Opportunities for Local Food Production: A Case in the Dutch Fruit and Vegetables

International Journal on Food System Dynamics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 73-87

  Visser, Jurriaan ^a   Trienekens, Jacques ^b   van Beek, Paul ^b  

^a SuikerUnie Agrarische Zaken   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

chain coordination; consumer preferences; Food supply chain; local production; producer requirements; retail requirements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988608635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18696945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18461/ijfsd.v4i1.417     Document Type: Article

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