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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.
Authors:dr. Fabio Gaetano SanteramoIERDJoana Morgado Lerato Phali
This research aims to unravel the complex psychological, organizational, and environmental factors that underpin employee environmentally friendly behavior and sustainable marketing performance in the U.S. fertilizer sector. It examines a fully moderated serial mediation model in which employee environmental consciousness and organizational green culture serve as primary antecedents, with employee green commitment and green innovation as mediators.
Authors:dr. Justas ŠtreimikisIERDRana Salman Anwar Rizwan Raheem Ahmed Dalia Štreimikienė
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.
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.
Authors: Artūras LakisIERDdr. Tomas BaležentisIERDGiulio Paolo Agnusdei
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.
Authors:dr. Justas ŠtreimikisIERDRizwan Raheem Ahmed Rana Salman Anwar Dalia Štreimikienė
This research discusses the contributions of AI-enabled talent acquisition and sustainable entrepreneurial orientation to the strategic drivers of sustainable business performance, with a focus on the mediating effect of environmental innovation capability and sustainable human capital agility, and the moderating effect of environmental uncertainty. The study is based on sustainability strategy, dynamic capabilities, and contingency theory, as well as on digital HRM and entrepreneurial behaviors as centralized processes that enable SMEs to develop environmentally responsible and resilient business outcomes.
Authors:dr. Justas ŠtreimikisIERDRizwan Raheem Ahmed Rana Salman Anwar Dalia Štreimikienė
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.
Authors:dr. Artiom VolkovIERDdr. Agnė ŽičkienėIERDdr. Mangirdas MorkūnasIERDdr. Elzė RudienėIERD
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.
Authors:dr. Tomas BaležentisIERD Tianxiang Li Zhiyang Shen Zhiyang Shen