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The use of eco-labeling like initiatives on food products to promote quality assurance—is there enough credibility?
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In this paper, the authors analyzed the credibility of 58 eco-labeling like food schemes and dissected them into the building blocks of the different factors that makes a scheme credible and analyzed the structure of these blocks as well as a literature survey on the perceptions of both the consumers and producers to these schemes.About:
This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 2004-06-01. It has received 163 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Credibility & European union.read more
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Future Directions of Precision Agriculture
TL;DR: In this paper, the development of proper decision-support systems for implementing precision decisions remains a major stumbling block to adoption of precision agriculture and other critical research issues are discussed, such as insufficient recognition of temporal variation, lack of whole-farm focus, crop quality assessment methods, product tracking and environmental auditing.
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A Model for Fair Trade Buying Behaviour: The Role of Perceived Quantity and Quality of Information and of Product-specific Attitudes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a model for fair trade buying behavior in a sample of 615 Belgians and assessed the impact of fair trade knowledge, general attitudes towards fair trade, attitudes toward fair trade products, and the perception of the quality and quantity of fairtrade information on the reported amount of money spent on fair trade items.
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Awareness of Eco-label in Malaysia’s Green Marketing Initiative
TL;DR: In this article, the introduction of eco-label with two perspectives in mind, namely, the choice of employees working in ISO14001 certified organization as well as the study population explore a potentially conducive place to initiate a systematic effort in developing a green consumer community.
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Decisions to reduce greenhouse gases from agriculture and product transport: LCA case study of organic and conventional wheat
TL;DR: In this article, a hybrid life cycle assessment is conducted to compare the global warming potential (GWP) and primary energy use of conventional and organic wheat production and delivery in the US.
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Consumer preferences for the marketing of ethically labelled coffee
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assesses the relative importance that Belgian consumers attach to different characteristics and marketing practices of ethically labelled coffee, i.e. type of ethical issue, label issuer, amount of information provided, distribution and promotion strategy and branding.
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Organizational Theory: Text and Cases
TL;DR: The basic challenges of organizational design are discussed in detail in this paper, where the authors present a set of basic challenges for organizational design: authority and control, specialization and coordination, culture and ethics.
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Food, Consumer Concerns, and Trust: Food Ethics for a Globalizing Market
TL;DR: The use of biotechnology in food production gives rise to consumer concerns as mentioned in this paper, which includes concerns about food safety, environmental and animal welfare consequences of food productionsystems, and intrinsic moral objections againstgenetic modification.
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What's in a Label?: Complicating Notions of the Skills-Poor Worker.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report qualitative research on a perceived literacy problem in an electronics factory in the Silicon Valley of Northern California. Guided by a sociocultural framework, Hull investiga...
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