This article presents the newly introduced model for EU policy-making, based on combined ‘bottom-up’ and ‘place-based’ approaches by establishing rural science-society-policy interfaces – Multi-Actor Platforms (MAPs). MAPs are open forums for exchanging relevant ideas in solving region’s most urgent place-based challenges, performing co-learning, and acting as knowledge co-creation platforms for the contribution of creating reflective research and policy agendas for the future of Europe’s rural areas. The main aim of this paper is to explore the challenges and prospects for the determinants of socioeconomic development (i.e., entrepreneurship, social economy, and sustainable and resilient value chains) in rural areas, based on SHERPA science-society-policy interface co-learning and co-creation results in Lithuanian MAP. Research results show that the combined bottom-up and place-based approaches with the help of regional MAPs as science-society-policy rural interfaces hold high potential to be applied to develop reflective research and policy agendas for the regions in the EU.

Challenges and Prospects for the Determinants of Socioeconomic Development in Rural Areas: Evidence from Lithuania

Research in agricultural science has deeply evolved during the past decades, shifting attention from local to global issues, from production functions to market dynamics and equilibrium models, from orthodox economic theories to multidisciplinary frameworks. While evolving, agricultural science has constantly targeted solutions to feed the world.

Research in agriculture and food security: retrospects and prospects.

While economic growth in a country can be spurred by the expansion of the transportation sector,
traffic accidents resulting from an increase in vehicle numbers negatively impact social wellbeing.
To integrate both the benefits and costs in evaluating the transportation sector, this study  incorporates traffic accidents as a risk factor (undesirable output) in analyzing the performance of
road transportation across Chinese provinces.

Transport development performance with hazard-inducing variables: A frontier-based shadow pricing approach

Mediterranean agroecosystems are under increasing pressures by extreme weather events, which together with poor livestock grazing management bring the already degraded lands closer to desertification. To address these challenges, we develop a decision support manual for sustainable management of degraded lands based on local plant and animal resources. 

Restoring grazing agroecosystems in Mediterranean less favoured areas for resilience and productivity: experts opinion

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Low-carbon transition is a shift from an economy that depends heavily on fossil fuels to a sustainable, low-carbon energy economy. This book analyzes the role of renewables in driving the low-carbon transition in agriculture, explores the circular bio-based economy, and examines policies and strategies designed to facilitate low-carbon transition in agriculture, greenhouse gas mitigation, and adaptation trends in the European Union agriculture sector. It provides new knowledge and understanding about the impact of low-carbon energy transition, emphasizes the key role of renewable energy in a wide range of agricultural activities, and offers alternative sustainable solutions to current practices.

Low Carbon Transition Sustainable Agriculture in the European Union

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he book aims to contribute to the scarce literature on the role of servitization in farming and rural development. It offers a conceptual and empirical understanding of the ways of servitization in agriculture and rural development, examined through the prism of an evolutionary approach based on the theory of qualitative structure. The method of qualitative structure explains why and how a switch from product-oriented business logic to service-oriented business logic happens and helps to find many new insights useful for improving farm management and socio-economic development of rural regions. It combines a systematic and evolutionary analysis of literature on servitization and agricultural production strategies with case studies of farming and territorial servitization projects implemented in Lithuania. It will be of great interest to researchers and students in the field of rural development studies, servitization and business model innovation.

Rural Transformation through Servitization: A Qualitative Structure Approach

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Building the foundations for interdisciplinary collaboration in health economics

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Second ESIRA project meeting in Budapest 

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The European network of Living Labs promotes systemic change focused on real impact through open innovation and soci(et)al engagement

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Innovative solutions for the development of new food products and culinary tourism services for rural food producers have already been presented in several Lithuanian regions

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BASCIL Project Partner Meeting in Tartu, Estonia

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International Scientific Conference of the European Rural Development Network held in Vilnius

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