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CIAG - Bressoud
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by C Huyghe - 2010
9 oct. 2010 – ... l'amélioration qualitative semble difficile dans les circuits longs. Face à ... effort, improvement of quality seems difficult in long supply chain.
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seems difficult in long supply chain. Alongside, emergence of short .... Les circuits longs conditionnent les systèmes de culture et la qualité. On a déjà vu que la ...

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long supply chain food products

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circuit de distribution court > short channel of distribution - ProZ.com
www.proz.com › KudoZ home › French to English › Economics3 May 2006 – I would translate "circuit de distribution" as "distribution network". Can one speak of a network being "short" or "long" though?? "Le marché met ...


as I said context is everything, the more the better. We would all have to be the fountain of all knowledge to translate a few words out of context.

lesalagou.fr/.../Avenir_de_l_agriculture_et_acces_... - Translate this page
"Pour ceux qui vendent leurs produits en circuit long (céréales et raisin en ...... obligé, pour arriver à un accord sans lequel la définition de moyens d'action risque ..."

www.grandpau.com/docs/1307541911.pdf - Translate this page
"Prestation d'appui pour la définition d'une politique de valorisation d'une ...... comportement des agriculteurs commercialisant leurs produits en circuit long."

www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2011.../local-foods-marketing....
by S Low - 2011
"When intermediated sales (locally grown food sold to a grocery store, restaurant, ... Food sold indirectly accounted for most of the local foods market in 2008 ..."

I look at it as food products sent from a far away place. The number of agents in between may not be big, but the distance travelled to reach destination is long.