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Dr. Francesca Galli
Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Via del Borghetto 80, 56124, Pisa, Italy

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Journal article
Published: 11 May 2021 in Land
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This article focuses on the question of how a shift from a narrow economic perspective to a wider sustainable wellbeing focus in regional development strategies and actions might change rural–urban relations. A brief review of relevant research and discourses about economic development models provides the foundation for the analysis. The review leads to the development of an analytical framework that puts the notion of sustainable wellbeing at its center. The criteria included in the analytical framework are then used to assess the current situation, challenges and perceived ways forward based on data and analyses from 11 European regions. The focus of the analysis is on different expressions of a sustainable wellbeing economy, and aspects of territorial development that are consistent with the basic features of a wellbeing economy are identified. Development dynamics and tensions between different development goals and resource uses, strategies and actions that are in favor of sustainable wellbeing goals, and conditions for more mutually beneficial rural–urban relationships are discussed. The article concludes with the implications for local government, and governance and policy frameworks. Reference is made to current high-level strategic policy frameworks and the European Green Deal.

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Karlheinz Knickel; Alexandra Almeida; Francesca Galli; Kerstin Hausegger-Nestelberger; Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins; Mojca Hrabar; Daniel Keech; Marina Knickel; Olli Lehtonen; Damian Maye; Irune Ruiz-Martinez; Sandra Šūmane; Hans Vulto; Johannes Wiskerke. Transitioning towards a Sustainable Wellbeing Economy—Implications for Rural–Urban Relations. Land 2021, 10, 512 .

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Karlheinz Knickel, Alexandra Almeida, Francesca Galli, Kerstin Hausegger-Nestelberger, Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins, Mojca Hrabar, Daniel Keech, Marina Knickel, Olli Lehtonen, Damian Maye, Irune Ruiz-Martinez, Sandra Šūmane, Hans Vulto, Johannes Wiskerke. Transitioning towards a Sustainable Wellbeing Economy—Implications for Rural–Urban Relations. Land. 2021; 10 (5):512.

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Karlheinz Knickel; Alexandra Almeida; Francesca Galli; Kerstin Hausegger-Nestelberger; Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins; Mojca Hrabar; Daniel Keech; Marina Knickel; Olli Lehtonen; Damian Maye; Irune Ruiz-Martinez; Sandra Šūmane; Hans Vulto; Johannes Wiskerke. 2021. "Transitioning towards a Sustainable Wellbeing Economy—Implications for Rural–Urban Relations." Land 10, no. 5: 512.

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Published: 31 March 2021 in Global Food Security
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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 actors and consider the effects of these relations on small farm integration. Results show stronger connections when small food businesses are themselves farm-based. Weaker linkages are also apparent in the absence of public and social support. We argue that regional food systems can be enhanced by increasing small food businesses’ capacity to source from small farms, with the added benefit of increasing the viability of these small businesses.

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Paola A. Hernández; Francesca Galli; Paolo Prosperi; Sandra Šūmane; Dominic Duckett; Henrik Eli Almaas. Do small food businesses enable small farms to connect to regional food systems? Evidence from 9 European regions. Global Food Security 2021, 29, 100505 .

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Paola A. Hernández, Francesca Galli, Paolo Prosperi, Sandra Šūmane, Dominic Duckett, Henrik Eli Almaas. Do small food businesses enable small farms to connect to regional food systems? Evidence from 9 European regions. Global Food Security. 2021; 29 ():100505.

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Paola A. Hernández; Francesca Galli; Paolo Prosperi; Sandra Šūmane; Dominic Duckett; Henrik Eli Almaas. 2021. "Do small food businesses enable small farms to connect to regional food systems? Evidence from 9 European regions." Global Food Security 29, no. : 100505.

Journal article
Published: 06 February 2021 in Global Food Security
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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 of integration, including reciprocity relations as well as relations with informal and formal markets. Multiple strategies with synergistic effects co-exist at the farm/farm household level. However, specific territorial resources are partially mobilized by actors’ strategies; consequently, olive oil identities are valorized on the market to some extent, but less so through positive externalities. Therefore, the unrealized potential of localization of food systems in which OSFs operate is identified.

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Pavlos Karanikolas; Victor Martinez-Gomez; Francesca Galli; Paolo Prosperi; Paola A. Hernández; Laura Arnalte-Mur; Maria Rivera; Giannis Goussios; Laura Fastelli; Elpiniki Oikonomopoulou; Ana Fonseca. Food system integration of olive-oil-producing small farms in Southern Europe. Global Food Security 2021, 28, 100499 .

