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The AKIS (Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System) concept is now widely applied in the EU partly due to latest CAP regulation.The AKIS (Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System) concept is now widely applied in the EU partly due to lat[...]Article
R.L. Pânzaru ; R.L. Pânzaru ; D. Firoiu ; G.H. Ionescu ; A. Ciobanu ; D.M. Medelete ; R. Pîrvu |Organic agriculture is considered an important component of sustainable development because it promotes environmental sustainability and social responsibility, involving the use of practices that minimize the negative impact of agriculture on th[...]Article
A. Ait Sidhoum ; C. Canessa ; J. Sauer |The European Union (EU) budget allocated to agri-environmental schemes (AES) has increased consistently over the past 20 years. European citizens should expect effective spending of these public funds, so investigation of the effects of th[...]Article
Sustainable intensification (SI), understood as an increase in resource productivity in the agricultural sector, achieved without harming the natural environment, is getting more and more attention from researchers and policy makers in the Europ[...]Article
P. Prosperi ; F. Galli ; O.M. Moreno-Pérez ; Y. Chiffoleau ; S. Grando ; P. Karanikolas ; M. Rivera ; G. Goussios ; T. Pinto-Correia ; G. Brunori |With growing concern for the unsustainability of food systems, the international research community has turned its attention to small farms as key actors to potentially face the global food crisis. This study aims to support a policy design that[...]Article
T.-Y. Lin ; Y.-H. Chiu ; W.-Z. Xu |About 88 million tons of food is wasted in Europe every year, which makes it one of the most serious regions for food waste in the world. This research uses a two-stage undesirable dynamic data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to explore the env[...]Article
B. Arru ; R. Furesi ; P. Pulina ; P. Sau ; F.A. Madau |Agriculture and the agri-food industry are central to fostering economic growth and the Sustainable Development Goals targets. However, to meet the worlds future development, it is necessary to make the agri-food system more resource-efficient[...]Article
A. Linares Quero ; U.I. Yoldi ; O. Gava ; G. Schwarz ; A. Povellato ; C. Astrain |This article is aimed at analyzing the potential that CAP 20142020-related instruments have on supporting agroecological transitions in Europe by focusing on the strengths and weaknesses of key instruments. Through a stepwise participatory rese[...]Article
Agriculture and related activities generate a significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions with environmental and biodiversity implications. Based on the European objectives proposed by the Green Pact, this paper assesses the carbon footprint [...]Article
The dairy processing industry is the largest subsector in the EU food industry and is characterised by high concentration. We investigate the extent of output market power exerted in EU dairy processing, applying an advanced stochastic frontier [...]Article
Farm advisory services have become an important topic in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU). The aim of this article is to draw lessons from the implementation of the regulation and measures of the current 20142022 [...]Article
J. Potters ; K. Collins ; H. Schoorlemmer ; E.P. Straete ; E. Kilis ; A. Lane ; H. Leloup |Climate and ecosystem changes, economic and policy imperatives, food system pressures, and multiple societal expectations pose complex challenges for sustainable farming. A key problem is determining an effective and efficient approach to enable[...]Article
H. Leloup ; E. Bulten ; B. Elzen ; J. Prazan ; E. Zarokosta |This article examines the use of the socio-technical scenarios (STSc) method to explore the future needs of farmers in the adoption of more sustainable farming practices. It also examines the changes needed for advisory services to meet those id[...]Article
L.-A. Sutherland ; L. Madureira ; B. Elzen ; C. Noble ; N. Bechtet ; L. Townsend ; E. Zarokosta ; P. Triboulet |In this article we assess the diversity of sources of advice identified by 678 adopters, 295 non-adopters and 107 droppers (or dis-adopters, who have ceased or reduced the use) of agricultural innovations across 13 European countries. For most i[...]Article
S. McGarraghy ; G. Olafsdottir ; R. Kazakov ; E. Huber ; W. Loveluck ; I.Y. Gudbrandsdottir ; L. Cechura ; G. Esposito ; A. Samoggia ; P.-M. Aubert ; D. Barling ; I. Duric ; T.J. Jaghdani ; M. Thakur ; N.M. Saviolidis ; S.G. Bogason |System dynamics and agent-based simulation modelling approaches have a potential as tools to evaluate the impact of policy related decision making in food value chains. The context is that a food value chain involves flows of multiple products, [...]Article
Under the EU Common Agriculture Policy, only 11 of 19 sugar beet producing EU Member States provide coupled direct payments for sugar beet. This paper analyses the market effects of this uneven implementation of an agricultural policy instrument[...]Article
