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.
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.
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.
Sustainable rural development is important as the rural areas provide important contributions to both agrifood production and
urban economies. The multi-dimensionality of the issue calls for inclusion of multiple measures (indicators) in the relevant analysis.
This paper embarks on bibliometric analysis to identify the key trends in the measurement of sustainable rural development.
The results suggest that sustainable rural development is related to such issues as economic development, health, demographics,
environmental situation circularity, income, and diversification.
Trail-related tourism (TRT) is a significant aspect of nature-based tourism (NBT), with strong potential to
stimulate rural economies. However, little is known about how trail-related sectors contribute to local development
or how benefits are retained within rural communities. This study employs bibliometric analysis, systematic
mapping, and qualitative synthesis to analyze publications from 1994 to 2024, identifying key factors in
rural economic empowerment through TRT.
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Global disruptions increasingly shape the resilience and sustainability of national energy systems, a concern made even more
urgent by the current Middle East energy crisis, which has intensified supply insecurity and price volatility in global and European
energy markets. This study examines how three major shocks—the 2009 global financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic,
and the 2022 Russia–Ukraine war and subsequent energy-price shock -affected the Lithuanian energy sector.
The automotive industry, as one of the most prominent and impactful industrial sectors worldwide, plays a critical role in shaping economic development and societal lifestyles. Enhancing the sustainability of production and operational processes is therefore essential for improving overall supply chain performance. In recent years, sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) has attracted growing attention among Iranian automobile manufacturers. While prior studies have highlighted the importance of sustainability considerations in supplier selection, comprehensive investigations addressing the key determinants of SSCM across the Iranian automotive sector remain limited. Accordingly, this study aims to identify the most influential factors affecting sustainable supply chain management in Iranian automobile industries.
This study aims to systematically review circular and resource-efficient environmental
management innovations in higher education institutions and to develop an integrated framework explaining
how such innovations can be institutionally embedded and scaled across campus operations. Higher education
institutions (HEIs) are increasingly expected to operationalise circular economy (CE) principles through
campus environmental management; however, the available evidence remains fragmented and weakly linked
to institutional scaling pathways.