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In this paper, we examine the evolution of Spanish agriculture from 1992 to 2017, exploring the specific relationship between the agricultural population and the provision of agroecosystem services (AE-S). Traditionally, family farming has susta[...]Article
Land abandonment and the lack of generational renewal in farming are serious issues in European agriculture with social, environmental and economic implications. This article reports on the recent experiences of joint cropland management (JCM) i[...]Article
Policies and strategies that encourage the adoption of environmentally friendly practices in the agricultural sector also promote mechanisms that facilitate their implementation. One of them is the creation of Producer Organizations and the gran[...]Article
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the perception of environmental attributes and food safety in Italy and Spain and how these different perceptions influence the importance of various attributes and certifications related to food. These tw[...]Article
Depopulation is a major challenge for many rural inland areas, as is the case in a considerable number of rural municipalities in Galicia (north-western Spain). The pandemic had a considerable impact on internal migration in 2020, but it was far[...]Article
Aim of study: To assess the economic viability of implementing carbon fertilisation (CF) on the Campo de Dalías greenhouse agricultural sector. Area of study: Agricultural area of Campo de Dalías (Southeast of Spain), the highest density of gre[...]Article
The existing cultivated land in the Mediterranean region faces great pressure from various sources. A suitability evaluation of potential arable land is urgent for helping adaptation measures to mitigate the impacts of climate change and human p[...]Article
In recent years, the concept of the circular economy has been gaining relevance and its importance has grown both in academia and in rural municipalities in general. The rural development policy of the European Union, in addition to prioritizing[...]Article
Meteorological drought is defined as the event that arises when precipitation is lower than average and initially affects rainfed crops; this is transformed into hydrological drought when persistent drought affects water storage. We have studied[...]Article
Soils have the capacity to store three times more carbon (C) than the atmosphere. This fact has focused scientific and governmental attention because it is one way to mitigate climate change. However, there comes a time when the capacity of soil[...]Article
Ó. Ramírez del Palacio ; S. Hernández-Navarro ; L.F. Sánchez-Sastre ; I.A. Fernández-Coppel ; V. Pando-Fernández |The process of Land Consolidation (LC) is deemed an important instrument of rural development in many countries, where it contributes to the economic development and viability of their rural areas. This paper aims to analyze three areas of Casti[...]Article
Coastal wetlands are among the most productive and valuable ecosystems worldwide, although one of the main factors affecting their survival is the coexistence between agriculture and conservation. This paper analyses the complex balance between [...]Article
New players are entering the new and important digital data market for agriculture, increasing power asymmetries and reinforcing their competitive advantages. Although the farmer remains at the heart of agricultural data collection, to date, onl[...]Article
Water is the most limiting natural resource in many Mediterranean areas of southern Europe, and this, together with the actual scenario of climate change (CC), promotes a framework of uncertainty and creates major challenges concerning the susta[...]Article
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the world economy since 2020. This study analyzed the impact of the pandemic on innovative agri-food companies from different branches of agro-industrial activity located in Extremadura (Spai[...]Article
Current European agriculture policies and strategies are aimed to boost the transition from the predominant conventional to a more environmentally friendly agriculture model. As part of this, it is crucial to identify the barriers that exist to [...]Article
The implementation of Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) concepts has been pointed out as an indirect strategy that could potentially help mitigating the environmental impacts of livestock production systems. To date, few studies have focused on [...]Article
E. Garmendia ; A. Aldezabal ; E. Galán ; A. Andonegi ; A. Del Prado ; G. Gamboa ; O. Garcia ; G. Pardo ; N. Aldai ; L.J.R. Barron |Pastoral systems face increasing pressure from competing global markets, food sector industrialization, and new policies such as Europes post-2020 Common Agriculture Policy. This pressure threatens the use of extensive sheep-grazing systems in [...]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
Within the framework of the LEADER approach to rural development applied in rural areas of the European Union, a high degree of social innovation (SI) has been achieved with the support of publicprivate partnerships. This research analyzes the [...]Article
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a commitment to sustainability through innovation, sustainable economic growth and the diversification of economic activities. The social economy and the revaluation of rural heritage play a fun[...]Article
