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O.M. Moreno-Pérez ; L. Arnalte-Mur ; P. Cerrada-Serra ; V. Martinez-Gomez ; A. Adamsone-Fiskovica ; H. Bjørkhaug ; G. Brunori ; M. Czekaj ; D. Duckett ; P.A. Hernández ; C. Noble ; T. Pinto-Correia ; A. Plonka ; P. Prosperi ; M. Redman ; M. Rivera ; S. Sumane ; D. Ortiz-Miranda |This study stems from a participatory foresight exercise conducted in nine Mediterranean, Baltic, Nordic and Eastern European regions, aiming to strengthen the role of small farms and small food businesses in ensuring food security. A wide range[...]Article
C. Schulze ; B. Matzdorf ; J. Rommel ; M. Czajkowski ; M. García-Llorente ; I. Gutiérrez-Briceño ; L. Larsson ; K. Zagórska ; W. Zawadzki |This study assesses how information about the provision of ecosystem services can contribute to an integrative food labelling framework within the European Unions' Farm to Fork Strategy. By applying Q-methodology with 43 food industry experts fr[...]Article
G. Billen ; E. Aguilera ; R. Einarsson ; J. Garnier ; S. Gingrich ; B. Grizzetti ; L. Lassaletta ; J. Le Noë ; A. Sanz-Cobena |The publication of the European Commission's Farm to Fork Strategy has sparked a heated debate between those who advocate the intensification of agriculture in the name of food security and those who recommend its de-intensification for environm[...]Article
A. Spiegel ; C. Heidecke ; J.G. Fournier Gabela ; D. Stepanyan ; M. Söder ; F. Freund ; A. Gocht ; M. Banse ; B. Osterburg |Summary In the EU's climate policy, agriculture is covered as an Effort-Sharing (ESR) sector, i.e. a sector beyond the Emission Trading System and LULUCF. Despite ambitious climate targets for the ESR sectors and an emerging focus on the need fo[...]Article
R. D'Alberto ; S. Targetti ; L. Schaller ; F. Bartolini ; T. Eichhorn ; E. Haltia ; K. Harmanny ; F. Le Gloux ; D. Nikolov ; T. Runge ; D. Vergamini ; D. Viaggi |The agri-environment-climate measures of the European Union Common Agricultural Policy are incentives aiming to reduce negative environmental impacts and increase positive effects generated from agriculture. Several criticisms have been addresse[...]Article
The inward flows of fruits and vegetables in the European Union are regulated by the import regime, consisting of a system of quotas and Entry Prices. The effectiveness of this trade policy has been under investigation since the early 2000s and [...]Article
M. Gemtou ; K. Kakkavou ; E. Anastasiou ; S. Fountas ; S.M. Pedersen ; G. Isakhanyan ; K.T. Erekalo ; S. Pazos-Vidal |Agriculture is currently facing major challenges related to ensuring the food security of a rising population and climate change with extreme weather patterns. At the same time, agriculture is a cause of environmental degradation, pollution and [...]Article
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Research in the area of agro-economic modelling has been one of the key contributions of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) to the development of better agri-food policies in the EU. This article provides an overview of the development of the JRC's[...]Article
Après quatre transitions technologiques et organisationnelles en 400 000 ans, lhumanité est en quête dune sécurité alimentaire durable et partagée. En effet, les lourdes externalités négatives du système agro-industriel devenu hégé[...]Article
J.C. Moreno ; M. Berenguel ; J.G. Donaire ; F. Rodriguez ; J.A. Sánchez-Molina ; J.L. Guzmán ; C.L. Giagnocavo |CONTEXT This research paper details the response to a central challenge of the digitalization of agricultural systems which stems from information overload and the broad heterogeneity of agricultural technologies and the classification thereof.[...]Article
Y. Chiffoleau ; T. Dourian ; G. Enderli ; D. Mattioni ; G. Akermann ; A. Loconto ; F. Galli ; G. Emese ; Z. Perényi ; L. Colombo ; S. Massari ; D. Desclaux |Agrobiodiversity is in rapid decline, due to the intensification of agriculture and the development of food value chains based on industrial processing techniques. However, consumers are not generally involved in developing solutions to reverse [...]Article
The covid-19 pandemic has shown how an unpredictable event may affect the sustainability of the entire food supply chain highlighting the need for a sustainable approach to food logistics. While existing literature has focused on production and [...]Article
