This chapter focuses on the origin, current areas of production, composition and health benefits, crop quality, consumer preferences, fruit physiology, maturity and harvest indices, physiological disorders, harvesting, postharvest handling, fruit pathology, temperature handling and storage, and...

This chapter discusses the origin, current areas of production, maturity and harvest indexes, quality (including consumer preferences), physiological characteristics, packaging, handling during harvesting, optimum storage conditions, retail outlet display considerations, physiological disorders,...

This volume brought together research on concepts and global perspectives on organic food systems, on methods of building capacity in times of climate change, on supporting organic farmers and on upscaling the organic sector in Africa. This chapter summarizes these findings and concludes that four...

This chapter analyses the processes behind the restructuring of the retail landscape in the city of Palma, the capital city of Majorca (Spain), where tourist visitation is of nearly 12 million annually. Here, the transformation of retail shops is linked with the occurrence of overtourism and its...

This chapter looks at the marketing function and the way this is managed and implemented across the garden centre. The chapter discusses marketing theory, the production of marketing plans, and the use of special events in garden centres.

This chapter focuses on people management in garden centres. It reviews a number of motivation theories and management approaches and discusses team development, performance appraisal, and organizational communication.

Safety and security issues and their management in garden centres are discussed. The discussion covers risk assessment, crime reduction, safety for staff in dealing with shoplifting, reducing staff theft, and combating fraud.

This chapter provides insight into the role of farm shops as tourism businesses that navigate the urban and rural environments, utilizing both to create a unique tourism product. Through seven semi-structured interviews with farm shop managers and owners in suburban England, this chapter attempts...

This chapter focuses on consumption practices that have incorporated the crossing of national borders into the everyday lives of local ('near-border') communities. Such practices have changed comprehensively in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) since the late 1980s. Employing examples from Hungary...