J.A. Martínez-López ; R. López-Urrea ; A. Martínez-Romero ; J.J. Pardo ; J. Montero ; A. Domínguez |Scarcity of water resources is one of the main constraints on agricultural activity in arid and semi-arid areas. Despite the great technological development over recent decades, farmers are demanding methodologies and tools adapted to their trai[...]Article
Social innovation is gaining attention as a perspective that stresses the relevance of transforming social relations to promote sustainable territorial development. This paper adopts the social innovation approach to examine Alternative Food Net[...]Article
Mountain grazing systems, based since ancient times on common land, are finding it increasingly challenging to ensure their economic viability. Although marginal in productive terms, these systems are high-value natural areas that provide multip[...]Article
N. Fava ; V.R. Lagana ; A. Nicolosi |The pandemic has accelerated the search for innovative product/process/service solutions in city markets as well as the search for open innovation challenges more in line with current needs. The aim of the research is to understand the adaptat[...]Article
Spain is the country with the most biosphere reserves (BRs) in the world. The aim of this paper is to investigate why BRs have come to proliferate to such a degree in Spain and why there is a gap between UNESCOs framework and the practicalities[...]Article
The fisheries sector is making significant changes by specifically addressing coastal management and tackling the socio-environmental crisis it is currently facing. Notably, a fundamental change in the attitude and behavior of fishers and their [...]Article
Areas with low levels of transformation are alternative destinations for tourists who prefer to visit nonmassified places and have singular experiences. The benefits of these microdestinations are their local populations, traditional products, l[...]Article
B. Martin-Gorriz ; J.A. Zabala ; V. Sanchez-Navarro ; B. Gallego-Elvira ; V. Martínez-García ; F. Alcon ; J.F. Maestre-Valero |Crop diversification is becoming increasingly important for preserving soil and ecosystems health and, subsequently, crop productivity and sustainability. Intercropping practices adopted in monocultural woody crops, with herbaceous crops coveri[...]Article
Wine production has food safety hazards. A Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) system makes it possible to identify, evaluate, and control significant food safety hazards throughout the wine production process. The Prerequisites Progr[...]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
Galicia is one of Spain's leading regions regarding agricultural and livestock production. In the light of the COVID-19 crisis, the permeability to the economic shocks of these sectors led to an unprecedented recession, given the heterogeneity o[...]Article
Third party certified food labelling schemes can be used to reduce asymmetric information in anonymous markets. However, in short food supply chains (SFSCs) trust linkages can be also built through direct contact between consumers and producers.[...]Article
R. Rebolledo-Leiva ; L. Vásquez-Ibarra ; E. Entrena-Barbero ; M. Fernandez ; G. Feijoo ; M.T. Moreira ; S. González-García |Society is facing different challenges such as resource scarcity, climate change, and food security. Thus, proposing methodologies to assess the sustainability of promoted circular systems is essential to balance economic benefits and the preser[...]Article
The sustainability of farming systems has been enhanced by legislation on different scales, but at the same time these policies also promote more productive systems through farming intensification (e.g., use of irrigation or high tree densities)[...]Article
CONTEXT Ongoing decreases in family farms and livestock numbers in European mountain areas are linked to multiple interconnected challenges. The continuity of such farms concerns society at large since they also act as landscape stewards, and th[...]Article
The main type of consumptive water use is crop evapotranspiration. The historical evolution of crop evapotranspiration depends on climate and cropland changes. These two latter variables present complex interactions and are expected to continue [...]Article
R. Koenig ; M. Brunette ; P. Delacote ; C. Tevenart |Le secteur agricole français est exposé à de nombreux risques météorologiques qui vont saccentuer sous leffet du changement climatique. La gestion de ces risques est un enjeu essentiel de lactivité des agriculteurs. Parmi les instruments à le[...]Article
Climate change and silvopasture: the potential of the tree and weather to modify soil carbon balance
N. Ferreiro-Dominguez ; F.J. Rodriguez-Rigueiro ; A. Rigueiro-Rodríguez ; M. Pilar Gonzalez-Hernandez ; M.R. Mosquera-Losada |Silvopastoral systems play an important role in climate change mitigation, considering their effect on soil carbon sequestration. In silvopastoral systems, sewage sludge can be used as fertiliser, which is promoted by the Circular Economy Packag[...]Article
Assessing the spatial and temporal changes in ecosystems is essential to account for natural capital contribution to human well-being. However, various methods to quantify these changes challenge the development of reliable values which can be i[...]Article