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Pavlos Karanikolas, Victor Martinez-Gomez, Francesca Galli, Paolo Prosperi, Paola A. Hernández, Laura Arnalte-Mur, Maria Rivera, Giannis Goussios, Laura Fastelli, Elpiniki Oikonomopoulou, Ana Fonseca. Food system integration of olive-oil-producing small farms in Southern Europe. Global Food Security. 2021; 28 ():100499.

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Pavlos Karanikolas; Victor Martinez-Gomez; Francesca Galli; Paolo Prosperi; Paola A. Hernández; Laura Arnalte-Mur; Maria Rivera; Giannis Goussios; Laura Fastelli; Elpiniki Oikonomopoulou; Ana Fonseca. 2021. "Food system integration of olive-oil-producing small farms in Southern Europe." Global Food Security 28, no. : 100499.

Journal article
Published: 17 December 2020 in Global Food Security
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Small farms dominate the European agricultural landscape, but they are much less represented in agricultural decision-making structures than larger farms. The weak political representation of small farms diminishes the degree to which their needs are addressed in public agricultural policies and support measures. This underrepresentation has been constraining small farms' contribution to food and nutrition security and sustainability. This paper explores the science – policy interface as boundary networks between researchers and policy-makers, to generate policies that are better-informed and better tailored to small farms' situations. It gathers researchers' experiences, from the Horizon 2020 project SALSA, through a range of project-generated activities and knowledge, of their engagement in the policy process. From the case studies analyzed, three types of SPI emerge: expert advice, networking platform and collaborative governance. Cooperation between researchers and policy-makers, that is often embedded in broader stakeholders’ networks, generate three kinds of contributions: better-informed policy process; increased social capital and empowerment of participants; and improved participant knowledge and skills.

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Sandra Šūmane; Dionisio Ortiz Miranda; Teresa Pinto-Correia; Marta Czekaj; Dominic Duckett; Francesca Galli; Mikelis Grivins; Christina Noble; Talis Tisenkopfs; Irina Toma; Theodore Tsiligiridis. Supporting the role of small farms in the European regional food systems: What role for the science-policy interface? Global Food Security 2020, 28, 100433 .

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Sandra Šūmane, Dionisio Ortiz Miranda, Teresa Pinto-Correia, Marta Czekaj, Dominic Duckett, Francesca Galli, Mikelis Grivins, Christina Noble, Talis Tisenkopfs, Irina Toma, Theodore Tsiligiridis. Supporting the role of small farms in the European regional food systems: What role for the science-policy interface? Global Food Security. 2020; 28 ():100433.

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Sandra Šūmane; Dionisio Ortiz Miranda; Teresa Pinto-Correia; Marta Czekaj; Dominic Duckett; Francesca Galli; Mikelis Grivins; Christina Noble; Talis Tisenkopfs; Irina Toma; Theodore Tsiligiridis. 2020. "Supporting the role of small farms in the European regional food systems: What role for the science-policy interface?" Global Food Security 28, no. : 100433.

Journal article
Published: 15 September 2020 in Global Food Security
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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 outcomes. Analysis is based on two years (2017–2019) of field work done with farmers and food system actors in SALSA reference regions culminating in a workshop done with research partners. We find that small farms deliver food and nutrition security and other socio-economic and environmental outcomes for the farm-household, at local, regional and global levels. The regional level is shown to be critical for small farms, as it provides the scale at which their diversity is realised. Understanding this diversity is a goal for both research and for effective support mechanisms for small farm integration, and the multiple public and private functions small farms can deliver should be higher on the policy agenda.

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Francesca Galli; Stefano Grando; Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica; Hilde Bjørkhaug; Marta Czekaj; Dominic George Duckett; Henrik Almaas; Pavlos Karanikolas; Olga M. Moreno-Pérez; Dionisio Ortiz-Miranda; Teresa Pinto-Correia; Paolo Prosperi; Mark Redman; María Rivera; Irina Toma; Pedro Sánchez-Zamora; Sandra Šūmane; Katarzyna Żmija; Dariusz Żmija; Gianluca Brunori. How do small farms contribute to food and nutrition security? Linking European small farms, strategies and outcomes in territorial food systems. Global Food Security 2020, 26, 100427 .

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Francesca Galli, Stefano Grando, Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica, Hilde Bjørkhaug, Marta Czekaj, Dominic George Duckett, Henrik Almaas, Pavlos Karanikolas, Olga M. Moreno-Pérez, Dionisio Ortiz-Miranda, Teresa Pinto-Correia, Paolo Prosperi, Mark Redman, María Rivera, Irina Toma, Pedro Sánchez-Zamora, Sandra Šūmane, Katarzyna Żmija, Dariusz Żmija, Gianluca Brunori. How do small farms contribute to food and nutrition security? Linking European small farms, strategies and outcomes in territorial food systems. Global Food Security. 2020; 26 ():100427.

