Water Footprint of Food Quality Schemes

Q3 Business, Management and Accounting

Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization Pub Date : 2020-11-17 DOI:10.1515/jafio-2019-0045

A. Bodini, Sara Chiussi, M. Donati, V. Bellassen, Á. Török, Lisbeth Dries, Dubravka Sinčić Ćorić, L. Gauvrit, E. Tsakiridou, E. Majewski, B. Ristić, Žaklina Stojanović, José María Gil Roig, Apichaya Lilavanichakul, Nguyễn Quỳnh An, F. Arfini

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Abstract

Abstract Water Footprint (WF, henceforth) is an indicator of water consumption and has taken ground to assess the impact of agricultural production processes over freshwater. The focus of this study was contrasting non-conventional, certified products with identical products obtained through conventional production schemes (REF, henceforth) using WF as a measure of their pressure on water resources. The aim was to the show whether products that are certified as Food Quality Schemes (FQS, henceforth) could also incorporate the lower impact on water among their quality features. To perform this comparison, we analysed 23 products selected among Organic, PDO and PGI as FQS, and their conventional counterparts. By restricting the domain of analysis to the on-farm phase of the production chain, we obtained that that no significant differences emerged between the FQS and REF products. However, if the impact is measured per unit area rather than per unit product, FQS showed a significant reduction in water demand.

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食物质素计划的水足迹

摘要水足迹（WF，以下简称WF）是一个水消耗指标，已开始评估农业生产过程对淡水的影响。本研究的重点是将非常规认证产品与通过常规生产方案（REF，以下简称）获得的相同产品进行对比，使用WF来衡量其对水资源的压力。其目的是展示被认证为食品质量计划（FQS，以下简称FQS）的产品是否也可以在其质量特征中纳入对水的较低影响。为了进行比较，我们分析了从有机、PDO和PGI中选择的23种产品作为FQS，以及它们的传统对应产品。通过将分析范围限制在生产链的农场阶段，我们发现FQS和REF产品之间没有出现显著差异。然而，如果按单位面积而不是按单位产品来衡量影响，FQS显示水需求显著减少。

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Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization Business, Management and Accounting-Business, Management and Accounting (all)

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization (JAFIO) is a unique forum for empirical and theoretical research in industrial organization with a special focus on agricultural and food industries worldwide. As concentration, industrialization, and globalization continue to reshape horizontal and vertical relationships within the food supply chain, agricultural economists are revising both their views of traditional markets as well as their tools of analysis. At the core of this revision are strategic interactions between principals and agents, strategic interdependence between rival firms, and strategic trade policy between competing nations, all in a setting plagued by incomplete and/or imperfect information structures. Add to that biotechnology, electronic commerce, as well as the shift in focus from raw agricultural commodities to branded products, and the conclusion is that a "new" agricultural economics is needed for an increasingly complex "new" agriculture.