European mountain areas have experienced a persistent loss of agricultural land and
economic activities over time, with negative effects from both an environmental and a …

Land fragmentation is a phenomenon that reduces the mechanical management of
agricultural and grazing lands and, consequently, leads to the abandonment of agricultural …

In the food sector, new configurations of supply chains, as opposed to global conventional
ones, are drawing the attention of researchers and institutions all over the world. These are …

In the last decades, scholars from different disciplines have used the foodscape as a
concept and an analytical framework to explore the intersection between landscape, people …

Abstract The Queijo Serra da Estrela, DOP is the oldest Portuguese cheese recognized
internationally. The objective of this paper is to analyse a rural, agri-entrepreneurial network …

Purpose This paper aims at assessing the role of authenticity of local food in contributing to
tourism as an ecosystem service in a small mountain tourism destination, ie Alagna Valsesia …

To protect and promote the originality and authenticity of mountain foodstuffs, the European
Union set Regulation No 1151/2012 to create the optional quality term “mountain product” …

This paper examines visitors' behaviors toward local food products when visiting a less
favored mountain community in the Italian Alps. The aim of the study was to assess the role …

Even though many studies focus on consumer perception of local food, only limited research
concerns mountain areas. This paper aims to fill this gap by concentrating on the potential …

Mountain husbandry systems and their related products may directly or indirectly provide
either ecosystem services (ESs) or disservices to humanity. The present study aims to …