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Francesca Galli; Stefano Grando; Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica; Hilde Bjørkhaug; Marta Czekaj; Dominic George Duckett; Henrik Almaas; Pavlos Karanikolas; Olga M. Moreno-Pérez; Dionisio Ortiz-Miranda; Teresa Pinto-Correia; Paolo Prosperi; Mark Redman; María Rivera; Irina Toma; Pedro Sánchez-Zamora; Sandra Šūmane; Katarzyna Żmija; Dariusz Żmija; Gianluca Brunori. 2020. "How do small farms contribute to food and nutrition security? Linking European small farms, strategies and outcomes in territorial food systems." Global Food Security 26, no. : 100427.

Review article
Published: 28 August 2020 in Global Food Security
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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 approach the need to better understand the factors that can condition the potential contribution of small farms to regional food and nutrition security in Europe, acknowledging the role that small farms play in Europe at present. The analysis is based on a survey to 94 experts from 17 regions (NUTS3 level) in 11 different European countries, which identified the drivers of change according to the regional experts. These drivers were then categorized and their relative relevance assessed. The results indicate that some relevant drivers in the European context are linked to the capacity to adopt technologies and practices allowing adaptation to climate change, and the capacity to connect to food markets, with emphasis in the need for cooperation and collective action. The weight of other more European-specific drivers such as ‘consumer values and habits’ reveal that the future role of small farms will be very dependent on a societal change, with equity becoming a relevant component of consumers’ choice.

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L. Arnalte-Mur; D. Ortiz-Miranda; P. Cerrada-Serra; V. Martinez-Gómez; O. Moreno-Pérez; R. Barbu; H. Bjorkhaug; M. Czekaj; D. Duckett; F. Galli; G. Goussios; M. Grivins; P.A. Hernández; P. Prosperi; Sandra Šūmane. The drivers of change for the contribution of small farms to regional food security in Europe. Global Food Security 2020, 26, 100395 .

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L. Arnalte-Mur, D. Ortiz-Miranda, P. Cerrada-Serra, V. Martinez-Gómez, O. Moreno-Pérez, R. Barbu, H. Bjorkhaug, M. Czekaj, D. Duckett, F. Galli, G. Goussios, M. Grivins, P.A. Hernández, P. Prosperi, Sandra Šūmane. The drivers of change for the contribution of small farms to regional food security in Europe. Global Food Security. 2020; 26 ():100395.

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L. Arnalte-Mur; D. Ortiz-Miranda; P. Cerrada-Serra; V. Martinez-Gómez; O. Moreno-Pérez; R. Barbu; H. Bjorkhaug; M. Czekaj; D. Duckett; F. Galli; G. Goussios; M. Grivins; P.A. Hernández; P. Prosperi; Sandra Šūmane. 2020. "The drivers of change for the contribution of small farms to regional food security in Europe." Global Food Security 26, no. : 100395.

Journal article
Published: 03 August 2020 in Global Food Security
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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 availability, across geographies and products. We collected information about regional (NUTS-3) level production, trade and consumption of 91 products across 25 European regions using official statistics, expert interviews, and farm-level surveys. This information was used to develop product-specific systems maps which were coded and systematised. We then used a Random Forest algorithm to establish which system variables were more likely to explain variation along two dimensions: the contribution of small farms to regional production (i.e. proportion of regional production coming from small farms) and their contribution to regional food availability (i.e. proportion of their production that is consumed within the region). Our results suggest that the contribution of small farms to regional production is closely related to the relative abundance of small farms in the agricultural landscape, while their contribution to regional food availability is driven by structure of specific supply chains and the market linkages available to small farms, and in particular the degree of selfprovisioning and direct sales to consumers. These findings shed light on the relatively unknown word of European small farms, showing their importance in food production and availability, and providing new evidence to inform more effective policy for these often-neglected actors of the food system.

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María Rivera; Alejandro Guarín; Teresa Pinto-Correia; Henrik Almaas; Laura Arnalte Mur; Vanessa Burns; Marta Czekaj; Rowan Ellis; Francesca Galli; Mikelis Grivins; Paola Hernández; Pavlos Karanikolas; Paolo Prosperi; Pedro Sánchez Zamora. Assessing the role of small farms in regional food systems in Europe: Evidence from a comparative study. Global Food Security 2020, 26, 100417 .

