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Bio-economy and the sustainability of the agriculture and food system : opportunities and policy challenges
Diakosavvas, Dimitris; Frezal, Clara - 2019
The bio-economy is gaining increasing prominence in the policy debate, with several countries developing bio-economy strategies to decouple economic growth from dependence on fossil fuel, as well a pathway to supporting some of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and commitments under...
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Impacts of agricultural policies on productivity and sustainability performance in agriculture : a literature review
DeBoe, Gwendolen - 2020
This report reviews the evidence base on how agricultural policies impact environmental sustainability and productivity … of the agriculture sector, including the potentially contradictory signals policies may send. It considers impacts for … impacts of land use choice. Beyond this, policies can also affect agriculture’s environmental performance by stimulating (or …
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Sustainable lifestyle marketing of individuals : the base of sustainability
Rakic, Mira; Rakic, Beba - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 17 (2015) 40, pp. 891-908
is an individual’s sustainability-oriented pattern of living represented by his or her activities, interests and opinions … SLMOI leads to the SLOI, and the SLOI further leads to sustainability. Second, the creation and maintenance of the SLOI is a …
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A mixed-methods study of Bambara farming in Mtwara, Tanzania
Boulay, Basile - 2017
indigenous crops constitutes a path towards greater agricultural sustainability as these crops are suited to local environments …
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Sustainable use of ecosystem services under multiple risks – a survey of commercial cattle farmers in semi-arid rangelands in Namibia
Olbrich, Roland; Quaas, Martin F.; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2009
sustainability. To gather this information for an important ecological-economic system, we conducted a survey of commercial cattle …
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Sustainable use of ecosystem services under multiple risks: a survey of commercial cattle farmers in semi-arid rangelands in Namibia
Olbrich, Roland; Quaas, Martin F.; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2009
sustainability. To gather this information for an important ecological-economic system, we conducted a survey of commercial cattle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265926
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Green jobs creation : main element in the implementation of bioeconomic mechanisms
Luca, Florin-Alexandru; Epuran, Gheorghe; Ciobanu, … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 21 (2019) 50, pp. 60-74
Green jobs creation is the main element in the implementation of bioeconomy mechanisms along with other factors, such as gross domestic product (GDP), environmental protection and national security. The aim of this paper is to develop a profile of companies willing to create new jobs. Its...
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An indicator of well-being for Italian agriculture
Monda, Mafalda; Gabrieli, Giuliano; Mazziotta, Matteo - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 76 (2021) 2, pp. 57-72
The paper presents a composite indicator of well-being for Italian agriculture.Well-being is defined as the health …
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The sustainability of social farming : a study through the Social Return on Investment methodology (SROI)
Basset, Francesco; Giarè, Francesca - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 76 (2021) 2, pp. 45-55
The aim of this paper is to study the sustainability of Social farming (SF), with attention to practices addressed …
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Uncertainty and sustainability in the management of semi-arid rangelands
Quaas, Martin; Baumgärtner, Stefan; Becker, Christian; … - 2004
We analyze a dynamic and stochastic ecological-economic model of grazing management in semi-arid range lands. The non-equilibrium ecosystem is driven by stochastic precipitation. A risk averse farmer chooses a grazing management strategy under uncertainty such as to maximize expected utility...
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