Published on November 20, 2024 at 05:53. / Modified on November 20, 2024 at 09:08.
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The report “Economic transparency of agricultural products in French-speaking Switzerland” analyzed 26 sectors.
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The small sample studied tends to show that direct payments are recovered further down the chain, in retail.
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Opacity in the sector is stubborn: 95.8% of people invited to join the study declined.
In Switzerland, we often talk about banking secrecy, less about agri-food secrecy. And yet, many players denounce the opacity of prices and margins. Of the 5 francs spent for a piece of Tomme Vaudoise, how many centimes are paid to the local grocery store or the supermarket, how many to the milk producer, how much to the cheese maker?
In order to lift part of the veil, Vaud, the second largest agricultural canton in the country, commissioned the University of Lausanne (Unil). Published this summer, and curiously unnoticed, the report “Economic transparency of agricultural products in French-speaking Switzerland” dissects 26 sectors, from semi-white bread to bunches of onions to bottles of Chasselas. The revenues, costs and profits of each actor are revealed. A unique approach in French-speaking Switzerland, with a modest sample (36 companies) but a great ambition: “to rebalance power dynamics”, confides Inès Burrus, director of Equal Profit and co-author of the report.
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