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María Rivera, Alejandro Guarín, Teresa Pinto-Correia, Henrik Almaas, Laura Arnalte Mur, Vanessa Burns, Marta Czekaj, Rowan Ellis, Francesca Galli, Mikelis Grivins, Paola Hernández, Pavlos Karanikolas, Paolo Prosperi, Pedro Sánchez Zamora. Assessing the role of small farms in regional food systems in Europe: Evidence from a comparative study. Global Food Security. 2020; 26 ():100417.

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María Rivera; Alejandro Guarín; Teresa Pinto-Correia; Henrik Almaas; Laura Arnalte Mur; Vanessa Burns; Marta Czekaj; Rowan Ellis; Francesca Galli; Mikelis Grivins; Paola Hernández; Pavlos Karanikolas; Paolo Prosperi; Pedro Sánchez Zamora. 2020. "Assessing the role of small farms in regional food systems in Europe: Evidence from a comparative study." Global Food Security 26, no. : 100417.

Review
Published: 30 July 2020 in Toxins
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Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced by some filamentous fungi, which can cause toxicity in animal species, including humans. Because of their high toxicological impacts, mycotoxins have received significant consideration, leading to the definition of strict legislative thresholds and limits in many areas of the world. Mycotoxins can reduce farm profits not only through reduced crop quality and product refusal, but also through a reduction in animal productivity and health. This paper briefly addresses the impacts of mycotoxin contamination of feed and food on animal and human health, and describes the main pre- and post-harvest systems to control their levels, including genetic, agronomic, biological, chemical, and physical methods. It so highlights (i) the lack of effective and straightforward solutions to control mycotoxin contamination in the field, at pre-harvest, as well as later post-harvest; and (ii) the increasing demand for novel methods to control mycotoxin infections, intoxications, and diseases, without leaving toxic chemical residues in the food and feed chain. Thus, the broad objective of the present study was to review the literature on the use of ozone for mycotoxin decontamination, proposing this gaseous air pollutant as a powerful tool to detoxify mycotoxins from feed and food.

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Giuseppe Conte; Marco Fontanelli; Francesca Galli; Lorenzo Cotrozzi; Lorenzo Pagni; Elisa Pellegrini. Mycotoxins in Feed and Food and the Role of Ozone in Their Detoxification and Degradation: An Update. Toxins 2020, 12, 486 .

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Giuseppe Conte, Marco Fontanelli, Francesca Galli, Lorenzo Cotrozzi, Lorenzo Pagni, Elisa Pellegrini. Mycotoxins in Feed and Food and the Role of Ozone in Their Detoxification and Degradation: An Update. Toxins. 2020; 12 (8):486.

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Giuseppe Conte; Marco Fontanelli; Francesca Galli; Lorenzo Cotrozzi; Lorenzo Pagni; Elisa Pellegrini. 2020. "Mycotoxins in Feed and Food and the Role of Ozone in Their Detoxification and Degradation: An Update." Toxins 12, no. 8: 486.

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Published: 03 March 2020 in Food Policy
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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 framework that links the policy cycle approach to transition theories, we (i) assess the evolution of policy cycles of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to highlight how the food and nutrition concepts have evolved and been reframed throughout the five phases of the CAP, (ii) map and classify available policy instruments to assess potential synergies and gaps in view of their reorganization and (iii) indicate and discuss strategic tools for sustainable food policies. This contribution goes beyond the current literature highlighting the obstacles which hinder the transition to a policy regime that embodies the nexus among food and nutrition security, natural capital preservation and climatic and social justice, and proposing new avenues for food policy studies.

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Francesca Galli; Paolo Prosperi; Elena Favilli; Simona D'Amico; Fabio Bartolini; Gianluca Brunori. How can policy processes remove barriers to sustainable food systems in Europe? Contributing to a policy framework for agri-food transitions. Food Policy 2020, 96, 101871 .

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Francesca Galli, Paolo Prosperi, Elena Favilli, Simona D'Amico, Fabio Bartolini, Gianluca Brunori. How can policy processes remove barriers to sustainable food systems in Europe? Contributing to a policy framework for agri-food transitions. Food Policy. 2020; 96 ():101871.

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Francesca Galli; Paolo Prosperi; Elena Favilli; Simona D'Amico; Fabio Bartolini; Gianluca Brunori. 2020. "How can policy processes remove barriers to sustainable food systems in Europe? Contributing to a policy framework for agri-food transitions." Food Policy 96, no. : 101871.