F. Jacquet ; M.-H. Jeuffroy ; J. Jouan ; E. Le Cadre ; I. Litrico ; T. Malausa ; X. Reboud ; C. Huyghe |Reducing pesticide use has become a goal shared by several European countries and a major issue in public policies due to the negative impacts of pesticides on the environment and on human health. However, since most of the agri-food sector reli[...]Article
Several authors have noted that there is an under-representation of gender approaches in fisheries policy and research. While fisheries are widely considered a male-dominated industry, women play a significant and vital role in the survival of s[...]Article
Des mesures à léchelle internationale sont nécessaires pour anticiper des accidents climatiques de plus en plus probables dans les vastes bassins de productions.Article
S. Naspetti ; S. Mandolesi ; J. Buysse ; T. Latvala ; P. Nicholas ; S. Padel ; E.J. Van Loo ; R. Zanoli |Home-grown protein crops as an alternative to soya in dairy cattle meals, as well as other sustainable ethical-based practices, have been proposed to increase the sustainability of dairy production. Data on consumer acceptance of the three novel[...]Article
L. Egli ; M. Schröter ; C. Scherber ; T. Tscharntke ; R. Seppelt |Stabilizing agricultural production is fundamental to food security. At the national level, increasing the effective diversity of cultivated crops has been found to increase temporal production stability, i.e., the year-to-year stability of tota[...]Article
This paper investigates structural change in family farming in ten EU New Member States from Central and Eastern Europe which can be treated as a borderline between transition and developed economies. The paper proposes that farms using at least[...]Article
This paper aims to analyse the technical efficiency (TE) of dairy farms and find its determinants. To accomplish this problem, the Stochastic Frontier Analysis was applied. The data were obtained from the Farm Accountancy Data Network database f[...]Article
The issue of local food supply has attracted considerable political and public attention, due to the changing preferences of consumers, who have more awareness about ecological sustainability, in particular, but also due to recent developments c[...]Bulletin : Revue Electronique
Rural connections, n. 2 - June 2021
2021Ce numéro a pour thème la Semaine de la vision rurale, une conférence interactive en ligne de cinq jours organisée pour associer les parties prenantes au processus délaboration dune Vision à long terme pour lavenir des zones rurales de lUE. [...]Article
This paper investigates the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on food waste using an original dataset from 176 agrifood business operators in the European Union (EU). Our objective is to assess whether and why the pandemic crisis affected food waste l[...]Article
The economic viability of dairy farms is a measure of their ability to survive and grow. Its measurement is particularly important in periods of changes taking place in the environment of these entities. The last decade of the European dairy mar[...]Article
The analyses focus on the structural change in agriculture and farm households for the selected hilly and mountainous areas in Slovenia before and after the accession to the European Union, with an emphasis on empirical analysis of a sample of i[...]Article
This paper focuses on a possible connection between food security and the migrant crisis that began in 2015, which had a tremendous impact on the European Union as well as on the Mediterranean area. The goal of this paper is to determine if ther[...]Article
Aim of study : To investigate the impact of adopting new feeding precision technology on pig production. Area of study : Four EU countries (Germany, France, Poland and Spain) during the period 20102015. Material and methods : The Färe-Primont i[...]Bulletin : Revue Electronique
Rural connections, n. 1 - May 2021
2021This edition focuses on how to communicate successfully about rural development projects, based on the NRN's work and the Rural Inspiration Awards. Articles by rural development stakeholders across Europe range from social farming to LEADER enha[...]Article
C. Caldeira ; V. De Laurentiis ; A. Ghose ; S. Corrado ; S. Sala |National studies on food waste quantification in EU countries present highly discrepant results due to the different quantification approaches adopted. The European Commission has published a delegated act establishing a common methodology and m[...]Article
La Commission européenne veut fournir au secteur de lagriculture biologique les bons outils pour atteindre lobjectif de 25 % de terres agricoles dédiées à lhorizon 2030.Article
Countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) that joined the European Union (EU) since May 2004 have recorded rapid increases in their agri-food exports. While this increase in participation in international trade has been global, the CEE-11 [...]Article
Although the EU and the USA are the largest players in the global agricultural market, there are only a few up-to-date comparative studies concerning their agricultural potential and performance. No comprehensive study covering all individual EU[...]Article
This study aimed to explore the constraining and facilitating factors impacting the emergence and consolidation of different types of alternative food networks (AFNs) in different countries. Drawing on the expertise of organizers of seventeen AF[...]Article
