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Social farming in high mountain regions: The case of the Aosta Valley in Italy
Economia Agro-Alimentare, 2022 This paper investigates and analyses social farming in the Aosta Valley, a tiny Italian mountain region in the Alps. It aims to highlight the features of social farming in this region, focusing on the social mission and economic sustainability. The paper
Erika Fazari, Dario Musolino
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Resilience in Mountain Farming in Norway [PDF]
Sustainability, 2019 The concept of socio-ecological farm resilience is used to understand how farmers manoeuvre in a context of change, what choices and priorities they make, and how that subsequently influences the development of the farming landscape. The author uses farm resilience, the capabilities of buffering, adaptation and transformation, and the response of ...
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Rasch analysis of consumer attitudes towards the mountain product label
Agricultural and Food Economics, 2022 In 2012 the European Union adopted the Regulation No. 1151/2012, which, among others, defines the legal framework to protect the originality and authenticity of mountain foods through the “Mountain Product” quality scheme.
Ivana Bassi +3 more
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Animals, 2022 The production systems linked to mountain animal husbandry have had an environmental, social and cultural role in recent years. Zootechnical systems based on feeding strategies, such as pasture grazing and grass-fed strategies, contribute to a ...
Annalaura Lopez +4 more
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AGROFOR, 2018 For decades, the mountain regions in Austria have been of regional, social,environmental and economic relevance. The European Union has ranked themamong the most disadvantaged areas for agriculture. Nevertheless, in mountainousregions, ‘disadvantaged’ is not synonymous with marginal. On the contrary,agriculture is central to mountainous regions.
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Added Value of Products from Endangered Local Sheep Breeds in Mountain Areas
AnimalsLocal sheep breeds in the Italian eastern Alps passed from ex situ to in situ conservation. These breeds are mainly reared by smallholders in low-input farming systems.
Elena Benedetti del Rio +4 more
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Research on Assessing the Potential for Mountain Certification of Bistra Village, Romania
Bulletin of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca: Horticulture, 2018 The quality of mountain products represents a competitive advantage for the area of Bistra village, Alba county, Romania. Each mountain product comes as a result from raw materials from mountain areas and in the case of processed products, processing ...
Avram FITIU, Calin VAC
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Mountain Farms of Pohorje of the Slovenj Gradec Community
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 1983 The study deals with the natural geographic conditions and socio-economic state of the 137 mountain farms in the eleven settlements of the Pohorje mountain-range, incorporated into the Slovenj Gradec community.
Ivan Gams
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AgricultureThe article analyses the direction and intensity of changes occurring in agriculture in mountain areas in Europe between 2000 and 2022. For the calculations, the ESA CCI Land Cover global land-use map set was used.
Marek Zieliński +5 more
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ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC INDICATORS OF AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS SPECIALIZED IN RAISING DAIRY COWS IN ROMANIA. CASE STUDIES [PDF]
Scientific Papers Series : Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2021 Economic indicators are key elements that indicate the current situation and economic performance of farms. The purpose of the study is to determine the main economic indicators and to analyze them comparatively, to determine the economic efficiency of ...
Cristina Maria STERIE, Rodica CHETROIU
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