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Auteur M. Rivera |
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O.M. Moreno-Pérez ; L. Arnalte-Mur ; P. Cerrada-Serra ; V. Martinez-Gomez ; A. Adamsone-Fiskovica ; H. Bjørkhaug ; G. Brunori ; M. Czekaj ; D. Duckett ; P.A. Hernández ; C. Noble ; T. Pinto-Correia ; A. Plonka ; P. Prosperi ; M. Redman ; M. Rivera ; S. Sumane ; D. Ortiz-Miranda |This study stems from a participatory foresight exercise conducted in nine Mediterranean, Baltic, Nordic and Eastern European regions, aiming to strengthen the role of small farms and small food businesses in ensuring food security. A wide range[...]![]()
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P. Prosperi ; F. Galli ; O.M. Moreno-Pérez ; Y. Chiffoleau ; S. Grando ; P. Karanikolas ; M. Rivera ; G. Goussios ; T. Pinto-Correia ; G. Brunori |With growing concern for the unsustainability of food systems, the international research community has turned its attention to small farms as key actors to potentially face the global food crisis. This study aims to support a policy design that[...]![]()
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D. Ortiz-Miranda ; O. Moreno-Pérez ; L. Arnalte-Mur ; P. Cerrada-Serra ; V. Martinez-Gomez ; B. Adolph ; J. Atela ; S. Ayambila ; I. Baptista ; R. Barbu ; H. Bjørkhaug ; M. Czekaj ; D. Duckett ; A. Fortes ; F. Galli ; G. Goussios ; P.A. Hernández ; P. Karanikolas ; K. Machila ; E. Oikonomopoulou ; P. Prosperi ; M. Rivera ; L. Satola ; M. Szafranska ; T. Tisenkopfs ; C. Tonui ; R. Yeboah |This paper presents the cross-regional comparative analysis of a participatory scenario planning exercise conducted in 13 regions of 13 countries in both Europe and Africa as part of the H2020 research project SALSA Small farms, small food busi[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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Small farms are a key part of the system of food flows that happen outside of marketing channels, and which is a crucial source of food for to the most vulnerable part of the world population living in the rural or connected to the rural through[...]![]()
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P. Karanikolas ; V. Martinez-Gomez ; F. Galli ; P. Prosperi ; P.A. Hernández ; L. Arnalte-Mura ; M. Rivera ; G. Goussios ; L. Fastelli ; E. Oikonomopoulou ; A. Fonseca |This study aims to identify the various forms of integration of olive-oil-producing small farms (OSFs) into food systems in four Southern European regions, as well as to identify the most beneficial strategies of integration. Drawing on data fro[...]![]()
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M. Rivera ; A. Guarin ; T. Pinto-Correia ; H. Almaas ; L. Arnalte Mur ; V. Burns ; M. Czekaj ; R. Ellis ; F. Galli ; M. Grivins ; P. Hernández ; P. Karanikolas ; P. Prosperi ; P. Sánchez-Zamora |The importance of small farms is well established and recognized in developing countries, but far less is known about their role in Europe, where agriculture is largely industrialized. In this paper we use a comparative analysis of evidence from[...]![]()
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F. Galli ; S. Grando ; A. Adamsone-Fiskovica ; H. Bjørkhaug ; M. Czekaj ; D.G. Duckett ; H. Almaas ; P. Karanikolas ; O.M. Moreno-Pérez ; D. Ortiz-Miranda ; T. Pinto-Correia ; P. Prosperi ; M. Redman ; M. Rivera ; I. Toma ; P. Sánchez-Zamora ; S. Sumane ; K. Zmija ; D. Zmija ; G. Brunori |Despite a longstanding literature on small farm-households, there is limited consideration of small farms role in food and nutrition security (FNS) at territorial level. The purpose of this study is to provide insights about how small farms con[...]![]()
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We propose a new typology of small farms in Europe using a multivariate analysis drawing from household surveys from 14 European countries. The variables to develop the types covered a range of characteristics from farmers' histories and motivat[...]![]()
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S. Sumane ; I. Kunda ; K. Knickel ; A. Strauss ; T. Tisenkopfs ; I. Des Ios Rios ; M. Rivera ; T. Chebach ; A. Ashkenazy |The widespread transformations in farming practices during recent decades across many parts of Europe increased capital intensity, scale enlargement, specialization, intensification and mechanization have been accompanied by a quite dramatic s[...]