E. Ricciolini ; L. Rocchi ; L. Paolotti ; N. Gennari ; A. Ottaviani ; F.R. de la Rúa ; A. Boggia |The need for a more sustainable agri-food system is a topic that has attracted growing interest in recent years. Several international and European policies such as Agenda 2030 and the European Green Deal have been defined with the aim of making[...]Article
C. Zarbà ; G. Pappalardo ; R. Selvaggi ; B. Pecorino |The European Union agri-food system has faced major challenges in the last years due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian-Ukrainian war. In a scenario where millions of people all over the world suffer from hunger, the uncertainty of food av[...]Article
Green transformation, including the latest European Green Plan, is a part of the European Union (EU) environmental policy, with agriculture occupying a special position in this transformation, being both part of the problem and its solution. Wit[...]Article
H.J. Kim ; A. Lazurko ; G. Linney ; L. Maskell ; E. Díaz-General ; R.J. Brezovská ; H. Keune ; C. Laspidou ; H. Malinen ; S. Oinonen ; J. Raymond ; M. Rounsevell ; S. Vano ; M.D. Venâncio ; A. Viesca-Ramirez ; A. Wijesekera ; K. Wilson ; K. Ziliaskopoulos ; P.A. Harrison |Biodiversity underpins the functioning of ecosystems and the diverse benefits that nature provides to people, yet is being lost at an unprecedented rate. To halt or reverse biodiversity loss, it is critical to understand the complex interdepende[...]Article
Successful implementation of Europes agri-environmental policies faces various obstacles, several of which are closely linked to participation. Effectively increasing adoption of agri-environmental-climate measures (AECM) requires a deeper unde[...]Article
Entre 1980 et 2000, loffre alimentaire séloigne du produit brut et se segmente selon le degré délaboration du produit. À partir de lan 2000, se développe une demande daliments alternatifs, notamment biologiques, traduisant laspiration à de[...]Article
P. Reidsma ; F. Accatino ; F. Appel ; C. Gavrilescu ; V. Krupin ; G. Manevska Tasevska ; M.P.M. Meuwissen ; M. Peneva ; S. Severini ; B. Soriano ; J. Urquhart ; K. Zawalinska ; C. Zinnanti ; W. Paas |According to stakeholders, many European farming systems are close to critical thresholds regarding the challenges they face (e.g., droughts, price declines), functions they deliver (e.g., economic viability, biodiversity and habitat) and attrib[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Ce travail vise à caractériser lévolution du marché du blé tendre biologique (production, utilisation, échanges) dans un contexte en mouvement (Covid, changement climatique, fraudes) dans lUnion Européenne avec un éclairage sur la situation et[...]Article
K. Van Ruymbeke ; J.G. Ferreira ; V.D. Gkisakis ; J. Kantelhardt ; G. Manevska-Tasevska ; P. Matthews ; A. Niedermayr ; L. Schaller ; K. Bankowska ; K. Mertens ; L. Vranken |Many farm-management practices focus on maximizing production, while others better reconcile production with the regulation of ecological processes and sociocultural identity through the provisioning of ecosystem services (ESs). Though many stud[...]Article
The progressive climate change has an impact on the quantity and quality of grapes. Among meteorological parameters, air temperature is believed to have a direct influence on grape yield and composition, as well as on the organoleptic characteri[...]Ouvrage
G. Buti, dir. ; A. Montenach, dir. ; O. Raveux, dir. | Aix en Provence [France] : PUP, Presses Universitaires de Provence | Le Temps de l'Histoire | 2023Avant la révolution des transports, l'apparition de nouveaux moyens de communication et la mise en place des premiers réseaux logistiques au cours du xixe siècle, les chaînes du commerce étaient d'une grande diversité, le plus souvent segmentées[...]Article
CONTEXT Agriculture plays a central role in the European Green Deal with various policies and strategies converging to promote sustainable agriculture and food systems. The Farm to Fork strategy approaches agriculture from a sustainable food sys[...]Article