Articles
Published: 09 December 2019 in Local Environment
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Small farms’ contribution to food and nutrition security (FNS) is widely acknowledged; however, the diversity of context-specific characteristics of small farms is still barely documented in terms of farm strategies and household dynamics. The paper analyses this contribution in connection with the strategies related to the destination of the produce, with specific attention to the balance between food self-provisioning and economic integration. The analysis of self-provisioning relies on the assumptions that (i) production and consumption decisions cannot be analysed separately when they are attributed to the same entity and that (ii) family farm strategic choices are influenced by both business outcomes and household'’s welfare. The analysis of economic integration hinges on Polanyi'’s categories of market, reciprocity and redistribution as the three main modes of economic integration of a farm within its environment. We have collected information from a range of farmers in the Lucca province (northern Tuscany, Italy) and key stakeholders, through interviews, focus groups and field visits. The results of our analysis highlight the different ways small farms’ contribution to FNS in relation to each mode of economic integration adopted by the small farms. The different forms of this contribution can be identified at two levels: (i) internal to the farming household and (ii) external (i.e. referred to the community and broader society). A concept of food quality encompassing local sustainability, cultural heritage and social cohesion, is crucial to valorise, through appropriate policies, the specificities of small farms’ contribution to FNS.

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Lucia Palmioli; Stefano Grando; Francesco Di Iacovo; Laura Fastelli; Francesca Galli; Paolo Prosperi; Massimo Rovai; Gianluca Brunori. Small farms’ strategies between self-provision and socio-economic integration: effects on food system capacity to provide food and nutrition security. Local Environment 2019, 25, 43 -56.

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Lucia Palmioli, Stefano Grando, Francesco Di Iacovo, Laura Fastelli, Francesca Galli, Paolo Prosperi, Massimo Rovai, Gianluca Brunori. Small farms’ strategies between self-provision and socio-economic integration: effects on food system capacity to provide food and nutrition security. Local Environment. 2019; 25 (1):43-56.

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Lucia Palmioli; Stefano Grando; Francesco Di Iacovo; Laura Fastelli; Francesca Galli; Paolo Prosperi; Massimo Rovai; Gianluca Brunori. 2019. "Small farms’ strategies between self-provision and socio-economic integration: effects on food system capacity to provide food and nutrition security." Local Environment 25, no. 1: 43-56.

Review
Published: 22 November 2019 in Sustainability
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Scholars in sustainability science as well as research funders increasingly recognize that a shift from disciplinary and interdisciplinary science to transdisciplinary (TD) research is required to address ever more complex sustainability challenges. Evidence shows that addressing real-world societal problems can be best achieved through collaborative research where diverse actors contribute different kinds of knowledge. While the potential benefits of TD research are widely recognized, its implementation remains a challenge. In this article, we develop a framework that supports reflection and co-learning. Our approach fosters monitoring of the collaboration processes, helps to assess the progress made and encourages continuous reflection and improvement of the research processes. The TD co-learning framework has four dimensions and 44 criteria. It is based on a substantial literature review and was tested in a Horizon 2020-funded research project ROBUST, which is applying experimental governance techniques to improve rural-urban relations in eleven European regions. The results demonstrate that the framework covers the key facets of TD collaboration and that all four broad dimensions matter. Each research-practice team reflected on how their collaboration is going and what needs to be improved. Indeed, the coordination team was able to see how well TD collaboration is functioning at a project level. We believe the framework will be valuable for actors involved in the planning and implementation of any type of multi-actor, interactive, innovation, transformation and action-oriented research project.

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Marina Knickel; Karlheinz Knickel; Francesca Galli; Damian Maye; Johannes S. C. Wiskerke. Towards a Reflexive Framework for Fostering Co—Learning and Improvement of Transdisciplinary Collaboration. Sustainability 2019, 11, 6602 .

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Marina Knickel, Karlheinz Knickel, Francesca Galli, Damian Maye, Johannes S. C. Wiskerke. Towards a Reflexive Framework for Fostering Co—Learning and Improvement of Transdisciplinary Collaboration. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (23):6602.

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Marina Knickel; Karlheinz Knickel; Francesca Galli; Damian Maye; Johannes S. C. Wiskerke. 2019. "Towards a Reflexive Framework for Fostering Co—Learning and Improvement of Transdisciplinary Collaboration." Sustainability 11, no. 23: 6602.

Journal article
Published: 04 March 2019 in Agriculture and Human Values
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Gianluca Brunori; Damian Maye; Francesca Galli; David Barling. Symposium introduction—ethics and sustainable agri-food governance: appraisal and new directions. Agriculture and Human Values 2019, 36, 257 -261.

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Gianluca Brunori, Damian Maye, Francesca Galli, David Barling. Symposium introduction—ethics and sustainable agri-food governance: appraisal and new directions. Agriculture and Human Values. 2019; 36 (2):257-261.

