Will recent world events shift policy-makers’ focus from sustainable agriculture to intensive and competitive agriculture?

Timpanaro, Giuseppe; Scuderi, Alessandro; Guarnaccia, Paolo; Foti, Vera Teresa

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e17991

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“…They concluded that national and local governments should consider encouraging the entire agricultural sector to adopt a more efficient and sustainable way of agricultural production. On the other hand, Timpanaro et al [56] discussed whether recent world events should shift policymakers' focus from sustainable to intensive and competitive agriculture. The state of the concept of national "self-sufficiency" is being revisited, especially due to the pandemic and conflicts in Europe.…”

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Organic Agriculture in Focus: Exploring Serbian Producers’ Views on the Common Agricultural Policy and the National Agrarian Policy

Tomaš Simin,

Milić,

Novaković

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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Organic agriculture represents an alternative system of agricultural production that is included in the so-called sustainable agricultural practices. Development strategies in almost all countries today highlight the problem of environmental degradation, which is partly caused by the application of agrotechnical measures used in conventional agriculture. Consequently, organic production is gaining more and more importance, affecting the trend of its development. Considering the status of the Republic of Serbia as a candidate country for the European Union, it is of particular importance to understand the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the EU and the position that organic producers and production have. The aim of this research was to analyze the attitudes of organic producers towards the CAP and the agrarian policy of the Republic of Serbia and their expectations following the Republic of Serbia’s entry into the EU. Statistical data processing involved descriptive statistical analysis followed by binary logistic regression. The results of the research showed that organic producers are not sufficiently familiar with the CAP, they believe that the agricultural policy of the Republic of Serbia is not favorable for organic producers and that their situation will not change significantly with entry into the EU, but that the position of organic production in the EU is better in comparison to that of the Republic of Serbia. In conclusion, the authors state that such attitudes and thoughts of organic producers are a limiting factor in the further development of organic agriculture and that it is necessary to work on them through continuous measures developed by competent ministries, local self-governments and advisory services.

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Organic Agriculture in Focus: Exploring Serbian Producers’ Views on the Common Agricultural Policy and the National Agrarian Policy

Tomaš Simin,

Milić,

Novaković

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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“…Therefore, it plays a leading role in ensuring the food security of the respective member states [3]. The significance of the agricultural sector in ensuring food security has been highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by Russian aggression in Ukraine [8,9]. This amplifies the need to investigate the competitiveness of the agricultural sector in the member states of the European Union.…”

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How Competitive Is the Agriculture in European Union Member States? An Assessment of Changes over the Past Decade

Nowak,

Zakrzewska

2024

Agriculture

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The need to monitor changes in the level of agricultural competitiveness of EU member states necessitates the development of an appropriate set of indicators to answer the question of whether a country is improving its competitive position. This paper proposes a synthetic measure for assessing the agricultural competitiveness in the member states of the European Union (EU) from 2012 to 2021. Statistics on the respective indicators were derived from the Eurostat database and Agri-Food Data Portal. The survey was based on linear ordering using a standardised sums approach. This implies that member states vary in competitiveness in the agricultural sector. From 2012 to 2021, the most competitive countries were Denmark, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Simultaneously, the rankings of agricultural competitiveness changed over the 10 years under review. The highest improvement rates were recorded in Finland, Slovakia, and Ireland. However, the differences between the old and new member states are still explicit. None of the new member states of the EU were in the top ten with regard to their agricultural competitiveness. Many areas associated with agriculture in these countries require considerable improvement. We also carried out a principal component analysis (PCA), which allowed us to identify the parameters conveying relevant information on the analysed phenomenon and unveil the hidden structures in the primary data set. We discovered that the share of the EU’s agricultural output in the EU exports of agricultural products explained variations in the agricultural competitiveness within member states.

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Economy-energy-environment nexus: the potential of agricultural value-added toward achieving China’s dream of carbon neutrality

Raihan,

Voumik,

Mohajan

et al. 2023

Carbon Res.

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Agriculture is one of the major sources of global emissions that cause climate change while agricultural value added helps to boost the economy in developing countries like China. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the long- and short-term influences of agricultural value added, economic growth (GDP), and energy use on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in China. The autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) method was used by using annual time series data from 1990 to 2021. The empirical outcomes revealed that a 1% increase in the agricultural value added would cut CO2 emissions by 1.37% in the long-run and 0.65% in the short-run. However, this study found that both GDP and energy consumption have a positive and statistically significant effect on CO2 emissions. Furthermore, an inverted U-shaped association between economic growth and environmental pollution was discovered by spotting the positive coefficient of GDP and the negative coefficient of GDP squared, which proved the validity of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis. The robustness of the ARDL outcomes was verified by using the fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS), dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS), and canonical cointegration regression (CCR) approaches. This study offers a comprehensive set of policy recommendations aimed at enhancing agricultural value added in China. These suggestions focus on the promotion of climate-smart agriculture, the integration of renewable energy sources in agricultural production, and the adoption of advanced technologies within agricultural systems. Implementing these measures would contribute to the achievement of China’s goal of carbon neutrality. Graphical Abstract

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Will recent world events shift policy-makers’ focus from sustainable agriculture to intensive and competitive agriculture?

Cited by 5 publications

References 29 publications

Organic Agriculture in Focus: Exploring Serbian Producers’ Views on the Common Agricultural Policy and the National Agrarian Policy

Organic Agriculture in Focus: Exploring Serbian Producers’ Views on the Common Agricultural Policy and the National Agrarian Policy

How Competitive Is the Agriculture in European Union Member States? An Assessment of Changes over the Past Decade

Economy-energy-environment nexus: the potential of agricultural value-added toward achieving China’s dream of carbon neutrality

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