AgBioForum, vol. 21, no.2 (2018)

 

Recent Submissions

  • Bioeconomy and the production of novel food products from agro-industrial wastes and residues under the context of food neophobia 

    Tsimitri, Paraskevi; Michailidis, Anastasios; Loizou, Efstatioa; Mantzouridou, Fani Th; Gkatzionis, Konstantinos; Mugampoza, Ediriisa (University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2018)
    Advances in bioeconomy lead to exploitation of wastes for the production of high added-value products. Sometimes, these products face consumer resistance due to a phenomenon known as "neophobia." The aim of this study was ...

  • Quality as value-added bioeconomy : analysis of the EU policies and empirical evidence from Polish agriculture 

    Maciejczak, Mariusz (University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2018)
    The paper is an attempt to assess the extent to which policies designed and implemented for bioeconomy development in the European Union address the societal expectations for holistically perceived quality delivered not ...

  • A definition of bioeconomy through the bibliometric networks of the scientific literature 

    Konstantinis, Alvertos; Rozakis, Stelios; Maria, Efpraxia-Aithra; Shu, Kesheng (University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2018)
    The purposes of this paper are to present the different bioeconomy strategies within European Union (the national member states' published bioeconomy strategies are presented), the United States, and China, to construct ...

  • Central-eastern European agriculture and the transition to bioeconomy 

    Rozakis, Stelios; Viaggi, Davide; Oleszek, Wieslaw (University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2018)
    "The transition from a mineral dependent economy to one in which biogenic resources form the basis of biobased products and production processes relies both on scientific innovative knowledge and on the capacity of ...

  • Evaluation of agricultural reactivation on abandoned lands in Poland 

    Rozakis, Stelios; Borek, Robert (University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2018)
    Cultivation of abandoned land can moderate indirect land use change induced by increased food and non-food demand by bio-based sectors. Using spatial analysis, we considered potential area of abandoned lands in Poland, ...

  • Spatial pattern of CAP measures promoting agroforestry in Hungary 

    Csonka, Arnold; Bareith, Tibor; Gal, Veronika Alexandra; Ferto, Imre (University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2018)
    Agroforestry is a sustainable form of land management that optimizes the use of natural resources. The current EU Common Agricultural Policy offers several measures to promote agroforestry activities. The aim of the paper ...

  • Changes in farms' environmental sustainability in Poland -- progress, or regress? 

    Wrzaszcz, Wioletta (University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2018)
    In the year 2012, the European Commission adopted the strategic document underlining the need for bioeconomy development, which requires the implementation of sustainable agriculture. In view of the above, the need for ...