We investigate the drivers and persistence of profits in EU food retailing by focusing on differences between top competitors and fringe food retailers using a sample of 12,786 firms from France, Spain, and Sweden between 2006 and 2014. We det[...]Article
The subject of the research is the analysis of the competitiveness and comparative advantage of the agricultural products and processed food products of Bulgaria on the international market. The study covers the period from 1998 to 2017. In orde[...]Article
Agribusiness is both a complex social process and a market structure, consisting of many independent economic entities that generate demand for labour in the sector. The role of people whose activity is directly or indirectly related to the prod[...]Article
Food management is an inefficient activity, and households are the major contributors responsible for food waste across the food supply chain. Ten years remain to halve household food waste, as recommended by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Deve[...]Article
Since the beginning of the 21st century, Romanian migrants have become one of the most significant national groups doing agricultural work in Spain, initially coming via a temporary migration program and later under several different modalities.[...]Article
This article seeks to highlight the performance of the farm sector in the main EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom). Based on the productivity surplus account method (PSAM), our performance analysi[...]Article
Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Les zones rurales dans lUnion Européenne sont très importantes parce quelles assurent plusieurs fonctions. Ces zones subissent depuis plusieurs années des mutations à différents niveaux. La politique de développement rural, « le deuxième pilie[...]Article
Forest land provides several environmental services and goods with significant implications for different socioeconomic and environmental dimensions. Forestry and its management are determinant activities for sustainable development, specificall[...]Bulletin : Revue Electronique
Rural connections, n. 2 - December 2020
2020This edition focuses on the link between environment, the new CAP and the European Green Deal and brings the finalists of the Rural Inspiration Awards 2020 back into the spotlight. Rural development stakeholders share their views on, among other[...]Article
The performance of the EU food system during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic is examined in this article. The preliminary evidence from the early lockdown period in March to June 2020 supports the view that, apart from some experiences[...]Article
M. Thorsøe ; E. Noe ; D. Maye ; M. Vigani ; J. Kirwan ; H. Chiswell ; M. Grivins ; A. Adamsone-Fiskovica ; T. Tisenkopfs ; E. Tsakalou ; P.-M. Aubert ; W. Loveluck |For more than two decades market conditions for European producers have changed significantly due to liberalization and increasing price volatility. The objective of this article is to analyze how farming systems in five European countries (Denm[...]Article
In a context of increased world population and imbalanced access to resources, the concept of food waste has gained increased attention in the past years. The waste of food has a negative impact on the economy, the society and the environment. I[...]Article
K. Kashiwagi ; E. Yamna ; L. Arfa ; L. Zaibet |While olive oil production is spreading to the non-traditional producer countries, including the US, Australia, and New Zealand, Mediterranean countries are still major producers and exporters. However, little is known about their olive oil expo[...]Article
La question de la réglementation des responsabilités de lentreprise en matière de respect des droits de lhomme et de lenvironnement figure, quel que soit lendroit où elle est discutée, en bonne place de lagenda politique. Les États membres [...]Bulletin : Revue Electronique
Rural connections, n. 1 - May 2020
2020This edition focuses on good practices in the use of EAFRD funding and gives an overview of different approaches to the collection and dissemination of EAFRD-funded projects at the national level. Rural development stakeholders share their persp[...]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
The economic situation of EU dairy farms is unstable and differs strongly between member countries. Most studies addressing the EUs agricultural sector focus on selected countries or selected groups of operators. Conversely, this paper seeks to[...]Article
M. Krieger ; P.J. Jones ; I. Blanco-Penedo ; J.E. Duval ; U. Emanuelson ; S. Hoischen-Taubner ; K. Sjöström ; A. Sundrum |Although ensuring good animal health is a stated aim of organic livestock farming and an important reason why consumers purchase organic products, the health states actually achieved are comparable to those in conventional farming. Unfortunately[...]Article
Participants in agricultural land markets require comprehensive statistics in order to make informed decisions in relation to agricultural land and the associated production. The publication of such data supports land mobility, the competitivene[...]Article
