Actions to strengthen the contribution of small farms and small food businesses to food security in Europe

Olga M. Moreno-Pérez; Laura Arnalte Mur; Pedro  Cerrada-Serra; Victor Martinez-Gomez; Anda  Adamsone-Fiskovica; Hilde Bjørkhaug; Gianluca Brunori; Marta Czekaj; Dominic  Duckett; Paola A. Hernández; Christina Noble; Teresa Pinto-Correia; Aleksandra  Płonka; Paolo Prosperi; Mark  Redman; Maria  Rivera Mendez; Sandra Šūmane; Dionisio Ortiz Miranda

doi:10.1007/s12571-023-01421-0

Actions to strengthen the contribution of small farms and small food businesses to food security in Europe

Olga M. Moreno-Pérez^*, Laura Arnalte Mur, Pedro Cerrada-Serra, Victor Martinez-Gomez, Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica, Hilde Bjørkhaug, Gianluca Brunori, Marta Czekaj, Dominic Duckett, Paola A. Hernández, Christina Noble, Teresa Pinto-Correia, Aleksandra Płonka, Paolo Prosperi, Mark Redman, Maria Rivera Mendez, Sandra Šūmane, Dionisio Ortiz Miranda

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This study stems from a participatory foresight exercise conducted in nine Mediterranean, Baltic, Nordic and Eastern European regions, aiming to strengthen the role of small farms and small food businesses in ensuring food security. A wide range of stakeholders participated by attending workshops. They represented farmers’ organisations, food businesses, consumers’ organisations, NGOs, researchers, extension services, professional groups, and administration and public bodies. The actions proposed by participants are scanned and categorised around six broad objectives, stakeholders’ priorities and their underlying beliefs and preconceptions are discussed around the current debates of the literature, and the drivers that influence the feasibility of the proposed actions are discussed. Furthermore, the alignment of stakeholders’ -driven objectives with the European Strategies on food, agriculture, and rural areas is examined, with a focus on: (i) the EU Farm to Fork Strategy, (ii) the Rural Action Plan contained in the Long-Term Vision of Rural Areas developed by the EU Commission, and (iii) the Common Agricultural Policy in force since January 2023.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	243-259
Number of pages	17
Journal	Food Security
Volume	16
Issue number	1
Early online date	29 Dec 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-023-01421-0
Publication status	Published - Feb 2024
Event	European Farming Systems Conference: Farming Systems Facing Climate Change and Resource Challenges - University of Evora, Evora, Portugal Duration: 10 Apr 2022 → 14 Apr 2022 Conference number: 14 http://www.ifsa2022.uevora.pt/ (Link to conference website)

Keywords

Backcasting planning
Common agricultural policy
Europe
Food security
Small farms
Small food businesses

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General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
General
General Social Sciences
Development
Food Science
Agronomy and Crop Science

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The future of small farms and small food businesses as actors in regional food security: a participatory scenario analysis from Europe and Africa
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Do small food businesses enable small farms to connect to regional food systems? Evidence from 9 European regions
Hernández, P. A., Galli, F., Prosperi, P., Šūmane, S., Duckett, D. & Almaas, H. E., Jun 2021, In: Global Food Security. 29, 11 p., 100505.
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Moreno-Pérez, O. M., Arnalte Mur, L., Cerrada-Serra, P., Martinez-Gomez, V., Adamsone-Fiskovica, A., Bjørkhaug, H., Brunori, G., Czekaj, M., Duckett, D., Hernández, P. A., Noble, C., Pinto-Correia, T., Płonka, A., Prosperi, P., Redman, M., Rivera Mendez, M., Šūmane, S., & Ortiz Miranda, D. (2024). Actions to strengthen the contribution of small farms and small food businesses to food security in Europe. Food Security, 16(1), 243-259. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-023-01421-0

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Actions to strengthen the contribution of small farms and small food businesses to food security in Europe

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ASJC Scopus subject areas

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New ‘old’ risks on the small farm: iconic species rewilding in Europe

The future of small farms and small food businesses as actors in regional food security: a participatory scenario analysis from Europe and Africa

Do small food businesses enable small farms to connect to regional food systems? Evidence from 9 European regions

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