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Mountain farming sustains human well-being by providing various ecosystem services (ES). In the last decades, socio-economic developments have led to worldwide changes in land-use/cover (LULC), but the related effects on ES have not been fully e[...]Article
S. Davidova ; N. Hostiou ; M. Alebaki ; A. Bailey ; Z. Bakucs ; J. Duval ; P. Gouta ; S. Henderson ; A.-L. Jacquot ; P. Jeanneaux ; B. Jendrzejewski ; K. Kilcline ; V. Konstantidelli ; P. Kostov ; L. Latruffe ; L. Schaller ; K. Van Ruymbeke ; L. Védrine ; J. Veslot ; L. Vranken ; P. Walder |Ecological farming, such as organic and low-input farming, is gaining popularity in the public discourse. One question is how this type of farming may impact farm labour from a socio-economic point of view. The article first discusses how low-in[...]Article
Consumers have begun questioning the global agri-food system, seeking more sustainable alternatives to the conventional mode of food supply. Alternative food networks have been spreading globally, the predominant form of which is known as short [...]Article
Les agriculteurs auront des profils de plus en plus diversifiés. La puissance publique aura des difficultés à répondre à leurs attentes.Article
N. Guiomar ; S. Godinho ; M. Rivera ; T. Pinto-Correia ; R. Machado ; M. Czekaj ; E. Tyran ; J. Puchala |Recent findings on the contribution of smallholders to global food production and security challenge the values used in several reports of international organizations. The skewed distribution of the number of farms and the agricultural area by f[...]Article
This research addresses psychological determinants of consuming abnormally shaped fruits and vegetables to reduce food waste. In a correlational online survey with 472 citizens of a small European capital, we found that personal norms and enviro[...]Article
E. Ravazzoli ; C. Dalla Torre ; R. Da Re ; V.M. Govigli ; L. Secco ; E. Gorriz-Mifsud ; E. Pisani ; C. Barlagne ; A. Baselice ; M. Bengoumi ; M. Dijskhoorn-Dekker ; A. Labidi ; A. Lopolito ; M. Melnykovych ; M. Perlik ; N. Polman ; S. Sarkki ; A. Vassilopoulos ; P. Koundouri ; D. Miller ; T. Streifeneder ; M. Nijnik |Social innovation (SI) impacts are long-term changes that affect different dimensions of territorial capital (i.e., economy, society, environment, governance) for the territory in which SI occurs. Yet, systematic empirical evidence and theoretic[...]Article
C.K. Kirby ; K. Specht ; R. Fox-Kämper ; J.K. Hawes ; N. Cohen ; S. Caputo ; R.T. Ilieva ; A. Lelièvre ; L. Ponizy ; V. Schoen ; C. Blythe |Urban agriculture is an increasingly popular approach to addressing negative social and health effects of cities. Social benefits of urban agriculture include improved health and wellbeing, economic opportunities, social cohesion, and education.[...]Article
P.A. Hernández ; F. Galli ; P. Prosperi ; S. Sumane ; D. Duckett ; H.E. Almaas |For small farms across Europe, connecting to small food businesses offers a significant route to market. We analyse survey data from 85 small food businesses in nine European regions and explore the enabling and limiting conditions around this c[...]Article
C. Grovermann ; S. Quiédeville ; A. Muller ; F. Leiber ; M. Stolze ; S. Moakes |Certification in agriculture ensures compliance with tangible standards and should generate economic opportunities for farmers. This study quantifies the variable profit and efficiency impacts of organic certification in dairy farming across Eur[...]Article
Measuring the environmental efficiency of firms using data envelopment analysis (DEA) has recently gained momentum due to the urgency of climate change. The existing literature on environmental efficiency ignores the internal structures of the p[...]Article
M. Vittuari ; G. Bazzocchi ; S. Blasioli ; F. Cirone ; A. Maggio ; F. Orsini ; J. Penca ; M. Petruzzelli ; K. Specht ; S. Amghar ; A.-M. Atanasov ; T. Bastia ; I. Bertocchi ; A. Coudard ; A. Crepaldi ; A. Curtis ; R. Fox-Kämper ; A.E. Gheorghica ; A. Lelièvre ; P. Munoz ; E. Nolde ; J. Pascual-Fernandez ; G. Pennisi ; B. Pölling ; L. Reynaud-Desmet ; I. Righini ; Y. Rouphael ; V. Saint-Ges ; A. Samoggia ; S. Shaystej ; M. Da Silva ; S. Toboso Chavero ; P. Tonini ; G. Trusnovec ; B.L. Vidmar ; G. Villalba ; F. De Menna |The COVID-19 pandemic unveiled the fragility of food sovereignty in cities and confirmed the close connection urban dwellers have with food. Although the pandemic was not responsible for a systemic failure, it suggested how citizens would accept[...]Article
Simulating organic agriculture is a considerable challenge. One reason is that few models are capable of simulating crop-pest interactions and the yield losses they cause. Here, a recently developed process-based crop-pest model (Pest-EPIC) was [...]Article
Greening payment represents one of the main and controversial novelties of the current Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 20152020 programming period. Such payments bind a portion of farm subsidies to compliance with specified practices, such as [...]Article
Farmers operate in a changing market, policy and social environment so questions arise as to how they experience these changes and react in their business orientation. This topic was examined in the period 2011 to 2016 in a strongly fluctuating [...]Article
