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Climate change, characterized by rising temperatures and limited precipitation, has intensified the demand for irrigation water while simultaneously restricting its availability. This challenge poses significant risks to agricultural and food pr[...]Article
E. Frasnetti ; P. Ravaglia ; D. D'Ammaro ; E. Capri ; L. Lamastra |Nowadays, there is a pressing demand for precise tools to quantify sustainability and assess the contributions of products and processes to sustainable development. This requirement extends to the wine industry as well. In 2013, the European Com[...]Article
C. Geppert ; M. da Cruz ; A. Alma ; L. Andretta ; G. Anfora ; D. Battaglia ; G. Burgio ; V. Caccavo ; S.G. Chiesa ; F. Cinquatti ; A. Cocco ; E. Costi ; I. D'Isita ; C. Duso ; A.P. Garonna ; G.S. Germinara ; P.L. Bue ; A. Lucchi ; L. Maistrello ; R. Mannu ; E. Marchesini ; A. Masetti ; L. Mazzon ; N. Mori ; G. Ortis ; E. Peri ; G. Pescara ; S.C. Prazaru ; G. Ragone ; I.E. Rigamonti ; M.C. Rosi ; G. Rotundo ; P. Sacchetti ; S. Savoldelli ; P. Suma ; G. Tamburini ; G.T. Garzia ; L. Marini |Context Worldwide, organic farming is being promoted as one of the main alternatives to intensive conventional farming. However, the benefits of organic agriculture are still controversial and need to be tested across wide environmental gradient[...]Article
The intensification of Mediterranean farming systems has adversely affected the environment. As a result, climate change, soil and land degradation, and biodiversity loss have been exacerbated. A potential solution for addressing these challenge[...]Article
The European Parliament has recently passed the Nature Recovery law to restore degraded ecosystems and prevent natural disasters as part of its Biodiversity Strategy 2030 and Green Deal. In this respect, wetlands can provide a wide range o[...]Article
The irrigation water requirements of different crops are becoming a pivotal driver for the governance strategies of water allocation and management. This paper estimates the impact of irrigation water requirements on economic value in terms of t[...]Article
In recent years, the primary sector in Italy and elsewhere has been profoundly affected by climate change and a deep economic crisis, mainly linked to stagnating prices and rising production costs. Because of this situation, we are witnessing re[...]Article
Notions of the rural as idyllic and redolent of a simpler and more rooted past have long been challenged in the rural studies literature. Recent research has renewed interest in social representations of the rural idyll, yet there remains little[...]Ouvrage
M. Stein, ed. ; M. Mariani, ed. ; R. Caranta, ed. ; Y. Polychronakis, ed. | New York [Etats-Unis] : Routledge | Routledge Studies in Food, Society ant the Environment | 2024The book examines sustainable food procurement policy and practice in the European Union and beyond, exploring the extent to which sustainability objectives have been achieved and evaluating the new developments taking place at both EU and natio[...]Article
Recent crises have highlighted the vulnerabilities of global supply chains and, consequently, a profound need for food system transformation. In this scenario, local food policy and agroecology arise as two different but converging paradigms cap[...]Article
A. Vastola ; M. Viccaro ; V. Grippo ; F. Genovese ; S. Romano ; M. Cozzi |The environmental Kuznets curve has received widespread attention from scholars for its ability to vividly capture the dynamics between economic growth and waste generation. The so-called waste Kuznets curve (KWC) has been used in different fiel[...]Article
S. Troiano ; M. Carzedda ; F. Marangon |Precision agriculture is expected to support and strengthen the sustainability of food production. In spite of the demonstrated benefits of the application of Information Technology to improve agricultural practices, such as yield increase and i[...]Article
D. Pasquel ; D. Cammarano ; S. Roux ; A. Castrignanò ; B. Tisseyre ; M. Rinaldi ; A. Troccoli ; J.A. Taylor |CONTEXT Most crop models are designed for point-based modeling and to simulate agronomic variables on their native spatial footprint, i.e. typically as a uniform field-scale value. Precision agriculture needs crop model simulations at sub-field [...]Article
G. Di Vita ; D. Spina ; R. De Cianni ; R. Carbone ; M. D'Amico ; R. Zanchini |The aim of the study has been to understand the stakeholders stance, with respect to the different stages of Porters value chain, to learn what activities could create the most value to the future competitiveness of the Italian aromatic sector[...]Article
The district approach has become increasingly important for the analysis and planning of local agro-food systems. In this paper, we analyse the role and potential of Italian food districts, spaces of governance where a plurality of actors share [...]Article
