Prospects of multifunctional agriculture as a facilitator of sustainable rural development: Swedish experience of Pillar 2 of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)

Granvik, Madeleine; Lindberg, Gunnar; Stigzelius, Karl-Anders; Fahlbeck, Erik; Surry, Yves

doi:10.1080/00291951.2012.681684

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“…In total, 61 responded, from: Austria (2), Denmark (1), Finland (1), Great Britain (23), Hungary (1), Italy (3), Norway (1), Spain (1), The Netherlands (6), and USA (22). The countries were strategically selected [70] based on previous research and knowledge on local food [51,66,67] and current trends identified in other previous research projects [14,[71][72][73]. The main differences among the Swedish study and the international pilot study concerned the efforts to get the data needed.…”

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Confusion and Misunderstanding—Interpretations and Definitions of Local Food

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Developing a more resilient food system based on sustainable food production and consumption is of major concern in creating food security. One issue in this complex field concerns the scale of the food system. Trends and tendencies show that the interest for local food has increased the last decade in Sweden, as well as in other parts of the world. Although the concept "local food" is commonly used, research shows that there is no single definition of it, instead definitions and meanings vary widely. This has led to a need by consumers of clearer information when buying "local food". Several main actors in the Swedish food sector have joined forces to meet this issue. This paper contributes to knowledge on definitions, interpretations, and practice on local food by presenting views and opinions among different actors in the food chain in a Swedish context, but also in the light of an international pilot study. Main findings concern how the meaning of "local food" related to production, processing, raw material, and distance differs among stakeholders in the food chain. A majority stated that the basic meaning of "local food" concerns both the production and consumption within a certain geographical area.

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“…In addition, many scholars have also conducted in-depth discussions on ways to achieve the sustainable development of agriculture; for instance, precision agriculture [19], developing microorganisms as bio-fertilizers [20], reducing use of inorganic fertilizers [21] and insecticides [22], alpine agriculture [23], multifunctional farming [24,25], and sustainable agriculture and food systems education [26][27][28]. In summary, the evaluation of sustainable development capability of agriculture is a comprehensive and complicated system and involves all aspects of the economy, environment, and society.…”

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Evaluation and Influencing Factors of Sustainable Development Capability of Agriculture in Countries along the Belt and Road Route

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2019

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Agriculture is increasingly facing major challenges such as climate change, scarcity of natural resources, and changing societal demands. To tackle these challenges, there is a pressing need to evolve towards more sustainable agricultural practices. As a result, sustainability stands among the most relevant topics in agricultural research worldwide, and countries along the Belt and Road (B&R) route are no exception. This paper selected 25 indicators from the five subsystems of population, society, economy, environment, and resources in order to build an evaluation index system of agricultural sustainable development capability, and then it used an improved entropy weight method, technique for ordering preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS), and coordination degree method to measure the comprehensive capability and coordination of agricultural sustainable development of all countries along the B&R route from 2006 to 2015. First, according to the time dimension, the comprehensive score of sustainable development capability of agriculture along the B&R route: This had an average annual score of 0.3195 which initially decreased, then increased in a fluctuating manner, before finally falling again. Second, according to the spatial dimension, the average comprehensive score of agricultural sustainable development capability showed an evolutionary trend of ‘high–low–high–low–high’ from west to east, which showed an obvious basic spatial pattern of the ‘W’ type. Third, from the perspective of the subsystems of agriculture, although the coordination degree among subsystems in the main grain-producing areas increased continually from 2006 to 2015, the overall level of development needed to be further improved. In order to further clarify the main factors affecting the capability of agricultural sustainable development, this paper selected six explanatory variables: The level of economic development, financial expenditure for agriculture, agricultural foreign direct investment, agricultural labor force, the intensity of agricultural R&D investment, and the level of agricultural informatization. Then, geographically and temporally weighted regression was applied to evaluate the direction and degree of influences of selected factors on sustainability development capability of agriculture. The results showed that the regression coefficients of each variable in 53 countries were positive or negative, which indicated that the influencing factors of agricultural sustainable development capacity had the characteristics of geospatial nonstationarity.

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“…Leader areas are located throughout the Swedish countryside (Granvik, Lindberg, Stigzelius, Fahlbeck, & Surry, 2012). Examples of regional Leader projects include the creation of leisure activities for tourists and the preservation of cultural heritage in a way that stimulates regional economic activity.…”

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