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Soil degradation is a global concern, decreasing the soils ability to perform a multitude of functions. In Europe, one of the leading causes of soil degradation is unsustainable agricultural practices. Hence, there is a need to explore alternat[...]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
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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
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
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[...]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
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[...]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
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
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
Big data represent a new productive factor (the new oil for advocates) that generates new realities in agriculture. By adding an extra cyber dimension to current farming systems, big data lead to the emergence of new, complex cyber-physical-[...]Article
Participatory guarantee systems (PGS) have become increasingly important for organic quality assurance. PGS are promoted as more suitable than third-party certification (TPC) for smallholder farmers in the Global South. The advocated benefits of[...]Article
G. Gamache ; J. Anglade ; R. Fèche ; F. Barataud ; C. Mignolet ; X. Coquil |Living labs are defined as both an approach and an arena for supporting experimentation in natural settings with a wide range of actors. In this article we explore the potential and limits of living labs for analysing and supporting the local tr[...]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
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
To meet the challenges of sustainability in agricultural system design, reducing the dependency on synthetic plant protection products has become a core issue. There are currently two major reasons for farmers' decision to reduce their use of sy[...]Article
Viticulture and winemaking have a strong socio-economic importance worldwide. Weather and climate represent key forcing factors for grapevine development, yields, and quality. Hence, climate change is expected to pose a strong impact on this cro[...]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
M. Alegoz ; O. Kaya ; Z.P. Bayindir |Over the past years, companies started to close the loop in their supply chains to comply with the regulations and increase the sustainability of their systems. In this study, we focus on the economic and environmental effects of closing the loo[...]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
M. Moraine ; J. Ryschawy ; M. Napoleone ; S. Ramonteu ; J.P. Choisis |Les complémentarités entre culture et élevage apparaissent de plus en plus comme des leviers de développement de pratiques durables. A léchelle territoire, ces complémentarités entre exploitations spécialisées permettent de recréer une diversit[...]Article
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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 increasing request for food sustainability is affecting the pasta sector in Italy. This phenomenon introduces different sources of uncertainties that, in turn, put pressure on all the stages of the supply chain, with a consequent emerging ne[...]Article
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
The dehesa is the most widespread agroforestry system within the European Union and provides an important set of provisioning, regulating, and cultural ecosystem services. However, these systems have been in decline for a number of years, to a g[...]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
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
Agriculture 4.0 is comprised of different already operational or developing technologies such as robotics, nanotechnology, synthetic protein, cellular agriculture, gene editing technology, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and machine learnin[...]Article
Analysis of energy consumed and greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted by farming systems is considered an important part of an environmental performance's evaluation, especially within an agroecological context. In this study, we focused on the aspects[...]Article
This introductory article presents the three main challenges faced in economics to issues raised by dietary models. The first part of this paper examines the dietary models that maximise the health profile of a population under various constrain[...]Article
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
Several studies have analyzed whether sustainability standardssuch as Fairtrade or Organicdeliver on their promise to benefit smallholder farmers in developing countries, with mixed results. We conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to [...]Article
Best management practices that could improve sustainability of dairy farming systems in northern Italy include crop rotation, green manure, sprinkler or drip irrigation, incorporation of crop residue, and adoption of a nutrient management plan. [...]Article
Compte tenu de lévolution des attentes de la société envers la qualité des produits et de lenvironnement, les exploitations agricoles devront de plus en plus sinscrire dans un objectif de durabilité encourageant une agriculture écologiquement[...]Article
The eco-schemes proposed by the European Commission for the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP ) have the potential to make agriculture more sustainable and climate smart. Based on Dutch policy advice we suggest basing the implementation on foo[...]Article
L. Ginelli ; J. Candau ; S. Girard ; M. Houdart ; V. Deldrève ; C. Noûs |Le présent article constitue une introduction au dossier thématique « Écologisation des pratiques et territorialisation des activités ». Partant du constat dune proximité implicite entre les deux processus, nous proposons une définition de léc[...]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 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
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
