AGRI-FOOD SECTOR

Author: AZNAR SANCHEZ JOSE ANGEL.
Year: 2003.
University: ALMERÍA [www.ual.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONOMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONOMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.

Summary: The central objective of this thesis is to explore ways of competitiveness compared present and future of horticulture intensive Morocco and Spain. We have selected the two areas most important producers and exporters in each country (Agadir and Almeria), it seemed the French market, and discusses the competitive route prices and structural competitiveness. To achieve this goal has been carried out an analysis of qualitative nature pose a holistic approach broad and diverse, conducting an extensive field work in the two regions under study. Taking data and information has been completed with the analysis contained in the various levels of Moroccan horticulture and Almeria. And from such analysis has been applied to the characterization of the system to Agadir horticultural and Almeria. It also has analyzed the situation comparative physical conditions, production, technology used, supply of inputs and services, marketing and export competitiveness and structural costs. And they have obtained a series of conclusions about the competitive position compared to vegetables Moroccan and Spanish. Moreover, it raises future trends regarding the competitiveness of the horticulture sector in each region; outlines a number of opportunities for investment and partnership, and thought about the strategy to be followed by the horticultural industry to improve its competitiveness Almeria .

Author: GARCIA BRENES MANUEL DAVID.
Year: 2003.
University: SEVILLA [www.us.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.

Summary: Olive oil has a prominent role in the Spanish economy in general and in particular Andalusian, representing at present, 80% of the national production, 37.4% of the production of EI, and 26.8% the worldwide. This situation relates to the strong specialization process that has followed the Andalusian agriculture, where olive oil represents nearly 305 of final agricultural production. In this thesis analyzes the most significant transformations that have experienced each of the links in the value chain of olive oil. To that end, there are three distinct stages. Traditional (Until 1955), Fordista (1955-1970), Poslfordista (1970-2000). In addition, this research focuses on the study of the ecological, economic and sociable. Therefore, this work comprises three very different but complementary perspectives, which are necessary to study the complexities introduced this reality. In the case of link of departure, olives, discusses major changes in its production structure, which have caused the disappearance of traditional olive grove, which was a growing environmental and social, and the introduction of a production system that involves losses biodiversity, water pollution, intensive soil, and so on. who are not charged in the accounting of olive production. For all these reasons, joins the fact that the process of modernizing the olive grove has resulted in significant social costs and the existence of a dynamic accumulation in which the vast majority of farmers only survive with autoexplotación, the sacrifice of the family and public protection. In the case of the manufacturing industry, analyzes the changes that has continued the process of developing the olive oil, the roles of cooperatives in this sector and as a major food companies expropriate 70% of the total profit of food chain of olive oil. Finally, it looks like the siting of new commercial formats have led to a price control that affects every aspect of the value chain of olive oil, but especially to agricultural producers, for their meager alternatives and bargaining power.

Author: MARTIN LOPEZ VICTOR MANUEL.
Year: 2006.
University: CASTILLA-LA MANCHA [www.uclm.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS JURIDICAS Y SOCIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS JURIDICAS Y SOCIALES DE TOLEDO.

Summary: This paper is intended as a reference to provide the agricultural cooperative sector on an articulated its importance and especially a proposal to the same methodology may have potential inherent in its implementation as an essential element of corporate governance cooperative, its control and monitoring of face in assessing their suitability or not. But deepen further, there is a goal of bringing epistemic knowledge on everything related to the strategy and the organizational forms to the field of agricultural cooperatives and in particular industry cooperative oleica, as a group of companies and agricultural cooperatives played a role more important in the economic, social as certain geographic areas and production sectors. This thesis presents findings of a long and difficult investigation carried out over several years to uncover the environment generic and specific companies olive toledanas, their models of internal organization and its management methods. Factors that allow them to offer all possible strategies for the sector. The study is based on the compilation of information on the sector after consulting literature, the search for 52 cooperative mills in the province of Toledo and a series of interviews with experts in the olive sector and related sectors (University Administration , Caja Rural Toledo…). Where possible, there has been a quantitative analysis of the data (statistical distribution of responses, analyzing balance sheets or creating models of production strategies, etc.). In other cases, only possible treatment quality.