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Linking participatory approach and rapid appraisal methods to select potential ...

This paper presents a novel approach that integrates participatory methods and a rapid appraisal process to identify constraints and select potentially innovative solutions aimed at improving water and energy use effi- ciency at different levels in collective irrigation systems. First, a set of quantitative performance indicators is calculated, allowing the identification of the main problems. The study then ad...

The portuguese agrifood traditional products: main constraints and challenges

Although Portugal registers a large number of protected brand names, its economic turnover is very low when compared to the other southern EU-Member States. To identify and analyze the main reasons of this weak economic significance of the Portuguese quality traditional agrifood products are the main goals of this paper. The main conclusions from the data gathered in step one of the research, which main goal wa...

Are the land managers behaviors out of step with their attitudes? A Multifuncti...

European peripheric rural areas and mediterranean areas in particular have been under significant changes, affecting land use and landscape pattern. The changing factors, including productivist and post-productivist trends, which are combined in different ways and have followed quite diverse directions and intensities in different regions (Wilson, 2007). Regarding the Mediterranean peripheral areas it has been ...

How are land managers adapting in Mediterranean areas in a transitions pathways...

European rural landscapes face today several changes due to market liberalization, price instability, energetic crisis, food quality and security, etc. These pressures result in changes, which might indicate that an ongoing transition process is taking place in rural areas, which could represent the emergence of a new agricultural regime characterized by a shift from the formerly dominant production goals towar...

Are Land Managers on the way to Multifunctionality? Application to a case study

A great number of land managers in Europe, witness today the decrease of farm income due to the rise of input prices, the progressive cuts of production subsidies and the fluctuations in the prices of agricultural products. At the same time, in the context of the Common Agricultural Policy reform, the need to maintain European agriculture’s competitiveness in global markets, ensuring high production standards a...

Parcerias, acção coletiva e desenvolvimento de sistemas alimentares localizados...

Feminização da agricultura

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As estatísticas e o trabalho feminino