PILIER 3 : Développement inclusif : CAPMED 2025
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The cities around the world in general, and in the Mediterranean area in particular, are facing tremendous challenges at the environmental, social, economic, and institutional levels, due to the urbanization trend, environmental climatic changes[...]Article
Although research and political intentions both recognise the crucial role of small farms in Rural Development (RD) strategies, in actual practice they are left out of the benefits of agricultural policies. This is not established by legislative[...]Article
This study focuses on the exploitation and control of Sub-Saharan migrants who pick tomatoes in the Capitanata area in the South Italian region of Puglia. Large-scale organised distribution puts pressure on the growers to seek cheap agricultural[...]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
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
Agri-industrial production is supported by the agriculturemigration nexus, in which industrial-scale horticultural production relies on migrant workers. In this article I consider the time-related pressures on workers who are internal migrants [...]Article
The Mediterranean diet is considered one of the healthier and most balanced dietary models currently in existence. Different studies suggest that it is environmentally friendly: it combines low greenhouse gas emissions, low demand of soil water [...]Article
P.-M. Aubert ; B. Gardin ; E. Huber ; M. Schiavo ; C. Alliot |This paper proposes an innovative framework to describe sustainable transitions of food systems while considering simultaneously socio-economic and environmental issues, in a just transition perspective. This framework (i) describes the structur[...]Article
A. Govind ; J. Wery ; B. Dessalegn ; A. Elmahdi ; Z. Bishaw ; V. Nangia ; C. Biradar ; Z.U. Nisa ; K. Abay ; G. Amarnath ; C. Breisinger ; N.A. Ibrahim ; C. Kleinermann ; A.A. Niane ; M. Thijssen |Agriculture and agri-food systems of the highly vulnerable Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region needs a radical transformation under a changing climate. Based on a two-year effort, initially we developed a mega hypothesis on how to achieve[...]Article
Spanish women pastoralists' pathways into livestock management: motivations, challenges and learning
Rural studies has made considerable theoretical and empirical progress on gender and agriculture, yet almost none of this work focuses specifically on women involved in livestock production in the Global North. To address this gap, we explored t[...]Article
Depopulation is one of the main problems in declining rural territories, whose inhabitants have the perception of being immersed in a spiral of socio-economic deterioration where each setback experienced in the region push a greater number of yo[...]Article
This paper deals with gendering innovation, with the purpose of exploring the entrepreneurial spaces of innovation among Italian farms managed by women. More precisely, the hypothesis is that entrepreneurial orientation has to be considered th[...]Article
Reconnues pour la qualité de leurs produits et leur rôle environnemental, les petites exploitations agricoles sont aussi créatrices demplois. La PAC dispose pour les promouvoir de certains leviers qui mériteraient dêtre davantage investis.Article
Agriculture can be a possible provider of social services of relevant importance for the whole society. In order to generate a valuable social service, a multi-actor approach is often applied, based on an active collaboration among public instit[...]Article
En France, les politiques agricoles ont longtemps fait primer lagrandissement sur linstallation de nouvelles fermes. Pour renouveler la profession et faire face à la réduction du nombre dexploitations, un renversement simpose.Article
K. Fotia ; A. Mehmeti ; I. Tsirogiannis ; G. Nanos ; A.P. Mamolos ; N. Malamos ; P. Barouchas ; M. Todorovic |Olive cultivation is expanding rapidly in the northwestern part of Greece, under both rainfed and irrigated practices. Irrigation can result in larger yields and economic returns, but trade-offs in the waterenergypollution nexus remain a contr[...]Article
Les femmes représentent 54 % des employés dans le secteur du tourisme, un taux très supérieur à la moyenne d'autres secteurs, où elles ne représentent que 39 %. Le tourisme peut offrir des opportunités de travail aux femmes, en contribuant à leu[...]Article
The Moroccan agricultural sector employs around 40% of the country's total working population. Since the early 1990s, there has been a striking increase in the proportion of female wage laborers. This article investigates the effect of the gende[...]Article
R. Capitello ; L. Agnoli ; S. Charters ; D. Begalli |This study advances the field of sustainability and origin-related attributes with an analysis of the role of a carbon reduction claim in consumer choice when it is labelled in conjunction with terroir cues on a bottle of wine. Data derive from [...]Article
Tourism has become a priority in national and regional development policies and is considered a source of economic growth, particularly in rural areas. Nowadays, wine tourism is an important form of tourism and has become a local development too[...]Article
La saison de récolte des olives fait naître une temporalité et un paysage qui façonnent les relations sociales et économiques. Ce moment deffervescence collective autour dune activité agricole emblématique de lespace méditerranéen offre une p[...]Article
When integrating the Internet of Things (IoT) with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) occurred, tens of applications including smart agriculture have emerged to offer innovative solutions to modernize the farming sector. This paper aims to present [...]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
After World War II, the European Union launched the Common Agricultural Policy. Since then, this programme has been adapting to the new economic and social realities that the European agricultural sector has been going through. Currently, a larg[...]Article
La production de lait de vache connaît une restructuration profonde et rapide, entre concentration géographique et agrandissement des exploitations. La mise en place et la gestion des quotas laitiers ont accompagné et encadré cette restructurati[...]Article
A distinctive feature of Greek agriculture is its important position in the economy and society. Depending on the state of the national economy, and especially in times of economic recession, different population groups may consider agriculture [...]Article
This work addresses the relevance of immigrant communities in a specific agricultural sector, extensive livestock husbandry pastoralism. This activity provides a primary source of employment and income specifically in inner and remote rural ar[...]Article
This study examines how the Covid-19 pandemic crises has not only modified networks and rhythms of human movement and migratory flows on both a global and local scale; yet it also has weakened the hegemony of the prevailing paradigm that conside[...]Article
Le secteur agricole constitue une activité importante au Maroc, représentant 14% du produit national brut et employant 40% de la population active. Avec l'émergence de la pandémie de la Covid-19, il a été ébranlé par des incertitudes économiques[...]Article
The contributions of small farms to the environment or employment are increasingly recognised. Yet small farm employment receives little support from public policies. Can small farms provide employment opportunities in the agricultural sector? T[...]