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Digitalization for Sustainable Agri-Food Systems: Potential, Status, and Risks for the MENA Region

open access: yesSustainability, 2021
Digital technologies offer a potential solution to improve sustainability—economic, social, and environmental—of agri-food systems around the globe. While developed countries have led the innovation and adoption of digital agriculture, the potential ...
Rachel A. Bahn   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sustainable Agri-Food Systems: Environment, Economy, Society, and Policy

open access: yesSustainability, 2021
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 hard to find.
Hamid El Bilali   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Households’ participation in agri-food based livelihoods: Insights from urban and peri-urban contexts of Tanzania

open access: yesCogent Economics & Finance, 2023
Agri-food systems are receiving increased attention globally and more so in the regions like sub-Saharan Africa, owing to a confluence of forces such as population growth, urbanization, migration, and climate change.
Luitfred Kissoly
doaj   +1 more source

SUSTAINABILITY IN RURAL AGRI-FOOD SYSTEMS BASED ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

open access: yesTropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems, 2023
Background. Rural agri-food systems are responsible for the production of most of the food products consumed in urban centers, however, despite the current importance they have in the food systems of populations worldwide, their structure and functioning,
Simón Andrés Botero-Posada   +2 more
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Degrowth and agri-food systems: a research agenda for the critical social sciences

open access: yesSustainability Science, 2023
Degrowth has become a recognised paradigm for identifying and critiquing systemic unsustainability rooted in the capitalist, growth-compelled economy.
Leonie Guerrero Lara   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Applications of nutritional functional units in commodity-level life cycle assessment (LCA) of agri-food systems. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Life Cycle Assess, 2020
Purpose The nutritional quality of final products is attracting an increased level of attention within life cycle assessment (LCA) literature of agri-food systems. The majority of these studies, however, are based on comparisons at the dietary level and,
McAuliffe GA, Takahashi T, Lee MRF.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Livestock solutions to regenerate soils and landscapes for sustainable agri-food systems transformation in Africa

open access: yesOutlook on Agriculture, 2023
Agri-food systems approaches have gained international recognition over the last years. The role of livestock—both in mixed crop-livestock and pastoral systems—in sustainable agri-food systems transformation remains contested.
B. Paul   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Agri-Food Land Transformations and Immigrant Farm Workers in Peri-Urban Areas of Spain and the Mediterranean

open access: yesLand, 2020
Spain is a global hotspot of transformations of agri-food land systems due to changing production intensity, diets, urbanization, market integration, and climate change.
Karl S. Zimmerer   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Global Markets, Local Issues: The Hegemonic Process of Agri-Food Construction to Present Challenges

open access: yesLand, 2021
The social construction of the agri-food market has undergone revolutionary changes throughout history since the Anthropocene. This conceptual paper discusses the embeddedness of institutions in this market construction.
Guilherme Silva Fracarolli
doaj   +1 more source

Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Agri-Food Systems in West Africa

open access: yesSustainability, 2023
A growing body of evidence suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic affected not only the functioning of food supply chains but also the performance and outcomes of agri-food systems.
Hamid El Bilali   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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