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The need to monitor changes in the level of agricultural competitiveness of EU member states necessitates the development of an appropriate set of indicators to answer the question of whether a country is improving its competitive position. This[...]
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The AKIS (Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System) concept is now widely applied in the EU partly due to latest CAP regulation.The AKIS (Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System) concept is now widely applied in the EU partly due to lat[...]
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R.L. Pânzaru ; R.L. Pânzaru ; D. Firoiu ; G.H. Ionescu ; A. Ciobanu ; D.M. Medelete ; R. Pîrvu |Organic agriculture is considered an important component of sustainable development because it promotes environmental sustainability and social responsibility, involving the use of practices that minimize the negative impact of agriculture on th[...]
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A. Ait Sidhoum ; C. Canessa ; J. Sauer |The European Union (EU) budget allocated to agri-environmental schemes (AES) has increased consistently over the past 20 years. European citizens should expect effective spending of these public funds, so investigation of the effects of th[...]
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Sustainable intensification (SI), understood as an increase in resource productivity in the agricultural sector, achieved without harming the natural environment, is getting more and more attention from researchers and policy makers in the Europ[...]
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P. Prosperi ; F. Galli ; O.M. Moreno-Pérez ; Y. Chiffoleau ; S. Grando ; P. Karanikolas ; M. Rivera ; G. Goussios ; T. Pinto-Correia ; G. Brunori |With growing concern for the unsustainability of food systems, the international research community has turned its attention to small farms as key actors to potentially face the global food crisis. This study aims to support a policy design that[...]
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T.-Y. Lin ; Y.-H. Chiu ; W.-Z. Xu |About 88 million tons of food is wasted in Europe every year, which makes it one of the most serious regions for food waste in the world. This research uses a two-stage undesirable dynamic data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to explore the env[...]
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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 world’s future development, it is necessary to make the agri-food system more resource-efficient[...]
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A. Linares Quero ; U.I. Yoldi ; O. Gava ; G. Schwarz ; A. Povellato ; C. Astrain |This article is aimed at analyzing the potential that CAP 2014–2020-related instruments have on supporting agroecological transitions in Europe by focusing on the strengths and weaknesses of key instruments. Through a stepwise participatory rese[...]
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Agriculture and related activities generate a significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions with environmental and biodiversity implications. Based on the European objectives proposed by the Green Pact, this paper assesses the carbon footprint [...]
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The dairy processing industry is the largest subsector in the EU food industry and is characterised by high concentration. We investigate the extent of output market power exerted in EU dairy processing, applying an advanced stochastic frontier [...]
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Farm advisory services have become an important topic in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU). The aim of this article is to draw lessons from the implementation of the regulation and measures of the current 2014–2022 [...]
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J. Potters ; K. Collins ; H. Schoorlemmer ; E.P. Straete ; E. Kilis ; A. Lane ; H. Leloup |Climate and ecosystem changes, economic and policy imperatives, food system pressures, and multiple societal expectations pose complex challenges for sustainable farming. A key problem is determining an effective and efficient approach to enable[...]
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H. Leloup ; E. Bulten ; B. Elzen ; J. Prazan ; E. Zarokosta |This article examines the use of the socio-technical scenarios (STSc) method to explore the future needs of farmers in the adoption of more sustainable farming practices. It also examines the changes needed for advisory services to meet those id[...]
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L.-A. Sutherland ; L. Madureira ; B. Elzen ; C. Noble ; N. Bechtet ; L. Townsend ; E. Zarokosta ; P. Triboulet |In this article we assess the diversity of sources of advice identified by 678 adopters, 295 non-adopters and 107 droppers (or dis-adopters, who have ceased or reduced the use) of agricultural innovations across 13 European countries. For most i[...]
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S. McGarraghy ; G. Olafsdottir ; R. Kazakov ; E. Huber ; W. Loveluck ; I.Y. Gudbrandsdottir ; L. Cechura ; G. Esposito ; A. Samoggia ; P.-M. Aubert ; D. Barling ; I. Duric ; T.J. Jaghdani ; M. Thakur ; N.M. Saviolidis ; S.G. Bogason |System dynamics and agent-based simulation modelling approaches have a potential as tools to evaluate the impact of policy related decision making in food value chains. The context is that a food value chain involves flows of multiple products, [...]
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Under the EU Common Agriculture Policy, only 11 of 19 sugar beet producing EU Member States provide coupled direct payments for sugar beet. This paper analyses the market effects of this uneven implementation of an agricultural policy instrument[...]
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F. Jacquet ; M.-H. Jeuffroy ; J. Jouan ; E. Le Cadre ; I. Litrico ; T. Malausa ; X. Reboud ; C. Huyghe |Reducing pesticide use has become a goal shared by several European countries and a major issue in public policies due to the negative impacts of pesticides on the environment and on human health. However, since most of the agri-food sector reli[...]
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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[...]
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Des mesures à l’échelle internationale sont nécessaires pour anticiper des accidents climatiques de plus en plus probables dans les vastes bassins de productions.
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S. Naspetti ; S. Mandolesi ; J. Buysse ; T. Latvala ; P. Nicholas ; S. Padel ; E.J. Van Loo ; R. Zanoli |Home-grown protein crops as an alternative to soya in dairy cattle meals, as well as other sustainable ethical-based practices, have been proposed to increase the sustainability of dairy production. Data on consumer acceptance of the three novel[...]
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L. Egli ; M. Schröter ; C. Scherber ; T. Tscharntke ; R. Seppelt |Stabilizing agricultural production is fundamental to food security. At the national level, increasing the effective diversity of cultivated crops has been found to increase temporal production stability, i.e., the year-to-year stability of tota[...]
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This paper investigates structural change in family farming in ten EU New Member States from Central and Eastern Europe which can be treated as a borderline between transition and developed economies. The paper proposes that farms using at least[...]
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This paper aims to analyse the technical efficiency (TE) of dairy farms and find its determinants. To accomplish this problem, the Stochastic Frontier Analysis was applied. The data were obtained from the Farm Accountancy Data Network database f[...]
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The issue of local food supply has attracted considerable political and public attention, due to the changing preferences of consumers, who have more awareness about ecological sustainability, in particular, but also due to recent developments c[...]
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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 d’élaboration d’une Vision à long terme pour l’avenir des zones rurales de l’UE. [...]
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This paper investigates the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on food waste using an original dataset from 176 agrifood business operators in the European Union (EU). Our objective is to assess whether and why the pandemic crisis affected food waste l[...]
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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[...]
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The analyses focus on the structural change in agriculture and farm households for the selected hilly and mountainous areas in Slovenia before and after the accession to the European Union, with an emphasis on empirical analysis of a sample of i[...]
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This paper focuses on a possible connection between food security and the migrant crisis that began in 2015, which had a tremendous impact on the European Union as well as on the Mediterranean area. The goal of this paper is to determine if ther[...]
