Purpose: This study aims to understand the market structure and explore the applicability of recognised generalisations to a European wine retail market. The study considers whether brands in European wine retailing follow the established double jeopardy and duplication of purchase laws, with the...

Vineyards on steep slopes are often the result of ancestral know-how, recognised as a Unesco World Heritage site for their dry stone construction know-how, and are sometimes threatened by the additional costs of producing grapes, the lack of manpower and the tightening of regulations. This type of...

This issue contains 19 papers providing information on WHIRLY protein functions in plants, redox regulation in C3 and C4 plants during climate change and its implications on food security, trends in rice research, achievements and challenges in biofortification of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)...

The present study analyses the technical and economic viability of raisin production by natural drying methods. The experiment was performed on a farm in a semiarid region, using two systems: sun drying and shade drying. Agriculture is very dynamic and undergoes constant changes, both...

To achieve food security, the contribution of fruits is viewed as equally important to major crops. Because fruits are rich in nutrients too. In this study, two varieties of grapes i.e., green (Sundarkhani) and black (NARC Black) are compared through their proximate, antioxidant, and total phenolic ...

This issue contains 13 papers focusing on the recent developments and advances in plant breeding for food security in the Russian Federation. Papers on the breeding of cereals and grain legumes, oil and sugar crops, fodder crops, grapes and small fruit, subtropical and flower crops and medicinal...

High incidence of postharvest losses is a major challenge to global food security. Addressing postharvest losses is a better strategy to increase business efficiency and improve food security rather than simply investing more resources to increase production. Global estimates show that fruit and...

This proceedings contains 119 papers presenting the most recent scientific advances in research on horticultural sciences. These papers are presented in the following sessions: (i) Herbaceous horticulture, (ii) Protected crops and horticultural engineering, (iii) Viticulture, (iv) Fruit growing,...

Using a political ecology framework that explores livelihood vulnerability, this paper analyzes commodification of grapes as an economic development strategy in Southwest China. Ethnographic research found that during the past decade, a majority of households within a village have converted fields...

The degree of viticulture contribution in ensuring the food security and safety is considerably determined by the potential of genetic diversity of assortment. In the paper is presented the evolution of grapevine assortment in Republic of Moldova in terms of ecological-geographic origin of...