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Family Farming in Spain Yearbook 2024
Social emergency. Without family agriculture and livestock there will be no future for the rural world
Society is increasingly aware of the strategic nature of food. The agri-food sector is postulated as one of the pillars of our democratic societies, due to its leading role in the production of healthy, safe and sustainable food. However, farmers and ranchers suffer serious problems that make their profession difficult....
Spain
2024 - UPA (Unión de Pequeños Agricultores y Ganaderos de España)
Journal article
Circular food system approaches can support current European protein intake levels while reducing land use and greenhouse gas emissions
Protein transition and circular food system transition are two proposed strategies for supporting food system sustainability. Here we model animal-sourced protein to plant-sourced protein ratios within a European circular food system, finding that maintaining the current animal–plant protein share while redesigning the system with circular principles resulted in the largest...
2024 - Wageningen University of the Netherlands
Newsletter article
Spain: Present but hardly represented
Women who dominate the shellfish harvest sector in Galicia struggle for due representation and policy inclusion.
On the North-Western region of Galicia in Spain, shore-based shellfish harvesting is carried out mainly by women. With traditional and very simple tools that have remained virtually unchanged over time, women gather in beaches to...
Spain
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Newsletter article
Spain: Net Working
Atalaia exemplifies the power of community and the enduring value of traditional craft in modern times.
In the picturesque region of Galicia in northwest Spain, the tradition of netmaking and repair is deeply intertwined with the local fishing industry. This craft, historically carried out by women, has seen a resurgence thanks...
Spain
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Newsletter article
Profile: Dolores Gómez – Moving from strength to strength
Dolores Gomez not only leads shellfish gatherers in the male-dominated Galician seafood sector but also places feminism front and centre in the conversation.
Dolores Gómez Ordoñez has been the President of Mulleres Salgadas since 2019. Mulleres Salgadas is an association of shellfish gatherers in Spain. It was founded in 2016 and...
Spain
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Journal article
Convenient solutions, inconvenient truths – Why supermarkets will not drive food system transformation
Supermarkets play an important role in industrialized food systems, which is why many in academia, politics, industry, and civil society view them as key players in transforming the food system toward greater sustainability. We analyse narratives and proposed solutions in this context, as well as the role of supermarkets in Germany, home...
Germany
2024 - Center for Environmental Systems Research, Germany
Fact sheet
Organic in Europe: Production and consumption moving beyond a niche
Over the last three decades organic food and farming has been growing year by year across the EU and continues doing so. The EU’s organic market is very dynamic with growth rates varying between countries. Policies can positively impact this growth – both production and consumption.
In 2022, the EU’s total...
2024 - IFOAM – Organics International
Book
Mapping the development of agroecology in Europe - Volume 2
This second volume of the country reports series enlarges the documentation, analysis, and development of agroecology in Europe, and provides examples of implementation in different countries. The 11 countries studied within this volume show somewhat similar results as found in with the first 13 countries mapped in volume 1. There...
Denmark - France - Hungary - Ireland - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Portugal - Republic of Moldova - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2024 - Isara Agro School for Life
Report
Sustainable finance and forest biodiversity criteria
From Science to Policy 16
This science-policy study sets out how forest-related biodiversity could be included in the EU Taxonomy, to help encourage sustainable investments in forests.
The EU Taxonomy Regulation creates a common set of indicators and criteria to classify sustainable commercial activities and investments. While forest-related activities have been included in the EU Taxonomy...
2024 - European Forest Institute
Working paper
Preliminary assessment of the knowledge gaps to prevent soil erosion
SOLO project aims to deliver actionable transdisciplinary roadmaps for future soil-related research and innovation activities in the EU, contributing to achieving the objectives of the EU Soil Mission. To achieve this overarching goal, the project employs a transdisciplinary task force known as Think Tanks (TTs). Comprising 10 Think Tanks, SOLO...
2024 - Soils for Europe
Newsletter article
France: A New Vision of the Sea
Local and regional ‘parliaments of the sea’ can ensure the participation of society in the management of marine areas while respecting the rights of fishers. An example from France.
