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Sustainability assessment in innovation design processes: place, role, and conditions of use in agrifood systems. A review
Facing the ecological and social crisis that the agrifood systems cross, a profound transformation of food systems is required, necessitating...
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Digital Innovations in Agrifood Systems to Achieve the SDGs and Society 5.0
Digital innovation significantly contributes to the transformation of agrifood systems, aiming to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...
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Modeling Actions for Transforming Agrifood Systems
We modeled six interventions to study the scenarios’ impact on agrifood systems, undernutrition, access to healthy diets, and the environment. We...
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The unbalanced development among legume species regarding sustainable and healthy agrifood systems in North-America and Europe: focus on food product innovations
Increasing legume diversity in food will significantly contribute to sustainable and healthy agrifood systems. But this seems difficult to achieve...
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Bacteriocins: potentials and prospects in health and agrifood systems
Bacteriocins are highly diverse, abundant, and heterogeneous antimicrobial peptides that are ribosomally synthesized by bacteria and archaea. Since...
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Nanoparticles in Biosensor Design for the Agrifood Sector
In the last years, there was an increasing demand for portable, affordable, and effective diagnostics for the agrifood sector. Advances in...
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Aligning Governance of Quality with Quality Management Systems in Territory-Based Agrifood Chains
This chapter explores the central question, for the organization agrifood chains, of alignment between governance of quality and Quality Management...
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The Construction of Specialisation and Diversification Pathways in Selected Milksheds: Understanding the Plurality of Agricultural Development Models
Agriculture and food are at the core of current societal debates. For more than half a century, agricultural spaces have been—and continue to...
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Identification and description of relationships between actors involved in crop diversification experiences across Europe
Agriculture can benefit from crop diversification to facilitate its transition to more sustainable agrifood systems. However, these practices remain...
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Foodborne bacterial pathogens: genome-based approaches for enduring and emerging threats in a complex and changing world
Foodborne illnesses pose a substantial health and economic burden, presenting challenges in prevention due to the diverse microbial hazards that can...
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Agricultural and Food Models: Not to Believe Too Much in Them, but Believe in Them All the Same!
‘What are, in fact, these models we hear so much about?’ ask the coordinators of this book in their general introduction. Their answer is very...
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Governing the Coexistence in a Transition Economy: Trade-Offs Between Smallholders and Mega Farms in the Vietnamese Dairy Sector
Vietnam has been undertaking a transition towards a ‘socialist-oriented market economy’ for the past 30 years. What impact is this transition having...
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Key Areas of the Agricultural Science Development in Russia in the Context of Global Trends and Challenges
The modern Russian agrifood industry is a steadily develo** sector of the national economy. The production of a number of goods has reached...
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The Future of Small Farms: Innovations for Inclusive Transformation
The number of people living in rural areas of low and middle-income countries is projected to increase in the coming decades. It is in the rural...
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32nd Scientific-Expert Conference of Agriculture and Food Industry Local Food Production Systems in the Era of Global Challenges
This book gathers the proceedings of the 32nd Scientific-Experts Conference of Agriculture and Food Industry, held on December 1-2, 2022, in...
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The Quest for Innovation: Addressing User Needs and Value Creation
In agricultural and agrifood systems, like in many other economic sectors, the main innovation drivers have traditionally been (1) technological...
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Understanding the dynamics of farmland loss in a rapidly urbanizing region: a problem-driven, diagnostic approach to landscape sustainability
ContextExisting landscape sustainability studies mostly follow design-based, practical approaches, emphasizing “linking knowledge to action;” while...
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Introduction
Today the world is facing numerous challenges in the face of changes in almost every sphere of life. This clearly seems to be a transition period in...
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The Role of Interactions Between Organic and Conventional Farming in the Ecological Transition of a Territorial Food System
The territorial scale is increasingly being recognised as appropriate for addressing the ecological transition of food systems, both at the...
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Integration of Eco-Friendly Biological and Nanotechnological Strategies for Better Agriculture: A Sustainable Approach
Agriculture has traditionally been linked to the growth of vital food crops, and the existence of any economy is dependent on it. Agriculture is...