Fruit and Vegetable Quality

SECTION FOUR

AN INTEGRATED VIEW

CONTEXT

• The marketplace is complex and problems cross disciplinary lines
  and perspectives.


• Academic research tends to be disciplinary in nature.


• Terminology is a major impediment to truly integrated approaches.

OBJECTIVES

• To emphasize the importance of economic considerations in
  quality assessment of fresh fruits and vegetables and present
  approaches for integrating economics and quality.


• To present the IQM model, which integrates quality assessment
  of processed vegetables with consumer requirements.


• To incorporate use of soft-systems methodology as a basis for
  integrating research on fresh fruit and vegetable quality.


• To use a problem-based approach as a point of integration for
  research on fruit and vegetable quality.


• To provide a set of terms and concepts that will help serve as a
  basis for integrated approaches to fruit and vegetable quality.