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J. Phillipson ; M. Gorton ; R. Turner ; M. Shucksmith ; K. Aitken-McDermott ; F. Areal ; P. Cowie ; S. Maioli ; R. McAreavey ; D.M. Souza Monteiro ; R. Newbery ; L. Panzone ; F. Rowe ; S. Shortall |This paper presents a rapid assessment of current and likely future impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on rural economies given their socio-economic characteristics. Drawing principally on current evidence for the UK, as well as lessons from the 2[...]Article
As the world population grows, so do the challenges facing global agricultural systems. Increasing production to satisfy the world's demand for food, fiber and energy intensifies pressure on natural resources, especially soil and water. To face [...]Article
Pratique ancienne, dont l'objectif est dévacuer les excès d'eau dans les sols pour en favoriser la culture, le drainage agricole génère toutefois des impacts sur les milieux naturels qu'il est important de comprendre pour faire évoluer les tech[...]Article
This study examines the scope and depth of research on the five major types of risks in agriculture, and the extent to which those studies have addressed the impacts of, and policies to mitigate individual types of risk as opposed to more holist[...]Chapitre d'ouvrage
E. Valette ; K. Schreiber ; D. Conaré ; V. Bonomelli ; A. Blay-Palmer ; N. Bricas ; D. Sautier ; O. Lepiller ; K. Schreiber ; D. Conaré ; V. Bonomelli ; A. Blay-Palmer ; N. Bricas ; D. Sautier ; O. Lepiller | Londres [Royaume-Uni] : Routledge | Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment | 2020This chapter presents an emerging effort to develop a participatory mapping methodology that will illuminate the pathways through which sustainable urban food systems achieve lasting impact. Carried out in collaboration with Està (Economia e Sos[...]Article
O. Englund ; P. Börjesson ; G. Berndes ; N. Scarlat ; J.-F. Dallemand ; B. Grizzetti ; I. Dimitriou ; B. Mola-Yudego ; F. Fahl |Society faces the double challenge of increasing biomass production to meet the future demands for food, materials and bioenergy, while addressing negative impacts of current (and future) land use. In the discourse, land use change (LUC) has oft[...]Article
T. Iizumi ; Z. Shen ; J. Furuya ; T. Koizumi ; G. Furuhashi ; W. Kim ; M. Nishimori |Adaptation will be essential in many sectors, including agriculture, as a certain level of warming is anticipated even after substantial climate mitigation. However, global adaptation costs and adaptation limits in agriculture are understudied. [...]E-Book
The coronavirus pandemic has sparked not only a health crisis but also an economic crisis, which together pose a serious threat to food security, particularly in poorer countries. COVID-19 & Global Food Security brings together a groundbreaking [...]Article
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This report reviews the evidence base on how agricultural policies impact environmental sustainability and productivity of the agriculture sector, including the potentially contradictory signals policies may send. It considers impacts for specif[...]Article
As we understand more about the challenges posed by global warming, it has become widely accepted that water is the principal medium through which society feels the climate-related stresses. But we have an opportunity to flip water from being a [...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
The COVID 19 pandemic is a major world phenomenon. Its economic impact is just beginning to unfold, but we already know that its size will be huge, of an unprecedented order of magnitude. It already has impacted many aspects of human and social [...]Communication à un Congrès (avec Actes)
E. Güven ; M. Mansoor ; J. Sahatqija ; S.N.K. Appiah-Kubi ; M.T. Aygün | Prague [République Tchèque] : CZU | 2020One of the most important components of a developing economy is the agricultural sector. It is possible to have an idea about the development level of the country by looking at the share of the agriculture in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of [...]Article
I. Ouraich ; H. Dudu ; W.E. Tyner ; E.H. Cakmak |The extent to which agricultural trade liberalisation can be an adaptation strategy in the face of climate change remains to be an open discussion in the literature. We set out to answer this question in the context of Morocco and Turkey by taki[...]Article
Cette introduction rassemble les arguments issus des textes du dossier « Transformations du foncier rural et stratégies collectives en Méditerranée : entre conflits et résilience territoriale », les met en lumière de la littérature, et ce, dans [...]Article
In the Mediterranean region, the long-term provision of agro-ecosystem services is threatened by accelerating climate change, unsustainable farming practices, and other pressures. Alternative management practices such as conservation agriculture[...]Article
Spatial factors, such as environmental conditions, distance to natural resources and access to services can influence the impacts of climate change on rural household livelihood activities. But neither the determinants of precarious livelihoods [...]Article
In Turkey, studies investigating the economic effects of climate change on agriculture are limited and there is little or no research that focuses on livestock production as regards changes in climate. In this context, the main objective of this[...]Article
Le développement des « services climatiques » est en plein essor, avec pour objectif de mettre à disposition des outils et des éléments daide à la décision pour les entreprises et les gestionnaires des infrastructures, des ressources et des ter[...]Article
A. Adham ; J.G. Wesseling ; R. Abed ; M. Riksen ; M. Ouessar ; C. Ritsema |Climate change is believed to have a large impact on water resources system both globally and regionally. It has become a major global issue, especially in developing countries because these are most affected by its impacts. Rainwater harvesting[...]Article
In any turbulent economic environment, sectors of economic activity behave and resist differently depending on the causes of the turbulence. Some sectors present a unique resistance in economic aberrations, have a resilient attitude and play the[...]Article
Even if agroecology and ecosystem services are multidimensional framework concepts, recognizing the technical, social, and ecological dimensions of agriculture, they have developed from different traditions (conservation biology for ecosystem se[...]Article
The two channels that explain how migration of a household member affects human capital formation of those left-behind are income and family disruption effects. In this study, remittances and migration impacts on human capital formation in Jorda[...]Article
Increasing attention on the relationship between agriculture and the environment has led governments to place new emphasis on Agri-environmental policies and organic agriculture to support farmers in developing innovative and sustainable managem[...]Article
Deficit irrigation practices carried out in very high-density olive orchards grown in the Alentejo region of southern Portugal can bring important economic benefits in terms of water savings, yields, and oils. They can also result in serious sal[...]Article
D. Cammarano ; S. Ceccarelli ; S. Grando ; I. Romagosa ; A. Benbelkacem ; T. Akar ; A. Al-Yassin ; N. Pecchioni ; E. Francia ; D. Ronga |Barley is an important cereal crop for the arid and semi-arid Mediterranean environments. Future climate projections show that Mediterranean countries will get drier and hotter. The objectives of the study are to: i) simulate the impacts of diff[...]Article
La mesure de limpact social est devenue un sujet majeur dans le débat relatif au financement de linnovation sociale. Plusieurs rapports de référence ont été publiés dans ce sens. Ces travaux récents, en sinscrivant tous dans le cadre logique [...]Article
The food and agriculture sectors contribute significantly to climate change, but are also particularly vulnerable to its effects. Industrial ecology has robustly addressed these sectors contributions to climate change, but not their vulnerabili[...]Article
R. Erel ; A. Eppel ; U. Yermiyahu ; A. Ben-Gal ; A. Dag ; G. Levy ; I. Zipori ; G.E. Shaumann ; O. Mayer |Utilization of reclaimed wastewater (RWW) presents an alternative to irrigation of agricultural crops with fresh water (Fr), especially in dry areas characterized by water scarcity. While RWW often contains considerable amounts of valuable plant[...]