scholarly journals Supporting Local Food in Northern Ontario

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Howes
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Production Level ◽  
Innovation Network ◽  
Northern Ontario ◽  
Distribution Services ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Retail Services

In attempting to understand the challenges faced by Northern Ontario with regards to locally produced food, this research is focusing on inventorying the existing production and distribution services available to farmers in Northern Ontario. Working with several Northern Ontario organizations including RAIN (Rural Agri-Innovation Network), NOFIA (Northern Ontario Farm Innovation Alliance), Northern Producer Animal Health Network, OFA and OMAFRA, a directory of these services ranging from production level services (veterinarians, crop advisors) to value added services (dairies, creameries) to distribution and retail services will be compiled to both identify where gaps in services exist and to also inform existing and potential Northern Ontario farmers of the existing services available to them. This project will attempt to link not only producers and distributors but also various communities through a networked approach. It will also identify systems currently in place to produce and distribute food and will identify best practices for increasing access to local food.

scholarly journals Innovation Networks: A Tool for Food-Culture Preservation and Sustainability in the Era of Globalization

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Baghdadi
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Innovation Networks ◽  
Innovation Network ◽  
Organizational Conditions ◽  
The Impact

The growing exposure to globalization, since 1990s, has initiated some significant alterations to the Lebanese economy, society, and culture. For the last two decades, it has been observed that international cuisines and eccentric menu items have been invading the local market and taking over ethnic and traditional cuisines, what threatens, if this trend continues, the identity of traditional cuisine and, consequently, the sustainability of local food culture. Departing from the case of Lebanon, this paper studies the impact of globalization on traditional cuisine and highlights the role of networks in sustaining local food culture. The findings of our empirical study revealed the necessity to modernize the traditional cuisine through a coordinated set of heterogeneous and professional actors who collectively take part in the process. The ability of these actors to innovate is found related to the organizational conditions of the networks to which they belong, and to the ability of these networks for innovation, what refers us to the concept of “innovation network” that we are proposing, through this study, as a solution to the dilemma of food - culture preservation and sustainability.

scholarly journals INTEGRATION AND DIVERSIFICATION AS INSTRUMENTS OF MODERNIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES

2014 ◽  
pp. 40-44
Author(s):  
N. V. Yakubanis
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Industrial Companies ◽  
Technological Chain ◽  
Effective Form ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
Flow Of Information

The strategy of transition of the industry to the innovation way of development should include the restructuring of the Russian industrial companies on the basis of creation of the integrated and diversified economic structures on the technological chain of value added. Analysis of changes in the external environment of enterprises in modern conditions confirms the findings of the institutional theory that the development of global technological circuits and networks is the most effective form of management. To the number of the organizational-economic prerequisites for the formation of integrated technological circuits include the globalization of the economy, information production and distribution of material goods and services, the individualization of marketing, related to the saturation of the markets and the change of their structure, the development of logistics management methods and the flow of information and subcontracting (subcontracting) relations of big and small business.

scholarly journals Scaling-up local foods: commodity practice in community supported agriculture (CSA)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Nost
Keyword(s):  
Local Food ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Community Supported Agriculture ◽  
Local Foods ◽  
Rural Studies ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Food Hubs ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Food Commodities ◽  
Shed Light

Full-text, in-print version here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074301671400014XCitation: Nost, E. 2014. Scaling-up local foods: commodity practice in community supported agriculture (CSA). Journal of Rural Studies 34, 152-160.Non-profit, consumer, and government advocates are working to expand access to locally-produced foods as a way of addressing major social and ecological issues. Some activists, however, suggest that farms “scaling-up” production and distribution may lose sight of the movement's aims by circumventing a direct exchange between growing and consumer and by delivering “local” shares long distances. I argue that in order to answer whether scaling-up is misguided, we first have to understand how farms come to scale differently. I describe the varied practices that three community supported agriculture (CSA) farms in the Midwest perform in order to give their products market value as embedded in a specific socio-ecological context. I focus on three key moments of CSA that advocates are concerned about in scaling-up: 1) the employment of different kinds of labor; 2) operating within the seasons; 3) the management of sharer expectations about produce quantity and quality. As what I call commodity practice, farm decisions about these factors produce differently scaled local food commodities. These different practices are not necessarily incongruent with the aims of the movement. My main point in this approach is to advance an awareness of hybridity in local food institutions. As CSAs and other institutions like food hubs grow and evolve, a look at commodity practices can shed light on and confound some of the apparent contradictions in scaling-up.

