Gianluca Brunori

Gianluca Brunori
University of Pisa | UNIPI · Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (DAFE)

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Introduction
I am full professor of Food Policy and Bioeconomy at Pisa University, department of Agriculture, Food and Environment. My research activities focus on rural development strategies, marketing of local food and sustainability of food systems. I have carried out research in several European projects, in two of them as scientific coordinator. Since 2009 I have been expert for the European Commission for agricultural research policies.
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January 2000 - present
University of Pisa
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Publications (273)
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Context and motivation: End-user development focuses on enabling non-professional programmers to create or extend software applications on their own. However, before beginning the development process, software engineering best practices recommend performing requirements engineering (RE) activities, including requirements modelling. Question/problem...
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In the agri-food sector, traceability is essential to ensure the quality, safety, and transparency of supply chains, where transportation companies are key stakeholders in the overall movement of goods. The multitude of actors involved in supply chains makes it challenging to achieve the above mentioned objectives: each company usually uses its own...
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This work describes the ongoing design and development of the METRIQA platform, hosting the Italian agrifood data space. Both are key components that the Italian National Research Centre for Agricultural Technologies is putting forward in its activities. We present a high-level description of the platform, which is designed to provide web-like acce...
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The United Nations forecast a significant shift in global population distribution by 2050, with rural populations projected to decline. This decline will particularly challenge mountain areas’ cultural heritage, well-being, and economic sustainability. Understanding the economic, environmental, and societal effects of rural population decline is pa...
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The last two decades have witnessed a growing academic debate on labour exploitation, caporalato, organised crime, and migration issues in agriculture, which, as wicked problems, are deeply interconnected and resist generalisable solutions. To contribute to this thriving debate from a social innovation lens, we investigate the organising practices...
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Agri-food systems increasingly rely on digital technologies for their governance in a scenario of ecological transition • The IAD framework allows to explore digitalisation strategy of collective actions in farming systems • We identify a network of action situations in the case of the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium, representing its digitalisation...
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Food systems rely on natural resources for production causing their depletion. Sustainability assessment can encourage farms and agri-food companies to improve sustainability performances. Sustainability assessment frameworks and tools differ in their purposes, scope, methods of application, and required time for execution; however, most of them do...
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La présente contribution vise à fournir une vue d’ensemble du rôle attribué à la numérisation dans le cadre de la stratégie « de la ferme à la fourchette » de l’UE. La stratégie représente l’ensemble des instruments que la Commission européenne a identifiés pour parvenir à un système alimentaire durable dans l’Union européenne, et le rôle attribué...
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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 busin...
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This paper offers a comprehensive critical review on digitalisation in rural areas, drawing on international and EU policies, scientific and grey literature and real-life examples from two European H2020 research projects. In doing so, it aims at providing a basic conceptual framework encompassing three main intervention areas, with relative sub-th...
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Despite being acknowledged as one of the healthiest diets in the world, there has been a shift away from the Mediterranean Diet (MD) pattern observed recently in the Mediterranean countries. This has undesirable consequences for health, but also for social, cultural, economic and environmental domains in the Mediterranean area. The Med Diet 4.0 fra...
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The paper presents the Story Map Building and Visualizing Tool (SMBVT) that allows users to create story maps within a collaborative environment and a usable Web interface. It is entirely open-source and published as a free-to-use solution. It uses Semantic Web technologies in the back-end system to represent stories through a reference ontology fo...
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(Please, note that the contribution is a long abstract, pp. 171-173) Blockchain technology (BCT) ensures trust and transparency along the food supply chain (FSC). It helps to develop the digitisation of rural businesses and accelerate the transition toward a circular economy in the agricultural sector (Pakseresht et al., 2022). However, to foster...
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Precise and reliable identification of riparian vegetation along rivers is of paramount importance for managing bodies, enabling them to accurately plan key duties, such as the design of river maintenance interventions. Nonetheless, manual mapping is significantly expensive in terms of time and human costs, especially when authorities have to manag...
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With growing concern for the unsustainability of food systems, the international research community has turned its attention to small farms as key actors to potentially face the global food crisis. This study aims to support a policy design that values the diversity of small farms business models vis‐à‐vis environmental, economic, social, and insti...
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This paper addresses Pengembangan Usaha Pangan Masyarakat (PUPM) program implementation and its contribution to local food security. Based on a qualitative method analysis derives from a farmer, a chief of farmer group, an agricultural extension worker, and management of Toko Tani Indonesia (TTI), this research sheds light on the TTI activity, the...
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Designing systems that account for sustainability concerns demands for a better understanding of the \textit{impact} that digital technology interventions can have on a certain socio-technical context. However, limited studies are available about the elicitation of impact-related information from stakeholders, and strategies are particularly needed...
