Listando PUBLICACIONS CIENTÍFIQUES por materia "33"
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Assessing consumers' preferences for beef and lamb meat linked to wildfire prevention services
(Meat Science, 2023-09-19)Meat from silvopastoral systems, due to its provision of numerous ecosystem services such as wildfire risk reduction in Mediterranean forests, can address societal growing demands for meat produced with ... -
Beyond scientific contribution: Assessment of the societal impact of research and innovation to build a sustainable agri-food sector
(Journal of Environmental Management, 2020-03-26)Due to the climate change and increased attention toward environmental management issues, the agri-food sector has been extensively relying on research, development, and innovation (RDi) to transform ... -
Consumers’ wine preferences in a changing scenario
(British Food Journal, 2018-01-01)Purpose: Important socioeconomic changes have been undergone due to the international economic crisis. In Catalonia (Spain), political changes towards independentism also occurred within the same ... -
Corporate Sustainable Development. Revisiting the Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility Dimensions
(Sustainable Development, 2017-10-30)With rising stakeholder concerns over sustainable development, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become key for the business community, moving the business model beyond financial performance to ... -
Effectiveness of a carbon tax to promote a climate-friendly food consumption
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Efficiency of Egyptian organic agriculture: A local maximum likelihood approach
(Agribusiness, 2017-09-20)Productive efficiency analysis is a relevant tool that can be used to evaluate differences in the performance between conventional and organic farms. Such study is important for the assessment of the ... -
Extensive Mediterranean agroecosystems and their linked traditional breeds: Societal demand for the conservation of the Majorcan black pig
(Land Use Policy, 2021-11-05)Extensive outdoor low-intensity livestock farming systems are the principal form of management of high natural value farmland in Europe. Their marginalisation and poor recognition in policies and markets, ... -
Livelihood strategies of cacao producers in Ecuador: Effects of national policies to support cacao farmers and specialty cacao landraces
(Journal of Rural Studies, 2018-08-09)This study identifies the livelihood strategies pursued by small cacao farmers in the Guayas coastal region inEcuador, where two distinct cacao varieties are grown: thefineflavor variety, Cacao Nacional ... -
Moving ahead from food-related behaviours: an alternative approach to understand household food waste generation
(Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017-10-27)Food waste prevention is a hot topic on the policy agenda. According to available data, urgent measures need to be undertaken to significantly reduce the current generation of food waste. However, it ... -
Nature’s contribution to people provided by pastoral systems across European, African, and Middle East Mediterranean countries: trends, approaches and gaps
(Regional Environmental Change, 2024-05-15)Mediterranean pastoral systems are providers of a wide array of Nature’s Contribution to People (NCP). They are ‘complex systems’ characterized by limited resources and socio-economic dynamics currently ... -
Promoting biodiversity values of small forest patches in agricultural landscapes: Ecological drivers and social demand
(Science of The Total Environment, 2017-11-23)Small forest patches embedded in agricultural (and peri-urban) landscapes in Western Europe play a key role for biodiversity conservation with a recognized capacity of delivering a wide suite of ecosystem ... -
Societal preferences for the conservation of traditional pig breeds and their agroecosystems: Addressing preference heterogeneity and protest responses through deterministic allocation and scale-extended models
(Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2021-12-30)We assess preferences of inhabitants of the island of Majorca (Spain) for the conservation of traditional, ex-tensively reared Majorcan Black Pigs and the linked agro-ecosystem, using ... -
The productive efficiency of organic farming: the case of grape sector in Catalonia
(Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 2012-06-07)Knowledge about productivity and efficiency differences between conventional and organic farms has important implications for the evaluation of the economic viability of these two agricultural practices. ... -
Valuing social sustainability in agriculture: An approach based on social outputs' shadow prices
(Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018-08-24)Interest in sustainability has gained ground among practitioners, academics and policy-makers due to growing stakeholders' awareness of environmental and social concerns. This is particularly true for ... -
Vertical price transmission in the Egyptian tomato sector after the Arab Spring
(Applied Economics, 2018-05-27)This study assesses price transmission along the Egyptian tomato food marketing chain in the period that followed the Arab Spring, which accentuated economic precariousness in Egypt. Static and ... -
What shapes silvopastoralism in Mediterranean mid-mountain areas? Understanding factors, drivers, and dynamics using fuzzy cognitive mapping
(Ecology & Society, 2024-12-01)Silvopastoral systems, integrating woody vegetation and livestock farming, are increasingly recognized as a sustainable land-use supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services provision in the ...