Local food systems in Walloon Region (Belgium): definition and trends in supply and demand

Local food systems are one solution to promote local products in different ways and particularly by bringing together producers and consumers. This paper follows different purposes. The term “local food systems†will be defined as systems mobilizing not more than one intermediate person in a local area, where the exchanges must be monetized and where a relationship between the producer and the consumer is established. Then, a classification of the various initiatives of local food systems will be proposed. Thereafter the results of two studies conducted in the Walloon Region will be presented. The first study was conducted in Wallonia and Brussels in 2010 by the CRIOC to assess consumers’ perceptions and expectations of local products marketing using local food systems. The second one was conducted in 2010 to establish an inventory of local food systems in the Province of Namur. It had four main objectives: to describe categories of local food systems used, to give an overview of products supply, to understand main difficulties encountered by producers and to give benchmarks for the installation. The paper concludes that local food systems provide a wide diversity of selling networks which can be used. However, it is not easy for producers to meet consumers’ needs for local agricultural produce. The paper also puts emphasis on the necessity of including many fields of action to develop local food systems.

La régression logistique binaire

This note describes and illustrates the principles of binary logistic regression when predictors are continuous variables.Cette note décrit et illustre les principes de base de la régression logistique binaire lorsque les variables explicatives sont continues

Local food systems in Walloon Region (Belgium): definition and trends in supply and demand

Local food systems are one solution to promote local products in different ways and particularly by bringing together producers and consumers. This paper follows different purposes. The term “local food systems” will be defined as systems mobilizing not more than one intermediate person in a local area, where the exchanges must be monetized and where a relationship between the producer and the consumer is established. Then, a classification of the various initiatives of local food systems will be proposed. Thereafter the results of two studies conducted in the Walloon Region will be presented. The first study was conducted in Wallonia and Brussels in 2010 by the CRIOC to assess consumers’ perceptions and expectations of local products marketing using local food systems. The second one was conducted in 2010 to establish an inventory of local food systems in the Province of Namur. It had four main objectives: to describe categories of local food systems used, to give an overview of products supply, to understand main difficulties encountered by producers and to give benchmarks for the installation. The paper concludes that local food systems provide a wide diversity of selling networks which can be used. However, it is not easy for producers to meet consumers’ needs for local agricultural produce. The paper also puts emphasis on the necessity of including many fields of action to develop local food systems.Peer reviewe

Local food systems in Walloon Region (Belgium): definition and trends in supply and demand

Local food systems are one solution to promote local products in different ways and particularly by bringing together producers and consumers. This paper follows different purposes. The term "local food systems" will be defined as systems mobilizing not more than one intermediate person in a local area, where the exchanges must be monetized and where a relationship between the producer and the consumer is established. Then, a classification of the various initiatives of local food systems will be proposed. Thereafter the results of two studies conducted in the Walloon Region will be presented. The first study was conducted in Wallonia and Brussels in 2010 by the CRIOC to assess consumers' perceptions and expectations of local products marketing using local food systems. The second one was conducted in 2010 to establish an inventory of local food systems in the Province of Namur. It had four main objectives: to describe categories of local food systems used, to give an overview of products supply, to understand main difficulties encountered by producers and to give benchmarks for the installation. The paper concludes that local food systems provide a wide diversity of selling networks which can be used. However, it is not easy for producers to meet consumers' needs for local agricultural produce. The paper also puts emphasis on the necessity of including many fields of action to develop local food systems

Tables de contingence à trois dimensions : aspects théoriques, applications et analogie avec l'analyse de la variance à trois critères de classification

For contingency table, concepts of independence are not so easy to understand in statistical practice. So, theoretical aspects of the log-linear model are described and applied to a three levels example; an analogy with analysis of variance is also established.Les notions d'indépendance mises en évidence lors de l'étude d'une table de contingence, à trois dimensions au moins, ne semblent pas être évidentes à comprendre en pratique. C'est pourquoi, des aspects théoriques faisant référence au modèle log-linéaire sont détaillés et illustrés, et une analogie avec l'analyse de la variance à trois critères de classification, modèle fixe est établie

Un regard sur les activités de l'unité de statistique et informatique de la Faculté Universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux

Analyse de l'évolution de la gestion d'un service universitaire dont le domaine de compétence est la statistique appliquée

Quelques propos sur l'évolution de la coopération universitaire avec les pays d'Outre-mer : le cas particulier de l'Université de Liiège/Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech

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Quelques rappels de théorie et de méthodes statistiques

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