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Agricultural cooperatives are vital to the Mediterranean region, enhancing farmers' market access, bargaining power, and innovation. However, they face significant challenges threatening their sustainability. This paper examines these challenges[...]
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Agricultural employment plays a critical role in food security and rural sustainability; however, it has experienced a sustained decline, largely driven by labor reallocation toward the service sector in Spain. Despite its relevance for public p[...]
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Crop yields are increasingly threatened by intensifying droughts in southern Europe, yet the long-term, spatially explicit quantification of yield response to agricultural drought remains limited. Remote sensing can address this gap by providing[...]
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This study advances the reconceptualization of Open municipal markets (OMMs) as networked ecosystems that connect food producers, vendors and citizenship across rural and urban contexts, sustaining short food supply chains and reinforcing territ[...]
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Agricultural carbon emissions within the European Union present complex systemic challenges requiring integrated approaches that balance environmental objectives with food security imperatives. This study examines systemic drivers of carbon emis[...]
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Aim of study: Land concentration is a silent process that is occurring across European farmland, producing negative impacts in terms of territorial balance and equity. This paper analyses land concentration in the olive-growing sector, exploring[...]
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Aim of study: To identify and characterize flash droughts (FD) in areas with rainfed cereal crops under Mediterranean conditions, analyzing their effects on cereal gross primary productivity (GPP), yield, and phenology from 2000-2023. Area of st[...]
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M.S. Céu ; R.M. Gaspar |Aim of study: Predict financial distress in agricultural firms, especially in small-scale agriculture, which dominates the agricultural sector. Area of study: Spain and Portugal. Material and methods: Analyzing 9,891 firms, six logistic regressi[...]
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Carbon and water footprint methodologies are widely used in agri-food systems, yet their organisational application, particularly in cooperatives, remains limited. This study addresses this gap by quantifying the carbon footprint (CF) and water [...]
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E. Lopez-Pérez ; J. Manzano-Juarez ; M.A. Jiménez-Bello ; A. García-Prats ; C. Sanchis-Ibor ; A. Rubio-Martín ; F.Z. Boubekri ; A. Kajji ; P. Tufoni ; L.M. Nunes ; M. Pulido-Velazquez |Irrigated agriculture in Mediterranean semi-arid regions is increasingly constrained by aquifer depletion and climate change. Enhancing water use efficiency in the irrigation of perennial crops is essential for long-term agricultural sustainabil[...]
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The Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) framework has been widely employed to analyze transitions in agri-food systems. However, its analytical capacity remains limited in addressing critical dimensions such as power asymmetries, territorial dynamics,[...]
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The generational renewal in family farms represents a pressing challenge for the sustainability of family farming, and agriculture more broadly. However, very few studies have investigated whether and how farm succession stimulates more sustaina[...]
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Over the past 60 years, the Spanish agricultural sector has undergone a profound transformation, evolving from a low-productivity system into a highly specialized and productive one. However, the production strategy that established Spain as "Eu[...]
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Olive oil is one of the most important products in the Spanish agri-food sector, with Spain accounting for 50 percent of world production. Despite Spain’s leadership in global olive oil production, the sector faces significant challenges in comm[...]
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O. Gava ; S. Sturiale ; M. Gallardo ; D.B. Guerrero ; D. Buyuktas ; G.E. Aslan ; A. Laarif ; T. Bouslama ; A. Navarro ; L. Incrocci ; F. Bartolini |Agriculture 4.0 technologies, including digital tools, e.g., the Internet of Things and Cloud Computing, promise significant environmental and economic benefits for intensive farming systems like greenhouses. However, their social impacts remain[...]
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Aim of study: This paper aims to analyse the current state of agricultural business models and identify the challenges hindering the agroecological transition in the Axarquia region. Area of study: Southern Spain-Axarquia region. Material and me[...]
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Assessing the agricultural sustainability of farms is challenging, since it involves various aspects that can change over time and differ by location. This paper develops a composite index to evaluate the sustainability of cereal farming in Cata[...]
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E. Tobajas ; I. Bartomeus ; A. Magrach |Maintaining stable agricultural production is a critical challenge for food security. Stable yields depend not only on climatic variables, but also on agricultural landscape management. While agricultural intensification can increase productivit[...]
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Food production is among the most environmentally intensive human activities, and its impacts are intensifying under population growth and increasingly resource-demanding consumption patterns. Agricultural practices have responded through the ex[...]
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While agriculture is experiencing localized crises, its indispensable role as the foundation of humanity's food supply requires its uninterrupted functioning. This conventional system is therefore in a state of competition with alternative model[...]
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F. Rezgui ; F. Lambarraa-Lehnhardt ; L. Blanc ; D. Plaza-Bonilla ; J. Lampurlanes ; C. Dordas ; P. Papakaloudis ; A. Michalitsis ; M. Latati ; A. Raggas ; S.D. Bellingrath-Kimura ; C. Paul ; M. Reckling |Mediterranean diets are based on cereals with ∼200 kg per capita consumption per year. Cereals are threatened by declining soil quality and climate change, expected to alter crop yields and quality and increase food insecurity. This study [...]
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The Axarquía region in southern Spain, a hotspot of avocado and mango production in Europe, underwent an extreme water crisis in 2019–2024. Reservoir levels dropped below the 8% outlet threshold and groundwater in the main aquifer dropped to sea[...]
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J.M. Garcia-Gallego ; A. Chamorro-Mera ; V. Valero-Amaro ; M. Martinez-Jimenez ; P. Romero ; M.T. Miranda ; S. Rubio |This paper presents the SMALLDERS project, a European initiative aimed at transforming smallholders' business models through an innovative technological platform. The platform functions as an e-marketplace that connects small farmers directly wi[...]
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Aim of study: Address farmers' preferences for the adoption of agricultural best management practices in a climate change context and estimate their willingness to accept values for these practices. Area of study: Region of Murcia (SE Spain). Ma[...]
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Agricultural systems face significant sustainability challenges, particularly in regions where resources are scarce. This study examines the sustainability performance of rainfed, irrigated, and greenhouse farming systems in Spain and Andalusia,[...]
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The commercialization of Km 0 agricultural and livestock products represents a strategic opportunity to enhance rural economic resilience and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the food sector. This paper presents an original, policy-oriented fr[...]
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This study explores the important financial challenges faced by Spanish agricultural and livestock companies to meet stringent environmental regulations without compromising their competitiveness. Using a Delphi method integrated with a systemat[...]
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B. Carlini ; J. Velázquez ; D. Gülçin ; V. Rincón ; C. Lucini ; K. Çiçek |Legume crops are sensitive to shifting environmental conditions, as they depend on a narrow range of climatic stability for growth and nitrogen fixation. This research sought to assess the sustainability of Faba Asturiana (FA) cultivation under [...]
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This study examines the impact of internationalization on the financial resilience, innovation capacity, and long-term sustainability of agricultural cooperatives in Southeastern Spain, a region with a strong agricultural tradition. Expanding in[...]
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Participatory processes of agroecological transitions at territorial scales are becoming a widespread practice. However, systematic research based on empirical processes remains scarce. In this paper, we systematize the experiences of five cases[...]
