Das Projekt "Market Structure and Organization in Agri-Food Value Chains: An Application to the German Dairy Sector" wird/wurde gefördert durch: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Es wird/wurde ausgeführt durch: Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in Mittel- und Osteuropa.The German dairy value chain is subject to profound structural change resulting in increasingly dominant agents at all stages of the chain, i.e. at the farm level, at the processors' level and at the retailers' level. In particular, the consolidation of retailers has increased retailers' bargaining power vis-à-vis their suppliers. Against this background, the overall objective of this subproject is to analyze the structural change in the dairy sector, particularly at the processors' level, by taking into account firms' strategic interactions along the entire dairy value chain. So far, there exists no theoretical workhorse model that allows for the analysis of interdependencies in a three-layer structure where imperfect competition is considered at all three stages. We aim to close this gap to understand how an increasingly dominant retail industry influences strategic decisions at the dairy processors' level which, in turn, may affect dairy farmers. Building upon a three-layer approach, we first examine whether processors have merger incentives to counter the retailers' bargaining power. We then analyze the differences between cooperatives and for-profit firms concerning their decision on product quality and the number of dairy suppliers. Finally, we assess the implications for upstream farmers which rounds off the picture of structural change in the German dairy sector.
Das Projekt "Graduiertenkolleg (GRK) 1666: Transofmration of Global Agri-Food Systems: Trends, Driving Forces, and Implications for Developing Countries, Teilprojekt: Linking Smallholders to Markets: Certification and Innovation Adoption" wird/wurde gefördert durch: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Es wird/wurde ausgeführt durch: Universität Göttingen, Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung, Lehrstuhl für Landwirtschaftliche Betriebslehre.
Das Projekt "EXIST-Forschungstransfer: WatR" wird/wurde gefördert durch: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz. Es wird/wurde ausgeführt durch: constellr GmbH.
Das Projekt "H2020-EU.2.1. - Industrial Leadership - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - (H2020-EU.2.1. - Führende Rolle der Industrie - Führende Rolle bei grundlegenden und industriellen Technologien), Bringing together the Knowledge for Better Agriculture Monitoring (EO4AGRI)" wird/wurde gefördert durch: Kommission der Europäischen Gemeinschaften Brüssel. Es wird/wurde ausgeführt durch: Atos Spain S.A..The main objective of EO4AGRI is to catalyze the evolution of the European capacity for improving operational agriculture monitoring from local to global levels based on information derived from Copernicus satellite observation data and through exploitation of associated geospatial and socio-economic information services. EO4AGRI assists the implementation of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) with special attention to the CAP2020 reform, to requirements of Paying Agencies, and for the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) processes. EO4AGRI works with farmers, farmer associations and agro-food industry on specifications of data-driven farming services with focus on increasing the utilization of EC investments into Copernicus Data and Information Services (DIAS). EO4AGRI addresses global food security challenges coordinated within the G20 Global Agricultural Monitoring initiative (GEOGLAM) capitalizing on Copernicus Open Data as input to the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEW-NET). EO4AGRI assesses information about land-use and agricultural service needs and offers to financial investors and insurances and the potential added value of fueling those services with Copernicus information. The EO4AGRI team consists of 11 organizations, complementary in their roles and expertise, covering a good part of the value-chain with a significant relevant networking capital as documented in numerous project affiliations and the formal support declarations collected for EO4AGRI. All partners show large records of activities either in Copernicus RTD, governmental functions, or downstream service operations. The Coordinator of EO4AGRI is a major industrial player with proven capacities to lead H2020 projects. The EO4AGRI project methodology is a combination of community building; service gap analysis; technology watch; strategic research agenda design and policy recommendations; dissemination (incl. organization of hackathons).
Das Projekt "H2020-EU.3.2. - Societal Challenges - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy - (H2020-EU.3.2. - Gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen - Ernährungs- und Lebensmittelsicherheit, nachhaltige Land- und Forstwirtschaft, marine, maritime und limnologische Forschung und Biowirtschaft), Protein Mining of Cereal side-streams Exploring Novel Technological Concepts (PROMINENT)" wird/wurde gefördert durch: Kommission der Europäischen Gemeinschaften Brüssel. Es wird/wurde ausgeführt durch: Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy.There is a global need, from sustainability, food security and also health perspective, to increase dietary intake of plant protein. Side-streams from wheat and rice processing offer large under-exploited raw material potential, and we will work throughout the agro-industrial value chain to valorise that. The main aim of PROMINENT is to develop techno-economically and environmentally viable protein-based ingredients and foods from cereal processing side streams. We will concentrate on novel fractionation and extraction technologies, such as bioprocessing, supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) -extraction, thermo-mechanical technologies, wet and dry fractionation, and expanded bed adsorption as well as their combinations as novel hybrid processing technologies. A strong focus will be in using enzymatic and thermo-mechanical methods to improve techno-functional and sensory properties of protein ingredients to reach desirable taste and texture in food applications. Pasta, biscuit, cake and beverage food models are the main end product categories, where new protein ingredients will be used as dietary protein source and act as performance proteins to deliver similar techno-functional and sensory properties to animal proteins. We will also assess the safety, quality, techno-economical feasibility, sustainability and market potential of the new protein ingredients and foods, and design strategies for marketing, dissemination, and exploitation of innovations. The project will support the economic growth, resource efficiency and sustainability of the European agro-food industry, and open new market opportunities by generating new plant protein ingredients obtained from cereal processing side streams as well as new products for the consumer food market.