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Gianluca Brunori; Damian Maye; Francesca Galli; David Barling. 2019. "Symposium introduction—ethics and sustainable agri-food governance: appraisal and new directions." Agriculture and Human Values 36, no. 2: 257-261.

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Published: 09 February 2019 in Agriculture and Human Values
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The contradictions between food poverty affecting a large section of the global population and the everyday wastage of food, particularly in high income countries, have raised significant academic and public attention. All actors in the food chain have a role to play in food waste prevention and reduction, including farmers, food manufacturers and processors, caterers and retailers and ultimately consumers. Food surplus redistribution is considered by many as a partial solution to food waste reduction and food poverty mitigation, while others criticize charitable initiatives as inadequate responses, that inhibit governments from responsibly protecting the citizens right to food. This paper frames food assistance as “hybrid systems”, situating at the intersection of territorial food, public welfare and third sector voluntary systems. Based on available literature and reflections on previous research examining food banks in Italy, we develop a system dynamics conceptual mapping. The aim is to model a set of relations and dynamic mechanisms associated with variables relevant to food waste generation, food recovery for social purposes and food poverty alleviation. The analysis of feedback interactions highlights the (actual and potential) vulnerabilities of food assistance systems that occur when addressing food poverty by reducing food surplus. In summary, as the awareness on food poverty and food surplus arises, incentives to food recovery and redistribution strengthen the role of (voluntary) food assistance actors, increasing their exposure to drivers of change, such as retailers’ standards for food surplus prevention. This paper contributes to the current academic debate on charitable food assistance, with insights for policy makers and other systems’ actors.

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Francesca Galli; Alessio Cavicchi; Gianluca Brunori. Food waste reduction and food poverty alleviation: a system dynamics conceptual model. Agriculture and Human Values 2019, 36, 289 -300.

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Francesca Galli, Alessio Cavicchi, Gianluca Brunori. Food waste reduction and food poverty alleviation: a system dynamics conceptual model. Agriculture and Human Values. 2019; 36 (2):289-300.

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Francesca Galli; Alessio Cavicchi; Gianluca Brunori. 2019. "Food waste reduction and food poverty alleviation: a system dynamics conceptual model." Agriculture and Human Values 36, no. 2: 289-300.

Original paper
Published: 13 November 2018 in Food Security
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Emergency food poverty relief is one of the possible entry points to understanding food poverty in affluent societies, whereas the visibility of food poverty relief initiatives has evolved, together with large-scale food recovery organizations and networks aiming at reducing and valorising surplus in food systems. There is a substantial diversity of actors and resources involved, resulting in differently shaped initiatives and programs. It can be described as a continuum encompassing third sector initiatives, large and small businesses, and institutional intervention programs: by bringing together institutions, companies, organisations and civil society, public-private food assistance addresses food poverty in a way that is not viable by any of these actors alone and by adopting context specific governance arrangements. This paper contributes to this debate with the analysis of governance relations in food assistance initiatives across different European countries (Italy, The Netherlands and Ireland). By approaching food assistance from a systems perspective, we further the understanding of these initiatives and their modes of governance. The case studies offer a mapping of food assistance by identifying functions and outcomes, actors and resources involved, and the links the initiatives have to those elements, thus highlighting where collaborative food poverty reduction takes place that goes beyond traditional boundaries. Food assistance initiatives are a civil initiated response shaped by and complementing the social welfare and food systems in which they are embedded. The interpretation of food assistance functions leads to challenging the boundaries of food assistance and potentially triggering innovative approaches to improving food and nutrition security. Discussions show that while they have managed to find innovative and collaborative governance solutions to address the very immediate issues rather effectively, they do not negate the need for food system transformation to address the ultimate reasons for food poverty.

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Francesca Galli; Aniek Hebinck; Brídín Carroll. Addressing food poverty in systems: governance of food assistance in three European countries. Food Security 2018, 10, 1353 -1370.

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Francesca Galli, Aniek Hebinck, Brídín Carroll. Addressing food poverty in systems: governance of food assistance in three European countries. Food Security. 2018; 10 (6):1353-1370.

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Francesca Galli; Aniek Hebinck; Brídín Carroll. 2018. "Addressing food poverty in systems: governance of food assistance in three European countries." Food Security 10, no. 6: 1353-1370.

