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V. Alary ; S. Messad ; A. Aboul-Naga ; M.A. Osman ; T.H. Abdelsabour ; A.-A.E. Salah ; X. Juanes |On newly cultivated lands in deserts as in the majority of dryland areas, the sustainability of agricultural systems is often debated in terms of socioeconomic viability and agro-ecological longevity. In these contexts, livestock production syst[...]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
C. Gras ; D.M. Cáceres |Framed by efficiency and productivity narratives, technological innovations are conceived as the inexorable pathway to agricultural development, obscuring the associated appropriation of ecological surpluses and depletion of natural resources. I[...]Article
To cope with ever-increasing demand and ensure food security, agronomic systems have shifted over time from traditional agriculture, based on the organic fertilization of soils, to intensive and specialized farming that use chemical fertilizatio[...]Article
Climate variability in agriculture and crop water requirement: spatial analysis of Italian provinces
Water saving in crop production under climate and environmental changing conditions represents a critical issue for agricultural economy and sustainability. This study develops a novel approach to measure the impact of climate variability on cro[...]Article
Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) is spreading worldwide for its applications on livestock farms, in both intensive and extensive systems. PLF has started being adopted only recently, but the need of technological support on farm is getting more[...]Article
The challenge of transitioning from a linear to a circular economy model is still ongoing and requires the development and application of new knowledge, leading to innovative, technological, and sustainable processes, products, and services. The[...]Article
The aim of the paper is to recognize the level of employment and gross value added (GVA) in agriculture in relation to the other sectors of the European Union economy. The following research tasks were formulated: analysis of employment levels a[...]Article
In this study, an integrated environmental risk assessment (ERA) study involving frequent monitoring of both water and soil parameters (24 on total), was carried out to assess and compare the environmental risk quality of three pistachio (Pistac[...]Article
G. Barcaccia ; V. D'Agonisto ; A. Zotti ; B. Cozzi |The recent outbreak of a new Coronavirus has developed into a global pandemic with about 10.5 million reported cases and over 500,000 deaths worldwide. Our prospective paper reports an updated analysis of the impact that this pandemic had on the[...]Article
Dairy cows are able to convert fibrous materials, such as grass, roughage, and by-products from the food industry, into milk and meat, which justifies their role in food production. However, modern dairy farming is associated with major sustaina[...]Article
This paper contributes to the theoretical debate in agri-food economics on sustainable innovations. Specifically, it aims to define an interpretative model of sustainable innovation processes conceived at the supply chain level, and the determin[...]Article
Pesticides play a crucial role in regulating crop production by reducing crop losses and increasing crop yield and quality. However, they may threaten surface and groundwater, a phenomenon occurring at global scale, potentially causing environme[...]Article
Prior to any sustainability assessment and/or any effort to understand or develop the agricultural sector, the acknowledgment of the diversity of farming systems (FSs) is crucial. Typologies are often used for this purpose. The goals of this stu[...]Article
I. Coteur ; H. Wustenberghs ; L. Debruyne ; L. Lauwers ; F. Marchand |A multitude of farm-level sustainability assessment tools (SATs) exists, reflecting a variety of agricultural practices and sustainability perceptions. Tools differ and insight is lacking about how they match with farmers' needs. This paper exam[...]Article
Social and environmental awareness of consumers force supply chains to be more sustainable. This paper studies the coordination problem for a single manufacturer-single retailer sustainable supply chain model in presence of consumers? environmen[...]Article
The Sustainable Society Index (SSI) is known as a comprehensive index that contains substantive aspects of all three dimensions of sustainable development (SD): social, environmental, and economic. This paper assesses the reliability (internal c[...]Article
Cooperation among farmers is an effective alternative to reduce production costs in smallholdings of traditional olive groves and increase their low profitability. However, an increase in efficiency reduces working hours and the labour required [...]Article
L. El Ansari ; R. Chenoune ; Y.A. Yigezu ; C. Gary ; H. Belhouchette |A lot of national and international effort has been made to promote sustainable agricultural production systems in drylands. However, success has been seriously limited due to lack of thorough characterization of the impact of the diversity of f[...]Article
N. Chams ; B. Guesmi ; J. María Gil |Due to the climate change and increased attention toward environmental management issues, the agri-food sector has been extensively relying on research, development, and innovation (RDi) to transform conventional agricultural production into a s[...]Article
Cultivation and sustainability of Date palm in Palestine is the main focus of this paper. Lifecycle and food supply chain are represented using integrated definition block diagram showing the inputs and outputs of date palm tree cultivation. Dou[...]Article
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is a technologically innovative response to the challenges faced by agriculture due to climate change. Its implementation needs a change of mentality in the direction of an approach that takes into account how the[...]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
Climate change will affect the water resources system, on global and regional levels. Over the past thirty years, the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco have experienced severe droughts, which causes a decrease in water supply that affects both agr[...]Article
V.A. Tzanakakis ; V.A. Tzanakakis ; A.N. Angelakis ; N.V. Paranychianakis ; Y.G. Dialynas ; G. Tchobanoglous |Crete, located in the South Mediterranean Sea, is characterized by long coastal areas, varied terrain relief and geology, and great spatial and inter-annual variations in precipitation. Under average meteorological conditions, the island is wate[...]Article
