Lisa Jack

Benchmarking in Food and Farming (eBook, PDF)

Creating Sustainable Change

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

At a time in which farmers and their advisors are keen to make greater use of performance information for survival and growth, Lisa Jack's book provides an overview of benchmarking practices within and without the agricultural industry and evaluates the potential of these practices to create sustainable innovation in food and farming.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317175216
• Artikelnr.: 44876502

Autorenporträt

Dr. Lisa Jack is Senior Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Essex. Before entering academic life, she qualified as an accountant and worked as an auditor in both the private and public sectors. Teaching at an agricultural college started an interest in accounting in agriculture and food industries past and present, which now forms the basis of her current research.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Sustainable change and benchmarking in the food supply chain,
Lisa Jack and Julie Boone. Part 1 Benchmarks for Comparing Farm
Performance: Benchmarks and yardsticks: mass participation benchmarking in
farming; Best practice in mass participation benchmarking, Sarah Thelwall;
Dairybase: building a best practice benchmarking system, Nicola Shadbolt.
Part 2 Benchmarking for Better Practice in Farming: Benchmarking clubs and
business improvement groups; Farm benchmarking in the UK: an assessment by
the Food Chain Centre, 2002a "7, Peter Whitehead. Part 3 Environmental
Benchmarking in Food and Farming: Standards, indices and targets for
environmental performance; Farmer learning in benchmarking for
environmental sustainability, Sue Kilpatrick. Part 4 Benchmarking for Best
Practice: Innovative Practice and Future Developments in Food and Farming:
Process benchmarking and other developments in agriculture; The balanced
scorecard in food and farming, Nicola Shadbolt; Conclusion: creating
sustainable change through benchmarking in food and farming; Index.