W. Simon ; B. van Selm ; J. Wacker ; T.I. Maindl ; A. Frehner ; R. Hijbeek ; M.K. van Ittersum ; M. Herrero |Redesigning the European food system on the basis of circularity principles could bring environmental benefits for Europe and the world. Here we deploy a biophysical optimization model to explore the effects of adopting three circularity scenari[...]Article
B. Faye ; H. Webber ; T. Gaiser ; C. Muller ; Y. Zhang ; T. Stella ; C. Latka ; M. Reckling ; T. Heckelei ; K. Helming ; F. Ewert |Most large scale studies assessing climate change impacts on crops are performed with simulations of single crops and with annual re-initialization of the initial soil conditions. This is in contrast to the reality that crops are grown in rotati[...]Article
Lagriculture connaîtra une deuxième révolution : départs à la retraite non remplacés et haute technicité. Dans ce contexte, la communication doit être plus engageante.Article
This article re-examines the question of environmental services from the perspective of agriculture policy, and in the framework of implementing European Union agri-environmental measures. The article develops a new typology highlighting two dif[...]Article
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Within the regime established by the Directive on Sustainable Use of Pesticides (SUDP); the present work explores the relationship between pesticides agricultural use per hectare of cropland and the GDP per capita of the rural population for tw[...]Article
One effect of the 2020 global pandemic was market turmoil over the food production system. Such strong market shocks can also affect the environment, for example, through changes in the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensity of production. The [...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Dans un contexte de changement climatique, le secteur des transports représente un enjeu environnemental majeur au sein des entreprises agroalimentaires. La finalité de ce travail est lamélioration de la performance environnementale dun commis[...]Article
New social demands, opportunities in the green economy, opportunities opened up by digital technology, and the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the spread of remote work have again drawn attention to rural areas. In 2020, the European C[...]Article
While pesticides are essential to agriculture and food systems to sustain current production levels, they also lead to significant environmental impacts. The use of pesticides is constantly increasing globally, driven mainly by a further intensi[...]Article
Machine-learning methodologies are part of the artificial intelligence approaches with several applications in different fields of science and dimensions of human life. These techniques appear in the frameworks of the digital transition, where s[...]Article
J. Rieger ; F. Freund ; F. Offermann ; I. Geibel ; A. Gocht |The implications of dietary changes for the environment and for human health are well documented, but the impacts on the agricultural sector are less well researched. We fill this gap by specifying scenarios in which European consumers' diets ap[...]Article
Understanding the relationship between the diffusion of geographical indications (GIs) and innovation in the agri-food sector represents a relevant research area not yet properly addressed by the current literature. Our contribution aims to fill[...]Article
The EU's ?Farm to Fork? strategy aims to promote healthier diets that include more nutritious and natural foods instead of ultra-processed products. Although several producers of geographical indication (GI) foods such as Parma ham advertise the[...]Article
C. Cholez ; O. Pauly ; M. Mahdad ; S. Mehrabi ; C. Giagnocavo ; J. Bijman |CONTEXT Sustainability-Oriented Innovation (SOI) is recognized as a way to address agrifood system sustainability challenges. Because of its complexity, SOI requires inter-organizational collaboration between actors within and around value chain[...]Article
La Pac est obsolète. Il faut une autre politique qui repose sur une philosophie différente acceptée par les agriculteurs et la société civile.Article
