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AbstractThis article endeavours to illuminate a largely underexplored area of family farming research; that of multiple‐household arrangements at the farm level. The investigation focused on an agricultural area of south‐east Spain where family‐based farms specialising in export‐oriented horticulture have undergone profound transformations over the last decades. In‐depth interviews were undertaken with 20 informants complemented by a face‐to‐face survey of 135 farmers. A closer look at the farm–family interplay unveiled the existence of holdings jointly managed by several kindred households. These farm governance structures are associated with a greater ability to cope with the managerial complexity of this agricultural system and provide a sound basis for farm expansion, thus emerging as an important element of farm differentiation. Micro‐level information allowed us to explore, for the first time, the variable morphology of the organisational forms that were often found to lie behind different legal arrangements and their role in the intergenerational transfer process. These findings have far‐reaching implications for research, since they take us considerably beyond the picture portrayed by conventional agricultural statistics and challenge many of the traditional assumptions and categories of the existing literature on family farming.

"This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Biofuels on 2018, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/17597269.2016.1274163" ; [EN] The Brazilian government created the Social Fuel Seal (SFS) within the framework of the National Program of Production and Use of Biodiesel (PNPB) launched in 2004. The SFS is a certification standard aimed at upgrading small farmers in the biodiesel value chain, and it was conceived as a response to the increasing concerns about the social aspects of biofuel production. In this article we discuss the institutional settings and explore the uptake, achievements and shortcomings of this instrument in the light of the official data and the academic literature. Specific aspects of the practical implementation of SFS are examined upon the base of interviews conducted with different stakeholders in the state of São Paulo. Dysfunctions in the overall operation of the SFS put under question the accomplishment of the social inclusion objective and awaken concerns about the sustainability of the role of family farmers in it. ; This work was supported by CAPES Foundation - Ministry of Education (Brazil) [grant number BEX 9604/13-8]. ; Planchez De Carvalho-Marcossi, G.; Moreno-Pérez, OM. (2018). A Closer Look at the Brazilian Social Fuel Seal: Uptake, Operation and Dysfunctions. Biofuels. 9(4):429-439. https://doi.org/10.1080/17597269.2016.1274163 ; S ; 429 ; 439 ; 9 ; 4 ; Huang, J., Yang, J., Msangi, S., Rozelle, S., & Weersink, A. (2012). Biofuels and the poor: Global impact pathways of biofuels on agricultural markets. Food Policy, 37(4), 439-451. doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2012.04.004 ; Augusto Horta Nogueira, L., & Silva Capaz, R. (2013). Biofuels in Brazil: Evolution, achievements and perspectives on food security. Global Food Security, 2(2), 117-125. doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2013.04.001 ; Labruto, N. (2014). Experimental biofuel governance: Historicizing social certification in Brazilian ethanol production. Geoforum, 54, 272-281. ...

[EN] The dataset presented in this paper is based on data gathered from several countries within the West Mediterranean area at the highest detailed scale regarding official statistics, with the aim of investigating land and food systems dynamics in the Mediterranean. Characterizing land and food systems dynamics is critical to reveal insights regarding interactions between current dynamics of agricultural practices, species diversity and local food systems. These interactions were analyzed, at multiple spatial scales, on a large part of the Mediterranean basin within the DIVERCROP Project (https://divercropblog.wordpress.com/). An harmonized dataset with the desired characteristics was not readily available from official sources and, therefore, it was necessary to build an ad hoc database that could: (1) cover the Mediterranean areas of seven countries, namely Algeria (DZ), France (FR), Italy (IT), Malta (MT), Portugal (PT), Spain (ES) and Tunisia (TN); (2) contain data referred to the most disaggregated level of administrative units for which data is available in each country; (3) contain data referred to at least two time points, including the latest available data, in each country; (4) contain data on number of farm holdings, on the physical areas covered by the main annual and permanent crops and on livestock (number of heads); (5) contain a primary key that allows joining the census and surveys database to a geographical dataset of administrative units covering the entire area; (6) have an associated complete geographical dataset of administrative units, to allow spatial data analyses. ; DIVERCROP is funded through the ARIMNet2 2016 Call by the following funding agencies: ANR, IRESA (Tunisia), INIA (Spain), FCT (Portugal), ATRSNV (Algeria), MiPAAF (Italy) and MCST. ARIMNet2 (ERA-NET) has received funding from the European Union s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement n 618127. Special thanks to all of the local partners of the DIVERCROP ...

Ceña Delgado, F.; Sanchez-Zamora, P.; Gallardo Cobos, RM.; Moreno-Pérez, OM. (2015). L'agricoltura familiare in Spagna: percorsi di cambiamento e visibilità istituzionale. Agriregionieuropa. 11(43):58-62. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/164157 ; S ; 58 ; 62 ; 11 ; 43

