Brazil's environmental legislation obliges private properties to retain a fixed proportion of
their total area with native vegetation, the so-called “Legal Reserves”. Those areas …

Volatility in farm income represents a major challenge for farm management and for the
design of public policies. This paper measures the extent to which risk management tools …

Today the short supply chain can be carried out through several typologies which are called
as alternative food networks (AFNs). In fact, according to some studies, it is an …

Over the last years, EU agricultural farms suffered an increased sensitivity to market
fluctuations in terms of both production flows and incomes, due especially to climate change …

The role of family businesses and, in general, small farms, is critical for the environment,
social cohesion and rural development. In the post-productivist perspective of European …

A legislação ambiental brasileira requer que as propriedades privadas mantenham uma
proporção de sua área coberta com vegetação nativa, as chamadas Reservas Legais …

In the Italian market, voluntary certifications implying higher levels of animal welfare
generally fall into wider production schemes. Despite of the results of EU surveys indicating …

We have experienced a period of great agricultural capacity almost on a global scale,
called" the Green Revolution". This is a term used to refer to the remarkable increase in the …

Over the last years, Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPCs) have faced major political,
institutional, economic and societal changes. As a matter of fact, the agricultural sector has …

A globalised food trade, with a huge increase of the exchanged volume, extensive
production and complex supply chains are contributing towards an increased number of …