Proceedings in Food System Dynamics  

Jivka Deiters,Ursula Rickert,Gerhard Schiefer

Proceedings of the 9th International European Forum on System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks, Igls/Innsbruck, Asutria, February 15-19, 2015

 

Table of Content

Minna Mikkola

The paper deals with a new competition situation between a large consumer co-operative and a very small local food shop as its rival. While both businesses are selling food, their business concepts look very different. These concepts are analysed as ideol... see more

Pegah Amani,Lars-Erik Gadde

Waste is a significant problem in food supply chains. There is potential for spoilage of food products at any stage of the supply chain when the products reach their “best before” or “salable date”. As a key to the food waste problem, there is a trend tow... see more

Ernst Berg,Ray Huffaker

We investigated German hog-price dynamics with an innovative ‘diagnostic’ modeling approach. Hog-price cycles are conventionally modeled stochastically—most recently as randomly-shifting sinusoidal oscillations. Alternatively, we applied nonlinear time se... see more

Vanessa Armendàriz,Stefano Armenia,Alberto Stanislao Atzori,Angelo Romano

This paper discusses how a complex-systems perspective can shed light on the analysis of complex food-systems meeting urban food needs. The common features between complex systems and Food Supply and Distribution Systems (FSDS) are explored. A brief revie... see more

Christian H. Meyer,Martin Hamer,Wiltrud Terlau,Johannes Raithel,Patrick Pongratz

Although much effort is made to prevent risks arising from food, food-borne diseases are an ever present-threat to the consumers’ health. The consumption of fresh food that is contaminated with pathogens like fungi, viruses or bacteria can cause food pois... see more

S. Stranieri,A. Cavaliere,A. Banterle

Over the past decades increasing consumers’ concerns due to repeated food scares has lead firms and policy makers to adopt mandatory and voluntary normative instruments in order to reduce consumers loss of confidence towards food products. Traceability is... see more

Sebastian Jarzebowski,Agnieszka Bezat-Jarzebowska

The aim adopted in the paper was to review methods for assessing the organizational aspects of supply chains and to carry out their critical evaluation. The selected approaches of supply chains’ assessment, published in leading Journals dealing with logis... see more

S. Stranieri,L. Baldi

Shelf-life estimation has become increasingly important due to the growing consumer interest in fresh and safe food products and the European policy indications to consider it as a key issue for the sustainable management of food waste within the supply c... see more

András Sebok,Ágnes Gyuró,Csaba Baár,Adrienn Hegyi

For the development of new biodegradable packaging materials and decision support tools, expectations, requirements and knowledge of different disciplines need to be harmonized and integrated.Within the EU funded EcoBioCAP project a systematic approach wa... see more

Sandro Steinbach

In this paper we investigate the Linder hypothesis for bilateral export trade in agricultural and food products by utilizing the sectoral gravity equation derived in Hallak (2010). Based on a sample of 152 countries, we study the relationship for 737 agri... see more

Iryna Kulyk,Thomas Herzfeld

According to prospects of international organisations like OECD and FAO, Ukraine will be one of the important suppliers of agricultural products on the world market in the coming decade. Thus, Ukrainian agricultural production and exports are important el... see more

Bernardo Reynolds Pacheco de Carvalho,Henrique Mendes

Guiné-Bissau is a recent example of political stabilization after a recent period of instability, where the international community can play an important role in cooperation and development, but with innovation and new effective policies. Food security is... see more

Cesare Zanasi,Cosimo Rota,Claudia Severi,Anna Demadonna

The rapid expansion of Argentinian soy production, led by the increase in the international soy demand for food feed and biofuel production, deeply influenced the entire Argentinian society economy and environment. Genetically modified soy has become a st... see more

Gaber Ahmed Bassyouni Shehata

The research aims mainly to study food gap and food security of sugar in Egypt through studying of several sub-goals represented in: estimating models of general trends function for some economic indicators of sugar in Egypt during the period (1995- 2012)... see more

Ramona Weinrich,Sarah Kühl,Annabell Franz,Achim Spiller

Many people view animal welfare standards in the agricultural industry as critical and some consumers would prefer to buy high welfare meat. In order to successfully introduce high welfare meat products onto the market, some important marketing decisions ... see more

Wiltrud Terlau,Darya Hirsch

Sustainable development needs sustainable production and sustainable consumption. During the last decades the encouragement of sustainable production has been the focus of research and policy makers under the implicit assumption that the observable increa... see more

L. Baldi,T. Mancuso

Worldwide, aquaculture is assuming ever more importance in diminishing the pressure on wild stocks in the seas. Prices of feed used in farming fish are increasing, due the rise in demand. Research on sustainable sources of feed was recently intensified an... see more

A. Hegyi,K. Viola,A. Gyuró,A. Sebok,S. Vidry,P. Putz,D. Bánáti

The food industry has been struggling with existing guidance on how to prepare health claim dossiers. Hence the EU-funded project PATHWAY-27 seeks to provide a more tailored guidance.Within this project, robust guidelines for the food industry will be dev... see more

