Consumers consider the housing system to be a key factor that influences farm animal welfare (FAW). The European Food Safety Authority's unfavourable assessment of tie-stall systems may encourage a shift towards adopting loose-housing practices. Several factors impact the likelihood of...

The Long-Term Vision for Rural Areas (LTVRA) pointed out that rural areas require an appropriate form of governance to avoid fragmentation and ensure the integration of rural policies. Recently, Italian law stressed the importance of Food Districts (FDs), including Rural Districts (RDs), to cope...

This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of women's role in agriculture from a global perspective, with a particular focus on the Global South, emphasising the challenges women face. It identifies key research trends and thematic developments by analysing 3,304 records from the Web of Science...

This note examines the state of carbon farming (CF) policies in the European Union (EU), highlighting their potential to deliver significant public benefits, such as improved soil health, air quality, and climate mitigation. The existing mechanisms for encouraging carbon sequestration and...

The Anthropocene is an unprecedented geological period characterised by large-scale socio-ecological crises, including biodiversity loss, climate change, ocean acidification and irreversible deterioration of soil health, among others. These crises have created concerns among scientists, who are...

The paper will assess the extent to which sustainable transitions are occurring with reference to Europe in the 2020's. Here, re-assessing the relationships between science, policy and politics is critical given the 'polycrises' which are impacting upon our food systems. Do these interlinked...