Paolo Prosperi

• PhD
• Lecturer at Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier

The stark observation of the co-existence of undernourishment, nutrient deficiencies and overweight and obesity, the triple burden of malnutrition, is inviting us to reconsider health and nutrition as the primary goal and final endpoint of food systems. Agriculture and the food industry have made remarkable advances in the past decades. However, th...

According to the concept of sustainable development, available natural resources are limited and disproportionately exploited. The growing depletion of these resources is leading to intergenerational disparities, as it systematically deprives future generations of a standard of living even remotely comparable to the current one. Sustainability is a...

Smallholder farmers, who mostly engage in low-value agriculture in the drylands of Northern Africa, were the first to have felt the effects of climate change, with threats to their livelihoods and food security. The increasing costs of agricultural production, poor water and energy infrastructure, loss of agricultural land due to urban expansion, f...

European policies and research programmes are encouraging innovation development for small farms in terms of new business and organisational models - including the application of digital technologies - in supply chains providing sustainable production and consumption of healthy and nutritious foods. In the PRIMA-funded “Med-Links” project, we co-cr...

Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate consumer preferences and profile their food-related lifestyles, as well as to identify consumer groups with similar attitudes/behaviours in the Euro-Mediterranean fruit and vegetable market. Design/methodology/approach A structured questionnaire was designed drawing from the food related lifestyles...

In this paper, we review and discuss the factors that affect consumer preferences and attitudes towards fruit. The objective is to provide a theoretical framework for an empirical study to identify the factors influencing the Moroccan consumer's purchase decision of the "Midelt" apple produced by farms in the Draa-Tafilalet region. A survey was con...

In this paper, we review and discuss the factors that affect consumer preferences and attitudes towards fruit. The objective is to provide a theoretical framework for an empirical study to identify the factors influencing the Moroccan consumer's purchase decision of the "Midelt" apple produced by farms in the Draa-Tafilalet region. A survey was con...

Fruit and vegetables play a crucial role in ensuring food and nutrition security, and developing more sustainable value chains in agriculture and the agri-food sector. To support a greater supply of fruit and vegetables, small farmers’ production is fundamental and needs to be integrated into stable value chains to maintain market, logistics and qu...

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...

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...

Globalization of food chains and scale increases in business models are dramatically affecting rural areas in Europe, by a simplification of land use, new urban-rural relations and reshaped social networks. While pressures on land use systems have been increasing due to the competition on commodity markets, the role of territorially embedded produc...

Green public procurement (GPP) schemes emerged as environmentally responsible public procurement systems. However, despite the increasing interest in the topic, little is known about how these schemes create value and what types that value encompasses. In the present study, concentrating on the GPP of agrifood products in France, we aim to address...

Inspiring sustainable diets and cultivating diets that are inspiring are the ambitious endeavours of this collection. This introductory chapter lays out a framework for sustainable diets and the complex issues, diversity of stakeholders, and diversity of levels of privilege (or the obvious, and not so obvious, ways injustices intersect with food sy...

This handbook presents a must-read, comprehensive and state of the art overview of sustainable diets, an issue critical to the environment and the health and well-being of society. Sustainable diets seek to minimise and mitigate the significant negative impact food production has on the environment. Simultaneously they aim to address worrying heal...

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...

This paper presents the cross-regional comparative analysis of a participatory scenario planning exercise conducted in 13 regions of 13 countries in both Europe and Africa as part of the H2020 research project SALSA “Small farms, small food business and sustainable food security”. The objective of the analysis is threefold: (i) to better understand...

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...

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...

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...

For small farms across Europe, connecting to small food businesses offers a significant route to market. We analyse survey data from 85 small food businesses in nine European regions and explore the enabling and limiting conditions around this connectivity. We show how connectivity depends on context-based interrelationships among food system actor...