Milk production in Europe is facing major challenges to ensure its economic, environmental, and social sustainability. It is essential that holistic concepts are developed to ensure the future sustainability of the sector and to assist farmers a[...]Article
P. Nicholas-Davies ; S. Fowler ; P. Midmore ; I. Coopmans ; M. Draganova ; A. Petitt ; S. Senni |Understanding how farmers perceive and manage critical decision points in response to challenges and opportunities can help to develop effective support for resilient European farming systems. Individual narratives of farm stories provide insigh[...]Article
E. Molina-Montes ; I. Uzhova ; V. Verardo ; R. Artacho ; B. García-Villanova ; E.J. Guerra-Hernández ; M. Kapsokefalou ; O. Malisova ; A. Vlassopoulos ; A. Katidi ; B. Korousic Seljak ; R. Modic ; Tome Eftimov ; I. Hren ; E. Valencic ; Z. Satalic ; I. Panjkota Krbavcic ; D. Vranesic Bender ; D. Giacalone ; M. Bom Frøst ; A. Konic Ristic ; J. Milesevic ; M. Nikolic ; E. Kolay ; M. Güney ; V. Kriaucioniene ; M. Czlapka-Matyasik ; A. Bykowska-Derda ; E. Kujundzic ; I. Taljic ; M. Brka ; I. Spiroski ; S. Cunha Velho ; S.P. Sousa Pinto ; I. Nascimento Monteiro ; J.A. Pereira ; M.D. Ruíz-López ; C. Rodríguez-Pérez |We aimed to evaluate the changes in eating behaviours of the adult population across 16 European countries due to the COVID-19 confinement and to evaluate whether these changes were somehow related to the severity of the containment measures app[...]Article
M.P.M. Meuwissen ; P.H. Feindt ; T. Slijper ; A. Spiegel ; R. Finger ; Y. de Mey ; W. Paas ; K.J.A.M. Termeer ; P.M. Poortvliet ; M. Peneva ; J. Urquhart ; M. Vigani ; J.E. Black ; P. Nicholas-Davies ; D. Maye ; F. Appel ; F. Heinrich ; A. Balmann ; J. Bijttebier ; I. Coopmans ; E. Wauters ; E. Mathijs ; H. Hansson ; C.J. Lagerkvist ; J. Rommel ; G. Manevska-Tasevska ; F. Accatino ; C. Pineau ; B. Soriano ; I. Bardaji ; S. Severini ; S. Senni ; C. Zinnanti ; C. Gavrilescu ; I.S. Bruma ; K.M. Dobay ; D. Matei ; L. Tanasa ; D.M. Voicilas ; K. Zawalinska ; P. Gradziuk ; V. Krupin ; A. Martikainen ; H. Herrera ; P. Reidsma |Context Resilience is the ability to deal with shocks and stresses, including the unknown and previously unimaginable, such as the Covid-19 crisis. Objective This paper assesses (i) how different farming systems were exposed to the crisis, (ii) [...]Article
CONTEXT The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has affected global agricultural chains and intensified the issue of food insecurity worldwide. OBJECTIVE We propose a short retrospective of the reported effects of the COVID-19 pan[...]Article
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La France et lEurope ne doivent plus délaisser les biotechnologies végétales. Elles doivent innover dans ce secteur, porteur davenir pour lagriculture.Article
The food- and feed-value systems in the European Union are not protein self-sufficient. Despite their potential to improve the well-being of arable cropping systems, sufficient production of high-protein legume grains in Europe has not been achi[...]Article
S. Coderoni ; J. Helming ; M. Pérez-Soba ; P. Sckokai ; A. Varacca |Policies in the agricultural and rural sectors are of key importance in shaping their sustainable development. These policies are changing from market-based policies to policies that aim to influence farmers' decision-making. Thus, the scientifi[...]Article
The two strategic documents for the future of Europe post 2020 (Green Deal) and agriculture in Europe (From Farm To Fork) recognize the important role of knowledge and innovation systems in accelerating change towards food sustainability. Resear[...]Article
L. Aldieri ; M. Brahmi ; X. Cheng ; C.P. Vinci |The objective of the analysis is to investigate the production efficiency in the USA and Europe through the channel of knowledge spillovers from technological innovation in the agricultural sector. Since the empirical evidence concerning the cli[...]Article
The marginalization of mountain regions in Mediterranean Europe since the mid-20th Century has triggered important socioeconomic and environmental changes that are putting the survival of highly regulated and environmentally adapted landscapes i[...]Article
With the intensification of agriculture, the simplification of crop rotations, and the rise in demand for meat, dairy and cereal products, legume production and consumption are at an historic low in Europe. But as the environmental consequences [...]Article
Farmer seed systems come in many shades: Conserving, producing, and using diverse plant material for different motives and purposes, whether the conservation or selection of locally adapted plant varieties and populations, or the safeguard of so[...]Article
D.S. Cristea ; S. Rosenberg ; A. Pustianu Mocanu ; I.A. Simionov ; A.A. Mogodan ; S.M. Petrea ; L.M. Moga |This research provides an analytical and predictive framework, based on state-of-the-art machine-learning (ML) algorithms (random forest (RF) and generalized additive models (GAM)), that can be used to assess and improve the Common Agricultural [...]