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The food security paradigm shifted from diet quantity to diet quality and consumption of a satisfactory amount of micronutrients around the world. Low dietary diversification and imbalance consumption of food groups are the main characteristics [...]Article
The response of the global food system to the Covid-19 crisis demonstrated not just its capacity to prevent a health crisis turning into a food crisis, but also highlighted deep divisions around the manner in which food security and climate acti[...]Article
R. Aldaco ; D. Hoehn ; J. Laso ; M. Margallo ; J. Ruiz-Salmon ; J. Cristobal ; R. Kahhat ; P. Villanueva-Rey ; A. Bala ; L. Batlle-Bayer ; P. Fullana-i-Palmer ; A. Irabien ; I. Vázquez-Rowe |Improving the food supply chain efficiency has been identified as an essential means to enhance food security, while reducing pressure on natural resources. Adequate food loss and waste (FLW) management has been proposed as an approach to meet t[...]Article
This paper analyzes the causes and effects of the COVID-19 crisis, with a specific focus on the food system. Food consumption and production has not only been impacted by the crisis, but it may have also contributed to causing the pandemic. Afte[...]Article
As a result of the growing awareness of the need to prevent food waste, several initiatives have been launched in the last few years to reduce food waste generated across the food supply chain. However, the evaluation of food waste prevention in[...]Article
Food security faces many multifaceted challenges, with effects ranging far beyond the sectors of agriculture and food science and involving all the multiscale components of sustainability. This paper puts forward our point of view about more sus[...]Article
R. Ridolfi ; S. Dernini ; J. Morrison ; A.M. Mathiesen ; R. Capone |The Coronavirus pandemic has revealed the fragility of our food systems, affecting all dimensions of food security and nutrition across the world. It has highlighted how deeply our world is interconnected and the importance of better recognising[...]Article
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[...]Article
D. Sarkar ; S.K. Kar ; A. Chattopadhyay ; Shikha, ; A. Rakshit ; V.K. Tripathi ; P.K. Dubey ; P.C. Abhilash |Maximizing food production for feeding a rapidly growing human population while minimizing critical resource use and soil quality degradation is a major challenge for global sustainability. Sustainable agricultural practices based on low-externa[...]Article
Irrigated agriculture is essential to satisfying the globally increasing demand for food and bio-based products. Yet, in water scarce regions, water-use for irrigation aggravates the competition for the use of water for other purposes, such as e[...]Article
La sécurité alimentaire de lAlgérie est en grande partie dépendante de deux facteurs fortement impactés par la pandémie de la covid-19 : les finances publiques et le marché mondial des produits alimentaires. Le poids des importations dans la sa[...]Article
During the past few decades many types of research have been studied Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) but the most of these researches were focused on CSR effect on enterprise performance, but less attention has been given to the public per[...]Article
S. Liu |The food supply has been disrupted by COVID-19. Shopping in supermarkets and grocery stores in the pandemic may not be a pleasant experience, as it can often lead to disappointment and anxiety since a lot of food items are not available or out o[...]Article
The maintenance or even more the enhancement of stuttering networks and supply chains suffering the imperfections of globalisation have been critically stressed by the pandemic. Solutions will require technology, innovation, and political determ[...]Article
Resilience of food systems is being tested by the COVID-19 disruption. As with any severe disruption, collapse of some systems, innovation in others, and total reorganization of some will occur. Direct delivery of food, online farmers markets, c[...]Article
J. Phillipson ; M. Gorton ; R. Turner ; M. Shucksmith ; K. Aitken-McDermott ; F. Areal ; P. Cowie ; S. Maioli ; R. McAreavey ; D.M. Souza Monteiro ; R. Newbery ; L. Panzone ; F. Rowe ; S. Shortall |This paper presents a rapid assessment of current and likely future impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on rural economies given their socio-economic characteristics. Drawing principally on current evidence for the UK, as well as lessons from the 2[...]Article
Parmi les différentes acceptions et mots dérivés de lagriculture urbaine, le terme agriurbain désigne plus spécifiquement des processus de territorialisation de lagriculture à proximité des villes. Cet article porte sur lémergence du terme ag[...]Article
The challenge of sustainability and the need to secure the production of high-quality, affordable and healthy food, have led to the emergence of alternative food production/distribution schemes that, based on technological or organizational inno[...]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
One of the most widely discussed reports addressing sustainable food production and healthy diets is Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT ‐Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems (EAT ‐Lancet) launched in Januar[...]Article
Africa has a huge opportunity to make agriculture its economic driver. However, the potential for this is far from being made exhaustive use of, one reason being that women face considerable difficulties in their economic activities. The organis[...]Article
Les productions et les systèmes alimentaires évolueront en fonction de la démographie, du revenu des consommateurs mais aussi du changement climatique.Article
Unfair Trading Practices (UTPs) between businesses in the food supply chain have a significant impact on the various stakeholders involved, and on the environment. So far, no attempt has been made at the Member State level for the identification[...]Article
Farm structure is a multi-dimensional concept that can be measured through different criteria. Meanwhile, farm structure has been identified to discern small farms or well-endowed farms from the other farms. Distinguishing and identifying these [...]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[...]Article
Large scale urban agriculture (UA) has been considered as a potential contributor to the sustainability and the resilience of the food system. However, its synergy with the tackling of another main challenge in cities, namely the management of o[...]Article
One of the greatest 21st century challenges is meeting the need to feed a growing world population which is expected to increase by about 35% by 2050. To meet this challenge, it is necessary to make major improvements on current food production [...]Article
M. Castrica ; V. Ventura ; S. Panseri ; G. Ferrazzi ; D. Tedesco ; C.M. Balzaretti |Background: Urban food production in the developed world has recently been facing the challenge of feeding the worlds cities adequately and on a sustainable basis, and innovative models of food production can help this transition. Nevertheless,[...]Article
Blockchain is today one of the most interesting and debated research topics. Blockchain technology was implemented for the first time in the financial sector a few years ago. However, it is currently used in many other areas, such as: healthcare[...]Article
E. Barberis ; D. Freddi ; R. Giammetti ; P. Polidori ; D. Teobaldelli ; E. Vigano |This article aims to analyse the European pig sector and its transformations (e.g. vertical integration and phase specialization). In particular, we will both explore the specialization and territorial concentration of pig production, and the si[...]