Review
Published: 24 August 2018 in Agriculture
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Despite policymakers’ promotion of food relocalization strategies for burden mitigation, the assumption that local food chains are more sustainable than the global ones might not hold. This literature review tries to highlight a possible framework for exploratory analyses that aim at associating sustainability with the geographical proximity of food supply chains. The purpose of the article is identifying a set of communicative and information-dense indicators for use by evaluators. Bread is the selected test food, given its importance in human nutrition and the relevance of some of its life cycle phases for land use (cereal farming) and trade (cereal commercialization). Article searching (including keyword selection, explicit inclusion/exclusion criteria, and computer-assisted screening using the NVivo® software) was carried out over the Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar databases, and returned 29 documents (refereed and non-refereed publications). The retrieved literature shows varied research focus, methods, and depth of analyses. The review highlighted 39 environmental, 36 economic, and 27 social indicators, along the food chain. Indicators’ reporting chains are heterogeneous; even the comparison of standard procedures, e.g., Life Cycle Assessment, is not straightforward. Holistic approaches are missing.

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Oriana Gava; Francesca Galli; Fabio Bartolini; Gianluca Brunori. Linking Sustainability with Geographical Proximity in Food Supply Chains. An Indicator Selection Framework. Agriculture 2018, 8, 130 .

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Oriana Gava, Francesca Galli, Fabio Bartolini, Gianluca Brunori. Linking Sustainability with Geographical Proximity in Food Supply Chains. An Indicator Selection Framework. Agriculture. 2018; 8 (9):130.

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Oriana Gava; Francesca Galli; Fabio Bartolini; Gianluca Brunori. 2018. "Linking Sustainability with Geographical Proximity in Food Supply Chains. An Indicator Selection Framework." Agriculture 8, no. 9: 130.

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Published: 10 January 2018 in Local Environment
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The food system’s decreasing ability to deliver food security has led to the emergence of food assistance initiatives. Food assistance is highly contested; as some argue, it is a “failure of the state”, while others regard food assistance to be an “extension of the welfare state”. Either way, research suggests that actors within food assistance are rethinking their role in the food system. In this paper, we study three food assistance initiatives, in the Netherlands, Italy and Ireland, that perform new food assistance practices while embedded in specific institutional contexts, and analyse their potential to transform the food system, drawing on Transformative Social Innovation theory. Building on transition and social innovation theory, this recently developed theory distinguishes different levels within systems, named “shades of change”, that are associated with societal transformation. By exploring these “shades” of change in the analysis, we describe aspects of the initiatives’ novel practices, and in relation to the initiative and institutional relations their motivations and expectations. We compare the three cases and discuss how food assistance practices relate to and change (or do not change) the food system. In particular, we elaborate on how these three food assistance initiatives contribute in various ways to local food and welfare system innovation. In doing so, we offer a novel perspective on food assistance initiatives. We argue that they show dynamics that have the potential for more substantial transformation towards food security over time, by building momentum through “small wins”.

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Aniek Hebinck; Francesca Galli; Sabrina Arcuri; Brídín Carroll; Deirdre O’Connor; Henk Oostindie. Capturing change in European food assistance practices: a transformative social innovation perspective. Local Environment 2018, 23, 398 -413.

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Aniek Hebinck, Francesca Galli, Sabrina Arcuri, Brídín Carroll, Deirdre O’Connor, Henk Oostindie. Capturing change in European food assistance practices: a transformative social innovation perspective. Local Environment. 2018; 23 (4):398-413.

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Aniek Hebinck; Francesca Galli; Sabrina Arcuri; Brídín Carroll; Deirdre O’Connor; Henk Oostindie. 2018. "Capturing change in European food assistance practices: a transformative social innovation perspective." Local Environment 23, no. 4: 398-413.

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Published: 01 January 2018 in Ecology and Society
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Hebinck, A., J. M. Vervoort, P. Hebinck, L. Rutting, and F. Galli. 2018. Imagining transformative futures: participatory foresight for food systems change. Ecology and Society 23(2):16. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10054-230216

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Aniek Hebinck; Joost M. Vervoort; Paul Hebinck; Lucas Rutting; Francesca Galli. Imagining transformative futures: participatory foresight for food systems change. Ecology and Society 2018, 23, 1 .

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Aniek Hebinck, Joost M. Vervoort, Paul Hebinck, Lucas Rutting, Francesca Galli. Imagining transformative futures: participatory foresight for food systems change. Ecology and Society. 2018; 23 (2):1.

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Aniek Hebinck; Joost M. Vervoort; Paul Hebinck; Lucas Rutting; Francesca Galli. 2018. "Imagining transformative futures: participatory foresight for food systems change." Ecology and Society 23, no. 2: 1.

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Published: 01 January 2018 in Case Studies in the Traditional Food Sector
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Francesca Galli. Traditional Food. Case Studies in the Traditional Food Sector 2018, 3 -24.

