- Valorizar a Horta Familiar de forma a educar para uma hortas familiares rurais e urbanas e o papel das mulheres agricultoras para a economia familiar, para a manutenção de uma dieta mediterrânica saudável e sustentável e para a valorização dos produtos locais. Nesse sentido, numa primeira fase foi implementado um inquérito por questionário no contexto da agricultura familiar e em hortas urbanas e comunitárias...
Habitat loss, climate change, and other environmental degradations pose severe challenges to beekeepers. Therefore, this sector needs to rely on updated information so that the intervening actors can deal with the problems. In this context, and assuming that professional training can greatly help those acting in the beekeeping sector, this work intended to investigate the gaps in the updated knowledge of beekee...
first_pagesettingsOrder Article Reprints Open AccessArticle Professional Training in Beekeeping: A Cross-Country Survey to Identify Learning Opportunities by Raquel P. F. Guiné 1ORCID,Jorge Oliveira 1ORCID,Catarina Coelho 1,2,*ORCID,Daniela Teixeira Costa 1,Paula Correia 1ORCID,Helena Esteves Correia 1ORCID,Bjørn Dahle 3,Melissa Oddie 3,Risto Raimets 4,Reet Karise 4ORCID,Luis Tourino 5,Salvatore Basile 6,Emilio...
Agricultural production is influenced by environmental factors such as temperature, air humidity, soil water, light intensity, and CO2 concentration. However, climate change has influenced the values of average temperature, precipitation, global atmospheric CO2 concentration, or ozone level. Thus, climate change could lead to different situations on plants and consequently influence agricultural production. Wit...
A agricultura familiar, como forma de garantir a produção agrícola, gerida por uma família com base em mão-de-obra familiar não assalariada, tem um papel fundamental nas zonas rurais. Das 570 milhões de explorações agrícolas do mundo, mais de 500 milhões são explorações familiares. Em Portugal, a agricultura familiar representa 96% das cerca de 280 mil explorações existentes. Em todo o mundo, a agricultura fami...
Over the years, rural areas have faced a number of problems and difficulties, such as an increase in the average age of the population, desertification, loss of employment and the abandon‐ ment of rural and agricultural activities, which have led to the emergence of new initiatives aimed at revitalizing these territories from a social, economic and environmental perspective, such as the successful Bio‐districts...
Beekeeping is an ancient activity that is gaining interest among practitioners and society in general. It is as an activity with positive impacts in the environmental, social and economic spheres, with the potential to reconnect these dimensions and contribute to sustainable development. Thus, it is important to determine the profiles of beekeepers across the world, and to understand the main social, economic o...