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In the last few decades, dairy farms have undergone an intense process of structural adjustment. Despite this, dairy farming remains the most important agricultural activity in Cantabria (northern Spain), with many different types of dairy farm [...]Article
Farmers' preferences toward practice- and results-based agri-environmental schemes (AES) are analysed using a labelled choice experiment. The analysis focuses on schemes involving an innovative satellite-based monitoring system, with different e[...]Article
This paper compares the performance of conventional and organic fruit farms in Spain, using a set of base indicators to assess their economic and environmental performance on a per hectare basis. Composite indicators are also calculated to measu[...]Article
The current Common Agricultural Policy encourages the expansion of agri-food sustainability to implement sustainable development in primary production. It is, therefore, important to quantify the sustainability of agriculture and livestock farmi[...]Article
Peri-urban regions, especially in the Mediterranean, face challenges like farmland loss due to urban pressure. This study emphasizes retail stores as strategic focal points for evaluating societal, economic, and production systems. It hypothesiz[...]Article
Agriculture and livestock farming are activities that depend on energy consumption. Photovoltaic self-consumption systems can reduce the production costs of these actors, especially in periods of high-energy price volatility. This work aimed to [...]Article
H. Moreno-Ramón ; J. Ulzurrum ; A. Lidon ; A. Sanjuan |Rice fields in southern Europe are mainly located in wetlands of high ecological value, such as L'Albufera, one of the most important rice-growing areas in Spain. Considering the unique characteristics of this environment, it is crucial to ident[...]Article
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[...]Article
To favor transition towards sustainable agricultural systems, the agricultural sector needs to reduce its dependence on external inputs. From an ecological economics perspective, this requires the simultaneous fulfillment of a gross energy surpl[...]Article
Agricultural production is an essential activity in the global economy that must advance towards the design of sustainability projects hand-in-hand with consumers, companies, and policymakers. An exhaustive study, in line with the guidelines set[...]Article
"Evolution of multi-actor co-innovation partnerships: key factors in 4 case studies in rural Iberia"
S.B. Guerrero-Ocampo ; J.L. Yagüe Blanco ; J. Muñoz-Rojas ; J.M. Díaz-Puente ; M. Rivera-Méndez ; S. Martín Fernández |Innovations in rural areas are increasingly informed by exemplary cases that contribute to sustainable rural development and tackle global challenges. The study of rural innovations requires approaches that reach beyond technology and include so[...]Article
CONTEXT Technological innovation systems (TIS) play a key role in facilitating digital transformation (DT) in various sectors. In agriculture in particular, traditional qualitative assessments of TIS fall short of providing actionable insights. [...]Article
C. Ruau ; V. Naipal ; N. Gagnaire ; C. Cantero-Martínez ; B. Guenet ; B. Gabrielle |Soil erosion poses a significant threat to agricultural production worldwide, with a still-debated impact on the current increase in atmospheric CO2. Whether erosion acts as a net carbon (C) source or sink also depends on how it influences green[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
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In recent decades, increased water demand combined with the effects of climate change has endangered water availability in many regions. In this context, sustainable water management has become a priority, seeking to balance human needs with the[...]Article
Research on urban food policies has focused upon downstream processes, thus neglecting an integral perspective of food systems, being local and sustainable food production one challenge often mentioned. In turn, in the debates on governance, the[...]Ouvrage
M. Stein, ed. ; M. Mariani, ed. ; R. Caranta, ed. ; Y. Polychronakis, ed. | New York [Etats-Unis] : Routledge | Routledge Studies in Food, Society ant the Environment | 2024The book examines sustainable food procurement policy and practice in the European Union and beyond, exploring the extent to which sustainability objectives have been achieved and evaluating the new developments taking place at both EU and natio[...]Article
The European Green Deal sets a target of at least 25% of the total EU agricultural land under organic farming by 2030. In the case of the Spanish olive sector, organic olive farming accounts for barely 10% of the national agricultural area dedic[...]Article
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 [...]Article
This study aims to foresee the future of organic farming in the smallholder agricultural systems of the Valencian Region (Spain), as well as to identify how different drivers of change may affect such a future. To do so, two qualitative methodol[...]Article
Faced with the current challenges of the climate emergency and global change, the revaluation of local products, their knowledge, consumption, and distribution is emerging as one of the strategic actions aimed at reducing the carbon footprint. A[...]Article
Modern food chains are energy intensive processes, which implies environmental impacts and a dependence on non-renewable resources. Nevertheless, some studies tend to underestimate the energy use of transport by assuming some simplifications in [...]Article
P. Benito-Verdugo ; J. Martínez-Fernández ; Á. González-Zamora ; L. Almendra-Martín ; J. Gaona ; C.M. Herrero-Jiménez |Given the growing interest in drought impacts on crops, this work studied the impact of agricultural drought on wheat and barley during the period 2001–2020. The study was carried out in the Spanish regions of Castilla y León and Castilla&[...]Article
The serious socioeconomic problems faced by rural environments in general, and the agricultural sector in particular, in peripheral European territories since the end of the last century have led to depopulation phenomena, the abandonment of uni[...]Article
The Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), part of the EU’s quality policy for agri-food products, aims to provide consumers with reliable information on the quality of a food, linked to its origin. Olive oil has perceptible qualities deri[...]Article