scholarly journals The Multiplier Effects of Food Relocalization: A Systematic Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3524
Author(s):  
Zsófia Benedek ◽  
Imre Fertő ◽  
Viktória Szente
Keyword(s):  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Marketing Channel ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Local Economies ◽  
Multiplier Effects ◽  
Econometric Analyses ◽  
Online Library

Background: The purchase of local food is often argued to stimulate local economies through multiplier effects; this argument is questioned in this paper. Methods: The ScienceDirect, Wiley Online Library, Taylor and Francis Online, SpringerLink, AgECON, and Emerald databases were searched systematically. A complementary search in Google Scholar was also carried out. Peer-reviewed studies published between 2000 and 2019 were identified using multiple search terms. Data about four types of multipliers (output, employment, income, and value-added multipliers) were extracted. Results: Twenty-four papers fit the criteria, allowing for a qualitative assessment only. Sixteen papers found unambiguously that an increase in demand for local food had a directly positive impact on local economies in some way; one paper found no impact at all. The papers were classified into three groups based on their focal areas: marketing channel-focused, farm enterprise-focused, and scenario/impact analysis-focused studies. In terms of the methods of analysis, three major approaches were identified: input–output models, assessments of descriptive statistics, and econometric analyses. Considerations related to the potential overestimation of current approaches are presented. Conclusions: The existence of employment and income multipliers seems to be more evident, while the impacts of output- and value-added multipliers depend more on the actual context. Research gaps are also identified.

scholarly journals A KÖZÖSSÉG ÁLTAL TÁMOGATOTT MEZŐGAZDÁLKODÁS SZUBJEKTÍV ASPEKTUSAI

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-288
Author(s):  
Birtalan Ilona Liliána ◽  
Kis Bernadett ◽  
Bárdos György
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Literature Search ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Community Supported Agriculture ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Promotional Discourse

Elméleti háttérA közösség által támogatott mezőgazdálkodás (CSA) gyorsan növekvő jelenség világszerte, a helyi élelmiszer termelésének és elosztásának az a módja, amikor a termelő és a fogyasztók (tagok) közvetlenül elköteleződnek egymás felé. A közösségi mezőgazdálkodási rendszerek, mint alulról jövő társadalmi kezdeményezések, az élelmiszerek „árutlanítása" felé tett törekvésként is értelmezhetők, és szorosan kapcsolódnak a fenntarthatóság kérdésköréhez, mely a pszichológiai és az egészségfejlesztési diskurzusba hazánkban még alig került be.MódszertanA szakirodalmak kiválasztása során először konkrét szókombinációk mentén kerestünk cikkeket, majd a talált cikkek irodalmi hivatkozásait áttanulmányoztuk; illetve szakirodalom-kereső portálok elsődlegesen talált cikkeihez ajánlott további cikkeit tekintettük át a CSA-részvétellel járó tapasztalatok szempontjából.EredményekÁttekintésünk alapján látható, hogy a részvétel nemcsak konkrét előnyök mentén értelmezhető, hanem a további aspektusok, mint Hasonló gondolkodás, Lokalitás (város-vidék tengely), Személyes törődés, Életmódváltás, valamint az Újraírt sémák taglalása is legalább olyan fontos.KövetkeztetésekVéleményünk szerint a CSA-ban való részvétel átgondolása hasznos információkat nyújthat többek között a fenntartható pozitív mentális egészség fogalmának kibontásában.Theoretical backgroundCommunity Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a rapidly growing phenomenon worldwide, a model of production and distribution of local food that connects the producer and consumers (members) directly. As a grassroot initiative, CSAs can be seen as a step towards the decommodification of food and are directly associated with sustainability which is rarely involved in psychological and health promotional discourse in Hungary.MethodsIn the selection process of literature, at first papers containing specific word combinations were selected. Articles recommended by academic literature search portals during this process and references section of the selected papers were studied further in the context CSA involvement to find more relevant articles.ResultsBased on our review it seems that CSA participation can be interpreted not only through factual advantages: Similar Thinking, Locality: urban-rural axis, Personal Care, Lifestyle Change, and Rewriting of Schemes are at least as important.ConsequenciesAccording to our view, studying participation in CSA may yield useful information for developing the concept of sustainable positive mental health.

scholarly journals From Adjustment to Apportionment in the Goods and Services Tax Act: A Comparative Analysis of the Change-In-Use Rules in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mark J. Greening
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Value Added Tax ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Supply Mechanism ◽  
Production And Distribution

