Sustainability of European Food Quality Schemes Multi-Performance, S
This edited volume evaluates recent EU quality policy, focusing on the structure, governance, technical specifications and performances – economic, environmental and social - of Food Quality Schemes (FQS) in the European Union and South East Asia. Initiat
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ustainability of European Food Quality Schemes Multi-Performance, Structure, and Governance of PDO, PGI, and Organic Agri-Food Systems
Sustainability of European Food Quality Schemes
Filippo Arfini • Valentin Bellassen Editors
Sustainability of European Food Quality Schemes Multi-Performance, Structure, and Governance of PDO, PGI, and Organic Agri-Food Systems
Editors Filippo Arfini Department of Economics and Management Science University of Parma Parma, Italy
Valentin Bellassen CESAER AgroSup Dijon, INRA University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté Dijon, France
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Preface
This book originates from one of the current challenges facing the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP): contributing to the sustainable development of European agriculture. The CAP has in fact taken account of sustainability considerations, wider than production issues alone, since the 1990s, but the results remain unsatisfactory in the view of many stakeholders (Baudrier et al. 2015). In this book, we use the principle of sustainable development as posited by the FAO, which includes environmental, social, and economic dimensions (FAO Council 1989). In fact, climate change, pollution, and the loss of natural resources, like biodiversity, are not the only dimensions of concern to European policy-makers; there is also the challenge of promoting the development of rural areas and identifying a strategy that leads to the emergence of prosperous and viable rural communities and is capable of generating public goods for European society as