C. Bernard-Mongin ; X. Poux ; I. Herzon ; J. Moran ; T. Pinto-Correia ; D.E. Dumitras ; M. I. Ferraz-de-Oliveira ; F. Gouriveau ; D. Goussios ; M. Jitea ; Y. Kazakova ; R. Koivuranta ; F. Lerin ; M. Ljung ; A. Lomba ; V. Mihai ; M. Puig de Morales ; G. Vlahos |High Nature Value (HNV) farmlands currently retain most of the biodiversity associated with agricultural landscapes in Europe. In a time of globalized food systems, the social-ecological conditions to maintain these low-intensity and thus less p[...]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
The present study investigates the factors that might contribute influencing Member States decision to promote the adoption of crop diversification practices through their provisional National Strategic Plans for implementing the 2023-2027 Commo[...]Article
M.A. Meyer ; A. Früh-Müller ; I. Lehmann ; N. Schwarz |Food-system studies often assess dynamics in production, consumption or processing and logistics in a spatially abstract manner. Land-system studies traditionally analyze land-use/land cover change with its environmental and societal drivers as [...]Article
Agriculture plays a dual role in the conservation of European biodiversity, as extensive agricultural lands provide habitats for more than half of Europe's species, but intensification and abandonment of farmland threaten these species' habitats[...]Article
M. Bianchi ; M.L. Caputo ; M. Lo Cascio ; S. Baglioni |New dynamics of local development have shed the light on the possible revitalization of European rural and mountain areas. A key element in these dynamics is the international migration fluxes that have these areas as new destinations. Newcomers[...]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
Food waste is a global multidimensional problem, with economic, social, and environmental dimensions linked to sustainable development. This study analyses the socio-economic and pollution effects of reducing food waste in the European Union. Th[...]Article
The main objective of this article is to better understand the category of technical efficiency of agriculture. To achieve this goal, empirical research was carried out, the subject of which was to estimate the average technical efficiency of ag[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
R. Sheet | 2023Agroforestry is a very old agricultural practice that is nowadays actively employed in several countries within the EU and is gaining more acceptance for its several economic, social and environmental advantages. This study identifies the intern[...]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
F. Cirone ; M. Petruzzelli ; F. De Menna ; A. Samoggia ; E. Buscaroli ; E. Durante ; F. Orsini ; M. Rufi-Salis ; P. Tonini ; X.G. Durany ; L. Graamans ; A. Fargue-Lelièvre ; V. Saint-Ges ; R. Fox-Kämper ; K. Specht ; J.J. Pascual-Fernández ; M. Vittuari |The City Region Food Systems approach has been proposed to achieve food system resilience and nutrition security while promoting the urgent ecological transition within urban and peri-urban areas, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. However,[...]Article
The present study investigates how local communities cope with the restless abandonment of agricultural lands in marginal areas, providing a theoretical interpretation grounded on the European reality. An analytical framework, based on game theo[...]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
E. Kelemen ; B. Megyesi ; B. Matzdorf ; E. Andersen ; L.G.J. Van Bussel ; M. Dumortier ; C. Dutilly ; M. García-Llorente ; C. Hamon ; A. LePage ; R. Moruzzo ; K. Prager ; F. Riccioli ; C. Yacaman Ochoa |Innovative agri-environmental contracts are increasingly studied in the literature, but their adoption has been relatively slow and geographically scattered. Action-based agri-environmental measures remain the predominant policy mechanism across[...]Article
S. Schaub ; J. Ghazoul ; R. Huber ; W. Zhang ; A. Sander ; C. Rees ; S. Banerjee ; R. Finger |Agri-environmental schemes (AESs) are increasingly implemented to promote the adoption of environmentally friendly practices by farmers. We use a systematic review to explore the role of behavioural factors and opportunity costs in farmers' deci[...]Article
M. Courtat ; P.J. Joyce ; S. Sim ; J. Sadhukhan ; R. Murphy |Environmental rating ecolabels are a new generation of ecolabels. They are intended to enable consumers to compare the environmental impacts of multiple products and make more sustainable consumption choices. Falling outside of the three types d[...]Article