<p>All countries that have adopted Goods and Services Tax (GST) or Value Added Tax (VAT) employ a ‘change-in-use’ mechanism to distinguish consumption from the stages of production and distribution. New Zealand’s former change-in-use rules were unique. Unlike the ‘use’ based apportionment approaches employed in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, New Zealand employed an adjustment approach that utilised a ‘principal purpose’ test and deemed supply mechanism. While Canada has also employed an adjustment approach for capital property, the New Zealand rules have operated differently to those in Canada. In response to criticism for being overly complex and confusing, the New Zealand change-in-use rules will adopt a new ‘use’ based apportionment approach, together with a new mechanism to constrain the number of adjustments, from 1 April 2011 for a number of taxpayers. Applying criteria identified by the Tax Working Group the performance of New Zealand’s change-in-use rules are examined, in comparison to those applied in Australia and Canada. In addition, the comparative readability of the change-in-use provisions in all three jurisdictions is examined. The paper concludes that New Zealand should adopt an apportionment approach and that the Goods and Services Tax Act should be rewritten for improved readability.</p>

scholarly journals Assessing the Adoption of Recommended Standards, Novel Approaches, and Best Practices for Animal Health Surveillance by Decision Makers in Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Häsler ◽  
Maria Garza ◽  
Betty Bisdorff ◽  
Anaïs Léger ◽  
Saraya Tavornpanich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Health Surveillance ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Novel Approaches

scholarly journals A Discounted Cash Flow and Capital Budgeting Analysis of Silvopastoral Systems in the Amazonas Region of Peru

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 353
Author(s):  
Stephanie Chizmar ◽  
Miguel Castillo ◽  
Dante Pizarro ◽  
Hector Vasquez ◽  
Wilmer Bernal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Health ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Capital Budgeting ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Silvopastoral Systems ◽  
Discounted Cash Flow ◽  
Planted Forests ◽  
Local Livelihoods ◽  
Land Expectation Value ◽  
Cattle Systems

Silvopasture is a type of agroforestry that could deliver ecosystem services and support local livelihoods by integrating trees into pasture-based livestock systems. This study modeled the financial returns from silvopastures, planted forests, and conventional cattle-pasture systems in Amazonas, Peru using capital budgeting techniques. Forests had a lower land expectation value (USD 845 per hectare) than conventional cattle systems (USD 1275 per hectare) at a 4% discount rate. “Typical” model silvopastures, based on prior landowner surveys in the Amazonas region, were most competitive at low discount rates. The four actual silvopastoral systems we visited and examined had higher returns (4%: USD 1588 to USD 9524 per hectare) than either alternative pure crop or tree system, more than likely through strategies for generating value-added such as on-site retail stands. Silvopasture also offers animal health and environmental benefits, and could receive governmental or market payments to encourage these practices.

scholarly journals Integrated algal and oil palm biorefinery as a model system for bioenergy co-generation with bioproducts and biopharmaceuticals

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Azmuddin Abdullah ◽  
Hanaa Ali Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Oil Palm ◽  
Environmental Remediation ◽  
Antimicrobial Agents ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
The People ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Monitoring And Enforcement ◽  
Development Goals

Abstract Background There has been a greater call for greener and eco-friendly processes and bioproducts to meet the 2030’s core agenda on 17 global sustainable development goals. The challenge lies in incorporating systems thinking with a comprehensive worldview as a guiding principle to develop the economy, whilst taking cognisance of the need to safeguard the environment, and to embrace the socio-cultural diversity dimension as an equal component. Any discussion on climate change, destruction of eco-system and habitat for wildlife, poverty and starvation, and the spread of infectious diseases, must be addressed together with the emphasis on the development of cleaner energy, air and water, better management of resources and biodiversity, improved agro-practices for food production and distribution, and affordable health care, as the outcomes and key performance indicators to be evaluated. Strict regulation, monitoring and enforcement to minimize emission, pollution and wastage must also be put in place. Conclusion This review article focuses on the research and development efforts to achieve sustainable bioenergy production, environmental remediation, and transformation of agro-materials into value-added bioproducts through the integrated algal and oil palm biorefinery. Recent development in microalgal research with nanotechnology as anti-cancer and antimicrobial agents and for biopharmaceutical applications are discussed. The life-cycle analysis in the context of palm oil mill processes is evaluated. The way forward from this integrated biorefinery concept is to strive for inclusive development strategies, and to address the immediate and pressing problems facing the Planet and the People, whilst still reaping the Profit.

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