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced companies to suddenly adapt their daily operations. This has also affected the agri-food sector, which is one of the main sectors of the Spanish economy in terms of exportations. Hence, the purpose of this study [...]Article
This article presents a systematic review of innovative projects funded by EU Rural Development Programs that were designed and implemented in rural areas of the European Union to facilitate the territorialized production of foodstuffs and their[...]Article
This paper addresses the Multifunctional and Territorialised Agri-Food Systems (MTLAFS) in areas of direct urban influence, focusing on the metropolitan region of Madrid. MTLAFS are contextualised as alternatives to the hegemonic global model of[...]Article
Participatory guarantee systems (PGSs) have emerged as a response to exclusion and intermediation processes involving third-party certification, which is currently the only guarantee system recognised by the European Union for organic food. Desp[...]Article
The production of berry, a fruit highly appreciated by consumers, has considerably increased in the last years. Europe Union has 1.55 millions of smallholdings dedicated to blueberry farming. Actually, it is an important sector on Spain agrifood[...]Article
As civilization advances, water resources are increasingly being consumed for domestic, industrial, and agricultural purposes, reducing the ability to find an equilibrium of water security and growing demands. This study presents an analysis and[...]Article
Women contribute decisively to the economy and have an important participation in agricultural exploitation in the world, providing their labor. But if they had better access to technology and training in a more equitable way, they could contrib[...]Article
This paper deals with the efficiency level of cereal-dairy sheep production systems in the Mediterranean Basin. It studies them in the Protected Designation of Origin Manchego Cheese, located in Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). Previous studies hav[...]Article
Lexploitation de lénergie éolienne en mer va commencer très prochainement en Méditerranée. Cette nouvelle activité associée à une occupation permanente de la mer risque de générer de nouvelles tensions avec les usages existants et de nouvelles[...]Article
The second half of the 20th century has been characterised by the rural abandonment in several regions of the Mediterranean basin. The general collapse of traditional agriculture and livestock activities brought about an intensive migration move[...]Article
The cooperative is one of the most important forms of business in the agricultural sector, due to its special characteristics for small farmers and livestock producers in order to gain access to greater comparative advantages. In addition, coope[...]Article
Taking into account that in the literature on pork-production Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) there are a few studies about the Iberian pig, the present article evaluates an extensive (growing-fattening) Iberian-pig system in Spain, producing meat f[...]Article
F. de Asis Ruiz ; D. Grande ; J. Nahed ; J.M. Castel ; Y. Mena |In the Mediterranean Basin, sheep meat production systems are based on grazing, and help to conserve biodiversity, mitigate the greenhouse gases emissions and maintain the population in rural areas. However, the lack of differentiation of pastor[...]Article
The latest world atlas of desertification represents a turning point in the diagnosis of desertification. While it forgoes desertification mapping due to the intrinsic complexity of the phenomenon and the impossibility of measuring it using a si[...]Article
We examine whether projection bias is also present in virtual environments. Two hypotheses were tested using a between-subject experiment with three conditions: (i) experimental context (virtual vs. real); (ii) consumption periods (today vs. tom[...]Article
Luis-Antonio López ; Maria-Angeles Tobarra ; Maria-Ángeles Cadarso ; Nuria Gómez ; Ignacio Cazcarro |What would the effect on the employment and environmental footprint be if Spanish households substituted imported fresh fruits and vegetables with local production? Are the impacts similar over the entire year? Is it possible to find a general p[...]Article
R. De Groot ; S. Moolenaar ; J. de Vente ; V. De Leijster ; M.E. Ramos ; A. Belen Robles ; Y. Schoonhoven ; P. Verweij |To prevent landscape degradation and the continuing loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, decisions regarding landscape restoration should be based on their true costs and benefits (i.e. broader welfare effects), including all externali[...]Article
The theoretical literature makes a connection between the notions of landscape and territorialised agrifood systems, but these connections are rarely specified or explained. Their consideration in development proposals requires the relationship [...]Article
Vine cultivation has a strong territorial character derived from the environmental, social, cultural and economic interactions with the space in which the vines are grown. In Spain, this activity is clearly representative of Mediterranean agrari[...]Article
C. Giagnocavo ; M. de Cara-Garcia ; M. González ; M. Juan ; J.I. Marin-Guirao ; S. Mehrabi ; E. Rodríguez ; J. van der Blom ; E. Crisol-Martinez |Sustainability transitions in agriculture are explored through an analysis of niche initiatives within a common production system, relying on sustainable transitions, multi-level perspectives, and agroecological frameworks, and involving multi-a[...]Article
