The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal “End hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture” addresses the complex linkages between agricultural practices, environmental sustainability, and food security. Efforts to meet this goal are threatened by the polycrisis of climate change, economic volatility, and geopolitical instability, which affect food systems. It is therefore important to build resilience and advance our collective understanding of sustainable food environments and healthy, nutritious, and secure diets.
Research background: Rural regions across post-industrial Europe face persistent structural
vulnerabilities such as demographic ageing, selective outmigration and economic monocultures.
At the same time, these regions possess underutilised cultural, ecological and social
resources that can become drivers of regeneration. While social innovation, heritage-based
development and the social economy have been widely examined, attention has been limited
regarding how heritage assets can be transformed into diversified service ecosystems and institutionalised within social economy structures. In this context, the concept of rural heritage
servitisation offers a useful analytical lens for understanding these processes.
We study the relationship between climate variability and crop yields using a county level panel for Lithuania (2000-2024) covering 13 major crops. Climate conditions are summarized by 18 pre-defined temperature and precipitation indices constructed from daily meteorological observations and standardized to allow comparison across indicators. For each crop, we estimate county fixed-effects models with year effects and include contemporaneous and lagged elimate indices.
The European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy promotes extensive farming to achieve sustainability goals, yet dairy production in the Baltic states and Poland has continued to intensify, particularly after the abolition of milk quotas in 2015. This study assesses the technical efficiency of intensive and extensive dairy farms in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Poland over the period 2015–2022, using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) combined with a meta-frontier framework that explicitly accounts for technological heterogeneity across production systems.
Because the competition became complex and the company's uncertainty became apparent, agility and resilience are now a mandatory strategic capability for organizations seeking long-term competitive advantage in global markets. The objective of this paper is therefore to assess and rank the key Industry 4.0 technologies against their contribution to agility and resilience of the business models with special focus in EU.
Climate change and agriculture are closely interrelated as the environment affects agribusiness. The lat
ter is related to food security and Sustainable Development Goals. Therefore, this paper establishes the
research framework for the climate-agribusiness link by embarking on the systematic literature review.
The paper applies the bibliographic and content analysis to identify 91 studies on the relevant topics.
This article analyzes the dynamic function of green human resource management and sustainable marketing practices in shaping organizational environmental performance across the United States. The mediating role of organizational green culture is investigated by comparing its impact across time points. Using a longitudinal approach, this study captures the dynamics of relationships over time. Data were collected from four organizations in the United States over 12 months, in four successive phases, employing hierarchical modeling to account for nested data and time-lagged effects.
European agriculture is becoming more diverse. However, policy and statistical systems still rely on a legacy of simplified farm classifications. These do not reflect newly emerging farming models or their heterogeneity. The Euro2040 profiles address this gap by offering a richer, narrative-based segmentation. They capture differences in motivations, business models and future pathways. However, Euro2040 profiles remain difficult to apply empirically and are not directly observable in standard datasets.
Urbanization is reshaping agriculture in many low- and middle-income countries, but how this process influences
innovation-led agricultural productivity growth remains an open question. This paper studies China’s New-type
Urbanization Pilot Program (NTUP), launched in 2014, which combined rural land tenure reforms, hukou system
adjustments, and targeted infrastructure investment to promote two-way factor flows between cities and villages.
Sustainable rural development is important as the rural areas provide important contributions to both agrifood production and
urban economies. The multi-dimensionality of the issue calls for inclusion of multiple measures (indicators) in the relevant analysis.
This paper embarks on bibliometric analysis to identify the key trends in the measurement of sustainable rural development.
The results suggest that sustainable rural development is related to such issues as economic development, health, demographics,
environmental situation circularity, income, and diversification.