This study aims to identify the various forms of integration of olive-oil-producing small farms (OSFs) into food systems in four Southern European regions, as well as to identify the most beneficial strategies of integration. Drawing on data from the SALSA Project, the study has found that besides self-provision, OSFs are engaged in multiple types...

Abstract Increasing fish consumption along with rising competition in the global seafood market has brought fisheries and aquaculture producers to adopt several differentiation and marketing strategies. Labelling schemes were thus introduced to respond to a growing demand for traceable and sustainable products. However, the proliferation of quality...

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...

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...

The importance of small farms is well established and recognized in developing countries, but far less is known about their role in Europe, where agriculture is largely industrialized. In this paper we use a comparative analysis of evidence from 15 European countries to assess the contribution of small farms to regional food production and availabi...

The capacity of the food system to respond to the economic, demographic and environmental challenges ahead has become a topic of increasing interest, with particular attention to the roles and responsibilities of the different actors to ensure more sustainable food systems that can guarantee food and nutrition security for all. In this paper we app...

In view of climate change, mass migration and resource scarcity, cities have started to interrogate themselves about the capacity to cope with future catastrophes. It is now clear that the way to cope with them cannot be found without a careful study of urban–rural links. An improved understanding of those interconnections would also contribute to...

A new food policy coherent with the goal of achieving sustainable food systems implies changing visions and radically revising the understanding of the system on which agricultural and food-related policies act. This paper identifies and discusses policy processes that contribute to sustainable food systems in Europe. Based on a conceptual framewor...

This work was supported by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation (Grant Number: 00030240) and CGIAR Research Programme Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

2019): Small farms' strategies between self-provision and socioeconomic integration: effects on food system capacity to provide food and nutrition security, Local Environment, ABSTRACT Small farms' contribution to food and nutrition security (FNS) is widely acknowledged; however, the diversity of context-specific characteristics of small farms is s...

In a traditional wine region such as Tuscany (Italy), the wine production is perceived by several industry players as weak and fragmented because it is mainly managed by small and medium-sized wineries that have limited market power compared to large companies and distributors. In this paper, we hypothesise that this problem was influenced - in a p...

Recurrent food crises and global environmental change are critical issues that pushed food security and sustainability to the top of the policy agenda. Policy-makers need assessment tools that help them decide what actions they should take to achieve these goals. This paper proposes a new metric system assessing the sustainability of food systems a...

This paper presents an analysis of the diversification and non-productivist practices and strategies deployed by European small-scale fishers vis-à-vis contextual regulatory and market factors. Building on resilience thinking – combined with a qualitative case study approach involving primary producers and associated stakeholders – the strategies o...

By adopting a food system approach, this study aims at examining the contribution of olive oil producing small farms (OSFs) to regional food systems, through the identification of the value chains in which OSFs are integrated, and the diversity of power structures across these chains. Drawing on data from the ongoing EU H2020 project 'SALSA', a com...

The purpose of this research is to understand how the evolution linked to the spread of wine certification schemes can influence the sustainability of isolated and limited wine producing regions. Specifically, the path of wine sustainability is analysed by comparing two production systems belonging to two islands of the Mediterranean region, such a...

The development of values-based supply chains for fish and fish products from fisheries and aquaculture is a strategy to add value to the fish. This benefit refers to the double meaning of 'value'; premium prices for high-value products and at the same time, the incorporation of environmental, social, cultural or ethical values based on a sustainab...

The development of values-based supply chains for fish and fish products from fisheries and aquaculture is a strategy to add value to the fish. This benefit refers to the double meaning of 'value'; premium prices for high-value products and at the same time, the incorporation of environmental, social, cultural or ethical values based on a sustainab...

The common acknowledgment of the coexistence of undernourishment, nutrient deficiencies and overweight and obesity - the triple burden of malnutrition (Pinstrup-Andersen, 2006) – is calling for an improved reflection on health and nutrition as primary goals of food systems. Agriculture and the food industry have made extraordinary improvements in t...

