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Food systems are driven by incentives that often lead to food being discarded before entering the market and to the degradation of natural resources. Vegetable production in the water-scarce province of Almería, Spain, illustrates this and highl[...]Article
B. Coluccia ; D. Valente ; G. Fusco ; F. De Leo ; D. Porrini |Agriculture plays a key role in providing a wide range of ecosystem services, such as food, feed, fiber and biofuel, thus taking part in the economic development of countries. On the other hand, this sector also gives rise to negative externalit[...]Article
G.S. Cumming ; G. Epstein ; J.M. Anderies ; C.I. Apetrei ; J. Baggio ; Ö. Bodin ; S. Chawla ; H.S. Clements ; M. Cox ; L. Egli ; G.G. Gurney ; M. Lubell ; N. Magliocca ; T.H. Morrison ; B. Müller ; R. Seppelt ; M. Schlüter ; H. Unnikrishnan ; S. Villamayor-Tomas ; C.M. Weible |Institutions are vital to the sustainability of social-ecological systems, balancing individual and group interests and coordinating responses to change. Ecological decline and social conflict in many places, however, indicate that our understan[...]Article
As the world population grows, so do the challenges facing global agricultural systems. Increasing production to satisfy the world's demand for food, fiber and energy intensifies pressure on natural resources, especially soil and water. To face [...]Article
Agro-food networks are characterized by complex material exchanges among farms, processors, consumers, and waste managers involved in fertilization, food, feed and bioenergy production. Better coordination of material exchanges at the local scal[...]Article
This paper focuses on using the Ecological Footprint concept for sustainability assessment. The Ecological Footprint is a popular indicator of human use of environmental resources and is commonly presented at the country level by comparing the c[...]Article
There is a growing consensus that sustainable development requires a behavioral change, forced by firm decision-making. However, existing decision-supporting tools are unlikely to provide relevant information, hampered by the complexity of combi[...]Article
Efficient management of natural resources and environmental assets requires adequate assessment of natural capital on farms. Conceptual frameworks and practical measurement techniques to assess the state of natural capital assets and ecosystem s[...]Article
Recent research studies and policies about innovative solutions to reduce water and energy consumption in food production are briefly reviewed. Options to increase water use efficiency and productivity include soil mulching, drip irrigation, def[...]Actes de Congrès ou Communication isolée
Quest-ce donc que ces Communs dont tout le monde parle ? Leur origine est extérieure au monde juridique. Grâce au prix Nobel dElinor Ostrom, certains économistes ont, au début du XXIe siècle, remis au goût du jour la théorie des communs que l[...]Ouvrage
L'agriculture est au coeur de la géopolitique. Combien de conflits s'enracinent dans une terre disputée ou dans une eau rare ? Combien de révoltes sont aussi celles de la faim ? Peut-on rêver de souveraineté ou de puissance sans sécurité aliment[...]Ouvrage
Commission européenne (Bruxelles, Belgique) | Luxembourg [Luxembourg] : Office des Publications Officielles de l'Union Européenne | 2020There have been four such SCAR foresight reports since 2007 looking at the challenges facing agriculture overall; resilience and crisis in agriculture and food systems; resource scarcities; and the bioeconomy. Each has led to new EU initiative[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
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R. Hinson ; R. Lensink ; A. Mueller |Transformation of agribusiness is critical in light of the Agenda for Sustainable Development. FinTech and the integration of FinTech with other (green) technologies as well as with digitized agriculture plays an important role when it comes to,[...]Article
By accounting for both the supply and demand of ecosystem services (ES), it is possible to identify where ES are not able to satisfy human needs. In addition, human demands for natural resources continue to grow rapidly, risking the short supply[...]Article
Lanalyse des activités sylvo-pastorales associées à larganeraie, montre la pertinence du rôle joué par larganier, espèce endémique du Sud Ouest marocain, dans la vie des sociétés rurales dans une région marquée par laridité. Larganeraie con[...]Article
A redesign process at the farm level may be required for agricultural production systems to evolve in a manner that reduces their environmental and health impacts. This process leads to imagining configurations described as radical because the[...]Article
The gathering and commercialisation of non-timber forest products (NTFP) in Europe has repeatedly been praised for its potential to support rural development. However, political support mechanisms explicitly targeting NTFP remain underdeveloped.[...]E-Book
M.R. Mosquera-Losada, ed. ; R. Prabhu, ed. | Cambridge [United Kingdom] : Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing | Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science | 2019Agroforestry seeks to balance protection of forest resources, the exploitation of the ecosystem services that trees can contribute to agriculture and the role of agroforestry in diversifying the range of agricultural products and markets. This v[...]E-Book
Au XVIIe siècle, Rubens, Vermeer, Rembrandt et bien dautres utilisaient le bois de chêne de la Baltique, le lin ou le chanvre de Silésie, le pastel de Toulouse, lindigo des Indes Chaque uvre était « une surface réduite où convergeaient des r[...]Communication à un Congrès (avec Actes)
Face à laugmentation massive de lutilisation des produits phytosanitaires en agriculture, et aux conséquences de dégradation des ressources naturelles, les politiques actuelles en France, sont orientées vers des initiatives de diminution de l[...]Communication à un Congrès (avec Actes)
J. Caubel ; I. Nembrot ; S.J. Arredondo ; L. Bromblet ; J. Ramarohetra ; D. Gabriac ; S. Louvet ; J.-P. Boulanger ; O. Mghirbi ; J. Fabre ; E. Mandart ; P. Le Grusse | Poitiers [France] : Editions du GFP | 2019Lemploi des produits phytosanitaires pose des problèmes de pollution diffuse et de santé publique. Les plateformes web de gestion des risques agro-climatiques ClimaVista® Agro, dédiée aux grandes cultures (https://agro.climavista.com/), et Wine[...]Actes de Congrès ou Communication isolée
B. Delmas, dir. ; E. Le Roy, dir. ; G. Giraud, préf. | Paris [France] : Karthala | Hommes et Sociétés, ISSN 0993-4294 | 2019Les communs désignent des modes de gestion de ressources matérielles ou immatérielles, spécialement foncières. Ils sont fondés sur le partage des potentialités de ces ressources ou de leurs bénéfices, et ne relèvent ni de la propriété privée ni [...]Chapitre d'ouvrage
O. Bessaoud ; A. Sadiddin | Paris [France] : Presses de Sciences Po | Mediterra, ISSN 1960-8527 | 2019Les migrations en Méditerranée ont connu au cours de cette dernière décennie une mutation rapide, quil sagisse de leurs flux (plus massifs), de leurs formes (migrations clandestines), des profils des migrants (hommes, femmes, enfants), des des[...]