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Francesca Galli. Traditional Food. Case Studies in the Traditional Food Sector. 2018; ():3-24.

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Francesca Galli. 2018. "Traditional Food." Case Studies in the Traditional Food Sector , no. : 3-24.

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Published: 01 November 2017 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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In the debate surrounding the sustainable future of food, claims like “buy local” are widespread in publications and the media, supported by the discourse that buying “local food” provides ecological, health and socio-economic benefits. Recognising the lack of scientific evidence for this claim, this paper aims to compare the results of sustainability assessments for 14 local and global food products in four sectors within four European countries. Each sector has been analysed independently using sustainability indicators across five dimensions of sustainability: environmental, economic, social, health and ethics. In order to determine if local products generally perform better, an outranking analysis was conducted to rank the products relative to their sustainability performance. Outranking is a multi-criteria decision aid method that allows comparison of alternatives based on quantitative and qualitative indicators at different scales. Each product is also characterized by a degree of localness in order to relate sustainability and localness. The results are given in the form of phi flows, which are relative preference scores of one product compared to other ones in the same sector. The rankings showed that global products consistently come last in terms of sustainability, even when the preference functions and weighting of the indicators were varied. The first positions of the rankings were taken either by the most local or an intermediary product. Moreover, detailed rankings at the attribute level showed the relative strengths and weaknesses of each food product along the local-global continuum. It appeared that the strength of local and intermediary products was mainly in health and socio-economic dimensions, particularly aspects of care and links to the territory such as biodiversity, animal welfare, governance or resilience. In relation to global food products, they presented substantial advantages in terms of climate change mitigation and affordability to consumers. This contrasts with the food-miles ecological claim. Thus, we conclude that distance is not the most critical factor in improving sustainability of food products, and that other criteria of localness (identity, governance or size) play a more critical role

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Emilia Schmitt; Francesca Galli; Davide Menozzi; Damian Maye; Jean-Marc Touzard; Andrea Marescotti; Johan Six; Gianluca Brunori. Comparing the sustainability of local and global food products in Europe. Journal of Cleaner Production 2017, 165, 346 -359.

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Emilia Schmitt, Francesca Galli, Davide Menozzi, Damian Maye, Jean-Marc Touzard, Andrea Marescotti, Johan Six, Gianluca Brunori. Comparing the sustainability of local and global food products in Europe. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2017; 165 ():346-359.

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Emilia Schmitt; Francesca Galli; Davide Menozzi; Damian Maye; Jean-Marc Touzard; Andrea Marescotti; Johan Six; Gianluca Brunori. 2017. "Comparing the sustainability of local and global food products in Europe." Journal of Cleaner Production 165, no. : 346-359.

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Published: 24 July 2017 in International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
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The concern for the quality of food, its composition and contribution towards nutrition and health is widespread among public and private food system actors. The increasing interest in locally integrated supply chains leads to reconsider the configuration of the food system in relation to sustainability and health outcomes. This article focuses on the relationship between processing practices and nutritional value in the wheat-tobread sector, illustrated by a case study on the Tuscan Bread Protected Designation of Origin (PDO). By adopting a food system perspective, the case study shows how the different actors have mobilized to respond to multiple drivers of change. A mixed research method approach is adopted to illustrate the relationship between processing practices and nutritional value outcomes: practice-based indicators for each step of the chain are complemented with performance-based indicators of the chemical, physical and sensorial profile of Tuscan Bread PDO. Furthermore, the implications on food system governance of a differentiation strategy based on territorial origin and enhanced nutrition are discussed.

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Francesca Galli; Francesca Venturi; Fabio Bartolini; Oriana Gava; Angela Zinnai; SanMartin Chiara; Gianpaolo Andrich; Gianluca Brunori. Shaping food systems towards improved nutrition: a case study on Tuscan Bread Protected Designation of Origin. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 2017, 20, 533 -552.

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Francesca Galli, Francesca Venturi, Fabio Bartolini, Oriana Gava, Angela Zinnai, SanMartin Chiara, Gianpaolo Andrich, Gianluca Brunori. Shaping food systems towards improved nutrition: a case study on Tuscan Bread Protected Designation of Origin. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review. 2017; 20 (4):533-552.

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Francesca Galli; Francesca Venturi; Fabio Bartolini; Oriana Gava; Angela Zinnai; SanMartin Chiara; Gianpaolo Andrich; Gianluca Brunori. 2017. "Shaping food systems towards improved nutrition: a case study on Tuscan Bread Protected Designation of Origin." International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 20, no. 4: 533-552.