The imbalances in bargaining power between the contracting parties in the food supply chain have drawn much attention, also from policy makers. The European Commission is committed to facilitate the restructuring of the sector by encouraging the creation of voluntary agricultural producer...

This case study will focus on the comparison between the development of structure and strategy in the Spanish fruit and vegetable producing areas of Almería and Valencia. These two regions are assumed to have gone through different developments in term of the structure and strategy that fruit...

Am 2. Februar 2005 hat die Europäische Kommission den Neustart der Lissabon-Strategie für die Europäische Union (EU) verkündet. Diese Strategie soll die Grundlage bilden für die Bewältigung des dringenden Bedarfs der EU an mehr Wirtschaftswachstum, Arbeitsplätzen und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit...