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The circular economy (CE) has emerged as a strategy able to fulfil the double purpose of improving the economic performance of the agricultural activity while minimising the impact generated on the environment by reducing the inflow of resources[...]Article
T. Stillitano ; G. Falcone ; N. Iofrida ; E. Spada ; G. Gulisano ; A.I. De Luca |Circular economy (CE) is claimed to be a promising pathway to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but a reliable metric is needed to validate closed-loop strategies by measuring sustainability performances together with the degree [...]Article
M. Kumar ; M. Sharma ; R.D. Raut ; S.K. Mangla ; V.K. Choubey |Food organizations have seen pressure from stakeholders, consumers, governments, and other international agencies to adopt sustainable practices in their business operations. Sustainable development is the current need for the agri-food sector t[...]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
The quantification of food waste is a significant challenge of the environmental community, which advocates both in the context of good circular economy practices, and more broadly, in the context of efficient management of resources policies. T[...]Article
B. Arru ; R. Furesi ; P. Pulina ; P. Sau ; F.A. Madau |Agriculture and the agri-food industry are central to fostering economic growth and the Sustainable Development Goals targets. However, to meet the worlds future development, it is necessary to make the agri-food system more resource-efficient[...]Article
The role of energy management (EM) capabilities in enhancing circular economy (CE) business models of agricultural small and medium-sized enterprises by way of developing dedicated organisational competences is an under-investigated topic. In ad[...]Article
F. Fassio ; I.E. Borda ; E. Talpo ; A. Savina ; F. Rovera ; O. Pieretto ; D. Zarri |The impact of linear agri-food supply chains is progressively leading to ever wider socio-environmental and cultural repercussions, undermining the balance of territories and communities to the point of disrupting the entire planet's health. The[...]Article
As resource waste and environmental degradation become increasingly serious, closed-loop supply chains have attracted more and more attention from the public. How to effectively undertake corporate social responsibility (CSR) and alleviate the c[...]Article
Food loss and waste are two of the many problems that modern society is facing. To date, among many solutions, the circular economy is the one prevailing. A successful transition toward a circular economy (CE) requires the food sector to overcom[...]Article
This study aims to conduct an exploratory and comparative analysis between Fruit and Vegetable Producer Organizations (FVPOs) and fruit and vegetable producers that are not part of these organizations (Non-FVPOs) regarding the prioritization, pe[...]Article
S.M. Ayati ; E. Shekarian ; J. Majava ; B.V. Wæhrens |The integration of the concept of the circular economy (CE) within the supply chain is known as the circular supply chain (CSC). Although various articles have identified barriers to implementing CE, no comprehensive study has investigated the i[...]Article
Mediterranean olive oil producers have multiple incentives for adopting circular business models and better resource management, facing water scarcity and huge amounts of waste, but also seeing new opportunities for value creation. This article [...]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
I. Atanasovska ; S. Choudhary ; L. Koh ; P.H. Ketikidis ; A. Solomon |This paper presents a systematic literature review on the concept of social value emerging from circular economy (CE) practice implementation in agri-food eco-industrial parks. The results show that social value stemming from CE practices is sub[...]Article
A. Ncube ; G. Fiorentino ; C. Panfilo ; M. De Falco ; S. Ulgiati |Purpose : The olive oil sector in Italy has a significant socio-economic, environmental, and cultural relevance. However, the environmental impacts of production and consumption models are considerable, mainly due to the demand for large quantit[...]Article
La structuration locale dune filière de revalorisation dinvendus se met en mouvement par une mise en réseau dacteurs autour dun projet de territoire à Nantes. En travaillant auprès des porteurs de projets, les chercheurs travaillent depuis d[...]Article
In response to the climate emergency and other dimensions of the current global environmental crisis, the world is facing an agroecology transition aimed at scaling up the best sustainable ways of farming into circular agri-food territories. No [...]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
Circular economy (CE) is an umbrella concept for closing material loops towards enhanced environmental performance. Despite the recognized benefits of CE, the intended outcomes are not always achieved due to the occurrence of rebound effects. Th[...]Article
The olive oil supply chain and even its individual stages have been extensively investigated through life cycle assessment (LCA) in recent decades. Most practices of the olive oil supply chain have been associated with negative environmental eff[...]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
Léconomie circulaire (EC) occupe une place prépondérante dans le discours des pouvoirs publics. Elle sapparente à un nouveau paradigme pour le développement durable, mais le concept semble divisé entre approches théoriques et pratiques diverse[...]Article
L.C. Lu ; S.-Y. Chiu ; Y.-H. Chiu ; T.-H. Chang |This study adopts the Modified Dynamic Three-stage Circular Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Model to explore food production, consumption, and waste recycling in 27 European countries from 2008 to 2016 and use food waste recycling as the circula[...]Article
In recent years, the agrifood sector has been relevantly impacted by resource shortage, food loss and waste across the whole supply chain. This study assesses, from a life cycle perspective, the water footprint of the fruit and vegetable losses [...]Article
In this current and global context led by scarcity of resources, environmental degradation, global climate change, and a progressive demand for food, the circular economy (CE) represents a key economic model or framework for sustainable, restora[...]Article
M. Hamam ; M. D'Amico ; C. Zarbà ; G. Chinnici ; J. Toth |Eco-innovations that reduce the environmental effect of manufacturing and consumption are seen as critical components of sustainable development and a critical component of the transition to a circular economy. Food systems address the issue of [...]Article
The issue of food waste has received increased attention in recent years, from both researchers and practitioners, due to the unethical and negative environmental implications of wasting food. Recovering waste effectively depends on existing or [...]Article
Agri-food is the second manufacturing sector in Italy, due to its strategic nature. However,it is affected by several problematics, and one of the most severe is the generation of wastes and by-products. The circular economy could be a winning a[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
La présente étude, gérée par lunité technique de SEMIDE, concerne létude du projet européen HYDROUSA en se basant sur un ensemble dobjectifs. Elle concerne, en premier lieu, lutilisation dun outil de classification international appelé CICE[...]