The role of behavioural factors and opportunity costs in farmers' participation in voluntary agri‐environmental schemes: A systematic review

S Schaub, J Ghazoul, R Huber, W Zhang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Agri‐environmental schemes (AESs) are increasingly implemented to promote the adoption
of environmentally friendly practices by farmers. We use a systematic review to explore the …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the role of small farms in regional food systems in Europe: Evidence from a comparative study

M Rivera, A Guarín, T Pinto-Correia, H Almaas… - Global Food …, 2020 - Elsevier
The importance of small farms is well established and recognized in developing countries,
but far less is known about their role in Europe, where agriculture is largely industrialized. In …

[HTML][HTML] The geography of megatrends affecting European agriculture

N Debonne, M Bürgi, V Diogo, J Helfenstein… - Global Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
A range of intensifying pressures is making the future of European agriculture dynamic and
contested. Insights into these pressures are needed to inform debates about the future of the …

[HTML][HTML] Gender and the environmental concerns of young farmers: Do young women farmers make a difference on family farms?

I Unay-Gailhard, Š Bojnec - Journal of Rural Studies, 2021 - Elsevier
Although the visibility of women farmers in agriculture is increasing, we have little
knowledge about the impact this will have on the environmental management of family …

Farm income in European agriculture: new perspectives on measurement and implications for policy evaluation

R Finger, N El Benni - European Review of Agricultural …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Viable farm households contribute to the resilience of agricultural and food systems. Farm
income is a policy-relevant proxy for this viability. Here, we address three key aspects of …

Socio-economic determinants of small family farms' resilience in selected Central and Eastern European countries

M Borychowski, S Stępień, J Polcyn… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
We investigated the resilience of small-scale family farms because of the contemporary
importance of both the farms' resilience and the role of these farms in five countries of …

'Values‐based Territorial Food Networks'—Benefits, challenges and controversies

G Nemes, R Reckinger, V Lajos, S Zollet - Sociologia Ruralis, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The special issue titled 'Values‐based Territorial Food Networks–Benefits, challenges and
controversies' and this introductory editorial aim to bridge conceptual and disciplinary …

Farm diversification as a potential success factor for small-scale farmers constrained by COVID-related lockdown. Contributions from a survey conducted in four …

Z Benedek, I Fertő, C Galamba Marreiros, PM Aguiar… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
This paper explores to what extent product and marketing channel diversification contributed
to the economic success of small-scale agricultural producers involved in short food supply …

Farmer typology and implications for policy design–An unsupervised machine learning approach

V Graskemper, X Yu, JH Feil - Land use policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Within the European Union, there is currently a vivid debate about the European
Green Deal with its Farm to Fork Strategy and the related future design of the Common …

The impact of crop diversification on the economic efficiency of small farms in Poland

A Kurdyś-Kujawska, A Strzelecka, D Zawadzka - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
Crop diversification finds an important place in the strategy of dealing with risk and
uncertainty related to climate change. It helps to increase the resilience of farmers …