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Valuing environmentally sustainable agriculture? Food and water concerns, production literacy, and consumption behaviours in rural-regional Australia
(2022-05-30)
Although Australia currently enjoys high food security, increasing climate change pressure on the planet’s direst land mass, governed by the least climate change mitigating legislators, makes this position increasingly tenuous amid increasingly globalised, industrial food production systems. This article presents primary data exploring the salience of food and water concerns compared with related knowledge affecting agricultural product consumption. Respondents to an online survey were drawn from employees at a large ...
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Vol. 10 No. 2 (2022)
(Specialized Partnerships in Sustainable Food Systems and Food Sovereignty, Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, the University of Kassel, Germany and the Federation of German Scientists (VDW), 2022-05-30)
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Vol. 10 No. 3 (2022)
(Specialized Partnerships in Sustainable Food Systems and Food Sovereignty, Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, the University of Kassel, Germany and the Federation of German Scientists (VDW), 2022-07-27)
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Horsegram [Macrotyloma uniflorum]: an underutilized pulse crop as a sustainable plant-based protein
(2022-07-31)
The demand of consumers for plant-based protein is high and is anticipated to increase in the future due to various underlying health benefits. Moreover, the production of high-quality animal protein globally results in a challenging situation for the sustainability of the environment. Contemporary, to find new alternative protein sources, underutilized legumes are given more attention to meet the ever-increasing requirement for vegetable protein.One of the indigenous underutilized legumes is Horsegram (Macrotyloma ...
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Vol. 10 No. 4 (2022)
(Specialized Partnerships in Sustainable Food Systems and Food Sovereignty, Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, the University of Kassel, Germany and the Federation of German Scientists (VDW), 2022-08-31)
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Sustainability Assessment for Asparagus Farms that Work with a Community-Supported Agriculture Model in Turkey
(2022-07-31)
Due to the diversified nature of agricultural systems, it is difficult to handle the sustainability aspects of different farming practices. With an intention to evaluate the sustainability of the community-supported agriculture (CSA) model in Turkey, the current study focuses on asparagus farms and designs farm-specific sustainability indicators that would be helpful for the farmers. The framework developed for this purpose consists of 20 environmental, 8 economic, and 17 social sustainability indicators derived and ...
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Icing the Cake: A Lifestyle-based Benefit and Preference Analysis on Online Grocery Shopping
(2022-07-31)
Germany has not kept pace with the global development of online grocery shopping (OGS) and despite a pandemic-related increase remains on a moderate level. This phenomenon may reflect infrastructural benefits of stationary retailing, personal and household preferences, and perceptions of OGS services. To this end, this study investigates the determinants of OGS benefit perception addressing the interconnection between personal and household benefits and situational conditions based on qualitative ...
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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on food price index in Nigeria
(2022-06-02)
The economic effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown on food access/demand can lead to food price changes. This study was designed to evaluate the covid-19 influenced differences in food commodity prices. The study design captured eight urban markets in eight Nigerian states. A multi-stage sampling technique was employed. The number of sample points for each measure and commodity ranged from two to four per selected market. Local measures of commodities sold by traders were obtained and weighed using a calibrated ...
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Vol. 10 No.5 (2022)
(Specialized Partnerships in Sustainable Food Systems and Food Sovereignty, Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, the University of Kassel, Germany and the Federation of German Scientists (VDW), 2022-12-08)
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Vol. 10 No. 6 (2022)
(Specialized Partnerships in Sustainable Food Systems and Food Sovereignty, Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, the University of Kassel, Germany and the Federation of German Scientists (VDW), 2022-12-12)