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Traditional cereals, recognised for their adaptability, high nutritional value, and unique sensory characteristics, have largely been excluded from global food supply chains. Recent shifts in consumption patterns, particularly in urban areas, in[...]
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Portugal is influenced by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Thus, the dietary patterns in Portugal include both the Mediterranean diet (MD) and the Atlantic diet (AD). This review examines the characteristics[...]
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One of the stated goals of the common agricultural policy reforms has been to provide a fairer distribution of payments across and within member states, but little progress has been accomplished, with about 20% of farmers receiving 80% of the to[...]
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I. Guise ; B. Silva ; F. Mestre ; J. Munos-Rojas ; M.F. Duarte ; J.M. Herrera |CONTEXT The Iberian Peninsula is the world's largest olive (Olea europaea subsp. europaea L.) producing region due to its high environmental suitability for olive growing, consistently accounting for about half of the global share. Moreover, it [...]
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Research on modern agri-food chains aims to enhance flexibility by analyzing supply chain aspects to identify improvement opportunities. A SWOT analysis of 39 agri-food sector organizations using a SWOT analysis organized using the PESTEL and ME[...]
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Spain and Portugal, two countries located in southern Europe, share a significant export specialization in agricultural and agri-food products compared to the EU-27 as a whole. Based on arguments drawn from the literature and information provide[...]
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This paper investigates the incorporation of sustainable development within the Portuguese agri-food sector amid global environmental and resource challenges. It underscores the role of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and environmental,[...]
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Agroecology integrates science, social movements, and agricultural practices, playing a central role in the sustainability of food systems. It addresses agroecosystems and food systems holistically; however, defining whether a farm is agroecolog[...]
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J. Alves-Ferreira ; M.G. Vara ; A. Catarino ; I. Martins ; C. Mourinha ; M. Fabião ; M.J. Costa ; M.V. Barbieri ; M.L. de Alda ; P. Palma |The presence of pesticides in aquatic ecosystems poses significant risks to non-target organisms, necessitating monitoring and environmental risk assessment. This study aimed to evaluate the dynamics and environmental risk of pesticides in a hyd[...]
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This study focuses on the prediction of financial distress of agricultural firms operating in the vineyards and olive crops sectors in Mediterranean countries, specifically in Portugal, Spain, and Italy, which are crucial for the production of t[...]
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Evaluations of the sustainability of the viticulture associated with wine production are still scarce in the literature. Usually, the ‘carbon footprint’ assumes the environmental dimension, while the economic pillar is focused on market orientat[...]
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H. Darouich ; L. Simionesei ; A.R. Oliveira ; R. Neves ; T.B. Ramos |The IrrigaSys decision support system (DSS) has supported farmers’ decision-making regarding irrigation scheduling in the Sorraia Valley irrigation district in Southern Portugal over a span of six years (2017–2022). This study aims to conduct a [...]
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Despite numerous published literature on the impacts of agriculture on water quality, knowledge gaps persist regarding which farming systems are of most concern for their impact on water quality, which would allow water resource planners to bett[...]
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The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) continues to represent a substantial part of the European Union's budget. Although the second pillar is co-financed by national governments, European funds represent the vast majority of public spending on ag[...]
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Climate change is expected to affect the agricultural sector in ways that are often unclear to predict. If in the short- and medium-terms farmers may adapt to climate change by adjusting their agricultural practices, in the long-term, these adju[...]
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M.C. Garcia-Cortijo ; J.R. Ferrer ; J.S. Castillo Valero ; T. Gonçalves ; A. Marta-Costa ; V. Pinilla ; J. Rebelo ; R. Serrano |The objective of this study is to determine the factors that explain the orientation, of the wine industry and at firm level in Portugal and Spain for adopting policies to improve sustainability, identifying similarities and differences between [...]
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S. von Münchhausen ; J. Kirwan ; D. Maye ; M. Muñoz-Rojas ; T. Pinto-Correia ; P. Prosperi ; D. Vergamini |Globalization of food chains and scale increases in business models are dramatically affecting rural areas in Europe, by a simplification of land use, new urban-rural relations and reshaped social networks. While pressures on land use systems ha[...]