Local governments are key to establishing public policies linked to the 2030 Agenda. To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), public innovation is essential, and one of the essential pillars is transversality and partnerships (intern[...]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
This paper presents a comprehensive and practical method for Sustainable Agricultural Drainage Systems (SADS) design. It is aimed at studying the suitability of using surface runoff as irrigation source. The method determines the optimum amount [...]Série
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A. Menéndez I Molist ; Z. Kallas ; M. Puig de Morales ; Y. Noutfia ; H. Ouabouch ; O. Boughamoura ; A. Benali ; K. El Baamran | 2022The promotion of Short Food Supply Chains (SFSC) is an issue that is becoming more relevant to both the public and research agenda, aiming to build more sustainable agri-food supply chains and empower smallholder farmers. This research aims to d[...]Communication à un Congrès (avec Actes)
L. Ruiz de Larrinaga ; Z. Kallas ; A. Menéndez I Molist ; M. Puig de Morales ; N. Houmy ; H. Ouabouch ; Y. Noutfia ; O. Boughamoura ; K. El Baamran | 2022The purpose of this study is to analyze consumers relative importance of economic, social, and environmental factors when selecting a place to purchase fruit and vegetables in order to establish new strategies according to consumers' preference[...]Article
Extensive outdoor low-intensity livestock farming systems are the principal form of management of high natural value farmland in Europe. Their marginalisation and poor recognition in policies and markets, can ultimately risk the future of sustai[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
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Knowledge transfer on digital transformation: an analysis of the olive landscape in Andalusia, Spain
The global economy, and agriculture, in particular, faces significant challenges and transformation pressures. A major challenge, and opportunity, is the transformation towards digital agriculture or agriculture 4.0, where knowledge transfer (KT[...]Communication à un Congrès (avec Actes)
A. Menéndez I Molist ; Z. Kallas ; M. Puig de Morales ; H. Ouabouch ; K. Elfazazi ; Y. Noutfia ; O. Boughamoura ; K. El Baamran | 2022This study focuses on evaluating the criteria used by stakeholders (restaurants, industry, and small-scale retailers) to select fruits and vegetable suppliers in Spain, France, and Morocco targeting three selected countries specific products an[...]Article
Protected geographical indications (PGIs) are an increasingly popular strategy for securing price premiums on food products in the interest of preserving associated rural livelihoods, however they often fail to show clear benefits for small or o[...]Article
Agricultural land abandonment is a relevant occurrence in mountainous and peripheral regions all over the world. While both positive and negative environmental consequences of this abandonment are documented (depending on the specific location a[...]Article
Lifting water is crucial to irrigate agricultural terraces in the Mediterranean region. But the energy demand and emissions of modern forms of water pumping have increased, while many traditional water wheels, which lift water at zero direct emi[...]Article
The article analyses the crisis and double bind situation to which Catalan dairy farmers find themselves subjected. Two contradictory commands are being imposed on them: act as if nature does not matter and increase production because, otherw[...]Article
Olive trees are one of the few alternative crops available for farmers in arid environments. In many of these regions, surface irrigation is increasing. The aim of this study was to estimate the pattern of water soil reserves through the season [...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
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Urban food policies (UFPs) have emerged as a key mechanism to drive the transition towards more sustainable food systems, with cities as the appropriate scale for their implementation. The aim of the paper is analysis of the boost that UFPs have[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
Winter crops in most of the northern and eastern Mediterranean growing regions are faring well in this first half of 2021-2022 campaign. However, an intense and long-lasting drought is hampering winter crops future harvest in Portugal, Morocco,[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
Winter crops in several Mediterranean growing regions are under scrutiny. An intense and long-lasting drought hampered winter crops future harvest in Morocco, Portugal and parts of Italy and Algeria, and can potentially impact other producing r[...]Article
S. Baccour ; J. Albiac ; T. Kahil ; E. Esteban ; D. Crespo ; A. Dinar |Water scarcity and water quality degradation are major problems in many basins across the world, especially in arid and semiarid regions. The severe pressures on basins are the consequence of the intensification of food production systems and th[...]Article
