risk for two viticultural regions with heterogeneous landscapes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Hofmann ◽  
Claudia Volosciuk ◽  
Martin Dubrovský ◽  
Douglas Maraun ◽  
Hans R. Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Drought Stress ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Regional Climate Models ◽  
Weather Data ◽  
Climate Change Scenarios ◽  
Research Knowledge ◽  
Wine Production ◽  
The Future

Abstract. Extended periods without precipitation observed for example in Central Europe including Germany during the seasons from 2018 to 2020, can lead to water deficit and yield and quality losses for grape and wine production. However, irrigation infrastructure is largely non–existent. Regional climate models project changes of precipitation amounts and patterns, indicating an increase in frequency of occurrence of comparable situations in the future. In order to assess possible impacts of climate change on the water budget of grapevines, a water balance model was developed, which accounts for the large heterogeneity of vineyards with respect to their soil water storage capacity, evapotranspiration as a function of slope and aspect, and viticultural management practices. The model was fed with data from soil maps (soil type and plant available water capacity), a digital elevation model, the European Union (EU) vineyard–register, observed weather data and future weather data provided by regional climate models and a stochastic weather generator. This allowed conducting a risk assessment of the drought stress occurrence for the wine–producing regions Rheingau and Hessische Bergstraße in Germany on the scale of individual vineyard plots. The simulations showed that the risk for drought stress varies substantially between vineyard sites but might increase for steep–slope regions in the future. Possible adaptation measures depend highly on local conditions and to make targeted use of the resource water, an intense interplay of different wine-industry stakeholders, research, knowledge transfer, and local authorities will be required.

The future for the livestock industry after foot and mouth

2001 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
Commodity Prices ◽  
Foot And Mouth Disease ◽  
Classical Swine Fever ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
Market Prices ◽  
Agricultural Industry ◽  
Livestock Sector ◽  
The Future ◽  
Foot And Mouth

The agricultural industry, particularly the livestock section, has been beset by difficulties in recent years, with the wettest year since 1776, the lowest commodity prices since the 1930's in many sectors, and by the widespread outbreak of ‘foot and mouth’ disease (F&M). This epidemic renewed fears for the future in an industry that was just beginning to see a glimmer of hope for better times ahead after many years of depression, with the OECD forecasting in early 2001 that world agricultural markets were poised for a ‘significant recovery‘.Following what with hindsight can be thought of as a ‘golden period’ in the early 1990's, things began to go really wrong in the livestock sector after the BSE crisis in 1996. The problems were exacerbated by many other ‘external economic’ pressures in the late 1990's - in particular the high value of the pound and its effect on trade and market prices, the economic problems in other parts of the world (particularly in South East Asia and the former Eastern bloc), and an oversupplied European food market (particularly for meat and dairy products). By the late 1990's these ‘macro’ pressures were affecting all livestock sectors and if things were not bad enough, the spectre of ‘disease’ was about to make matters worse, beginning with the outbreak of classical swine fever in the pig industry in 2000.The downward pressure on market prices and the monetary losses have also brought into focus the structural changes that are sorely needed throughout the livestock production, and meat processing/marketing supply chains in Britain. It has been apparent (ignoring the international situation) since the late 1980's, following the more rapid changes that have occurred in the final domestic consumer market, that these have been needed and they are now essential if the industry is to remain competitive in the 21st century.

scholarly journals Responses on Must and Wine Composition of Vitis vinifera L. cvs. Riesling and Cabernet Sauvignon under a Free Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE)

Foods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Yvette Wohlfahrt ◽  
Claus-Dieter Patz ◽  
Dominik Schmidt ◽  
Doris Rauhut ◽  
Bernd Honermeier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shikimic Acid ◽  
Wine Industry ◽  
Soluble Solids ◽  
Vitis Vinifera L ◽  
Cabernet Sauvignon ◽  
Volatile Acid ◽  
Wine Quality ◽  
Wine Production ◽  
Free Air ◽  
The Future

Challenges of climate change on the future grape and wine production are widely discussed in science and in the wine industry with the goal to maintain a consistent must and wine quality in the future. Therefore, the effect of elevated CO2 (eCO2)—as one of the relevant greenhouse gases jointly responsible for a changing climate—was investigated concerning the composition of must and wine made of two grapevine cultivars V. vinifera L. cvs. Riesling and Cabernet Sauvignon within the established VineyardFACE (Free-Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment) experiment. Must and wine analysis were conducted in three consecutive years (2014–2016) by analyzing standard must and wine parameters, e.g., total soluble solids (TSS), pH, total acidity (TA), organic acids (e.g., tartaric acid, malic acid, shikimic acid, citric acid, volatile acid and gluconic acid) or total phenolics (TP). Also, for both cultivars CIELab coordinates (L* for lightness, a* as green/red and b* as blue/yellow components) were used to test colour in young white and red wines. Additionally, total anthocyanins and monomeric indices were analyzed for young wines of the red cultivar Cabernet Sauvignon. With marginal differences between CO2 treatments, the composition of must and young wines was not found to be negatively influenced by an eCO2 concentration.

The Global Futures Lab

Futures ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 513-530
Author(s):  
Paolo Cardini
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Counter Model ◽  
The Future ◽  
Global Futures ◽  
Experiential Research

This chapter critiques the politics behind the representations of the future conjectured by contemporary creative industries and offers a counter-model based in specific forms of ‘cultural determinism’. It argues that the vast majority of creative speculations were and still are a mere representation of the fears and dreams of a restricted part of the global community, and are defined by a distinguishable style of Hollywoodesque sci-fi imaginary or the taste of the dominating design establishment. Drawing on the empirical experiential research undertaken by the Global Futures Lab—which invites international students to reflect upon their personal idea of future—this chapter advocates the need for more pluralist perspectives and localized visions in which traditions and belief shape alternative and hyper-contextual future realities.

scholarly journals Climate change potential effects on grapevine bioclimatic indices: A case study for the Portuguese demarcated Douro Region (Portugal)

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 01013 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Blanco-Ward ◽  
A. Ribeiro ◽  
D. Barreales ◽  
J. Castro ◽  
J. Verdial ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Growing Season ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Wine Production ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
Mean Temperature ◽  
Climate Simulations ◽  
The Future ◽  
Dryness Index

In this work, bioclimatic parameters and indices relevant to the grapevine are estimated for the years 2000 (recent-pat), 2049 (medium-term future) and 2097 (long-term future), based on very high resolution (1 km × 1 km) MPI-WRF RCP8.5 climate simulations. The selected parameters and indices are the mean temperature during the grapevine growing season period (April to October, Tgs), the cumulative rainfall during the grapevine growing season period (Pgs), the Winkler index (WI), the Huglin heliothermic index (HI), the night cold index (CI) and the dryness index (DI). In general, a significant increase in mean temperature during the grapevine growing season period is observed, together with a significant decrease in precipitation. The recent-past WI is associated with the production of high-quality wines; the higher values predicted for the future represent intensive production of wines of intermediate quality. The HI shows the passage of a grapevine growing region considered as temperate-warm to a warm category of higher helio-thermicity. The recent-past CI indicates very cool conditions (associated with quality wines), while in the future there is a tendency for temperate or warmer nights. Finally, DI indicates an increase in water stress considered already high under the recent-past climate conditions. These results point to an increased climatic stress on the Douro region wine production and increased vulnerability of its vine varieties, providing evidence to support strategies aimed to preserve the high-quality wines in the region and their typicality in a sustainable way.

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