Resilient and Sustainable Farming Systems in Europe

Miranda Meuwissen is Professor of Risk Management and Resilience in Food Supply Chains in the Business Economics group at Wageningen University. Peter Feindt is Professor of Agricultural and Food Policy at the Thaer Institute for Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Alberto Garrido is Professor of Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics and Vice-Rector of Quality and Efficiency at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Erik Mathijs is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at KU Leuven. Bárbara Soriano is Assistant Professor in Agricultural Economics at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Julie Urquhart is Associate Professor in Environmental Social Science at the Countryside & Community Research Institute, University of Gloucestershire. Alisa Spiegel is a postdoc in the Business Economics Group at Wageningen University.

• 1. SURE-Farm approach to assess the resilience of European farming systems; 2. The importance of improving and enlarging the scope of risk management to enhance resilience in European agriculture; 3. Demographic dimensions of resilient farming systems in the EU; 4. Policies and farming system resilience: a bottom-up analysis; 5. Constrained sustainability and resilience of agricultural practices from multiple lock-in factors and possible pathways to tackle them: an assessment of three European farming systems; 6. Resilience of dairy farming in Flanders: past, current and future; 7. Resilience-enhancing strategies to meet future challenges. The case of arable farming in Northeast Bulgaria; 8. Historical legacies and current challenges for future resilience of the farming system in the Altmark; 9. Opportunities to improve the resilience of extensive sheep farming in Huesca (Spain); 10. Thinking outside the box in the Bourbonnais: transforming the value chain and conserving the landscape; 11. The resilience of a farming system at crossroads between intensification and environmental sustainability: the hazelnut case in Viterbo (Italy); 12. Realising transformation in response to future challenges. The case of an intensive arable farming system in the Veenkoloniën, the Netherlands; 13. Accelerated adaptability in pursuit of future alternative systems: the case of family, fruit and vegetable farming system in Central-Eastern Poland; 14. Towards a better understanding of small farming system resilience in Romania; 15. Adaptability of the high-value egg and broiler production in Sweden; 16. Managing risks to improve the resilience of arable farming in the East of England; 17. Integrated assessment of the sustainability and resilience of farming systems: lessons from the past and ways forward for the future; 18. A resilience-enabling environment for farming systems: patterns and principles; 19. Lessons learned on resilience from a multi-scale co-creation methodology: From regional to European scale; 20. Understanding and addressing the resilience crisis of Europe's farming systems. A synthesis of the findings from the SURE-Farm project.

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