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Understanding the factors that influence agricultural productivity is critical for promoting sustainable food production, economic growth, and rural livelihoods. Despite the fact that numerous theoretical and empirical studies on agricultural pr[...]
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In the last two decades, Portugal suffered the effects of two global crises, the financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the Common Agriculture Policy reforms. These crises had a great impact on the Portuguese economy, but it is c[...]
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This research focuses on the environmental taxation applicable to the agri-food sector and aligns with the objectives of the Farm to Fork (F2F) Strategy of the European Green Deal context. Indeed, the methodology of the research develops a theor[...]
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C. Ribeiro ; C.M. Viana ; I. Girão ; E. Figueiredo ; J. Rocha |The asymmetries between rural and urban areas have continued to increase over the last decades, contributing to an imbalance of economic, social, and territorial dimensions between regions. Urban stores specialized in the commercialization of ru[...]
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J. Garnier ; G. Billen ; E. Aguilera ; L. Lassaletta ; R. Einarsson ; J. Serra ; M.doR. Cameira ; C. Marques-dos-Santos ; A. Sanz-Cobena |Ammonia (NH3) volatilization, nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, and nitrate (NO3−) leaching from agriculture cause severe environmental hazards. Research studies and mitigation strategies have mostly focused on one of these nitrogen (N) losse[...]
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J. Lecina-Diaz ; M.-L. Chas-Amil ; N. Aquilué ; A. Sil ; L. Brotons ; A. Regos ; J. Touza |In southern Europe, land abandonment and an unbalanced investment toward fire suppression instead of prevention has gradually increased wildfire risk, which calls for a paradigm change in fire management policies. Here we combined scenario analy[...]
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The production of olive oil in Portugal and other countries of the Mediterranean region has greatly increased in recent years. Intensification efforts have focused on the growth of the planted area, but also on the increase of the orchards densi[...]
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M. Helena Guimarães ; T. Pinto-Correia ; M. de B. Costa Freitas ; I. Ferraz-de-Oliveira ; E. Sales-Baptista ; J.F.F. da Veiga ; J. Tiago Marques ; C. Pinto-Cruz ; C. Godinho ; A.D.F. Belo |The Montado is a silvopastoral system with a tree cover of predominantly Quercus suber but also Quercus rotundifolia, where cattle or sheep graze the understory. It occupies more than one million hectares in southern Portugal, and a similar land[...]
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D. Pereira ; J.C. Leitao ; P.D. Gaspar ; C. Fael ; I. Falorca ; W. Khairy ; N. Wahid ; H. El Yousfi ; B. Bouazzama ; J. Siering ; H. Hansmann ; J. Zascerinska ; S. Camilleri ; F. Busuttil ; M. Borg ; J. Mizzi ; R. Micallef ; J. Cutajar |Water security is a hot topic all over the world, due to global warming, climate change, natural calamities such as droughts and floods, overuse of water, and other factors. Water issues have been scientifically investigated from several perspec[...]
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Local food studies have stressed the importance of local food systems (LFS) in shortening the linkages between producers and consumers and in promoting resilient territories. Food consumption patterns are mostly studied around rural–urban dynami[...]
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M. Rapinski ; R. Raymond ; D. Davy ; T. Herrmann ; J.-P. Bedell ; A. Ka ; G. Odonne ; L. Chanteloup ; P.J. Lopez ; E. Foulquier ; E.F. da Silva ; N. El Deghel ; G. Boëtsch ; V. Coxam ; F. Joliet ; A.-M. Guihard-Costa ; L. Tibère ; J.-A. Nazare ; P. Duboz |Globalization is transforming food systems around the world. With few geographical areas spared from nutritional, dietary and epidemiological transitions, chronic diseases have reached pandemic proportions. A question therefore arises as to the [...]
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Rainfall in the Maghreb and the Iberian Peninsula arrived too late to bring a beneficial effect on crops. Crop failures occurred in several important grain-producing regions of Spain, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. In other areas, crop growing co[...]