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Mountain areas have been the testbed for sustainable development models focused on balancing their vulnerability and the value of their natural, cultural, and social resources. In these areas, the continuous adaptative interaction between bio-geophysical and socio-cultural processes assembles Socio-Ecological Systems (SES) characterized by a great...
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Agriculture needs to be fundamentally transformed to be able to live up to and achieve Sustainable Development Goals and thereby improve its contribution to human well-being, as its outputs recently crossed global and European planetary boundaries. Reducing the use of agrochemicals by 75–86%, restoring 2/3 of the land to biodiversity rich habitats...
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This paper addresses a general description of small family farms in Indonesia. Building on a literature review, it sheds light on the significant role of small family farms in Sustainable Development Goals, family farms in Indonesia and their challenges, as well as on the impact of investments oriented to farmers for food security. The reviews indi...
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In this paper some of the key issues related to digitalisation in agriculture and rural areas are addressed. In line with the Green Deal, the paper proposes a framework on how to address the “twin transition” (ecological+digital) through transformative policies based on directionality, market integration and reflexivity. The framework is based on a...
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CONTEXT It is still an open question how to assess the contribution of digitalisation in agriculture to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, and how digitalisation then can be done in a responsible way. A socio-cyber-physical system (SCPS) concept can help this analysis, but little experience exists with its operationalisation and app...
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This study aimed to analyze whether the formation of the "˜Cacau Sul Bahia' Network promoted social innovation in southern Bahia, Brazil. Data were collected through participant observation, document analysis, and semi-structured interviews with 8 institutions and 10 cocoa producers who are members of the Cacau Sul Bahia Association (CSBA). Social...
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Illegal logging is a global problem associated with deforestation, climate change, and biodiversity loss with significant negative economic, environmental, and social impacts. In response to this phenomenon, European Union has enacted the European Timber Regulation (EUTR) that imposes economic operators to exercise due diligence thanks to traceabil...
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p>This paper addresses the way microfinance programs affect food security, whic h is compiled based on a literature review of a total of 58 pieces of literature, from 1995 to 2020. Its paper sheds light on microfinance in rural areas in Indonesia, microfinance and food security, and critics related to microfinance programs based on a literature rev...
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Effective interfaces of knowledge and policy are critical for food system transformation. Here, an expert group assembled to explore research needs towards a safe and just food system put forward principles to guide relations between society, science, knowledge, policy and politics.
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SHERPA H2020 Project - Details on the SHERPA MAPs at https://rural-interfaces.eu/maps/italy-tuscany/
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This study analyzes Sekayam subdistrict’s local food system and local food security. Based on an analysis of local food vendor interviews, this research sheds light on the local food system based on five food groups modified from seven food groups of household dietary diversity scale measurement, according to the local condition. The stages of data...
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Context The domain of rural areas, including rural communities, agriculture, and forestry, is going through a process of deep digital transformation. Digitalisation can have positive impacts on sustainability in terms of greater environmental control, and community prosperity. At the same time, it can also have disruptive effects, with the marginal...
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Food systems are evolving to support sustainable food security. In this chapter, we aim at discussing the role that digital technologies play, especially those with the potential to provoke deep changes. The ongoing revolution in this field has given birth to the so-called Agrifood 4.0. Our interest lies also in the impact of digital technologies i...
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[Context] The domain of rural areas, including rural communities, agriculture, and forestry, is going through a process of deep digital transformation. Digitalisation can have positive impacts on sustainability in terms of greater environmental control, and community prosperity. At the same time, it can also have disruptive effects, with the margin...
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This paper addresses the implementation of the Kawasan Mandiri Pangan (KMP) program, a microfinance program for farmer groups, assessing whether the program affects farmers’ decisions concerning production, marketing, and consumption or not, and its impacts on household food security along three dimensions: food availability, food access, and food...
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The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has generated a health crisis and repetitive lockdowns that disrupted different economic and societal segments. As the world has placed hope on the vaccination progress to bring back the socio-economic “normal,” this article explores how the bioeconomy can enhance the resilience and sustainability of bio-based, f...
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The anticipated failure of many countries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 necessitates the assessment of science–policy engagement mechanisms for food systems transformation. We explore options for enhancing existing partnerships, mandates and resources — or reimagining a new mission — for science–policy interfaces.
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European small-scale fisheries are confronted with several challenges, notably a decrease in the number of people engaged in capture fishing, growing competition from less expensive extra-EU markets, rising operational costs, strict regulations and the depletion of fishing stocks. Many small-scale fishers must adapt to change to maintain or increas...