Das Projekt "Servicizing Policy for Resource Efficient Economy (SPREE)" wird/wurde gefördert durch: Kommission der Europäischen Gemeinschaften Brüssel. Es wird/wurde ausgeführt durch: Lietuvos mokslo taryba.The aim of SPREE project is to identify potential Servicizing Policies and simulate their effect on absolute decoupling of economic growth and resource use, while achieving societal benefits. Servicizing Systems facilitate the transition from selling products to providing services. Except for ICT, these are still quite rare. SPREE is dedicated to promote the implementation of Servicizing Systems in 3 different sectors: water, mobility and agri-food. We propose to use an advanced Agent Based Modelling (ABM) approach to structure and test options for Servicizing Systems and Policies. This provides a generic framework that allows exploring short and long term effects, and assessment of the 3 sectors in different countries. Based on the models' results and complementary qualitative analysis we will construct 'Servicizing Policy Packages' that take into account the environmental, economic and social dimensions and trade-offs between them. Thus, SPREE results will help to realize EU strategies particularly in the framework of EUROPE 2020. Based on conceptualization of Servicizing Systems, we use existing instruments and develop new tools that fit into the evaluation of emerging Servicizing Systems and policies' effects. We define more suitable dynamic tools needed for ex-ante assessment of newly created supply chains that can emerge out of Servicizing activities. Using ABM, we demonstrate how Servicizing Systems develop and test outcomes of proposed policies on the creation of successful Servicizing opportunities leading to absolute decoupling. The SPREE consortium consists of 10 partners from 7 different countries, and includes public bodies and research institutes to provide a sound base for both Servicizing Systems and Policy. The key deliverable is 'Servicizing Policy Packages' that exploit existing synergies to achieve a truly sustainable EU economy where economic growth is decoupled from environmental impact, society prospers and a global example is set.
Das Projekt "Algae-Bacteria operation processes for waste water treatment and biomass production (ALBAPRO)" wird/wurde gefördert durch: Papiertechnische Stiftung München. Es wird/wurde ausgeführt durch: Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Institut für Umwelttechnik und Energiewirtschaft V-9.The importance of algal bacterial flocs has excessively increased worldwide since the submission of cornet proposal ALBAQUA in 2008. Especially use of algae for the production of energy and biofuels, as raw material or to reduce greenhouse gases, gained interest of researchers worldwide. Since first results from ALBAQUA look promising, effluent treatment with mixed microalgae-bacteria biomass flocs (MaB-flocs) produced lively interest as well, particularly for municipal effluent treatment and in combination with processes for maximum algae biomass production with processes for effluent treatment. Up to now the conventional way for treating incoming effluents in the paper industry and most other industrial sectors is biological purification. However, biological effluent treatment still consumes a lot of energy and is unpopular for the producing industry due to unwanted costs not covering the core business of the producing industry. Multiple technologies for advanced effluent treatment (evaporation, membrane filtration, oxidation, precipitation ) are in the focus of research for some years. Unfortunately, most of these technologies entail high investment and have even higher operating costs. Especially SMEs can hardly afford to implement highly sophisticated effluent treatment concepts to improve their effluent quality. Innovation: Results of the ALBAQUA project show that energy consumption and sludge disposal - ongoing dominant cost factors in biological effluent treatment - may be seen as future factors for earnings to maintain high purification efficiency. So, a successful transfer of mostly lab scale tests to technical scale operation should therefore lead to new and innovative concepts for waste water treatment combined with biomass valorisation, which is main aim of the proposed project ALBAPRO. A new type of effluent treatment - operated as profit centre - is expected to generate great advantages, especially for SMEs with low budgets, but of course for all companies engaged in biological effluent treatment. Project consortium, methodology and goals: A newly established consortium, with partly partners from project ALBAQUA and new colleagues from the Czech Republic, mainly plan to continue with trials in half-technical scale for effluents from paper, agro-food industry and meat processing. Goals of this project will be: transfer of successful lab-scale algae-bacteria biomass treatment into technical pilot scale, to open the new technology for a greater extent of industrial sectors and to generate additional profit by improvement of energy output from surplus biomass valorisation, e.g. biohydrogen or biomethane production, re-utilization as feed additive or fertilizer.
