کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5070297 1477022 2015 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Identifying viewpoints on innovation in low-input and organic dairy supply chains: A Q-methodological study
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک دانش تغذیه
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Identifying viewpoints on innovation in low-input and organic dairy supply chains: A Q-methodological study
چکیده انگلیسی


- We studied stakeholders' views on innovations on sustainable dairy supply-chains.
- Stephenson's Q-methodology was applied to elicit stakeholders' subjectivities.
- We found a relatively wide consensus on animal welfare and feed quality innovations.
- Prolonging maternal feeding was more controversial and rejected by farmers.
- Our study shows that Q methodology may help to develop better innovation policies.

In a rapidly changing ecological, economic and political environment, environmentally sustainable and energy-efficient farming systems are required (SCAR, 2008). The development and adoption of innovation are critical to improve the competitiveness of organic and low-input dairy systems. Understanding the viewpoints of dairy supply-chain members on acceptable innovation is important to be able to improve organic and low-input dairy supply chains. This study uses Stephenson's Q methodology to investigate the opinions of organic and low-input dairy supply-chain members in relation to innovation in the dairy sector. A sample of dairy supply-chain members (consumers, farmers, retailers, processors) was recruited from each European country involved in the study (Belgium, Italy, Finland, the United Kingdom). On the one hand, the data show a high degree of consensus across all of the participants within the supply chain, for whom innovations were deemed not to be acceptable in organic (from an ethical and/or regulatory perspective) and low-input dairy systems. On the other hand, the consumer views of acceptable dairy innovations were centred around animal welfare, while the farmers and processors/retailers preferred innovations related to feed quality, feed efficiency, and soil management. This study illustrates the value of Q methodology in eliciting subjectivities about food-policy-related issues.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Food Policy - Volume 54, July 2015, Pages 25-34
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