Sustainable agri-food systems: environment, economy, society, and policy

H El Bilali, C Strassner, T Ben Hassen - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Agri-food systems (AFS) have been central in the debate on sustainable development.
Despite this growing interest in AFS, comprehensive analyses of the scholarly literature are …

[HTML][HTML] Small farms' resilience strategies to face economic, social, and environmental disturbances in selected regions in Poland and Latvia

M Czekaj, A Adamsone-Fiskovica, E Tyran, E Kilis - Global Food Security, 2020 - Elsevier
The official statistics show that the number of small farms (SFs) in Europe is decreasing.
Their ability to maintain their activities in the light of internal and external disturbances relies …

[HTML][HTML] The importance of recognizing difference: Rethinking Central and East European environmentalism

P Jehlička, K Jacobsson - Political Geography, 2021 - Elsevier
This article adds to the literature interrogating existing hierarchies in global knowledge
production by examining the dominant research on post-1989 Central and East European …

Agriculture digitalization: A global examination based on bibliometric analysis

ME Latino, M Menegoli, A Corallo - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several research studies discuss the process of agriculture digitalization proposing
technologies able to face the current agri-food challenges. However, the extant bibliometric …

Enough to feed ourselves!—Food plants in Bulgarian rural home gardens

T Ivanova, Y Bosseva, M Chervenkov, D Dimitrova - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
The home garden is a unique human-nature interspace that accommodates a diverse
spectrum of plant species and provides multiple services to households. One of the most …

Leveraging biodiversity action from plural values: transformations of governance systems

J Leventon, IA Duşe, AI Horcea-Milcu - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In this paper, we argue that leveraging plural values into action for biodiversity requires a
focus on transforming the biodiversity governance system. We draw on Donella Meadows' …

Assessment of Cultural Ecosystem Services and Well-Being: Testing a Method for Evaluating Natural Environment and Contact Types in the Harku Municipality …

F Nevzati, M Külvik, J Storie, LM Tiidu, S Bell - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study examined the evaluation of cultural ecosystem services (CESs) and their impact
on well-being in peri-urban areas, using a case study in Harku municipality, Estonia. CESs …

Growing the beautiful Anthropocene: Ethics of care in east European food gardens

L Sovová, P Jehlička, P Daněk - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study contributes to research proposing the ethics of care framework as a way of
imagining a food system that cares for Others. We expand this exploration to the everyday …

From coping strategy to hopeful everyday practice: Changing interpretations of food self‐provisioning

P Daněk, L Sovová, P Jehlička, J Vávra… - Sociologia …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
While alternative food networks (AFNs) have become the leading conceptualisation of
sustainable food systems, vibrant scholarship on food self‐provisioning (FSP) in Central and …

Post-Soviet smallholders between entrepreneurial farming and diversification. Livelihood pathways in rural Moldova

S Piras, S Botnarenco, M Masotti, M Vittuari - Journal of Rural Studies, 2021 - Elsevier
The breakdown of socialist agriculture in post-Soviet countries generated a large number of
smallholders, of which only a minority turned to entrepreneurial agriculture. With the largest …