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Cooperative Management Michel Petit Etienne Montaigne Fatima El Hadad-Gauthier José María García Álvarez-Coque Konstadinos Mattas Samir Mili Editors Sustainable Agricultural Development Challenges and Approaches in Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries Cooperative Management Series editors Constantin Zopounidis, Chania, Greece George Baourakis, Chania, Greece More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11891 Michel Petit Etienne Montaigne (cid:129) Fatima El Hadad-Gauthier é í í Á Jos Mar a Garc a lvarez-Coque Konstadinos Mattas Samir Mili (cid:129) Editors Sustainable Agricultural Development Challenges and Approaches in Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries 123 Editors Michel Petit JoséMaríaGarcíaÁlvarez-Coque Institut Agronomique Méditerranéende Universitat Politecnica deValencia Montpellier Valencia Montpellier Spain France KonstadinosMattas EtienneMontaigne Schoolof Agriculture Institut Agronomique Méditerranéende Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Montpellier Thessaloniki Montpellier Greece France Samir Mili Fatima ElHadad-Gauthier ConsejoSuperior deInvestigaciones Cien Institut Agronomique Méditerranéende CSICMadrid Montpellier Madrid Montpellier Spain France ISSN 2364-401X ISSN 2364-4028 (electronic) Cooperative Management ISBN978-3-319-17812-7 ISBN978-3-319-17813-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-17813-4 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2015937213 SpringerChamHeidelbergNewYorkDordrechtLondon ©SpringerInternationalPublishingSwitzerland2015 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpart of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission orinformationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilar methodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publicationdoesnotimply,evenintheabsenceofaspecificstatement,thatsuchnamesareexemptfrom therelevantprotectivelawsandregulationsandthereforefreeforgeneraluse. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authorsortheeditorsgiveawarranty,expressorimplied,withrespecttothematerialcontainedhereinor foranyerrorsoromissionsthatmayhavebeenmade. Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerInternationalPublishingAGSwitzerlandispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia (www.springer.com) Foreword The role of cooperative management entails the formulation and execution of operating policies that are feasible, sustainable, and sound from a financial, social, and environmental perspective. Thus, the Book of Series on Cooperative Managementwasinitiatedtoprovideaninvaluableforumforgeneratingtheoretical knowledge and advancing the knowledge on policy, economics, organisational, financial, and marketing aspects. Within this rationality, the current book is pub- lished with main focus on the sustainability of Mediterranean communities, which over the last years try very much to find a sustainable way of coexistence and economic growth. Scholarly papers appearing in this series relate to several of cooperativemanagementaspects,contributinginempiricalanalyses,methodologies and their application, and also to policy designing. Thepresentbookintheseriesisdevotedtopresentationofthecollectiveworkof aresearchconsortiumfundedbyaEU(FP7)project:Sustainableagri-foodsystems and rural development in the Mediterranean Partner Countries/SustainMED. The mainaimofthisprojectwastoexamineandassesstheimpactsofEUandnational agricultural, rural, environmental, and trade policies in the southern and eastern Mediterranean region, namely in the so-called Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPCs),aswell asinTurkey.Thoughthemainfocus onMediterraneancountries, the book chapters attract a wider audience of readers since several technical and methodologicaltoolsareusedandtheirapplicationisdemonstrated.Toaccomplish those objectives, thirteen research and educational institutions from eleven coun- triesworkedintensivelyformorethanthreeyears.Allsocioeconomicandpolitical issues such as resource management, income distribution, and employment and migration trends are tackled in the book. Hence, this book will be of interest to scholars, practitioners, and policy actors working in the fields of economics, trade, cooperative management, risk manage- ment,andagriculturalpolicy.Moreover,EUpolicymakerswillgainusefulscientific