“Numerous ethnographic studies show that the sea and its resources are not an open-access resource, but a common good, collectively controlled by...
France
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Journal article
The Evolution of the Romanian Organic Agriculture in a Global Context
Organic agriculture is widely considered an agricultural method that aims to produce food products by turning to natural processes and substances, limiting, in the same time, the impact on the environment. In the last period, there has been an evident growing trend in consumers’ preference for organic food products, that...
Romania
2024 - Rural Development Research Platform
Journal article
Does the payment method matter in online shopping behaviour?
Study on the Romanian market of vegetables during the pandemic crisis
Abstract: The present study, centred on customer online shopping behaviours, aims at analysing the frequency of vegetable acquisition and its main determining factors, while considering different methods of payment, i.e. cash, debit card, and bank transfer on the Romanian market. Using data obtained from a questionnaire applied nationwide, a descriptive analysis and logistic regression were performed. An immature...
Romania
2024 - Gheorghe Zane Institute for Economic and Social Research Romanian Academy Iasi Branch
Newsletter article
Europe/IYAFA: Future Reimagined
Participants from 16 European countries discussed the analytical framework for better governance of fisheries, employing imaginative tools for greater collaboration
The last of the series of IYAFA workshops was convened by the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) in collaboration with Low Impact Fishers of Europe (LIFE) and Mulleres Salgadas (MuS). The regional workshop for Europe was held on November 13-16, 2023, in Galicia, Spain. With its participatory and...
2024 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Journal article
Governance, Mobility, and Pastureland Ecology. An Eco-Anthropological Study of Three Pastoral Commons in Northeastern Andalusia
Community-based natural resource governance is increasingly valued by the leading international organizations that promote environmental conservation and sustainable development. At the same time, the ecosystems of the northeastern Andalusian mountains are intrinsically related to the long-standing presence of pastoralism and its different communal forms that have favored a very particular...
Spain
2024 - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Spain
Project
Nurturing agricultural skills - Projects Brochure
This Project Brochure showcases practical examples of CAP support on various skills to help agricultural and rural professionals keep pace with a fast-changing, increasingly complex world.
The European Year of Skills (2023-24) aims to help people gain the right skills for quality jobs and support companies in addressing skill shortages in Europe. This...
2024 - EU CAP Network
Report
Policies for healthy and sustainable diets: A review of international, European, and national documentation
Achieving healthy, sustainable, and equitable diets is one of the challenges for 21st-century food systems. The definition of Healthy and Sustainable Diets (HSDs) was presented for the first time in a plenary session of the Symposium “Biodiversity and Sustainable Diets: United Against Hunger” organized, jointly by FAO and Bioversity International,...
Italy
2024 - CREA Council for Agricultural Research
Book
Institutional and economic perspectives on distant-water fisheries access arrangements
This summary outlines the information contained in the “Institutional and Economic Perspectives on Distant-Water Fisheries Access Arrangements” report (2024), which is an expansion of the first report the “Mapping Distant-Water Fisheries Access Arrangements”, published in 2022.This report conducts a more targeted examination of the economic dynamics, policy drivers, and institutional...
China - Ghana - Japan - Namibia
2024 - FAO
Practices
Organic Hemp - Harvest products products and opportunities
Enthusiastic fans see hemp as a crop that can meet current challenges such as climate change and resource scarcity. But can hemp really fulfill this expectation and what potential does the plant offer organic farms in Switzerland? A new fact sheet provides essential information on organic hemp cultivation for interested...
Germany
2023 - FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
Blog article
Spanish Operational Groups on animal health
Feuga (Galician Enterprise-University Foundation) recently organised an event to showcase Spanish Operational Groups working on animal health. For example, TIRAC and MICOALGA-FEED worked on the reduction of antibiotics through, respectively, the use of algae in rabbit feed to avoid digestion problems, and the use of fungi and microalgae supplements in...
European Union - Spain
2023 - EU CAP Network
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