Das Projekt "Ecological impacts of land application of biosolids on indigenous soil-dwelling organisms and how it relates to soil function and structure" wird/wurde ausgeführt durch: ECT Ökotoxikologie GmbH.In a long-term experiment run by Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, the fate of pharmaceuticals and other substances contained in biosolids are followed after farm-scale application to agricultural land on an experimental field site in Ottawa. In the context of this experiment, ECT follows the development of nematode and enchytraeid communities over several years after the application of biosolids. In addition, the feeding activity of soil organisms is measured as a functional endpoint by the bait lamina method. The results of this long-term study are expected to enable a better assessment of the impact of biosolids application on soil organisms, particularly in interrelation with the chemically determined fate of substances contained in the biosolids also with regard to potential toxic long-term effects.
Das Projekt "Facilitating Alternative Agro-food Networks (FAANs) - Stakeholder Perspectives on Research Needs" wird/wurde gefördert durch: Kommission der Europäischen Gemeinschaften Brüssel. Es wird/wurde ausgeführt durch: Interuniversitäres Forschungszentrum für Technik, Arbeit und Kultur (IFZ).FAAN is a project, which engages civil society organisations (CSOs) in a 'co-operative research (CR) activity and in future research agenda-setting on 'Alternative Agro-Food Networks (AAFNs). Five academic institutions and five CSO partners dealing with alternative agriculture and rural development from 5 EU member states will co-operatively carry out research including stakeholders (focus group discussions, scenario analysis workshops) on the following issues: how AAFNs are defined by social, political, commercial and cultural frameworks involving motives beyond direct material interests in practice, how current policies facilitate or impede the development of AAFNs, how alternatives may be complementary or oppositional to conventional agro-food networks, how AAFNs contribute to regional development, how AAFNs link different types of innovation as a basis to broaden EU research policies on the 'knowledge-based bio-economy. Co-operative research is a form of research process, which involves researchers in a close co-operative engagement with the aim to produce knowledge together. In contrary to multi- or inter-disciplinary research, where people from different academic disciplines work together, co-operative research is based on a trans-disciplinary concept. Trans-disciplinarity means that non-scientific actors from civil society are involved in research going beyond the usual public engagement. CR is characterised by a strong 'upstream approach, which means that the engagement occurs at a very early stage in the research process. In the case of FAAN the CSO partners are not only involved in carrying out research, but already earlier. They contribute to setting up research questions, in developing the research design, and finally in setting up recommendations for further research needs. CR is especially relevant for investigating complex issues from everyday life, which are of high societal relevance. This can be taken up with trans-disciplinary research approaches, and worked on by developing appropriate methods to integrate different forms of knowledge and expertise, which is segmented into different scientific fields and different fields of practical knowledge. As a rule, actors with different perspectives, backgrounds, interests and work styles encounter each other within a process of social learning. FAAN is a social experiment in science governance through trans-disciplinary engagement of civil society people in research at the earliest stage in the process. This upstream approach will identify further research relevant to AAFNs, in order to inform future research agendas. The project will contribute substantially to the evidence base and the understanding necessary to foster more desirable types of agricultural innovation within the European Community, and we will point out how policy frameworks could better facilitate such improvements. Finally we will evaluate the co-operative research process of FAAN in order to identify
Das Projekt "Agro-food wastes minimisation and reduction network. Thematic network for prevention, minimisation and reduction of wastes from the European agro-food industry" wird/wurde gefördert durch: Kommission der Europäischen Gemeinschaften Brüssel. Es wird/wurde ausgeführt durch: Hochschule Bremerhaven, Technologietransferzentrum.Despite the economic importance of the agro-food sector, during the last European Framework Programmes, there has not been a global European vision addressing the environmental problems arising from agro-food waste. AWARENET is the first network for agro-food waste prevention, minimisation and recovery. The innovation of AWARENET proposal is that it will integrate the vision of the agro-food industrial waste problem from three different and critical points of view: regulatory issues, technology and market, with the final objective of proposing a global R und D European strategy for agro-food industrial waste. The European environmental regulations and the current best practices for minimisation and 'valorisation' of wastes will be compiled and checked all over Europe. The network activities will help the European agro-food industries to describe simple tools for wastes prevention, minimisation and recovery. A 'white book' will be prepared as a manual for dissemination. AWARENET will identify the market opportunities for 'valorised' products from agro-food waste and define the R und D needs for agro-food waste.
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