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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[...]