I.L. Birtalan ; A. Bartha ; A. Neulinger ; G. Bardos ; A. Olah ; J. Racz ; A. Rigo |Background: There is a growing amount of research interest to understand the role of food in well-being. The demand for community supported agriculture (CSA), bringing people spatially, economically, and socially closer to food, is continuously [...]Article
H. El Bilali ; G. Calabrese ; M. Iannetta ; M. Stefanova ; F. Paoletti ; G. Ladisa ; F. Bottalico ; R. Capone |The paper introduces an approach, developed in Agriculture & Quality programme, to evaluate the environmental sustainability of Apulian quality agro-food products that is integrated in the regional quality scheme Quality Products. It highlight[...]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
Green infrastructure (GI) is a nature-based solution that encompasses all actions that rely on ecosystems and the services they provide to respond to various societal challenges such as climate change, food security or disaster risk. The objecti[...]Article
Dealing jointly with both systemic and social complexity is a challenge that we face with sustainability issues. However, joining these two aspects of complexity is more a post-normal science call than an effective practice. Roughly speaking, [...]Article
Transitions literature regards technologies as critical components in shifting systems towards sustainability, which has informed the development of the technology-oriented Technological Innovation System (TIS) framework. The emerging discourse [...]Article
Despite the fact that policy makers and governments are promoting the development of diverse agro-bio food systems to push and promote sustainability, they are challenging to implement because of a series of obstacles that hinder a successful tr[...]Article
La période de confinement actuelle nous interpelle en tant que consommateurs, en tant qu'opérateurs et chercheurs, afin de prendre la mesure de la catastrophe actuelle et éveiller notre conscience sur l'importance de notre environnement. Elle me[...]Article
V. Boselli ; A. Ouallali ; H. Briak ; M. Houssni ; J. Kassout ; A. El Ouahrani ; E.M. Michailidi |erraced agroecosystems (TAS)apart from being an important cultural heritage elementare considered vital for sustainable water resource management and climate change adaptation measures. However, this traditional form of agriculture, with direc[...]Article
Over the last few years, there has been a growing concern among academics and practitioners about the slow pace in which sustainability transformations unfold. While most socio-technical transformations tend to happen over extended periods, rese[...]Article
A. Santoro ; M. Venturi ; S. Ben Maachia ; F. Benyahia ; F. Corrieri ; F. Piras ; M. Agnoletti |Traditional agricultural systems are receiving increasing attention at the international level due to their multifunctional role. The Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FA[...]Article
Consumers are increasingly concerned about the way their food is produced. This is particularly relevant in the case of meat, due to the impacts that its production methods can have on greenhouse gas emissions and its role in climate change. In [...]Article
The value-added diversification strategy provides an option for guaranteeing the sustainability of small farms. This study examines how factors related to managerial strategy and socio-environmental sustainability influence the efficiency of div[...]Article
Sustainable development is a multi-dimensional concept, which emphasizes integration and striking a dynamic balance between economic, social and environmental aspects in a region, to ensure inter-generational and intra-generational equity. One o[...]Article
In recent years, the environmental sustainability of agri-food systems has become a crucial issue. Agri-food firms are increasingly concerned with the implementation of viable environmentally friendly production processes. The environmental impa[...]Article
C. Font ; R. Padró ; C. Cattaneo ; J. Marull ; E. Tello ; A. Alabert ; M. Farré |In this paper we propose an approach to understand how different farmers goals can contribute to structure cultural landscapes and how the information-as-structure held in energy flows within farm systems can be measured. We start from a histor[...]Article
Measurement in interdisciplinary research can be difficult due to incompatibility of measures used in the different disciplines. These difficulties arise when measurements from different disciplines need to be combined to quantify an attribute f[...]Article
H. Mairech ; A. López-Bernal ; M. Moriondo ; C. Dibari ; L. Regni ; P. Proietti ; F.J. Villalobos ; L. Testi |Olive (Olea europaea L.) is a widely spread tree species in the Mediterranean. In the last decades, olive farming has known major management changes with high economic and environmental impacts. The fast track expansion of this modern olive farm[...]Article
There are numerous studies and publications about sustainable agriculture. Many papers argue that sustainable agriculture is necessary, and analyze how this goal could be achieved. At the same time, studies question the sustainability of agricul[...]Article
Peut-on analyser les politiques de développement durable comme nimporte quel domaine des politiques publiques ? Jusquà aujourdhui les questions environnementales ont disposé dun statut à part dans lanalyse des politiques publiques. Dans un [...]Article
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Agroecology has been suggested as a promising concept for reconciling agricultural production and environmental sustainability by optimizing ecological processes that deliver ecosystem services (ES) to replace external inputs. While this stateme[...]Article
In the last few decades, a great deal has been written on the use of sustainable agriculture to improve the resilience of ecosystem services to climate change. However, no tangible and systematic evidence exists on how this agriculture would par[...]Article
C. Paraskevopoulou ; A. Theodoridis ; M. Johnson ; A. Ragkos ; L. Arguile ; L. Smith ; D. Vlachos ; G. Arsenos |European sheep and goat farming faces diverse challenges at global or local scales and constitutes an important sector for many countries, playing important sociocultural, economic and environmental roles. A closer examination of the overall sus[...]Article
In recent years, farmers and policymakers have faced ample challenges and have struggled to support the sustainability of the agricultural sector. Sustainable agriculture encompasses multiple concepts, and its performance produces extensive deba[...]