The agri-food sector is a key component of the Italian economy and the Made in Italy products are altogether the core of it with a strong export propensity. This paper analyses the recent export performance of the Made in Italy as a whole and at[...]Article
We analyse the theoretical tenets underpinning geographical indications (GIs) and seek to determine whether the number of producers engaged in them matters. To do so, we develop a qualitative methodology to focus on two small-scale cheese produc[...]Article
Within Circular Economy (CE) studies, the concept of Circular Supply Chains (CSCs) is still not mature, although it is expected to significantly develop in the next few years thanks to the growing interest of scholars, practitioners, and policym[...]Article
S. von Münchhausen ; J. Kirwan ; D. Maye ; M. Muñoz-Rojas ; T. Pinto-Correia ; P. Prosperi ; D. Vergamini |Globalization of food chains and scale increases in business models are dramatically affecting rural areas in Europe, by a simplification of land use, new urban-rural relations and reshaped social networks. While pressures on land use systems ha[...]Article
The financial and real crisis started in 2007-2008 has deeply transformed the way the Italian financial and capital market act. Italian SMEs need to be aware of the transformation not to be pushed out of the market itself and to take profit of t[...]Article
Agricultural firms are characterized by significant investments, both in fixed capital and in working capital. To finance investments, in addition to equity capital, access to credit becomes essential. Concerning this topic, various researches h[...]Article
A. Bertossi ; S. Troiano ; F. Marangon |The agribusiness sector needs substantial funding to initiate an ecological transition involving healthy diets and the creation of local circuits and linkages. One sector that has yet to be studied from this perspective is vending, whose importa[...]Article
A. Amato ; T. Castellotti ; G. Diglio ; M.A. D'Oronzio ; F. Gaudio ; M. Suanno |This paper assesses the efficiency of public agricultural expenditure in each Italian region through the analysis of regional budgets, both as a whole and in relation to specific agricultural policy measures. The degree of integration/complement[...]Article
This paper identifies, quantifies, and qualifies the streams and models of public expenditure in the agricultural sector for the 2010-2020 period, and attempts to respond to the main preliminary needs of interventions that benefit the agricultur[...]Article
This article discusses how climate changes are intersecting with other environmental and social pressures to affect farmers in the Lombardy region of the central Italian Alps. Alpine areas are particularly susceptible to climate change. Natural [...]Article
Climate change poses a major sustainability challenge, with potential far-reaching economic and social impacts, including fluctuations in agricultural yields and subsequent volatility in the availability and prices of essential food resources. I[...]Article
In the last two centuries, land-use change (LUC) has been the most important direct change driver for terrestrial ecosystems. In contrast with the consequent ecosystem degradation, forward-looking spatial policies and target landscape and land-u[...]Article
The cultivation of apples is one of the principal economic activities in Trentino, which is responsible for 25% of Italian apple production and 4% of European apple production. The industry is structurally based on migrant work, especially from [...]Article
M. Pergola ; A. Maffia ; G. Carlucci ; A. Persiani ; A.M. Palese ; M. Zaccardelli ; G. Altieri ; G. Celano |In the last two decades, Portugal suffered the effects of two global crises, the financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the Common Agriculture Policy reforms. These crises had a great impact on the Portuguese economy, but it is c[...]Article
F. Cirone ; M. Masotti ; P. Prosperi ; S. Bosi ; G. Dinelli ; M. Vittuari |Short food supply chains play a vital role in connecting local producers with consumers, promoting sustainability, supporting local economies, and providing access to fresh, high-quality products. However, their market is still underdeveloped du[...]Article
Sustainable intensification aims to minimize the negative impacts of the current agricultural system while maintaining productivity and economic outputs. This study demonstrates that contract farming is a potential mechanism to support many, but[...]Article
The Mediterranean diet (MD) concept has evolved in recent decades, moving from the perception of a healthy diet model to the awareness that it is also a sustainable food model. This dietary model, in fact, brings benefits in terms of nutrition, [...]Article
This paper looks for empirical support to the existence of a positive nexus between economic and environmental performance in farming as implied by the Sustainable Intensification hypothesis. As the ecological scale at which this nexus actually [...]Article
