The Employment Crisis and Green Orientation in Agriculture: New Educational Models

Viola, Immacolata; Pontrandolfi, Antonella; Manelli, Alberto

doi:10.1016/j.aaspro.2016.02.074

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“…This clearly shows that the economic impacts of SFSCs in particular, and agriculture and food systems in general, are context-specific and vary among countries/territories. Other articles have dealt with the relations between agri-food systems and innovative economic models, such as circular economies [35,100,222,[230][231][232], green economies [233], and bio-economies [234].…”

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Sustainable Agri-Food Systems: Environment, Economy, Society, and Policy

2021

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Agri-food systems (AFS) have been central in the debate on sustainable development. Despite this growing interest in AFS, comprehensive analyses of the scholarly literature are hard to find. Therefore, the present systematic review delineated the contours of this growing research strand and analyzed how it relates to sustainability. A search performed on the Web of Science in January 2020 yielded 1389 documents, and 1289 were selected and underwent bibliometric and topical analyses. The topical analysis was informed by the SAFA (Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture systems) approach of FAO and structured along four dimensions viz. environment, economy, society and culture, and policy and governance. The review shows an increasing interest in AFS with an exponential increase in publications number. However, the study field is north-biased and dominated by researchers and organizations from developed countries. Moreover, the analysis suggests that while environmental aspects are sufficiently addressed, social, economic, and political ones are generally overlooked. The paper ends by providing directions for future research and listing some topics to be integrated into a comprehensive, multidisciplinary agenda addressing the multifaceted (un)sustainability of AFS. It makes the case for adopting a holistic, 4-P (planet, people, profit, policy) approach in agri-food system studies.

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Sustainable Agri-Food Systems: Environment, Economy, Society, and Policy

2021

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“…Amini Fasakhodi et al 23 investigated the sustainability of water resources and the optimal cultivation pattern in agricultural systems by fractional goal programming in which two objective functions were considered: (1) net return to water consumption and (2) number of job opportunities created by water consumption. Viola et al 24 studied the challenges regarding green employment creation in agriculture, and evaluated the employment of labor in green industries, labor market, and the present state of the education system. They finally provided solutions to the required training problem within the process of green development.…”

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Water-constrained green development framework based on economically-allocable water resources

Bozorgzadeh

Mousavi

2023

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Water as a main driver for sustainable development (SD) should be optimally allocated to different users to support economic, social, and environmental functions. Traditional approaches are not able to account for all the mentioned functions simultaneously, therefore a change in the allocation approaches is necessary. This paper proposes a new framework for inter-sectoral water allocation called “water-constrained green development” (WCGD) to better meet the SD goals. The framework optimally allocates economically-allocable water (EAW), which is the total available water resources left after subtracting the amount of water required for drinking, sanitation, and environment (DSE), to different job classes. It was tested in Sistan Region- a low-developed area in southeast of Iran- which stands on agriculture. In the recent years, because of water crisis, intensity of dust problem, lack of sustained occupation, and immigration, the region’s rate of population growth has been negative. Also, due to decrease of Helmand River inflow, Hamoun wetland, being the major source of food and shelter for the Sistan’s residents, has been degraded. Therefore, Sistan Region needs to take a new development route. The shares of occupation and gross domestic product (GDP) in the agricultural sector of Sistan are respectively 29.1 and 14.8%, whereas they are on average 1 and 7% in Iran. Application of the proposed framework in Sistan Region under three scenarios of available EAW resources showed that the optimal reallocation of water among 15 job classes can improve job availability and GDP of the region currently suffering from poor economy and employment conditions. Based on the optimal job pattern obtained, the share of GDP of Sistan’s agricultural sector drops to 7.1% while the shares of industrial and service sectors increase respectively from 9.7 and 75.4% to 13.7 and 79.2%, which are close to those of the country averages. Also, under the WCGD-based optimal solution, 68, 14, and 18% of people will respectively be employed in service, industry, and agriculture sectors. Additionally, the total available jobs and GDP will increase by 8.9 and 51.1%, respectively, leading to improved socio-economic well-being of the region’s people and protection of its environmental resources.

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The Employment Crisis and Green Orientation in Agriculture: New Educational Models

Cited by 2 publications

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Sustainable Agri-Food Systems: Environment, Economy, Society, and Policy

Sustainable Agri-Food Systems: Environment, Economy, Society, and Policy

Water-constrained green development framework based on economically-allocable water resources

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