BookFilippo Arfini, Valentin Bellassen, editors.
Summary: 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. Initiatives such as EU Regulation No. 1151/2012 are relatively novel policies that seek to improve and promote the operation of schemes to protect geographical indications (GIs) for agri-food products. The intended benefits of protecting GIs include generating a fair return for farmers and producers for the qualities of particular goods, and enabling consumers to make better informed purchasing choices through effective labeling. In addition, policy makers are now considering FQS as a means of not only guaranteeing quality in food production, but also sustainability. Despite these potential benefits, the economic performance of the FQS (e.g. PDO, PGI, organic) and individual GIs has been variable. While some GIs support significant value-added production, with substantial benefits to producers, consumers and wider economies, many others have failed to become economically sustainable. In addition, the environmental and social performance of FQS remains largely unexamined, with the exception of the environmental performance of organic products which has been assessed in several instances through life cycle assessments.
Contents:
Part-I. Assessing the sustainability performance of food quality schemes
1. Conceptual framework
2. Common methods and sustainability indicators
Part-II: Cereal & bakery sector
3. Organic flour in France
4. Organic pasta in Poland
5. PGI rice in Thailand
6. Organic PGI rice in France
Part-III: Fruits & vegetables
7. Organic olive oil in Croatia
8. PDO paprika powder in Hungary
9. Organic tomatoes in Italy
10. PDO potatoes in the Netherlands
11. PGI strawberries in Poland
12. Organic rasperries in Serbia
13. PDO & PGI apple in Greece
14. PGI Buon Ma Tuot coffee in Vietnam
15. PGI Doi Chaang coffee in Thailand
Part-IV: Meat sector
16. PGI ham in Croatia
17. Organic pork in Germany
18. PGI sausage in Hungary
19. PGI ternasco lamb in Spain
20. PGI Mallorca sausage in Spain
Part-V:Dairy sector
21. PDO Comt? cheese in France
22. PDO Parmigiano cheese in Italy
23. Organic yoghurt tbc in Germany
24. PGI Sjenica cheese in Serbia
Part-VI:Fish & seafood sector
25. PDO bouchot mussels in France
26. PGI stockfish in Norway
27. Organic salmon in Norway
28. PDO fish sauce in Vietnam.