The role of culture in connection with the development of food and bioeconomy issues has gained growing importance in … in this special issue: cultural ecosystem services, cultural issues in the organisation of food chains, culture and food … characteristics. In a way, the common denominator of these papers is the link between culture, food and territory, taken from …

Transition towards sustainable food systems demands a change to integrated or territorial policy approaches and … boundary-spanning governance arrangements. Territorial approaches provide an effective framework to address food systems … governance approach to the food governance debate and introduces the concept of participatory multi-stakeholder food platforms as …

It has been envisaged that Sub-Saharan Africa would remain the region with the highest level of food insecurity over … the 2015-2025 period. This study, therefore, further investigates food insecurity and food imports in some selected … African countries. The regression results based on the fixed effects model show that food imports, employment in agriculture …

This article aims to analyze how the Global Food Security Index (GFSI) has evolved across the European countries for … the period 2012-2018. In this respect, we have taken as a starting point the Report of Global Food Security Index 2018 as … well as the scientific literature from the main stream of publications focusing on food security. The data presented were …

Food safety represents a current topic, with significant implications and diverse approaches within the specialized … literature. In the context of globalization and integration of agricultural markets, the necessity of guaranteeing food safety is … agricultural model entails a significant change for the markets of agri-food products, affecting the food trade, its structure and …

of national food security. We analyzed several factors to determine the degree of volatility transmission in wheat, rice …Existing literature has not yet identified the common determinants of price volatility transmission in agricultural … volatility passthroughs for three grain commodities. While the substitutive commodity consumption behaviour between maize and …