On-Farm Food Safety and Quality Assurance programs

摘要

Compared to other industries, agriculture is rather unstable due to factors such as highly complex biological systems, and dependence on climate. However, the increasing uncertainties for the independent farming community originates mainly from the rapid and accelerating structural change in agriculture, which is creating a more industrialized model of production. The resulting increase of instability raises the volatility of the economic environment for almost every agricultural enterprise. Unfortunately, there are significant differences in the capability of responding to these changes in vertically integrated agricultural corporations with command-and-control structures, compared to family farms with little, if any coordination.