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This work addresses the implementation of the Kawasan Mandiri Pangan (KMP) programme as amicrofinance programme for farmer groups, whether the programme affects farmers' decisions of production,marketing, and consumption or not, and its impacts on household food security along three dimensions: foodavailability, food access, and food utilisation. B...
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This work addresses PUPM programme implementation and its contribution to local food security. Based on aqualitative method analysis derives from the farmer, agricultural extension worker, and management of TokoTani Indonesia (TTI) interviews, this research sheds light on the local rice farming condition, the efficiency ofTTI in the rice supply cha...
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The 4th Global Food Security conference highlighted four major developments: the shift from food security to food systems; a focus on diets and consumption patterns; the importance of unknown futures and inherent uncertainties and risks; and the central role of multi-level connections between local-and global-oriented research. These shifts highlig...
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This research addresses the interaction between small family farms and middleman and its relation to food security. Based on a qualitative method analysis derives from farmer and intermediaries interviews, this research sheds light on four types of middleman in this area: conventional middleman, rice middleman, banana middleman, and rubber middlema...
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COVID-19 has triggered an unprecedented global crisis, the increasing recessions in many countries and related trade uncertainties are affecting the whole wine sector, from production to distribution, sales, and consumption. While the full recovery is still uncertain, and even worse scenarios are possible if it takes longer to bring back trust and...
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Digital technologies are often seen as an opportunity to enable sustainable futures in agriculture and rural areas. However, this digital transformation process is not inherently good as it impacts on many aspects (e.g. economic, environmental, social, technological, institutional) and their relations. The responsible research and innovation approa...
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Recently, the interpretation of the innovation process has changed significantly. Its linear model has evolved to a dynamic and ongoing participatory approach where cooperation, oriented to generate co-ownership, is the essence to co-produce knowledge among multiple actors. Farmers’ direct participation in the process is widely accepted since they...
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The literature about digitalization in agriculture and rural areas is vast and sectorial at the same time. Both international political institutions and practitioners are interested in promoting digital technology, indicating and describing potential benefits and risks. Meanwhile, academics analyze the actual and possible impacts of digital technol...
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Existing research suggests that regions can develop their long-term competitive advantage through well-functioning interregional innovation cooperation. In this article, we use the example of innovation in small and medium-sized agri-food enterprises (SMEs) to scrutinise and compare regional innovation approaches on each side of the Dutch-German bo...
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Three key transitions leading to a “safe and just” operating space, with a focus on food systems, emerged during the development of a Foresight study promoted by SCAR (Standing Committee on Agricultural Research1): (a) sustainable and healthy diets for all; (b) full circularity in the use of resources; (c) diversity as a key component of stable sys...
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This document is a contribution of the EU-funded project DESIRA to the debate on the ‘Long-term vision for rural areas’ (LTVRA), offering a multi-actor research and innovation-based perspective and evidence. We focus on a question, ‘How can digitalisation shape and influence the future of rural areas in 2040?’ in terms of its impact on rural areas/...
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Social innovation and high-quality agricultural systems are important for rural development. However, there is little information on methods for measuring the process and outcome of social innovation, particularly at the regional level. This study aimed to answer the research question: Which social innovation metrics can be applied to analyze rural...
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This paper is the outcome of a reflection on the MIP report 2020, a collection of information and data used to describe the scenario on youth innovation and entrepreneurship in agrifood sector in Mediterranean countries. In particular, it highlights the need to study innovation in Mediterranean regions under the lens of social and institutional inn...
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Small family farms have been defined in many ways, from farmland holder threshold to many other factors such as labor, asset, and resource. They are key for maintaining nutritional diversity with higher land productivity and diversity of production. They contribute to addressing key challenges related to equity, poverty, and employment, such as bet...
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The 'Piana del Cibo' is the project through which five municipalities within the Lucca Plain (Capannori, Lucca, Altopascio, Porcari and Villa Basilica) have committed to sharing the development of a food policy with the local community. In this area, which has long been rich in terms of initiatives and projects on sustainable food practices, the pa...
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The sharing of farm data is a delicate topic, not only for farmers but also for agtech businesses and researchers. In order to find out how farmers, researchers agtech companies envision the data sharing future, including the conditions for their trust in data sharing, we organized a series of focus groups involving farmers, tech-providers and rese...
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This study is a systematic review of literature on the impact of international migration on rural areas. We examined this impact on six rural welfare indicators, including labour, livelihood activities, income, food security, land use, and rural development. We selected 44 papers from a pool of 1544 articles published from 2007 to 2018. We found th...
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Despite a longstanding literature on small farm-households, there is limited consideration of small farms’ role in food and nutrition security (FNS) at territorial level. The purpose of this study is to provide insights about how small farms contribute to FNS at different territorial scales, by focusing on farmers' strategies and consequential FNS...