The hypothesis that a controlled environmental condition of postharvest partial dehydration of wine grapes may reduce berry water stress keeping a better grape quality, was verified on white wine grapes, var. ‘Pecorino’. Grapes were harvested at 21.5% solid soluble content (SSC) and kept at 15 °C, 60% relative humidity (RH), and 2.5 m s⁻¹ or 1.2 m...

The research aims to understand wine’s marketing strategy in Tuscany and determinants of diversification or specialization of marketing channels.

The latest FAO estimates indicate that approximately 800 million people are chronically undernour- ished worldwide (FAO, 2015). Concurrently, more than 2 billion people are affected by malnourishment related to unhealthy food consumption and dietary trends, which is re ected in the spread of food-related diseases like obesity and nutrient de ciency...

The latest FAO estimates indicate that approximately 800 million people are chronically undernour- ished worldwide (FAO, 2015). Concurrently, more than 2 billion people are affected by malnourishment related to unhealthy food consumption and dietary trends, which is re ected in the spread of food-related diseases like obesity and nutrient de ciency...

Coastal capture fisheries and aquaculture are interconnected resource systems and economic activities, presenting evolving and complex dynamics, constrained by several socio-economic, policy and biophysical factors. Overfishing and climate change are modifying the distribution and productivity of marine species and altering food webs. The general e...

The processes underlying environmental, economic, and social unsustainability derive in part from the food system. Building sustainable food systems has become a predominating endeavor aiming to redirect our food systems and policies towards better-adjusted goals and improved societal welfare. Food systems are complex social-ecological systems invo...

Food and nutrition security is a persisting global issue and, in addition, food systems are now facing a new set of intersecting economic, social and environmental challenges. Recurrent socio-economic and biophysical changes put the sustainability of food systems at risk. There is an urgent need to develop knowledge-based tools to assess and monito...

Recurrent food crises and global change are critical issues that pushed food security and environmental sustainability to the top of the political agenda. Using the lens of a broad sustainability approach and recognizing the systemic dimension of sustainability, the thesis developed a multidimensional framework to identify metrics for assessing the...

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Recurrent food crises and global change are critical issues that pushed food security and environmental sustainability to the top of the political agenda. Using the lens of a broad sustainability approach and recognizing the systemic dimension of sustainability, the thesis developed a multidimensional framework to identify metrics for assessing the...

The Metrics of Sustainable Diets and Food Systems project is a multi-institutional initiative realized in partnership by Bioversity International and CIHEAM-Montpellier (2013-2014) that aims at exploring the different approaches to the assessment of sustainability of diets and food systems, establishing a multidisciplinary taskforce of experts and...

Recurrent food crises and climate change, along with habitat loss and micronutrient deficiencies, are global issues of critical importance that have pushed food security and environmental sustainability to the top of the political agenda. Analyses of the dynamic linkages between food consumption patterns and environmental concerns have recently rec...

Sustainable Food Security and Sustainable Diets are widely acknowledged and studied by the international community. The links between food regimes of populations and the environmental and socioeconomic issues concerning individuals, countries and geographical areas, are nowadays recognized and proved. Nevertheless, identifying metrics for a multidi...

Recurrent food crises and climate change, along with habitat loss and pollution, have put food security and environmental sustainability at the top of the political agenda. Analyses of the dynamic linkages between food consumption patterns and environmental concerns have recently received considerable attention from the international and scientific...

Poverty of peoples is a crucial concern in development as in research questions. Measures of poverty represent a key issue in implementing politics towards resolution of deprivation conditions. In the last 40 years we assisted at two main approaches. The traditional income-consumption based studies (one-dimensional) and the Sen’s capabilities-funct...

Poverty of peoples is a crucial concern in development as in research questions. Measures of poverty represent a key issue in implementing politics towards resolution of deprivation conditions. In the last 40 years we assisted at two main approaches. The traditional income-consumption based studies (one-dimensional) and the Sen’s capabilities-funct...