A. Naamane ; A. Sadiq ; A. Belhouari ; N. Iounes ; S. El Amrani |Une utilisation non raisonnée des engrais et des pesticides nuit à lenvironnement et en particulier aux sources deau ainsi quà la santé de lêtre humain à travers la nourriture. Dans le cadre de la surveillance des eaux de surface marocaine, [...]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
Environmental impact assessment of organic vs. integrated olive-oil systems in Mediterranean context
Olive oil is a widely used consumer product, so producers and consumers are increasingly looking for sustainable productions. The olive-oil production chain requires continuous improvements to gradually replace the most environmentally impactful[...]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
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
Among the Sustainable Development Objectives adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015, is the 12th objective of Ensuring sustainable production and consumption patterns which aims to promote the efficient use of resources[...]Article
P. Trivino-Tarradas ; P. Carranza-Cañadas ; F.-J. Mesas-Carrascosa ; E.J. González-Sánchez ; E.J. González-Sánchez |The volume of the food produced across the world should be related to agricultural sustainability and is crucial for natural capital protection. Hence, sustainability assessment on farms and the identification of improvements is relevant. A mixe[...]Article
Olive groves form characteristic Mediterranean socio-ecological landscapes, occupying more than 5 M ha; 2.5 M ha in Spain. In recent decades, traditional extensive management of olive groves has shifted to an intensive regime, with some cases of[...]Article
A. Abaab ; M. Neffati ; M. Sghaier ; T. Khorchani ; A. Nefzaoui ; A. Frija ; S. Jalouali ; Z. El Abidine Ghoudi |Un processus national visant la capitalisation de lexpérience tunisienne en matière damélioration pastorale a été engagé par plusieurs organismes de développement et de recherche au cours de la période 2016-2020. En outre, plusieurs partenaire[...]Article
Societies at large still grapple to categorize digital space as a phenomenon. At the same time, scientists and developers are searching for innovative methods to better understand how the fundamental shifts caused by digital change will affect t[...]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
The last few years have seen an exponential development of urban agriculture projects within global North countries, especially professional intra-urban farms which are professional forms of agriculture located within densely settled areas of ci[...]Article
J. Dwyer ; J. Dwyer ; C. Short ; M. Berriet-Solliec ; C. Déprès ; F.-G. Lataste ; K. Hart ; J. Prazan |In recent decades, various public policies have targeted agriculture and forestry's relationship with environmental protection and management. Among environmental policy communities the approach is increasingly framed through the theoretical con[...]Article
The information that crops offer is turned into profitable decisions only when efficiently managed. Current advances in data management are making Smart Farming grow exponentially as data have become the key element in modern agriculture to help[...]Article
Africa was the only continent not to achieve the 2015 Millennium Development Goal of 50% poverty reduction. This paper asks whether Africa will fare better in meeting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) addressing poverty and hunger by 2030. To[...]Article
Governing the second deep transition towards a circular economy: how rules emerge, align and diffuse
F. Kern ; H. Sharp ; S. Hachmann |The recently developed Deep Transitions framework has so far been mainly used to explore the first deep transition towards industrial modernity. This paper looks at a potential second deep transition towards a circular economy, which is hoped to[...]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
B. Sastre ; B. Álvarez ; O. Antón ; M.A. Pérez ; M.J. Marques ; R. Bienes ; A. García-Díaz |Olive groves on the Mediterranean Basin are usually managed by continuous tillage and low organic matter inputs, leading to several soil degradation processes. Groundcovers (GCs) have come out as an alternative soil management strategy to improv[...]Article
F. Galli ; P. Prosperi ; E. Favilli ; S. D'Amico ; F. Bartolini ; G. Brunori |A new food policy coherent with the goal of achieving sustainable food systems implies changing visions and radically revising the understanding of the system on which agricultural and food-related policies act. This paper identifies and discuss[...]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
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
P. Reidsma ; M.P.M. Meuwissen ; F. Accatino ; F. Appel ; I. Bardaji ; I. Coopmans ; C. Gavrilescu ; F. Heinrich ; V. Krupin ; G. Manevska-Tasevska ; M. Peneva ; J. Rommel ; S. Severini ; B. Soriano ; J. Urquhart ; K. Zawalinska ; W. Paas |An increasing variety of stresses and shocks provides challenges and opportunities for EU farming systems. This article presents findings of a participatory assessment on the sustainability and resilience of eleven EU farming systems, to inform [...]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
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
The paper aims to analyze the agri-food supply chains to identify possible fields of intervention that improve logistics and the management of the entire supply chains by introducing technologies and devices in the 4.0 perspective. The agri-food[...]Article
The use of intensive high-yield agricultural systems has proved to be a feasible alternative to traditional systems as they able to meet the objective of guaranteeing long-term sustainability in the supply of food. In order to implement these sy[...]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
G. Nikolaou ; D. Neocleous ; A. Christou ; E. Kitta ; N. Katsoulas |The sustainability of irrigated agriculture is threatening due to adverse climate change, given future projections that every one in four people on Earth might be suffering from extreme water scarcity by the year 2025. Pressurized irrigation sys[...]Article