The European Commission has proposed a Framework Law on Sustainable Food Systems. To stimulate debate, this Point de Vue summarises the key messages of a policy brief by the European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils Netw[...]Article
Rural areas in Europe have been undergoing structural change for years, resulting in strong functional differentiation and fragmentation into prosperous and structurally weak areas. Rural areas are as diverse as the challenges they face. Not onl[...]Article
Food consumption is responsible for most global water consumption and associated environmental consequences. Therefore, quantifying and monitoring the water footprint (WF) of food consumption patterns is relevant to support policymaking toward s[...]Article
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Current policy discourse in the European Union and elsewhere identifies the 'multi-actor approach' and 'co-innovation' as powerful tools for 'speeding up' innovation in agriculture and related sectors. This paper analyses tensions in five projec[...]Article
P. Prosperi ; J. Kirwan ; D. Maye ; E. Tsakalou ; G. Vlahos ; F. Bartolini ; D. Vergamini ; G. Brunori |European small-scale fisheries are confronted with several challenges, notably a decrease in the number of people engaged in capture fishing, growing competition from less expensive extra-EU markets, rising operational costs, strict regulations [...]Article
K. Zawalinska ; A. Smyrniotopoulou ; K. Balazs ; M. Böhm ; M. Chitea ; V. Florian ; M. Fratila ; P. Gradziuk ; S. Henderson ; K. Irvine ; V. Konstantidelli ; V. Krupin ; L. Latruffe ; E. Miksyte ; D. Miller ; D. Monteleone ; M. Polaschegg ; G. Schwarz ; J. Tzanopoulos ; I. Tzouramani ; G. Vlahos ; A. Wojciechowska |The concept of a 'just transition' is gaining traction in international policy discourses. It has particular significance in relation to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions and the need for ensuring rights and responsibilities of all act[...]Article
M.G. Salvan ; M.G. Salvan ; D. Bertoni ; D. Cavicchioli ; S. Bocchi |Every intervention of planning, implementation, and monitoring of agricultural and agri-environmental policies requires assessment tools that should have the characteristics of relevance, completeness, interpretability, data quality, efficiency,[...]Article
The potential beneficial and harmful social impacts generated by the introduction of novel technologies, in general, and those concerning nutrient recovery and the improvement of nutrient efficiency in agriculture, in particular, have received l[...]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
A. Zickiene ; R. Melnikiene ; M. Morkunas ; A. Volkov |This study presents an innovative approach to measuring the impact of EU CAP direct payments on the economic resilience of agriculture at a sectoral level. The construct of resilience is approached from the perspective of the resilience of the m[...]Article
Z. Pinke ; B. Decsi ; M.K. Kardos ; Z. Kern ; Z. Kozma ; L. Pásztor ; T. Ács |The warming of the climate and shrinking freshwater resources pose serious challenges to European agriculture. Meeting these challenges demands a thorough knowledge of the major trends in soil moisture patterns across the continent over time. Ch[...]Article
G. Bagnarosa ; M. Cummins ; M. Dowling ; F. Kearney |We apply a multivariate mixed-data sampling (MIDAS) conditional quantile regression technique to understand the dairy commodity exposure of European dairy firms. Leveraging a theoretically sound hedonic dairy pricing framework, we show that our [...]Article
T. Stanisic ; S. Lazarevic ; N. Pantic ; M. Lekovic |The Covid-19 pandemic has brought numerous economic challenges to countries around the world. The specificities of certain economy sectors determined the character and intensity of the impact of this health crisis on their results. The purpose o[...]Article
D. Miller ; S. Legras ; A. Barnes ; M. Cazacu ; O. Gava ; J. Helin ; K. Irvine ; J. Kantelhardt ; J. Landert ; L. Latruffe ; A. Mayer ; A. Niedermayr ; A. Povellato ; L. Schaller ; G. Schwarz ; P. Smith ; F. Vanni ; L. Védrine ; D. Viaggi ; A. Vincent ; G. Vlahos |Food systems require reorientation to take greater account of interactions with the environment, economy, health and society. Transitions to agroecological farming practices and systems can connect policy areas and realise environmental, economi[...]Article
