Animal food chain strategies
Abstract
Animal food chains are representations of the complex systems that produce the supply of animal products for consumers. Their analysis is useful in order to understand the important changes that affect the different zones of livestock farming, the way animal products are produced and the valorisation of these products . These food chains require considering the evolutions of the final demand of animal products, the way to take into consideration the coordination of successive technical operations and the governing forms. It gives a relevant framework for the understanding of the strategies of animal production firms. It is very stimulating to examine how animal food chains work in the French or European contexts, as well as throughout the world. This exercise is relevant for the analysis of the relations between the overall society and the sector of animal production. It is a good way to identify the main stakes related to the redistribution of animal production throughout the world, and to understand how innovation works.
For all these reasons, research institutions need to consider attentively the evolutions concerning animal food chains and the strategies of their companies and other agents.
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