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New Medit - Vol. 20 N. 5 (2021)

Jeder, Abdelhamid and Salah investigate farmers in the south-east of Tunisia to determine the factors influencing adaptation strategies. All actions aimed at improving the resilience of agriculture in Tunisia’s arid regions to climate change, emphasize mainly the strategies adopted by farmers in terms of water management, technical choices and the adopted production systems combined with the experience and local know-how.
The paper of Özsayin and Korkmaz aims to determine the participation tendencies in organic agriculture activities of women living in rural areas of the northwestern part of Turkey. According to the results of the participation index score, rural women’s participation of in organic farming activities was highest in the fertilizer application stage and the least in the marketing stage. As a result, the findings of the study are expected to make significant contributions to rural development, province economy and further emphasizing the importance of rural women in organic farming activities.
Rjili and Jaouad try to identify strategies and levers mitigation and adaptation to climate change developed by breeders on based on available factors. The results reveal that age of breeder, herd size, agricultural area, member of an association, subsidies and well ownerships are the most factors which significantly influence the adaptation choices of breeders to cope to climate change. The results proved too that adaptation to climate change was inhibited by many… factors such as luck of workforce labor, lack of water and financial resources as well the degradation of the rangelands.
Food waste, its perception, food purchase and store behaviors of the consumers were investigated by Özçiçek Dölekoglu et al. The results show that households wasted about 7.5 tones food during the month surveys carried out. Only 180 families out of 1155 had no food waste and this number is higher in Erzurum. The highest food waste was observed in Adana where it was 823 kg per week while it was 652 kg in Erzurum and 393 kg in İzmir.
The author Ahmed tries to assess the relationship between Egyptian wheat spot prices and future wheat prices in Paris (MATIF) and USA (CBOT). Results suggest a high volatility regime observed, especially during the extreme market events of the food crisis and following the two revolutions in Egypt in 2011 and 2013 and the time of the economic reform in 2016. This leads to an unstable market and negative impacts on consumers’ welfare and food affordability, meaning that futures markets failed to hedge spot wheat market against price volatility. In addition, results from impulse response functions indicate that a 1% shock in futures markets will lead to a positive shock in the wheat spot market, while for the low volatility regime no significant effect.
Essakkat et al. investigate the intention of young consumers to shift their diets towards the Mediterranean Diet to prevent climate change. Using the Theory of Planned Behavior, the objective is to identify whether attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control guide such a behavior. Our findings highlight that young consumers’ perceived behavioral control have the highest influence on the intention, followed by their attitudes.
Zhllima et al. explore the determinant factors of farmers’ intentions to engage in organic farming in Albania. Results show that subjective norms, perceived behavior control, favorable attitudes toward organic farming conversion, as well as awareness of risk from conventional farming accompanied with information awareness are positively associated with the probability of converting to organic farming. Farmers’ perceptions of EU policy opportunities and attitudes towards environment protection are negatively associated with farmers’ tendency to convert.

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9788869239816

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