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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
R. Santagata ; A. Zucaro ; S. Viglia ; M. Ripa ; X. Tian ; S. Ulgiati |Circular Economy (CE) concepts and tools are getting increasing attention with regard to their implementation in agricultural, urban and industrial sectors towards innovative business models to optimize resource use, process performances and dev[...]Article
The need to redesign more sustainable agricultural systems able of producing more, especially through intercropping or agroforestry, cannot be achieved without taking into account the essential aspect of production variability. Yet, although man[...]Article
S. Fabiani ; S. Vanino ; R. Napoli ; P. Nino |Sustainable management of natural resources under economic, environmental and social perspective, needs to consider a fair balance between its uses and availability. Sustainable agriculture goal is to establish innovative and new farm tools and [...]Article
This study aimed to assess the sustainability in water use at the basin scale through the water footprint (WF). The methodology proposed by the Water Footprint Network was integrated with a hydrological and water quality model and in-stream moni[...]Chapitre d'ouvrage
K. Meter | Londres [Royaume-Uni] : Routledge | Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment | 2020Food system assessments may be able to simplify their approach, and foster more effective action, by framing the food system to be assessed as a complex adaptive system (CAS): as a system in which component entities are learning from each othe[...]Chapitre d'ouvrage
A. Palmer ; R. Santo ; R. Santo | Londres [Royaume-Uni] : Routledge | Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment | 2020Food policy councils (FPCs) aim to foster more just, healthy, and sustainable food systems by discussing, shaping, and assessing food system policies and programmes in their communities. Many struggle, however, to understand how to effectively e[...]Article
Le défi majeur du monde agricole aujourdhui est de réduire de façon drastique lusage des pesticides tout en maintenant un niveau de rendement, de qualité et de rentabilité satisfaisant. Dans le cadre dun projet de recherche, nous avons étudié[...]Chapitre d'ouvrage
M. Maire ; M. Qarro ; M. Segur ; N. Robert ; F. Gouriveau ; M. Estévez Malvar ; S. Martínez Martínez ; P. Sfeir | Rome [Italie] : FAO | 2020Article
Effective management of the end-to-end process of a food industry is vital for the achievement of the key strategic objectives of this organisation. However, various factors have limited the performance and productivity of the supply chain syste[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
E. Lemaitre-Curri, dir. ; W. Essahli ; S. Kouvelis | Marseille [France] : Plan Bleu | Sustainable Development Paper | 2020Based on a voluntary principle and equal participation for involved Contracting Parties, the Simplified Peer Review Mechanism (SIMPEER) aims at fostering dialogue between Mediterranean countries for a mutual improvement and learning process on N[...]Article
R. Lardy ; B. Lacroix ; S. Gendre ; O. Therond ; D. Leenhardt ; C. Murgue ; U. Eza |Dans le cadre de lapplication de la loi sur leau et les milieux aquatiques de 2006, les Organismes Uniques de Gestion Collective (OUGC) sont chargés d'élaborer, pour chaque périmètre élémentaire, un plan de répartition entre préleveurs irrigan[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
The SoED provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of environment and development interactions in the Mediterranean region. The 2020 version consists of eight thematic chapters and is complemented by two summary papers: Summary for Deci[...]Communication à un Congrès (avec Actes)
O. Zaganjori ; V. Krepl ; M. Mansoor ; S.N.K. Appiah-Kubi | Prague [République Tchèque] : CZU | 2020The objective of this paper is to assess the sustainability of agricultural systems in Albania based on a multi-criteria approach. For this purpose, TOPSIS methodology is applied. Considering that there is no single widely accepted sustainabilit[...]Chapitre d'ouvrage
A. Blay-Palmer ; D. Conaré ; K. Meter ; A.D. Battista ; D. Conaré ; K. Meter ; A.D. Battista | Londres [Royaume-Uni] : Routledge | Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment | 2020In the last 20 years scores of projects have set out to better understand and measure dimensions of food system sustainability, as well as to review the assessment process itself, including the needs of stakeholders, their questions and areas of[...]Article
M. Dallimer ; J. Martín-Ortega ; O. Rendon ; S. Afionis ; R. Bark ; I.J. Gordon ; J. Paavola |Ecosystems can buffer against adverse events and, by so doing, reduce the costs of risk-bearing to society; benefits which have been termed insurance value. Although the terminology is recent, the concept is older and has its roots in ecologic[...]Chapitre d'ouvrage
A. Blay-Palmer ; D. Conaré ; K. Meter ; A.D. Battista | Londres [Royaume-Uni] : Routledge | Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment | 2020The chapter describes how the book adds to the literature and provides evidence and examples about how sustainable food systems can provide conceptual and operational foundations as well as goals and outcomes that support change. The processes a[...]Chapitre d'ouvrage
G. Santini ; M. Dubbeling ; A. Blay-Palmer ; M. Dubbeling ; A. Blay-Palmer | Londres [Royaume-Uni] : Routledge | Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment | 2020A City Region Food System (CRFS) approach to food system assessment offers concrete policy and capacity-building guidance to address complex sustainable development issues and to more directly link rural and urban areas and communities. In turn,[...]Article
Eradicating world hungerthe aim of Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2)requires a socialecological approach to agrifood systems. However, previous work has mostly focused on one or the other. Here, we apply such a holistic approach to depict[...]Article
Poultry farming contributes to food security, economic development, stability and social equitability for the farmer and his family and supports social bonds. The intervention of these functions together leads to the social and economic sustaina[...]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
Italy recently reformed its food waste policy by introducing innovative measures, such as the possibility of donating food after the best-before date (BBD) and a significant simplification of the bureaucracy of donations. These measures are advo[...]Article
C. Sassanelli ; P. Rosa ; R. Rocca ; S. Terzi |The depletion of resources and the downgrading of the environment, driven by globalization and consumerism phenomena, is worldwide pushing the interest on the Circular Economy (CE) concept. Supposed to substitute the end-of-life notion with rest[...]Article
S. Mithun Ali ; M.A. Moktadir ; G. Kabir ; J. Chakma ; M.J.U. Rumi ; M.T. Islam |Over the years, food supply chains (FSCs) have faced various challenges, including supply chain interruptions. Previous studies focused only on household food waste. In this study, the FSCs risks is connected with food wastage to develop sustain[...]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
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J. Hale ; K. Legun ; H. Campbell ; M. Carolan |We are living in an era of the audit. Sustainability indicators are used to ensure that industries are behaving responsibly. The audits are well elaborated in their environmental requirements, but they are often less directly engaged with issues[...]Article
S.T. Tawk ; M. Chedid ; A. Chalak ; S. Karam ; S.K. Hamadeh |The farming sector in Lebanon, particularly grains production, is threatened by environmental, socio-economic, and political factors that have led to a high dependence on food imports, thereby under mining national food security. This study focu[...]Article
The use of geo-tagged photographs seems to be a promising alternative to assess Cultural Ecosystem Services CESs in respect to the traditional investigation when focusing on the study of the aesthetic appreciation of a protected area or natural [...]Article
The effects of globalization have often been adverse for the agricultural sector, especially its most vulnerable elementthe small farm. The importance of the agricultural sector as a whole and small farms in the sense of ensuring food security,[...]