This article highlights how farm dairies in Jämtland combine gastronomy and tourism as an integral part or a component in their marketing strategies. These activities have been promoted and supported by authorities and NGO’s. Farm dairies contribute to tourism by producing gastronomic products that can be served by local restaurants and hotels, but they are also visiting targets for tourists and create important work opportunities in the villages. As a precursor in using gastronomy and tourism to promote regional development the experiences of Jämtland are of a high relevance for the future development in Sweden

Between 1974 and 2005 the Chilean dairy sector went from being dependent on imports of dairy products to being a net exporter. The transformation was caused by increased and more efficient production. New technologies were introduced and output shifted from low quality commodities to products of higher quality. While previous research largely focused on other agricultural subsectors and mainly highlighted internal/national causes behind development, such as state market relations, this article contributes with new knowledge by studying changes in the dairy sector highlighting the impact of globalization. The main findings are that increased competition at global level changed the strategies of transnational dairy companies and gave rise to global sourcing strategies. In spite the fact that liberalization in Chile increased the process of structural rationalization, it is in the headquarters of transnational companies that decisions on what to produce and where are made. Thus, the shift towards an export driven development was mainly caused by the process of globalization of the industry. However, some of the actions of the state, through improving conditions for the supply side of the economy, paved the way for the development of the sector.

During the last decades the trade with agricultural products in Latin America has changed dramatically. For some countries like Argentina and Chile, this change represents a major shift from dependency on imports or self-sufficiency, to export orientation. The expansion of trade did not happen by accident, it was pursued through the liberalization of trade and the implementation of a set of policies denominated as the Washington Consensus. The advocates of the Washington Consensus identified agriculture as one of the economic sectors that had most to gain from liberalization. More than 20 years of liberalization have passed and a thorough restructuring of agriculture has taken place. In Argentina and Chile, a sustained trade expansion started during the second half of the 1990s, creating a positive balance in the trade with dairy products. Is the expansion of trade caused only by trade liberalization? Are there other important causes? What can we learn from these experiences? These are some of the questions answered by this article.

Denna rapport beskriver och diskuterar vad EU:s ursprungs- och särartsskydd är, det vill säga Skyddad Ursprungsbeteckning (SUB), Skyddad Geografisk Beteckning (SGB) och Garanterad traditionell specialitet (GTS). Syftet med rapporten är att beskriva hur dessa certifieringar används för att skapa landsbygdsutveckling i andra Europeiska länder; att utifrån andra länders erfarenheter visa på vilka för- och nackdelar certifieringarna har, ge exempel på hur man kan bygga mervärde för bönder, producenter och regioner med utgångspunkt från certifieringarna. Rapporten omfattar också en avslutande reflektion om vilken roll certifieringarna skulle kunna spela för att förverkliga visionen om ”Sverige – det nya matlandet”, samt vilka resurser som finns eller saknas för att öka antalet SUB-, SGB- och GTS-certifieringar i Sverige.

Rapporten är framtagen inom ramen för samproduktionsprojektet ”Wrångebäck Sweden – en fallstudie för att samla know-how och stärka konkurrenskraften för producenter av traditionell ost”. Projektgruppen består av forskare från Södertörns högskola, Hushållningssällskapens Förbund, samt Almnäs Bruk AB. Rapporten är i huvudsak skriven av Paulina Rytkönen och baseras på en sammanfattning av tidigare forskning samt på hennes forskningsresultat från erfarenheterna av SUB-certifiering i Kantabrien i Spanien. Rapporten omfattar också ett avsnitt som baseras på professor Karl Gratzers forskningsresultat där erfarenheterna av SUB- och SGB-certifiering i Hermagor i Österrike sammanfattas.

The rationalization pressure of agro‐food globalization requires strong tools to help small scale producers to survive in a market. For that reason, the EU developed a quality certification system that offer tools for farmers and small scale food producers that enable them to create  strong local collective brands and promote rural entrepreneurship. The strongest tool is the PDO certification. Some European countries have been successful using these tools to create strong collective brands through PDOs, while others have adopted other strategies. An important difference is how the entrepreneurial function develops and how the local agri‐food system is articulated. This article highlights how collective brands, with and without PDOs are created to support small scale cheese producers in Austria, Spain and Sweden and how these promote entrepreneurship and rural development. An important contribution is the analysis of differences in the entrepreneurial function and the articulation of the local agri‐food system in these three cases. Two of the most important findings are that the PDO was superior than a non formalized form of regional branding in offering market protection and that the invisible hand of the market could generate entrepreneurial functions to strengthen the local agri‐food system and generate synergies for stakeholders, but the visible hand of the state was decisively more powerful to support, promote and articulate a strong local agri‐food system that generates strong synergies for all stakeholders.