insightsandpolicylessonsonhowtomonitorthechangingenvironment,toaccount for the rapidly changing patterns, and to assess decisions and policies aiming to tackleissuessuchaspublicwelfareandruralpovertyalleviation.Moreover,special v vi Foreword attention was paid to sustainability aspects, the role of the private sector, food security and risk management, trade liberalization, and Euro-Mediterranean integration. We would like to thank all members of the CIHEAM—IAM Montpellier SustainMEDresearchteamwhocoordinatedthisattempt,aswellasalltheresearch teams that contributed in the compilation of this book. Moreover, we extend our appreciation to all those involved in the proof reading of this book and Springer Academic Publications, for their assistance in producing this book. Constantin Zopounidis George Baourakis Acknowledgments The author wants to acknowledge all those who made the project and this book possible, particularly Etienne Montaigne who was the coordinator of the SustainMED project, other members of the coordinating committee (Fatima El Hadad, José María García Álvarez-Coque, and Samir Mili), all the participants in the project who co-authored the various chapters of this book, the two faithful outside project advisers (Tomas Garcia-Azcarate and Mohamed Ben Saïd), our ‘secretary cum administrator’ (Virginie Avignon), and, last but not least, our col- league from MAICh who served as ‘editor of the last resort’ (Eleni Stamataki, GeorgiosManthoulis).Allworkedveryhardtomakethisbookatrulycooperative undertaking. vii Contents 1 The Challenges of Sustainable Agricultural Development in Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries. . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Michel Petit 2 Diagnosis and Challenges of Sustainable Agricultural Development in Egypt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Ibrahim Soliman 3 The Challenges of Sustainable Agricultural Development in Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries: The Case of Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Abdelkader Ait El Mekki and Ezzobir Ghanmat 4 Agricultural and Food Policies in Tunisia: From a Seemingly Solid Performance to Unsustainable Revealed Achievements. . . . . 83 Boubaker Thabet, Abderraouf Laajimi, Chokri Thabet and Moncef Bensaïd 5 To What Extent Are Rural Development Policies Compatible with Achieving Sustainable Agriculture in Turkey? . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Selim Cagatay, Taylan Kıymaz and Reyhan Özeş 6 Agriculture and the Evolution of Agricultural Policies in the Mediterranean Partner Countries: Putting a Retrospective Overview in Context with Future Prospects. . . . . 145 Konstadinos Mattas, Konstantinos Galanopoulos and George Baourakis ix x Contents 7 Issues in Trade Liberalisation in Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Lorena Tudela-Marco, José María García Álvarez-Coque and Victor Martínez-Gómez 8 From Value Chain Analysis to Global Value Chain Analysis: Fresh Orange Export Sector in Mediterranean Partner Countries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Christopher Sausman, Marian Garcia, Andrew Fearne, Melanie Felgate, Akka Ait El Mekki, Selim Cagatay, Ibrahim Soliman, Boubaker Thabet, Chokri Thabet, Mohamed Ben Saïd, Abderraouf Laajimi, Haitham Al Ashkar, Fatima El Hadad-Gauthier, Samir Mili and Carolina Martínez 9 Challenges in Citrus Market Chains in Tunisia and Morocco. . . . 227 Etienne Montaigne, Fatima El Hadad-Gauthier and Leila Khefifi 10 Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry in Southern Mediterranean Countries: Policy Impacts and Challenges. . . . . . . 255 Kyösti Arovuori, Paula Horne, Matleena Kniivilä, Samir Mili, Perttu Pyykkönen and Javier Martinez-Vega 11 Food Security in MPC’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 Fabian Capitanio 12 Market Forces and Public Regulation Influencing the Management of Safety Risk in the Fresh Produce Sector: Contrasting Morocco and Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Jean-Marie Codron, Hakan Adanacioğlu, Magali Aubert, Zouhair Bouhsina, Abdelkader Ait El Mekki, Sylvain Rousset, Selma Tozanli and Murat Yercan 13 Conclusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Michel Petit, Fatima El Hadad-Gauthier, José María García Álvarez-Coque, Samir Mili, Konstadinos Mattas and Etienne Montaigne
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