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The COVID-19 pandemic heightened awareness that serious illness and injury are common and important shocks that result in food insecurity, the loss of livelihoods, and unsustainable coping strategies. These have significant negative impacts on w[...]Article
To implement the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact while enhancing ecosystem services, the Barcelona Metropolitan Authority has commissioned a socioecological assessment of the metropolitan agriculture. A Socioecological Integrated Analysis has been [...]Bulletin : Revue Electronique
Dossiers d'Agropolis International (Les), n. 26 - September 2021 - Agroecological transformation for sustainable food systems
2021The French Commission for International Agricultural Research (CRAI) and Agropolis International, on behalf of CIRAD, INRAE and IRD and in partnership with CGIAR, has produced this new issue in the Les dossiers dAgropolis international series[...]Article
J. Ben Nasr ; H. Chaar ; F. Bouchiba ; L. Zaibet |The agricultural sector plays a strategic role in the Tunisian economy, particularly in rural areas. Resilience and adaptation to climate change are the main challenges facing this sector. This paper aims to analyze climate change resilience of [...]Article
Developing and disseminating resilient rice cultivars with increased productivity is a key solution to the problem of limited natural resources such as land and water. We investigated trends in rice cultivation areas and the overall production i[...]Article
Innovation plays an essential role in addressing the interlinked environmental, social, and economic challenges facing the agri-food sectors in the North Africa region. This systematic review analyses the state of research on innovation in North[...]Article
R. Capone ; V. Fersino ; E. Stamataki ; M. Cerezo ; M.-E. Kessari ; S. Dernini ; H. El Bilali |Despite the recurring discourse on food systems and their sustainability in the Mediterranean region, comprehensive studies are hard to find. Therefore, this article provides an overview on the challenges and perspectives of food systems in the [...]Article
Family farm businesses throughout Europe are facing new economic, environmental and social challenges. In order to deliver a more resilient primary agriculture sector, national and regional governments are identifying mechanisms to support farm [...]Article
The spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy, in the period MarchMay 2020, quickly triggered a deep crisis, causing an immediate economic slowdown and consequently a strong contraction in domestic demand and trade. The food supply chain faced s[...]Article
Sustainability is a widely accepted goal across many sectors of our society and, according to new concepts, it includes resilience and adaptive capacity. Resilience is important for a system to guarantee the maintenance of functions and structur[...]Article
E. López Gunn ; M. Rica ; P. Zorrilla-Miras ; L. Vay ; B. Mayor ; A. Pagano ; M. Altamirano ; R. Giordano |Nature based solutions are proposed as integrated solutions to transform the current water intensive economic model to a more balanced model, where water is considered as an eco-social asset. We analyse the logic of action and underpinning belie[...]Bulletin : Revue Electronique
EU rural review, n. 32 - July 2021 - Long-term Vision for rural areas
2021This edition of the EU Rural Review looks at the future of rural areas in digital, environmental and social terms, as well as in terms of resilience. The content builds on the outcomes of the ENRD work on the Long-Term Rural Vision and of Rural[...]Article
À lheure où lété bat son plein et quune partie des vacanciers a rejoint les côtes pour profiter de la mer, Futuribles poursuit sa série consacrée aux océans, lancée il y a un an, en juillet-août 2020. Cette fois, cest la Méditerranée qui est[...]Article
A. Nicolosi ; D. Di Gregorio ; G. Arena ; V.R. Lagana ; D. Privitera |The study looks at the problems facing coastal fishing communities. It highlights the impacts that, in the complex framework of the EU reforms, have manifested themselves on economic activities and on society. The aim of the paper is twofold: to[...]Article
N.M. Hashem ; E.M. Hassanein ; J.-F. Hocquette ; A. Gonzalez-Bulnes ; F.A. Ahmed ; Y.A. Attia ; K.A. Asiry |In the near future, the year 2050, agricultural production should expand to fulfill the needs of approximately 9.7 billion inhabitants. Such an objective should be harmonized with social, economic, and environmental sustainability aspects to mai[...]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
The Mediterranean region is expected to be a hotspot for climate change, making the resilience of farming systems a major challenge. Some studies have used quantitative models at the farm scale to analyze the resilience of farming systems but wi[...]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
M.P.M. Meuwissen ; P.H. Feindt ; T. Slijper ; A. Spiegel ; R. Finger ; Y. de Mey ; W. Paas ; K.J.A.M. Termeer ; P.M. Poortvliet ; M. Peneva ; J. Urquhart ; M. Vigani ; J.E. Black ; P. Nicholas-Davies ; D. Maye ; F. Appel ; F. Heinrich ; A. Balmann ; J. Bijttebier ; I. Coopmans ; E. Wauters ; E. Mathijs ; H. Hansson ; C.J. Lagerkvist ; J. Rommel ; G. Manevska-Tasevska ; F. Accatino ; C. Pineau ; B. Soriano ; I. Bardaji ; S. Severini ; S. Senni ; C. Zinnanti ; C. Gavrilescu ; I.S. Bruma ; K.M. Dobay ; D. Matei ; L. Tanasa ; D.M. Voicilas ; K. Zawalinska ; P. Gradziuk ; V. Krupin ; A. Martikainen ; H. Herrera ; P. Reidsma |Context Resilience is the ability to deal with shocks and stresses, including the unknown and previously unimaginable, such as the Covid-19 crisis. Objective This paper assesses (i) how different farming systems were exposed to the crisis, (ii) [...]Article
The interest in short food supply chains (SFSCs) has grown significantly in the last decade, notably in respect of their potential role to achieve more sustainable food chains. However, a major barrier to achieving sustainable supply chains is t[...]Article
La crise économique de 2008 a été lune des plus sévères que lEurope ait connu jusque-là. Limpact de la crise a été extrêmement variable dune région à lautre au niveau européen, questionnant les enjeux de solidarité et de cohésion territoria[...]Article
R. Bulgari ; A. Petrini ; G. Cocetta ; C. Nicoletto ; A. Ertani ; P. Sambo ; A. Ferrante ; S. Nicola |The COVID-19 pandemic is causing many victims worldwide and has generated a serious economic crisis. Substantial changes have occurred in the food and ornamental production chains. The aim of the present review has been to summarize some of the [...]Article
The Covid-19 pandemic newly brings food resilience in cities to our attention and the need to question the desired degree of food self-sufficiency through urban agriculture. While these questions are by no means new and periodically entering the[...]Article
Both in the European Union (EU) and worldwide, the resilience of agri-food systems depends on the human ability to balance between socio-economic and ecological trade-offs. Recent ecosystem services literature acknowledges that smallholder farme[...]Article
Depopulation is a serious problem facing developed countries, among them Spain. It is especially severe in rural areas, where some vicious circles emerge, nourished by reduced infrastructures and services, deteriorated quality of life, the low i[...]