This paper aims at to identify the differences in the performance of the agricultural sectors in the selected European Union Member States. The research covers 21 countries in the period from 20072017. The paper uses data from the Farm Accounta[...]Article
Agricultural adaptation to climate change is indispensable. However, the degree of adaptation depends on adaptive capacity levels and it only takes place if the appropriate resources are present. Cross-sectional climate response models ignore th[...]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[...]Ouvrage
G. Sevrin, dir. ; C. Koukoui, coord. ; V. Rouquette, coord. ; M. Georges ; S. Refai | Paris [France] : Cités Unies France | Groupe Pays | 2020Lengagement des collectivités territoriales françaises au Liban date, pour les premières, des années 1980. Il sappuie sur les liens politiques, institutionnels et culturels profonds qui existent entre la France et le Liban. Le Liban a connu ce[...]Série
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S. Neuenfeldt ; A. Gocht ; T. Heckelei ; P. Ciaian |In this paper, we analyse the drivers of farm structural change in the EU-27, applying a novel analytical framework in the field of agricultural economics known as the multiplicative competitive interaction (MCI) model. MCI offers a more parsimo[...]Article
Despite the advantages ensuing from preferential market access agreements, trade exchanges between Southern Mediterranean Countries (SMCs) and the EU are often hindered by food safety issues. These are particularly relevant for fruit and vegetab[...]Article
Le monde de l'emballage est en pleine mutation, du fait de diverses pressions émanant des consommateurs et des médias, ainsi que du contexte réglementaire français et européen. Afin de mieux comprendre les caractéristiques développées des matièr[...]Article
Agriculteurs et consommateurs le redoutent. Les industriels, eux, s'en réjouissent. Et si c'était l'accord de trop ?Article
Abstract Geographical Indications (GIs) are increasingly important instruments of agricultural and food regulations and are growing as contentious issues in trade negotiations and disputes. GIs can improve welfare but they can also be a protecti[...]Article
Comment réduire les pertes et gaspillages alimentaires ? Cette question interpelle les décideurs politiques, compte tenu des enjeux environnementaux, économiques et sociaux. Depuis plusieurs années, diverses mesures daction publique ont été tes[...]Article
Over recent decades several European and global occurrences have had an impact on the European Unions economic sectors, and subsequently on farms. In fact, the various Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms, namely those since 1992, and the g[...]Bulletin : Revue
Eurochoices, vol. 18, n. 1 - April 2019 - EU and US Agricultural Policies Compared
2019Article
Partant dun fruit de consommation courante en Europe de lOuest la fraise , cet article interroge les impacts dune zone de production agro-exportatrice au Maroc, en périphérie de lUnion européenne sur les territoires-hôtes et les hommes (e[...]Ouvrage
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Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
This report explores how the EU farming sector could look like in a net-zero world, what roles it would play and what is needed to make the transition by mid-century. It addresses a fundamental question: is it possible to reach carbon neutrality[...]Article
J. Bijttebier ; G. Ruysschaert ; R. Hijbeek ; M. Werner ; E. Wauters ; A.A. Pronk ; L. Zavattaro ; L. Bechini ; C. Grignani ; H. Ten Berge ; F. Marchand |Non-inversion tillage (NIT) is often recommended as a soil conservation measure, protecting soil structure and soil life and preventing erosion. As the adoption of this measure is still below policy targets in many European regions, this study a[...]Article
M. Zurek ; A. Hebinck ; A. Leip ; J. Vervoort ; M. Kuiper |Steering the EU food system towards a sustainability transformation requires a vast and actionable knowledge base available to a range of public and private actors. Few have captured this complexity by assessing food systems from a multi-dimensi[...]Article
Integrated pest management (IPM) is widely encouraged among the European Union (EU) member states. The successful adoption of IPM techniques requires strong farmer motivation and participation. However, few studies have explored EU farmers ince[...]Article
Numerous linkages among agriculture and climate change have been identified and validated in global terms. In European Union, the economic performancecarbon dioxide emission relationship has become a particularly high priority issue for Common [...]Article
La France est le seul des pays excédentaires européens à connaître une réduction de son excédent commercial dans ce domaine depuis 10 ans.Article
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I. Zasada ; M. Weltin ; M. Reutter ; P.H. Verburg ; A. Piorr |The restoration and improvement of natural capital (NC) in rural areas represents one of the main objectives of the EUs rural development policy (RDP). In addition to creating environmental and biodiversity benefits, NC represents an important [...]Article
