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Providing the quality of agro-food products through the research and technological development

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  • Bogdan Bazga

    (The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania)

  • Laurentiu Rebega

    (The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive and clear picture about the importance and role that the agro-food product has over the research, technical development and food security. The general aspects regarding food safety and security are presented in the CAP framework. Quality of agro-food products and commodity price volatility is a particularly serious problem especially for those states that are dependent on the producers of such raw materials/commodities. In recent years, price trends revealed multiyear extremes that reached up to 100%. About two billion people, about a third of the world's population, depend directly on the production of primary commodities – basic agro-food products such as grain, oil, sugar, rice, meat, cotton. Food insecurity, climate change and price volatility are, more than ever, the three major global challenges that humanity faces. Food Security refers to food access and availability. A family farm or household, or any other form of organization, can be regarded as being safe, as providing safe food, only when all its members do not live in hunger or fear of starvation. Agro-food products always depend by the research and technological development, but this will happen only if the agricultural markets are established as well defined entities. Under the pressure of an increasingly unstable economic environment, the phenomenon becomes more and more dangerous, threatening global food security.

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  • Bogdan Bazga & Laurentiu Rebega, 2013. "Providing the quality of agro-food products through the research and technological development," International Conference on Competitiveness of Agro-food and Environmental Economy Proceedings, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, vol. 2, pages 241-246.
  • Handle: RePEc:aes:icafee:v:2:y:2013:p:241-246
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