O. Gava ; F. Bartolini ; F. Venturi ; G. Brunori ; A. Pardossi |Life cycle assessment is a widespread method for measuring and monitoring the environmental impacts of production processes, thereby allowing the comparison of business-as-usual with more ecological scenarios. Life cycle assessment research can [...]Article
S. Bröring ; N. Laibach ; M. Wustmans |Many factors such as fossil resource scarcity and new technological developments have brought the bioeconomy, an economy based on the use of biomass or bio-based processes, into the focus. Although many authors and national strategies view bioec[...]Article
A variety of indicator-based methods have been developed for the sustainability assessment of farming systems (FSs). However, many of them lack holisticity, focus on a specific agricultural sector/product, and do not provide aggregated results t[...]Article
Integrating stakeholder views and system dynamics to assess the waterenergyfood nexus in Andalusia
A nexus approach can support the transition to sustainability by addressing trade-offs and pursuing synergies to improve water, energy, and food security. In this paper, a participatory system dynamics model was developed to identify and assess [...]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
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
We examine the potential demand for a local food speciality product, saffron, with alternative labels, using a choice experiment. The paper contributes to the literature on credence attributes, by examining Willingness to Pay (WTP) for the local[...]Article
The Region of Murcia (south-east Spain) is a world-leading agricultural producer which exports 2.5 million tonnes of fruit and vegetables per year. It holds a leading position in international sales of many fresh products including lettuce, broc[...]Article
Increasing sustainable productivity growth in the food and agriculture sector is a common goal of all OECD and G20 countries. At the same time, an important policy question for many governments is how the current set of agricultural policies aff[...]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
O. Brînzan ; M. Dragoi ; D. Bociort ; E. Tigan ; N. Mateoc-Sîrb ; M. Lungu |The paper presents a market-oriented system of returnable guarantees that can be combined with tradable permits to encourage farmers to use alternative sources of water instead of the regular watering network, or to steer the farming system towa[...]Article
C. Laboubee ; C. Couturier ; S. Bonhomme ; A. Damiano ; S. Hruschka ; E. Tignon ; E. Paillard ; P. Lelievre ; G. Vrignaud ; C. Dumas Larfeil ; C. Durox |Ce sont les agriculteurs méthaniseurs qui ont mis le projet sur la voie, en expliquant comment la méthanisation a changé, parfois en profondeur, leurs façons de produire ; comment elle a été bien plus quun moyen de se diversifier autour de la p[...]Article
With the growing population and climate change, increasing demands for water are intensifying competition between agricultural stakeholders. Since the mid-20th century, numerous crop models and modeling techniques have emerged for the quantitati[...]Article
A. Elbeltagi ; J. Deng ; K. Wang ; A. Malik ; S. Maroufpoor |Crop evapotranspiration (ETc) is one of the most basic components of the hydrologic cycle that is effective in irrigation system design and management, water resources planning and scheduling, and hydrologic water balance. Thus, precise estimati[...]Article
In intensive agricultural systems, irrigation and nitrogen (N) fertilizer are the most important factors that influence crop production and N losses. This work aimed to evaluate the N best management practices using the calibrated and validated [...]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
R. Padró ; E. Tello ; I. Marco ; J.R. Olarieta ; M.M. Grasa ; C. Font |There is a need for a socioecological transition towards sustainable agri-food systems that recover the organic functioning and the closure of socio-metabolic cycles at the lower feasible scales. This implies an agroecology leap forward aimed at[...]Article
Over time, sustainability has gained a greater presence in companies and with consumers around the world, although it can be said that there is still some confusion in its conceptualization and in the identification of the driving factors. A par[...]Article
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
S. Nayeri ; M.M. Paydar ; E. Asadi-Gangraj ; S. Emami |Nowadays, the importance of sustainable development has persuaded the supply chain managers to shift their network to sustainable supply. This research develops a multi-objective mathematical model to configure a Sustainable Closed-Loop Supply C[...]Article
Natural wine is a small but rapidly growing sector within the wine industry. Expertise in the field has been advanced by wine experts and professionals, while publications to aid in further understanding the topic lag behind. This manuscript hig[...]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
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
Water Stewardship means that all water users within a catchment context work collaboratively for sustainable water management. The Water and Productivity Project (WAPRO) has been bringing together stakeholders from various countries for this pur[...]Article
Sustainable supply chain management has been a topic of high interest to scholars and practitioners over the last 30 years. Accordingly, many review papers have been published on this topic with various areas of focus. Nevertheless, the overall [...]Article
C. Peano ; S. Massaglia ; C. Ghisalberti ; F. Sottile |A growing awareness that highly intensified agricultural systems have made a substantial worldwide contribution to the worsening of the resilience capacity of natural ecosystems has, over the last twenty years, brought general attention to agroe[...]Article
Sur la base dun terrain ethnographique dans le milieu de la permaculture en Suisse romande, nous mettons en évidence les dynamiques initiées par la permaculture au sein des territoires dans lesquels elle se déploie. Nous qualifions de « mésolog[...]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[...]