[PDF] European Agricultural Research In The 21st Century eBook

Author : Guy Paillotin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3662036924

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Jointly published with INRA, Paris. What will people eat in the future and how can the food requirements in terms of quantity and quality be met? This EU-based study elucidates the need for a productivity level that will make agriculture competitive on the market and yet is reconciled with the need to manage natural resources and lands wisely. In this book the necessary changes for European agriculture from the biological, medical, economic and political perspective are discussed.

Author : Collectif
Publisher : Quae
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,21 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9782738007124

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Que sera l'alimentation de demain ? Comment satisfaire les besoins alimentaires, tant quantitatifs que qualitatifs ? Comment concilier les nécessités productives d'une agriculture compétitive et ses fonctions de gestion des ressources naturelles et des territoires ? Pour relever ces défis, comment donner à la recherche agronomique européenne la puissance et l'efficacité requises ? Comment orienter la coopération scientifique ? Comment renforcer la confiance des citoyens dans la recherche et l'innovation ? Telles sont les principales questions abordées dans le cadre du colloque organisé par l'Inra à l'occasion de son cinquantième anniversaire, au Parlement européen à Strasbourg.

Author : Ika Darnhofer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 20,65 MB
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9400745036

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Farming Systems Research has three core characteristics: it builds on systems thinking, it depends on the close collaboration between social and biophysical sciences, and it relies on participation to build co-learning processes. Farming Systems Research posits that to contribute towards sustainable rural development, both interdisciplinary collaborations and local actor engagement are needed. Together, they allow for changes in understanding and changes in practices. This book gives an overview of the insights generated in 20 years of Farming Systems Research. It retraces the emergence and development of Farming Systems Research in Europe, summarises the state-of-the-art for key areas, and provides an outlook on new explorations, especially those tackling the dynamic nature of farming systems and their interaction with the natural environment and the context of action.

Author : Johan F. M. Swinnen
Publisher : CEPS
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 11,68 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : 9789290793908

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The debate on agricultural policy in the EU has been very lively and politically prominent over the past months. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the EU has undergone major changes since it was first implemented at the end of the 1960s. Commentators suggest that the CAP changes made in the Agenda 2000 reform package were insufficient to address the problems facing the CAP in the coming years. These include enlargement, new trade negotiations and the demand by European society for a safe, sustainable agri-food system, to name but a few. This report highlights the most pressing challenges to creating a sustainable CAP for the 21st century. It focuses on strategic policy options that are closely linked to the CAP system to be "hands on"; but the report refrains from becoming too specific on policy details, focusing instead on the important strategic questions. It offers six recommendations for good governance, that aim to remove bureaucratic constraints from the food industry, yet strengthen consistency and good practice.

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Page : 277 pages
File Size : 27,61 MB
Release : 2016
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ISBN : 9789282388181

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This is the reference document of the Workshop on the "Effects of the structural changes on EU farming: How to better support the European model of agriculture of the 21st century with the CAP" of 14th March 2016, organised by the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (COMAGRI) and the Policy Department B (AGRI Research) of the European Parliament . It is structured in three parts: 1. Farm structural change in Western Europe and the CAP. 2. Farm structural change in Central and Eastern Europe and the CAP. 3. Food value chain in the EU - How to improve it and strengthen the bargaining power of farmers.

Author : Vítor João Pereira Domingues Martinho
Publisher : Springer
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319094718

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​This publication provides insight into the agricultural sector. It illustrates new tendencies in agricultural economics and dynamics (interrelationship with other sectors in rural zones and multifunctionality) and the implications of the World Trade Organization negotiations in the international trade of agricultural products. Due to environmental problems, availability of budget, consumer preferences for food safety and pressure from the World Trade Organization, there are many changes in the agricultural sector. This book addresses those new developments and provides insights into possible future developments. The agricultural activity is an economic sector that is fundamental for a sustainable economic growth of every country. However, this sector has many particularities, namely those related with some structural problems (many farms with reduced dimension, sometimes lack of vocational training of the farmers, difficulties of put the farmers together in associations and cooperatives), variations of the productions and prices over the year and some environmental problems derived from the utilization of pesticides and fertilizers.

Author : Gerard Beaur
Publisher :
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,27 MB
Release : 2020-06-15
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ISBN : 9782503586748

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The treatment of long-term agricultural transformation remains a lively topic for historians. Much debate arose when agricultural development patterns were discovered that did without a dominant, production-oriented cereal crop, even when it was accompanied by livestock farming. Joan Thirsk hoped to conclude this debate by putting forward the hypothesis that such "alternative agriculture" was the farmers' way of responding to the difficulties caused by periods of low agricultural prices. This theory stirred up controversy and arguments both for and against.00The contributions to this volume take this hypothesis seriously and attempt to assess its validity. Examining a large number of "alternative agricultures" over the long term, from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, they discuss the issues encountered in tracing the links between the spread of alternative crops, such as fruits and vegetables, flowers, and industrial crops, and the general economic environment, across a vast swathe of territory stretching from Flanders to Spain and from France, through Italy and Switzerland, as far as Russia.