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A Systematic Review of Degrowth Food‐Systems, Framework Conceptualisation and Thematic Tensions

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Degrowth food‐systems offer ways to address inequity, poor health, greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss arising from globally dominant industrial food‐systems. In this study, a systematic review of degrowth food‐system research literature was conducted in the Web of Science on 7 February 2025 to identify descriptions of degrowth food‐
George Ellis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cost Behavior of Organic Versus Conventional Farms: Assessing Economic Resilience and the Ecological Dividend

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study empirically examines the cost behavior in organic versus conventional farming to assess economic resilience. Using Spanish FADN data (2015–2021), results show organic farms exhibit higher cost elasticity during output increases and lower elasticity during decreases.
Josep M. Argilés‐Bosch   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ten steps to achieve the european green deal (Policy brief)

open access: yes, 2022
The European Green Deal is a monumental step in achieving a greener and more sustainable Europe, filled with promising targets which aim to culminate in no net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 and economic growth decoupled from resource use.
Wezel, Alexander, Donham, Jesse
core   +1 more source

Food democracy as radical political agroecology: securing autonomy (alterity) by subverting the state-capital nexus

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Food democracy and political agroecology, as closely allied social movements, have become associated in the main with what may be termed ‘agrarian populist’ and postcolonial problematics.
Mark Tilzey
doaj   +1 more source

A Social and Solidarity Economy Network's Evolution on Sustainability Discourses: Weak Versus Strong Sustainability

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores innovations concerning sustainability discourses in the case of a Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) network. We analyse the incorporation of discursive elements characteristic of strong sustainability versus weak sustainability approaches in the different Solidarity Economy Principles Charters over time (2000, 2011, 2022),
Jon Ruiz‐de‐Galarreta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Agroecology in Sustainable Intensification

open access: yes, 2015
‘Sustainable intensification’ is now often used to describe the future direction for agriculture and food production as a way to address the challenges of increasing global population, food security, climate change and resource conservation.
Lampkin, N.H.   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Beyond observed diversity: Community completeness negatively affects ecosystem invasibility across scales

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Charles Elton proposed that species‐rich communities are more resistant to invasion, yet a well‐known paradox persists: native diversity suppresses invasion at small scales while correlating positively with non‐native species diversity at broad scales.
Yanjie Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting the Political Economy of Agriculture in 21st Century Food Systems

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1932, Joseph Duncan argued in the Journal of Agricultural Economics that agricultural economists should engage more explicitly with politics. Nearly a century later, the political economy of food and agriculture has expanded in both scope and complexity.
Danielle Resnick, Johan Swinnen
wiley   +1 more source

Agroecology and Transformative Adaptation to Climate Change

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines transformative adaptation to climate change through the EFICAS Project (Eco‐Friendly Intensification and Climate‐resilient Agricultural Systems) implemented across 12 upland communities in northern Laos from 2014 to 2020.
Jean‐Christophe Castella
wiley   +1 more source

Pest‐preservation paradox among insects

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
The pest‐preservation paradox is a non‐binary perspective that insects range from those that are harmful and requiring management on the one side, to those requiring conservation intervention on the opposite end of the spectrum. Importantly, the vast majority of insects occur somewhere in the center of the two extremes, and their position along the ...
Michael J. Samways   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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