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ABSTRACT This study analyzed Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technology applications in agribusiness and the role of strategic stakeholders, engagement methods, and other critical aspects data sharing, confidentiality, integrity, decision‐making, and sector‐specific requirements in promoting circularity.
Simone Sehnem +3 more
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Universities generate significant quantities of paper waste and represent controlled institutional settings where circular economy interventions can be operationalized.
Sangeeta Sharma, Pranjal Aarav
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Farm enterprises as self-organizing systems: A new transdisciplinary framework for studying farm enterprises? [PDF]
The growing attention to sustainable food production and multifunctional agriculture calls for a multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary research and development perspective on farming, which is able to grasp the environmental, social, technical, and ...
Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted, Noe, Egon
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ABSTRACT This study explores how sustainability is perceived and prioritized by consumers within full‐service restaurants and rural agritourism settings in Italy, examining the socio‐cultural and economic role of the HoReCa sector in promoting sustainable practices and analyzing gender and generational differences in consumer behavior.
Roberta Minazzi +3 more
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Specialty agriculture, promoted in China to enhance rural revitalization and farmers’ wellbeing, depends heavily on local social–ecological conditions and land transformations. However, existing studies often emphasize socio-institutional successes while
Xue Wang +3 more
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Mapping social enterprises in Finland : Rural-urban differences?
Academics and policymakers alike view social enterprises as potential change agents for sustainable development, particularly in rural areas. However, relatively little is known about the size of the rural social enterprise sector. Therefore, this chapter maps out the distribution of Finnish social enterprises by utilising several different sources to ...
Rautiainen Simo Matti-Petteri +1 more
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Exploring Irish rural social enterprises as neoendogenous development actors
Since the 1990s social enterprises have gained growing attention from academics and policymakers as significant actors to address some of the complex challenges faced by our societies due to their aim of combining social, economic and/or environmental goals using entrepreneurial/innovative means. Rural areas have demonstrated to be a fertile ground for
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ABSTRACT Amid increasing environmental and economic pressures, Africa's transition to a circular economy (CE) presents a vital pathway to inclusive, low‐carbon development. Yet, how digital transformation, informal innovation, and science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy readiness shape CE outcomes remains underexplored.
Emmanuel K. Manu +2 more
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The Rural Development Programme (2007-2013) and Farmer Innovation: A Review to Date and Look to the Future [PDF]
working paperThis paper seeks to comment on farmer innovation in relation to the measures within the Rural Development Programme (2007-2013). Evidence is presented on the general extent of innovation among farmers and the specific uptake of measures ...
Heanue, Kevin, Macken-Walsh, Aine
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