D. Pérez-Neira ; X. Simon ; D. Copena |This work evaluates and discusses the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction potential of agroecological policies implemented in public food procurement for school canteens. Using a life cycle analysis (LCA) methodology (cradle-to-grave approa[...]Article
The need to produce safe food products for an ever-growing world population while reducing the impact on climate change makes it necessary for the farm business to combine productivity and sustainability. As more efficient and sustainable produc[...]Article
Local Productive Systems (hereinafter LPSs) based on agro-food industries constitute alternative models of development in peripheral rural areas that are subject to internal and external dynamics and processes. The main objective of this researc[...]Article
Peri-urban agriculture (PUA) plays a fundamental role in securing sustainable cities by providing food, cultural and environmental services. The 'Huerta de Murcia' in south-eastern Spain, is one of the most singular examples of PUA. With more th[...]Article
D. Bruno ; R. Sorando ; B. Alvarez-Farizo ; C. Castellano ; V. Céspedes ; B. Gallardo ; J.J. Jiménez ; M.V. López ; R. Lopez-Flores ; D. Moret-Fernandez ; E. Navarro ; F. Picazo ; M. Sevilla-Callejo ; J. Tormo ; J.J. Vidal-Macua ; J.M. Nicolau ; F.A. Comin |Despite the exponential increase in human population at global scale, some rural areas have experienced a progressive abandonment over the last decades. Under particular socioecological and policy contexts, changes in demography may promote land[...]Article
The spread of geographical indications (GIs) is quite heterogeneous within the European Union. Some areas show a large number of registered GI products, while others scarcely use this policy tool. In our study, we investigate the relation betwee[...]Article
Immigrants in rural areas and immigrant employment in the agricultural sector have been studied from a variety of perspectives. However, we currently lack a bird's-eye view of these two phenomena covering all EU member states through time. This [...]Article
Participatory action research involving farmers and researchers is crucial to enhance the adoption of farming innovations and ensure the long term sustainability of agroecosystem restoration. However, the factors for successful participatory res[...]Article
Farmland abandonment is common in the southern EU countries. This complex phenomenon has a set of interlinked causes and consequences, among the latter the undermining of farmers' cooperatives role as supply aggregators. The paper discusses a mu[...]Article
Prioritization of olive breeding objectives in Spain: analysis of a producers and researchers survey
L. León ; R. de la Rosa ; M. Arriaza |Aim of study: Trait prioritization of potential olive (Olea europaea L.) breeding objectives has been evaluated in this work from two surveys to researchers working on olive and olive producers / orchard managers. Area of study: Olive growing ar[...]Article
Using several energy returns on investment indicators (multi-EROI), this article analyses the socioecological transition of an agroecosystem in the western Mediterranean on the island of Mallorca (Spain) over a period of 150 years which saw a ch[...]Article
The Covid-19 crisis has shed light on two structural problems that affect a large part of the European model of industrial fruit and vegetable production, mainly in Spain and Italy: excessive dependence on foreign labour and the appalling social[...]Article
Similar to other foods, the concept of natural wine is much debated due to the lack of a clear and regulated definition, leading to a proliferation of heterogeneous norms and standards proposed from different natural wine associations at nationa[...]Article
The agri-food regime faces urgent structural and ethical challenges to advance towards sustainability; therefore, the search for triggers, accelerators and supports for sustainability transition is of outstanding scientific and social interest. [...]Article
Despite major recent advances in socio-hydrology and hydroeconomics research, interdisciplinary methods and models for water policy assessment remain largely concealed to the academic arena. Most river basin authorities still base decision-makin[...]Article
The consumption of organic products has consistently increased over the last decades, covering increasingly diversified consumers, both in the characteristics and the reasons associated with consumption. This heterogeneity evidences the need to [...]Article
European traditional cultural landscapes are increasingly modified by rural abandonment and urban growth processes. Acknowledged as of High Nature Value for providing multiple ecosystem services while contributing to human well-being, the future[...]Article
In a global context where agriculture is the major consumer of water, there is a pressing need to look for alternative water resources. In light of there being a lack of studies that compare the use of diverse water alternatives in different cro[...]Article
In 2018, Spain was the third largest producer and the leading exporter of wine in the world. Viticulture is an important economic activity in the Castilla y León region, and is an element capable of halting the flight from the countryside and fa[...]Article
Ecotourism is becoming increasingly important in natural parks because it raises the value of the environment for the visitor. The present study aimed to (i) establish the factors of the perceived value in ecotourism and (ii) analyze the predict[...]