Les informations nutritionnelles inscrites sur les étiquettes peuvent avoir un impact positif sur les choix alimentaires des consommateurs, leur permettant ainsi de mieux juger des bienfaits des aliments sur la santé en général et conduisant à d[...]Article
Social farming (SF) emerged in the latest ten years in Italy and in the EU as an innovative practice able to link multifunctional agriculture and innovative social services for both urban and rural areas. SF mobilises unexpected resources from a[...]Article
Laugmentation de létiquetage du pays dorigine (PDO) des aliments fait partie de la prolifération en cours des informations fournies aux consommateurs. Cependant, avec la mise en uvre de létiquetage PDO, les consommateurs peuvent parfois se [...]Article
K. Knickel ; M. Redman ; I. Darnhofer ; A. Ashkenazy ; E. Rogge |This paper explores the connections between farm modernisation, rural development and the resilience of agricultural and rural systems. The paper starts by ascertaining why agricultural and food systems need to change systemically. Evidence from[...]Article
M. Himics ; T. Fellmann ; J. Barreiro Hurlé ; H.P. Witzke ; I. Pérez Domínguez ; T. Jansson ; F. Weiss |This paper contributes to the literature on the trade liberalization climate change nexus by investigating the impact of the current free trade agenda of the European Union (EU) on the effectiveness of a possible greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction[...]Article
A. Ashkenazy ; T. Chebach ; K. Knickel ; S. Peter ; R. Offenbach |The limited resilience of agricultural and food systems, and of rural communities, has become an important concern in rural and agricultural policy. However, while the term has been heavily theorised and discussed, particularly in the natural an[...]Article
The six articles in this special issue explore alternative pathways of agricultural modernisation. The authors argue that such pathways, and the strategies needed to embark on them, are commonly overlooked in policy and the formal agricultural k[...]Bulletin : Revue
Eurochoices, vol. 17, n. 1 - April 2018 - Special section on the impact of research on EU agriculture
2018Article
The Common Agricultural Policy can be seen as a partial success story because it has resulted in increased food production at reasonable prices for consumers. However, its main focus was on agricultural productivity and economic growth. Although[...]Article
T. Fellmann ; P. Witzke ; F. Weiss ; B. Van Doorslaer ; D. Drabik ; I. Huck ; G. Salputra |Taking the European Union (EU) as a case study, we simulate the application of non-uniform national mitigation targets to achieve a sectoral reduction in agricultural non-carbon dioxide (CO2) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Scenario results show[...]Article
La recherche, le développement et linnovation (RDI) façonnent lavenir des sociétés. LUnion européenne y consacre depuis 34 ans une part toujours croissante de son budget via des plans pluriannuels (de 3,5 Mds sur 1984-1987 à 75 Mds sur 2014[...]Article
Les propositions de la Commission risquent daffaiblir une politique qui a toujours constitué un symbole de la construction européenneSérie
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Au cours du xxe siècle, la bioéconomie a été définie dans divers champs académiques : étude des populations en biologie, modèles de gestion des ressources naturelles ou approche entropique de léconomie à la façon de Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. A[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Le secteur des fruits et légumes européen est caractérisé par une production très atomisée qui doit faire face à une distribution très concentrée. Cette étude tente dévaluer limpact économique et le rôle social des organisations de producteurs[...]Ouvrage
C. Perpiña Castillo ; B. Kavalov ; R. Ribeiro Barranco ; V. Diogo ; C. Jacobs-Crisioni ; F. Batista e Silva ; C. Baranzelli ; C. Lavalle | Luxembourg [Luxembourg] : Office des Publications Officielles de l'Union Européenne | JRC Technical Reports, ISSN 1831-9424 | 2018The current analysis aims to highlight selected key territorial facts and trends in the EU rural areas at pan-European, national (NUTS 0) and regional (NUTS 3) level within 2015-2030. These trends are related to the status and potential evolutio[...]Article
La promotion de l'emploi rural va bien au-delà de la politique agricole, mais des mesures de politique agricole ciblées peuvent y contribuer. La principale leçon est d'investir dans l'augmentation de l'offre de biens et services marchands et non[...]Article
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Organic and low-input dairy farming: avenues to enhance sustainability and competitiveness in the EU
N. Scollan ; S. Padel ; N. Halberg ; J. Hermansen ; P. Nicholas ; M. Rinne ; R. Zanoli ; W. Zollitsch ; L. Lauwers |Au cur du débat sur le développement agricole est la question de savoir quelles stratégies agricoles sont plus durables et compétitives, celles fondées sur la poursuite de l'intensification de l'utilisation d'intrants ou celles ayant recours à [...]Article
L'impact de la PAC sur les structures agricoles, les revenus agricoles et le développement rural a suscité un intérêt considérable parmi les chercheurs et les décideurs de l'action publique. Cependant, son impact sur les niveaux d'emploi n'a été[...]