N. Hidalgo-Triana ; A. Solakis ; F. Casimiro-Soriguer ; H. Choe ; T. Navarro ; A.V. Pérez-Latorre ; J.H. Thorne |Understanding the effects of climate change is one of the most challenging goals for biodiversity conservation. The forests of Andalusia, in Southern Spain, are part of an important Mediterranean Basin biodiversity hotspot. However, great change[...]Article
Understanding the environmental impacts of current agricultural practices is a starting point for transitioning towards sustainable agriculture, which is a goal to be achieved by the European Union. This study aims to provide a set of environmen[...]Article
O. Parra Rivero ; A. Ojeda Roldan ; R. González Álvarez-Ossorio ; C. Staboulis ; D. Natos ; K. Mattas ; W. Bojar ; R. Kusmierek-Tomaszewska ; P. Baranowski ; J. Krzyszczak |During the last decade, Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has prioritised measures focused on sustainability and quality over production. The purpose of the AGRICORE project is to develop a tool based on agent-based modelling to assist policymake[...]Article
Environmental sustainability is a fundamental asset in the development of all agricultural policies within the European Union. However, its practical application is finding important incompatibilities between several of its objectives, such as t[...]Article
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a European policy created in the early 1960s to address the food and economic problems affecting European society and the agricultural sector in particular. Throughout its history, the various reforms carr[...]Article
A. Rodriguez ; A. Sanz-Cobena ; M. Ruiz-Ramos ; E. Aguilera ; M. Quemada ; G. Billen ; J. Garnier ; L. Lassaletta |Along its route through the agro-food system nitrogen (N) can be wasted, heightening diverse environmental problems. Geopolitical instabilities affect prices of N fertilisers and livestock feed, challenging production systems and increasing thei[...]Article
The abandonment of agricultural activity has multiple negative economic, environmental and social impacts in rural areas. As a consequence of different socioeconomic, political, environmental and technical drivers, this phenomenon shows an incre[...]Article
The main objective of this study is to contribute to the existing debate on the link between export activity and eco-innovation, using Spanish agrofood auxiliary companies. For that purpose, a cluster analysis has been carried out and two groups[...]Article
Civic crowdfunding (CiC) and matchfunding (MF) are innovative private-public financing tools that can back projects with positive social and environmental characteristics. The purpose of this study is to analyse the potential opportunities and c[...]Article
It is increasingly important that the extensive livestock systems become more resilient and market orientated to face current challenges. But this can only be achieved by more interconnected supply chains where consumers expectations are unders[...]Article
The objectives of this paper are to determine the factors that influence interannual movements of farms between income categories, and to forecast future income categories of farms under several different market, climate, and policy scenarios. T[...]Article
Over the last decades, urban agriculture (UA) and controlled environmental agriculture (CEA) have been growing in many urban areas of the world to supply fresh food locally and to provide multiple benefits for the sustainable development of urba[...]Article
Productivity is an always-hotly-debated issue within the EU agricultural policymaking, particularly concerning the effect of subsidies distributed via the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The cereal sector is under particular political scrutiny[...]Article
Andalucía, located in the southern region of Spain, is the worlds largest producer of olive oil. It is home to over 70 million olive trees, which shape the distinctive landscape of the olive groves typical of the Mediterranean Basin. This resea[...]Article
In the context of water scarcity, soil erosion, and biodiversity decline, the Mediterranean basin urges to manage its nearly hundred coastal watersheds in a coordinated manner. To this end, we propose an integrated approach to model socio-ecolog[...]Article
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[...]Article
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[...]Article
The term deagrarianization refers to the dwindling importance of agrarian activity as the economic and social basis of a rural area. Deagrarianization is reflected in the declining number of people engaged in agricultural production and a reduct[...]Article
The aim of this article is to identify the conditions for the internationalisation of olive oil producing firms in southern of Spain (province of Jaén), as this region accounts for 20 percent of total world production. To that end, we propose a [...]Article
The sustainability of the wine chain in the southeast of Spain is evaluated through life cycle costing (LCC) and life cycle assessment (LCA) methodologies. A winery model is established based on the information provided by representative compani[...]Article
M. Helena Guimarães ; T. Pinto-Correia ; M. de Belém 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[...]Article
We can pursue a more resilient and sustainable future if both agriculture and the food system evolve driven by a new model based on agroecology. By applying ecological principles, agroecological farming adapts to local resources, closes biomass [...]Article
This paper analyses the impacts and water policy implications of an increase of perennial crops on irrigation water requirements and on the vulnerability of the agricultural system to climatic events in the case of the Guadalquivir River basin. [...]Article
Water is an issue in Spain, where it is generally scarce, and its availability is highly variable in different areas and times, particularly in agriculture, the main water consumer. Water pricing is one of the policy instruments used to control [...]Bulletin : Revue
Etudes Corses et Méditerranéennes, n. 86-87 - Du foncier pour quoi faire ? Les enjeux fonciers contemporains de la montagne méditerranéenne
J.-C. Paoli, ed. ; G. Vianey, ed. ; S. Koutsou, ed. | 2023Issus des 56 présentations faites au cours du séminaire de Corte, 14 textes ont été réunis dans ce numéro, après évaluation par une équipe de relecteurs, pour la plupart extérieurs au groupe des organisateurs du colloque. Les textes portent tant[...]