T. Bournaris ; M. Correia ; A. Guadagni ; J. Karouta ; A. Krus ; S. Lombardo ; D. Lazaridou ; E. Loizou ; J.R. Marques da Silva ; J. Martínez-Guanter ; A. Michailidis ; S. Nastis ; A. Paltaki ; M. Partalidou ; M. Pérez-Ruiz ; Á. Ribeiro ; C. Valero ; M. Vieri |This paper set out to explore the precision agriculture (PA)-training needs of students studying in agricultural universities in the Euro-Mediterranean region (Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain). SPARKLE is a Knowledge Alliance Project, funded b[...]Série
S. Abis, dir. ; M. Brun, dir. | Paris [France] : Club Déméter | Déméter : Economie et Stratégies Agricoles, ISSN 1166-2115 | 2022Manger est au cur de dynamiques politiques, géoéconomiques et environnementales. Cet acte du quotidien, essentiel pour certains et banal pour dautres, est de plus en plus façonné par de nouveaux acteurs, des innovations inédites et des attente[...]Article
V. Diogo ; J. Helfenstein ; F. Mohr ; V. Varghese ; N. Debonne ; C. Levers ; R. Swart ; G. Sonderegger ; T. Nemecek ; C. Schader ; A. Walter ; G. Ziv ; F. Herzog ; P.H. Verburg ; M. Bürgi |Agriculture plays a central role in achieving most Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sustainable intensification (SI) of agriculture has been proposed as a promising concept for safeguarding global food security, while simultaneously protect[...]Article
Agricultural production and productivity are important from multiple perspectives, including environmental protection, food self-sufficiency, renewable energy sources as well as economic returns. The earlier literature has sparsely addressed the[...]Article
E. Revoyron ; M. Le Bail ; J.-M. Meynard ; A. Gunnarsson ; M. Seghetti ; L. Colombo |Context : Diversified cropping systems are a main pillar of agroecological practices, but their development is hindered by technological lock-in of agri-food systems around a few major crops. There are only a few examples where minor crops succe[...]Ouvrage
O. Petit ; G. Froger ; T. Bauler | Bruxelles [Belgique] : De Boeck | Ouvertures Economiques, ISSN 0777-2831 | 2022Léconomie écologique est un domaine danalyse et une source de recommandations désormais largement reconnus au plan international à travers la publication de la revue Ecological Economics et la tenue régulière de grands congrès internationaux, [...]Article
The European Union Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) publishes data for the representative farms of several European Union (EU) farm types, regions and countries. In this database, the published data for the farm types allow us to assess seve[...]Article
This article aimed to calculate and evaluate comparable environmental intensity indicators in the food production systems of European Union (EU) countries. The study uses the latest release of uniform input-output tables and greenhouse gas emiss[...]Article
J.D. Hader ; T. Lane ; A.B.A. Boxall ; M. MacLeod ; A. Di Guardo |European agricultural development in the 21st century will be affected by a host of global changes, including climate change, changes in agricultural technologies and practices, and a shift towards a circular economy. The type and quantity of ch[...]Article
La géographie et lhistoire dabord, un ensemble de facteurs sociaux, économiques, politiques et environnementaux ensuite, sont à lorigine des importantescirculations migratoires observées entre les deux rives de la Méditerranée. À mesure que l[...]E-Book
N. Marcu, ed. ; G.-R. Ladaru, ed. ; I.N. Gostin, ed. | Belgrade [Serbie] : Institute of Agricultural Economics | 2022Article
Z. Zajac ; O. Gomez ; E. Gelati ; M. van der Velde ; S. Bassu ; A. Ceglar ; O. Chukaliev ; L. Panarello ; R. Koeble ; M. van den Berg ; S. Niemeyer ; D. Fumagalli |Regional-to-global studies of hydrology, water availability and water use, and their interaction with agricultural production and food security require accurate information on the location and extent of irrigated croplands. In this study, we der[...]Article