Short food supply chains (SFSCs) are advocated as strategies to improve the sustainability of the agro-food system. The recent literature claims that SFSCs are examples of social experimentation and innovation. By scaling up the positive element[...]Article
Achieving a coherent set of food-related policies is a challenge for policymakers worldwide, as food matters are addressed at more than one level of governance and across several policy domains. Policies in different domains can sustain each oth[...]Article
Over the last decades, urban agriculture (UA) and controlled environmental agriculture (CEA) have been growing in many urban areas of the world to supply fresh food locally and to provide multiple benefits for the sustainable development of urba[...]Article
Productivity is an always-hotly-debated issue within the EU agricultural policymaking, particularly concerning the effect of subsidies distributed via the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The cereal sector is under particular political scrutiny[...]Article
The present study addresses, for the first time, the difference between older and younger farmers (those aged over and under 40 years) and proposes a methodology to identify factors that affect generational renewal in the Italian agricultural se[...]Article
In the agri-food market, there is an increasing interest in local and traditional food products. In a context characterised by private labels and European Geographical Indications (GIs), the Italian Traditional Agri-food Product (TAP) denominati[...]Article
Capitalism in the theorizations of sustainability transformation has been largely taken for granted for its misleadingly assumed stability and homogeneity, thus limiting the scope for defining alternative futures, policy options and strategi[...]Article
M. Lanfredi ; R. Coluzzi ; V. Imbrenda ; B. Nosova ; M. Giacalone ; R. Turco ; M. Prokopovà ; L. Salvati |Forest management is a complex topic at the interface between sustainability and the resilience of socioeconomic and environmental systems. The influence of market forces, supranational, country and regional policies, as well as climate change, [...]Article
G. Rencricca ; F. Froldi ; M. Moschini ; M. Trevisan ; S. Ghnimi ; L. Lamastra |The environmental impact of dairy production is heavily influenced by milk farm efficiency, farm characteristics, and farming activities, such as feed management. The existing research on the environmental impacts of the differently managed dair[...]Bulletin : Revue
Etudes Corses et Méditerranéennes, n. 86-87 - Du foncier pour quoi faire ? Les enjeux fonciers contemporains de la montagne méditerranéenne
J.-C. Paoli, ed. ; G. Vianey, ed. ; S. Koutsou, ed. | 2023Issus des 56 présentations faites au cours du séminaire de Corte, 14 textes ont été réunis dans ce numéro, après évaluation par une équipe de relecteurs, pour la plupart extérieurs au groupe des organisateurs du colloque. Les textes portent tant[...]Article
A. Varacca ; L. Arata ; E. Castellari ; P. Sckokai |The Common Agricultural Policy reform 20132020 has conditioned 30 per cent of the direct payments to greening requirements. Our study investigates whether one of these requirements, the ecological focus area (EFA) obligation, has led to e[...]Article
S. De Leo ; A. Di Fonzo ; S. Giuca ; M. Gaito ; G. Bonati |The purpose of this paper is to provide an assessment of the economic convenience of adopting adaptation measures to climate change at farm level. Concerns raised about climate risks on agriculture indicate that adaptation of the agricultural se[...]Article
Many Member States and diverse stakeholders continue to present conservative positions in the CAP reform process to enhance environmental sustainability. During the last process of reform, the Italian Ministry of Agriculture favoured the mainten[...]Article
Rural regeneration is a transformative process that can be based on multiple possible pathways that are not always clearly distinct and that can be combined or co-exist. We argue that regeneration can be understood as a new framework for socio-n[...]Article
Ecosystems in rural areas play a crucial role in promoting human well-being and economic development by providing essential resources such as food, water, raw materials, and energy. Furthermore, rural ecosystems offer various services, such as r[...]Article
Nowadays, trends related to alternative promotion options for small farmers in changing agri-food supply chains stand out. Urban Agriculture (UA) is a multifaceted system ranging from traditional production, processing, distribution, and consump[...]Article
At a time when wars and pandemics have disrupted the world order and deeply damaged international agreements, more people are talking about the energy and food independence of the nation-states. It is clear that the achievement of these objectiv[...]