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Issues and Research Needs of the Australian Organic Food Products Market
Worldwide, the demand for organic food products has expanded rapidly in the past decade, stimulated by consumer perceptions that organic products are safer, cleaner and more ethical than conventional products. The demand for organic products is estimated to be growing at a rate of 15-20 per cent per annum, with sales reaching $US23 billion in 2002. The biggest growth in consumption has occurred in developed countries such as the United States and Europe, which are major importers of organic foods. Australia, as a major exporter of agricultural products, stands to benefit from this expansion in demand. However, little is known about the organic industry by other agribusinesses and little research on organics has been conducted in Australia, especially compared to the United States and Europe. The objective of this paper is to provide a contemporary overview of the Australian organic food products industry, including production, marketing and certification of organic foods. Major supply issues such as the small production base and the low rate of conversion to organic farming and major demand issues such as availability, prices and product integrity are discussed. Areas identified for further research include data collection and reporting of production, consumption and trade of organic products, consumer and producer attitudes towards, and expectations of, organic farming, product integrity and labelling regulation, competition from other sustainable farming systems, and future industry structure of the organic sector. Outputs from the research will provide market information to the organic industry that helps identify marketing opportunities and develop strategies for meeting market requirements and sustaining industry growth.Agribusiness, Marketing,
An Overview of the Organic Food Products Market in Australia
Worldwide, the demand for organic food products appears to have expanded quickly in recent years, stimulated by consumer perceptions that organic products are safe, clean and ethical. The growth rate was estimated to be around 10-20 per cent per annum in the next few years, with sales reaching $US 29-31 billion in 2005. The biggest growth in consumption has occurred in developed countries, such as the United States, Western Europe, and Japan that are also major importers of organic foods. It is clear that Australia, traditionally a major exporter of agricultural products, stands to benefit from the expansion in demand for organic products. The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the Australian organic food products industry, including production, marketing and certification of organic foods, with the aim of assessing whether the opportunity presented in the world market will be able to be taken. Major issues facing the Australian organic industry are discussed and areas for future research are identified. Production issues include the small production base and conversion to organic farming, while marketing issues focus on prices and product integrity. When applicable, market situations for organics in Europe and the United States are also reviewed to serve as a reference point for comparison.Demand and Price Analysis, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Marketing,
Upgrading School Buildings in Mexico with Social Participation: The Better Schools Programme
This review of Mexicoâs Better Schools Programme was conducted in 2012 by the OECD Centre for Effective Learning Environments (CELE). In 2008, the federal government created the Programme to repair and improve the physical infrastructure of schools for basic education throughout Mexico. A key characteristic of the programme is social participation and the engagement of the each school community. The review teamâs recommendations offer lessons to all governments investing in educational infrastructure to improve the quality of education
Influence of diffractive interactions on cosmic ray air showers
A comparative study of commonly used hadronic collision simulation packages
is presented. The characteristics of the products of hadron-nucleus collisions
are analyzed from a general perspective, but focusing on their correlation with
diffractive processes. One of the purposes of our work is to give quantitative
estimations of the impact that different characteristics of the hadronic models
have on air shower observables. Several sets of shower simulations using
different settings for the parameters controlling the diffractive processes are
used to analyze the correlations between diffractivity and shower observables.
We find that the relative probability of diffractive processes during the
shower development have a non negligible influence over the longitudinal
profile as well as the distribution of muons at ground level. The implications
on experimental data analysis are discussed
Periodismo cientĂfico-tecnolĂłgico y cultural. AnĂĄlisis de contenido de la prensa local en Guadalajara
El presente trabajo es el resultado de una investigaciĂłn analĂtico-descriptiva sobre el contenido de la prensa de la zona metropolitana de Guadalajara en torno al periodismo cientĂfico-tecnolĂłgico y cultural. Se hace referencia al origen y desarrollo de la mass communication research, asĂ como a la sociologĂa del periodismo y al estudio de los valores noticiosos. Se definen las categorĂas de anĂĄlisis, es decir, lo que se entiende por periodismo cientĂfico-tecnolĂłgico y periodismo cultural y se describen los tres diarios locales elegidos para el estudio: El Informador, PĂșblico y Mural. De los diarios se analiza su superficie, nĂșmero de notas, tipo de informaciĂłn, notas en primera plana, gĂ©neros periodĂsticos, origen de la nota, lugar de referencia, temas cubiertos, asĂ como fuente informativa y/o autorĂa de la nota, y se dan ejemplos comparativos en el tratamiento de la informaciĂłn de los diarios elegidos
One Step Non SUSY Unification
We show that it is possible to achieve one step gauge coupling unification in
a general class of non supersymmetric models which at low energies have only
the standard particle content and extra Higgs fields doublets. The constraints
are the experimental values of , and
at , and the lower bounds for FCNC and proton decay rates. Specific
example are pointed out.Comment: 10 pages, Latex file,, uses epsf style, Two Postscript figures
included. To appear in Europhysics Letter
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