An increasing population and increasing industrial demand for resources has created a need to ensure the supply can keep up. With sustainable development on the agenda, the European Union established the strategy 2030 Agenda with set goals to fu[...]Article
A. Barnes ; H. Hansson ; L. Billaudet ; G. Leduc ; G.M. Tasevska ; M. Ryan ; B. Thompson ; L. Toma ; S. Duvaleix-Tréguer ; I. Tzouramani |Delivering an agricultural policy which meets ecosystem and climatic pressures and addresses weaknesses in our current food system presents complex challenges for food producers. Adoption of ecological practices will reduce the dependence on imp[...]Article
The diversity of agricultural systems in European Union (EU) regions and countries is vast and vulnerable to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms. The CAP instruments have suffered several significant changes over the last decades to tak[...]Article
Exploring sustainability implications of transitions to agroecology: a transdisciplinary perspective
G. Schwarz ; F. Vanni ; D. Miller ; J. Helin ; J. Prazan ; F. Albanito ; M. Fratila ; F. Galioto ; O. Gava ; K. Irvine ; J. Landert ; A.L. Quero ; A. Mayer ; D. Monteleone ; A. Muller ; E. Röös ; A. Smyrniotopoulou ; A. Vincent ; G. Vlahos ; A. Zilans |Successful transitions to agroecology require shared understanding of the sustainability implications of transitions for food systems. To gain such understanding, a transdisciplinary approach is increasingly called for by funders, end users of r[...]Article
J. Blasch ; B. van der Kroon ; P. van Beukering ; R. Munster ; S. Fabiani ; P. Nino ; S. Vanino |Precision farming (PF) technologies can help to mitigate the environmental impact of agriculture by reducing fertiliser use and irrigation while saving cost for the farmer. However, these technologies are not widely adopted in Europe. We study f[...]E-Book
K. Mattas ; G. Baourakis ; C. Zopounidis ; C. Staboulis | Dordrecht [Pays-Bas] : Springer | Cooperative Management | 2022In the present economic, political, societal and environmental landscape, which is dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of challenges and issues that demand immediate and urgent responses is more intense than ever. Policymakers, int[...]Article
The efforts of regulators and food industry actors to achieve ambitious European sustainability objectives should not only be based on, but also supported by, consumers behavior, since customers demand has the ability to determine changes in t[...]Article
La guerre en Ukraine fragilise la sécurité alimentaire mondiale. La Russie et l'Ukraine sont en effet deux importants producteurs et exportateurs de produits agricoles, en particulier dans le domaine céréalier. En outre, ce conflit intervient da[...]Article
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X. Diaz de Otalora ; F. Dragoni ; A. Del Prado ; F. Estellés ; A. Wilfart ; D. Krol ; L. Balaine ; V. Anestis ; B. Amon |European dairy production faces significant economic, environmental, and social sustainability challenges. Given the great diversity of dairy cattle production systems in Europe, region-specific concepts to improve environmental and socioeconomi[...]Article
A. Mayer ; G. Kalt ; L. Kaufmann ; E. Röös ; A. Muller ; R. Weisshaidinger ; A. Frehner ; N. Roux ; P. Smith ; M.C. Theurl ; S. Matej ; K. Erb |The European Commission recently embraced the concept of agroecology as a pathway to reduce negative impacts from agri-food systems on the environment. So far, it remains unclear whether agroecology can deliver on these high hopes if implemented[...]Article
B. Thompson ; A.P. Barnes ; L. Toma |Understanding what influences the adoption of multiple sustainable farming practices, a concept we call adoption intensity, is critical to the sustainable development of our food system. Drawing on a survey of European farmers, and using structu[...]Article
Les modes de productions agricoles sont de plus en plus contraints. Pour maintenir la souveraineté alimentaire, linnovation est primordiale dans un cadre juridique favorable.Article
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This article focuses on inequalities in agriculture in the European Union. We examine the mismatch between European legislation on employment and any rigorous interrogation of women's employment position in agriculture. Our central argument is t[...]