Inken Christoph-Schulz,Petra Salamon,Daniela Weible

During the last years, current systems in agriculture and food production have been topic in public discussions. Especially modern animal husbandry seems not to match consumers’ or societal needs any longer. This paper concentrates on the society’s perspe... see more

Margit Paustian,Marie Wellner,Ludwig Theuvsen

Management requirements for crop farming are high and will rise in the future. Arable farms are challenged by volatile markets, growing administrative burdens, increasing operating costs and growing competition for land. Management skills have become much... see more

Jan Willem Kruize,Daan Goense,Sjaak Wolfert,Cor N. Verdouw,Huub Scholten,Adrie J. M. Beulens

Farm enterprises2The objective of this paper is to describe a farm information model and a proof of concept that demonstrates how a collaborative Business Process for farming can be configured using this farm information model. Knowledge to develop this m... see more

R. D. Weaver,Jiachuan Tian

The variation of energy prices has been a traditional source of shocks to the real economy. In many cases, this variation has manifested in jumps in energy prices that were characterized by some persistence. From another perspective, energy price volatili... see more

R. D. Weaver,F. Rosa,M. Vasciaveo

At a theoretic level, price transmission does not provide a clear signal of competitiveness as many conditions may induce stickiness and even asymmetry in the speed of adjustment to positive and negative changes. While evidence from past EU studies for th... see more

Francis Declerck

To finance their growth and value creation, agricultural co-operatives have at their disposal several financial instruments: equity, quasi-equity or debt. Many of these instruments are particularly innovative and have been designed specifically for co-ope... see more

Remigio Berruto,Valter Boero,Patrizia Busato,Angela Calvo,Alessandro Sopegno,Lorenzo Venudo,Daniele Rossi,Paz Gomez,Begoña Ruiz,Malgorzata Kachniarz

The purpose of this work is to promote the sustainable production of renewable energy from the biogas obtained from agrifood waste in small-scale concepts for pursuing energy self-sufficiency.Stakeholders were interviewed and two different questionnaires ... see more

Aziz Galvão da Silva Júnior

In the short and medium terms, biofuels are the most viable alternative to reduce the environmental impact of fossil fuels. The recent controversy over the competition between biofuels and food production increases the complexity of investment decisions i... see more

Daniela Weible,Inken Christoph-Schulz,Petra Salamon

Today’s agriculture and food production has been topic in public discussions and the media in the last years. Societal perceptions and imaginations of agriculture seem to be far away from reality. There is no indication of a declining gap between consumer... see more

Jeanette Klink,Nina Langen

Recurring reports on animal husbandry conditions as well as the maltreatment of animals during transport to slaughterhouses in the last years increased public concerns about animal welfare conditions showing the need to act for all stakeholders throughout... see more

Vera Ventura,Dario G. Frisio

The 2010 Eurobarometer on life science and biotechnology reveals an overall suspicion of GM foods amongst the public: the 61% of Europeans agree that GM food makes them feel uneasy and a higher proportion, 70%, think that GM food is fundamentally unnatura... see more

Oliver Meixner,Elisabeth Pollhammer,Rainer Haas

Within this paper we analyze a state-of-the-art type of corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication, communication via social media. This type of communication with stakeholders is of growing importance. Opportunities and challenges of communicati... see more

Stefano Ciliberti,Stefanie Bröring,Gaetano Martino

Innovation is a clear target of the Europe 2020 growth strategy. It has been widely postulated that cooperation is especially important for innovation in the food industry because it has traditionally been regarded as a “low tech” sector. This paper analy... see more

Evelien Lambrecht,Bianka Kühne,Xavier Gellynck

Innovation has been identified as a critical asset for SMEs to survive (Hitt et al., 2001; Lee et al., 2001). However, SMEs that need to improve their innovation process often lack the essential resources to innovate when relying solely on their in-house ... see more

Harald Sundmaeker,Peter Einramhof

FIspace represents an Internet based B2B collaboration platform that can be used by actors along the supply chain, and specifically the agri-food chain, facilitating the design and usage of inter-organisational workflows. The FIspace platform was develope... see more

Michael S. Jones,Lisa A. House,Zhifeng Gao

While a successful survey requires engaged and attentive respondents, careless survey completion remains a great concern in online market research. In this article, we test metrics of engagement in an online willingness-to-pay (WTP) study for fresh bluebe... see more

Gerhard Schiefer,Jivka Deiters

Sustainability concerns are receiving increasingly attention by society and in turn, the food sector and consumers as the food sector’s final customers. Investments towards improvements in sustainability along the chain are usually not evenly distributed ... see more

Birgit Schulze-Ehlers

This paper shows how job search success, measured as search duration and entry salary, is affected directly orindirectly by personal and process as well as structural characteristics. A specific focus is on the relevance ofpractical experience which is cl... see more

Alessio Cavicchi,Chiara Rinaldi,Cristina Santini

This work examines the relationship between experiential learning and entrepreneurial education in the Agribusiness field.After having outlined the challenges that higher education has to meet business and students’ needs, the work outlines emerging insig... see more