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Traceability Adoption at the Farm Level: Analysis of the Portuguese Pear Industry
The American Agricultural Economics Association (2006)
  • Julie Caswell, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Abstract

Traceability is becoming a condition for doing business in European food markets. Retailers are adopting standards that are more stringent than what is mandatory. An example is EurepGAP, a quality standard for good agricultural practices that includes traceability as a main requirement. We analyze EurepGAP implementation in the Portuguese pear industry and find that implementation cannot be distinguished from sales to British supermarkets. Discrete choice models show the odds of traceability adoption increase with farm size and previous compliance with quality assurance schemes, while farm productivity has a negative impact on the probability of adoption.

Keywords
  • Traceability,
  • Portuguese pear industry,
  • EurepGAP,
  • Logit models
Disciplines
Publication Date
July, 2006
Citation Information
Julie Caswell. "Traceability Adoption at the Farm Level: Analysis of the Portuguese Pear Industry" The American Agricultural Economics Association (2006)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/julie_caswell/112/