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2. Can healthier food demand be linked to farming systems' sustainability? the case study of the Mediterranean diet
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Campos, Susana (author) and Madureira, Lívia (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-06
- Published:
- Germany: CENTMA Research
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12703
- Journal Title:
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol 10, N.3
- Notes:
- 16 pages, Promoting healthier diets is strategic to solve the global societal challenge of excessive and unhealthy calorie intake that causes obesity and overweight and is responsible for chronic diseases that burden healthcare systems. The relationship between food and personal health is well established and in recent years it has originated a number of dietary recommendations from the World Health Organisation (WHO) focused on encouraging healthier diets. The environmental impact of food intake and of particular diets is a growing research area. However, neither research nor public policies, in particular, have been able so far to establish a link between promoting healthier diets and their impact on enhancing environmentally healthier farming systems and the sustainability of rural landscapes. This paper addresses this gap by presenting a multidisciplinary literature review which combines evidence from nutrition and health sciences with that from environmental, agrarian and sustainability studies on the impacts of foods and dietary patterns on the environment, ecosystems and rural landscape. This integrate d review, complemented with data analysis, highlights the Mediterranean diet as a healthier dietary pattern whose promotion could be beneficial to recover or maintain the sustainability of Mediterranean rural landscape. Hence, the second part of the paper focus on discussing the role of public policies in enabling the link between enhancing healthier diets and healthier farming systems in order to sustain rural landscapes since these play a key role in the sustainability of Mediterranean rural areas.
3. Climate-adapted soil cultivation as an aspect for sustainable farming – task-technology-fit of a decision support system
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Guenther-Lübbers, Welf (author), Arens, Ludwig (author), and Theuvsen, Ludwig (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Germany
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: D06519
- Journal Title:
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- 4(1) : 64-72
- Notes:
- 9 pages.
4. Does the sustainability of food products influence consumer choices? The case of Italy
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Banterle, Alessandro (author) and Ricci, Elena Claire (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Italy
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: D06522
- Journal Title:
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- 4(2) : 149-158
- Notes:
- 10 pages.
5. Exploring digitalization and sustainable practices in African agribusinesses and food supply chains: a literature review
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Abban,Rita (author) and Abebe, Gumataw Kifle (author)
- Format:
- Research
- Publication Date:
- 2022-08-01
- Published:
- Germany: CENTMA Research
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12700
- Journal Title:
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 13, N.4
- Notes:
- 5pgs, The Covid-19 pandemic, global trends, and technological advancements lead to the perception that digitalization is about the most sustainable means of growing Africa’s agribusiness and food supply chains. Many global agribusinesses have successfully integrated digital technologies to enhance operational efficiencies and business relations with their upstream and downstream actors. However, evidence is scant on the uptake of digital technologies among small and medium agribusiness firms in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Against this backdrop, this review paper identifies research gaps regarding the adoption and implication of digitalization in building sustainable food systems for African economies. Our preliminary finds show some sustainable practices in the SSA food supply chains by adopting specific technologies related to production, grain storage, food waste management, and warehouse management but very low adoption of food processing technologies and digital marketing platforms. Most importantly, the application of the Internet of Things, Big data, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and/or Business Analytics is very rare. Most of the digitalization process tends to be mobile-based.
6. Highlighting a key question for the common agricultural policy: adoption of agriculture system types
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Papadopoulos, Sotirios (author), Markopoulos, Theodoros (author), Chousou, Charoula (author), Natos, Dimitrios (author), and Mattas, Konstadinos (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-06
- Published:
- Germany: CENTMA Research
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12702
- Journal Title:
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol.10, N.3
- Notes:
- 12 pages, One of the key questions that concerns policy makers, related to the long term planning of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), is the form of agriculture that farmers intend to follow in the future. In order to highlight that question, a sample of producers from the region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace in Greece were surveyed and analyzed in order to identify and assess the factors that influence farmers’ adoption of organic, conventional or integrated agriculture systems. The paper methodologically applies double-valued logistic regressions, one for each form of agriculture, to the selected sample. Results indicate that producers' training and high awareness of CAP policies are positively correlated with the future adoption of organic farming systems, while the adoption of integrated agriculture depends on producers’ age as well as their positive or negative opinions regarding the conventional agricultural system.
7. How does the adoption of digital technologies affect the social sustainability of small-scale agriculture in south-west Germany
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Weber, Rolf (author), Braun, Jürgen (author), and Frank, Markus (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-06
- Published:
- Germany: CENTMA Research
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12694
- Journal Title:
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol.13, N. 3
- Notes:
- 19 pages, The adoption of digital technologies is expected to impact the social sustainability of agriculture, in particular in the case of small and mid-sized family farms in Western Europe. Goal of this research was to assess these impacts, however widely accepted impact assessment schemes of social sustainability are missing. Against this background, a qualitative, two-stage Delphi survey was conducted in order to identify relevant impact categories of the adoption of digital technologies in family-operated small-scale farms of South-West Germany. The participating experts stated, for example, that the adoption of digital technologies on the farm could mean that new business models can be based on the use of digital technologies. However, they also stated that digital technology could overburden farmers, which could hinder digitization in this sector as a whole. Data protection and data security were also issues ranked highly important by the participants in the Delphi Process.
8. Motivations for sustainable consumption: the case study of vegetables
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gustavsen, Geir Wæhler (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10
- Published:
- Germany: CENTMA Research
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12698
- Journal Title:
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 11, N.4
- Notes:
- 12 pages, According to the World Health Organization a diet high in vegetables may reduce the risk of coronary heart diseases, stroke, and certain types of cancer. In addition, vegetables have lower carbon footprints than most other foods. The main objective in this paper is to find drivers behind vegetable consumption, with emphasis on health and environmental motivation. We used the theory of planned behavior together with direct acyclic graphs as a theoretical basis. The empirical analysis applied the graded response model and bounded beta regression with survey data from 2019. The main results show that health attitude is a stronger motivator for vegetable consumption than environmental attitudes.
9. Urban-rural links for sustainable food consumption in Bangkok
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cavalleri, Sofia Anna Enrica (author), Grünbühel, Clemens M. (author), and Tanwattana, Puntita (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-01
- Published:
- Germany: CENTMA Research
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12752
- Journal Title:
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 14, N.1
- Notes:
- 12 pages, Current food systems fail to directly link urban consumers with rural producers. City-regional strategies need to reconnect consumers with producers through sustainable local food systems. This research developed and distributed a survey questionnaire to 400 consumers in Bangkok. Findings prove that there is a statistically significant association between urban-rural relation and sustainable urban consumer behavior (Pearson’s Chi-square test for independence resulting in a significance level of p < 0.05). Sustainable consumer behavior is influenced by environmental, sociocultural, economic and health drivers, while lack of food traceability, lack of rural experience, lack of access to rural communities and negative social perception disrupt consumer-producer links. Community-based gastrotourism emerges as one of the best practices to link urban consumers with rural producers and plan sustainable food systems in mega-cities like Bangkok.