[ES] El principal objetivo de esta contribución es compartir una experiencia de aprendizaje colaborativo basada en el curso online masivo y abierto (MOOC) Retos de la agricultura y la alimentación en el siglo XXI . El curso genera un espacio de debate y reflexión en torno a la agricultura y la alimentación a partir de una cuestión de gran alcance ¿Cómo asumir el reto de alimentar una población creciente en un planeta donde los recursos son limitados? . Entendemos el MOOC como una oportunidad para fomentar el autoaprendizaje, y expresar diferentes visiones y realidades de la agricultura. Las estadísticas de participación y seguimiento del curso fueron exitosas, con 1.160 participantes que finalizaron las actividades en la primera edicion, lo que supuso aproximadamente un tercio de los inscritos. Ello nos animó a lanzar la segunda edición del curso en la plataforma UPVx, con tasas de finalización igualmente satisfactorias. Esta emergente modalidad de aprendizaje está siendo bien recibida y se va consolidando como una herramienta útil, capaz de dar respuesta a una demanda creciente de conocimiento plural. Sin duda, también plantean retos y dudas a resolver. Nuestra intención es compartir lo aprendido para ser capaces de incorporar mejoras, aplicarlas en beneficio del conocimiento con la intención de aumentar las posibilidades de intercambio y aprovechar spill-overs sobre el resto del sistema educativo. ; [EN] Teaching object, teaching article, media studies, interactive PDF, video goal is to share the lessons learned in order to work on further improvements, enhance exchange knowlegde and encourage spillovers over the education system. ; Martinez Gomez, VD.; Moreno-Pérez, OM.; Compes López, R.; Tudela Marco, L.; García Alvarez-Coque, JM. (2014). Retos de la Agricultura y la Alimentación en el siglo XXI, una experiencia de aprendizaje colaborativo. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 343-352. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/168743 ; S ; 343 ; 352

[EN] After two decades of research on sustainable intensification (SI), namely securing food production on less environmental cost, heterogeneous understandings and perspectives prevail in a broad and partly fragmented scientific literature. Structuring and consolidating contributions to provide practice-oriented guidelines are lacking. The objectives of this study are to (1) comprehensively explore the academic SI literature, (2) propose an implementation-oriented conceptual framework, and (3) demonstrate its applicability for region-specific problem settings. In a systematic literature review of 349 papers covering the international literature of 20 years of SI research, we identified SI practices and analysed temporal, spatial and disciplinary trends and foci. Based on key SI practices, a conceptual framework was developed differentiating four fields of action from farm to regional and landscape scale and from land use to structural optimisation. Its applicability to derive region specific SI solutions was successfully tested through stakeholder processes in four European case studies. Disciplinary boundaries and the separation of the temporal and spatial strands in the literature prevent a holistic address of SI. This leads to the dominance of research describing SI practices in isolation, mainly on the farm scale. Coordinated actions on the regional scale and the coupling of multiple practices are comparatively un-derrepresented. Results from the case studies demonstrate that implementation is extremely context-sensitive and thus crucially depends on the situational knowledge of farmers and stakeholders. Although, there is no 'one size fits all' solution, practitioners in all regions identified the need for integrated solutions and common action to implement suitable SI strategies at the regional landscape level and in local ecosystems. ; This research was financially supported by the European Commission under grant agreement 652615 and conducted in the context of the ERA-Net FACCE SURPLUS project VITAL, ...

68 80 257 ; S ; [EN] After two decades of research on sustainable intensification (SI), namely securing food production on less environmental cost, heterogeneous understandings and perspectives prevail in a broad and partly fragmented scientific literature. Structuring and consolidating contributions to provide practice-oriented guidelines are lacking. The objectives of this study are to (1) comprehensively explore the academic SI literature, (2) propose an implementation-oriented conceptual framework, and (3) demonstrate its applicability for region-specific problem settings. In a systematic literature review of 349 papers covering the international literature of 20 years of SI research, we identified SI practices and analysed temporal, spatial and disciplinary trends and foci. Based on key SI practices, a conceptual framework was developed differentiating four fields of action from farm to regional and landscape scale and from land use to structural optimisation. Its applicability to derive region specific SI solutions was successfully tested through stakeholder processes in four European case studies. Disciplinary boundaries and the separation of the temporal and spatial strands in the literature prevent a holistic address of SI. This leads to the dominance of research describing SI practices in isolation, mainly on the farm scale. Coordinated actions on the regional scale and the coupling of multiple practices are comparatively un-derrepresented. Results from the case studies demonstrate that implementation is extremely context-sensitive and thus crucially depends on the situational knowledge of farmers and stakeholders. Although, there is no 'one size fits all' solution, practitioners in all regions identified the need for integrated solutions and common action to implement suitable SI strategies at the regional landscape level and in local ecosystems. This research was financially supported by the European Commission under grant agreement 652615 and conducted in the context of the ERA-Net FACCE SURPLUS ...

AbstractWith growing concern for the unsustainability of food systems, the international research community has turned its attention to small farms as key actors to potentially face the global food crisis. This study aims to support a policy design that values the diversity of small farms business models vis‐à‐vis environmental, economic, social and institutional challenges affecting European farming systems. Building on the existing classification of five small farm types in the EU, our analysis targets the business model dynamics of small farms in four Euro‐Mediterranean countries: Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. For this analysis, we applied resilience thinking to the Business Model Canvas framework. This innovative conceptual framework allows us to depict the architecture of small farms business models and their role in farming systems. The diversity of small farms business models and their continuous adaptation to changing conditions allows for the identification of a strongly heterogeneous assemblage of farms that contribute to the resilience of food systems at local, regional and multiple other scales.