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View article: Integrating Happiness Research into Endpoint Indicators of Social Life Cycle Analysis
Integrating Happiness Research into Endpoint Indicators of Social Life Cycle Analysis Open
Endpoint indicators for social life cycle analysis (S-LCA) are still less consolidated than those for environmental LCA. There is a broad consensus that human well-being should be the overarching goal of social sustainability and therefore…
View article: From Crisis to Resilience: A Bibliometric Analysis of Food Security and Sustainability Amid Geopolitical Challenges
From Crisis to Resilience: A Bibliometric Analysis of Food Security and Sustainability Amid Geopolitical Challenges Open
Geopolitical instability poses a significant threat to food systems by disrupting production, trade, and market access, thereby undermining both food security and long-term sustainability. Unlike peacetime food insecurity driven by poverty…
View article: From Crisis to Resilience: A Bibliometric Analysis of Food Security and Sustainability Amid Geopolitical Challenges
From Crisis to Resilience: A Bibliometric Analysis of Food Security and Sustainability Amid Geopolitical Challenges Open
Food systems are highly vulnerable to geopolitical instability, which can disrupt agricultural production, trade, and market access, ultimately undermining food security and sustainability. Unlike peacetime food insecurity driven by povert…
View article: Towards a non-speciesist social life cycle assessment
Towards a non-speciesist social life cycle assessment Open
Purpose Social life cycle assessment has become an important tool for systematically including the social component in the sustainability assessment of value chains. However, the exclusion of non-human animals from social life cycle assess…
View article: Do animals increase the productivity of Swiss farms?
Do animals increase the productivity of Swiss farms? Open
While it is clear that animal production poses environmental and ethical challenges for society, it is less clear which impact animals have on the productivity of single farms. A sample of 2500 Swiss farms was used for descriptive comparis…
View article: Contrasting Prosumption Models: Experiences, Benefits and Continuation in Allotment Gardens and Community-Supported Agriculture in Switzerland
Contrasting Prosumption Models: Experiences, Benefits and Continuation in Allotment Gardens and Community-Supported Agriculture in Switzerland Open
Agricultural prosumption is a transformative pathway, enabling individuals to reconnect to nature whilst producing food for their own consumption. Allotment gardens (AGs) and community-supported agriculture (CSA) are two main types of this…
View article: ARE FAMILY FARMS’ SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY CONCERNS ADDRESSED BY ASSESSMENT TOOLS? A LITERATURE REVIEW AND COVERAGE CHECK
ARE FAMILY FARMS’ SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY CONCERNS ADDRESSED BY ASSESSMENT TOOLS? A LITERATURE REVIEW AND COVERAGE CHECK Open
The study focuses on the social dimension of farm sustainability in Switzerland. The degree to which existing farm sustainability assessment tools captured what farmers perceived as important regarding farm social sustainability was invest…
View article: Chains of Social Sustainability and the Potential of the DPSIR Framework
Chains of Social Sustainability and the Potential of the DPSIR Framework Open
For more than 20 years, the Driver‐Pressure‐State‐Impact‐Response (DPSIR) framework has contributed to clarifying causal chains for environmental sustainability issues. This study aims to answer the question of whether the framework can ex…
View article: AI-driven autonomous adaptative feedback welding machine
AI-driven autonomous adaptative feedback welding machine Open
The gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) is a primary method for nuclear component fabrication and repair. Recent advancements in monitoring and automation technologies have made the shift toward fully automated arc welding more feasible, reduc…
View article: Consequences of the use or absence of life cycle assessment in novel environmental assessment methods and food ecolabels
Consequences of the use or absence of life cycle assessment in novel environmental assessment methods and food ecolabels Open
Ecolabels and novel environmental assessment methods are increasingly being used to evaluate the environmental impacts of food items. Some ecolabels build on life cycle assessment, a standardised method for the environmental impact assessm…
View article: From multifunctionality and ecosystem services to a just transition of agri-food systems
From multifunctionality and ecosystem services to a just transition of agri-food systems Open
Purpose We aim to compare multifunctionality, ecosystem services and just transition as overall conceptual approaches to understand agri-food systems. Design/methodology/approach This is a theory-motivated literature study. Findings This p…
View article: AI Driven Autonomous Adaptative Feedback Welding Machine
AI Driven Autonomous Adaptative Feedback Welding Machine Open
The Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW) is a primary method for nuclear component fabrication and repair. Recent advancements in monitoring and automation technologies have made the shift toward fully automated arc welding more feasible, reduc…
View article: A classification scheme for urban agriculture combining technical properties with characteristics related to the economic and social sustainability
A classification scheme for urban agriculture combining technical properties with characteristics related to the economic and social sustainability Open
Urban agriculture is often associated with sustainable agricultural practices. However, the variety of systems qualifying as urban agriculture and the limited information available about their sustainability question this direct relationsh…
View article: Forecasting food trends using demographic pyramid, generational differentiation and SuperLearner
Forecasting food trends using demographic pyramid, generational differentiation and SuperLearner Open
The objective of this paper is to predict food consumption patterns for future decades by different social groups while taking generational change into account in the modelling. Using over 20 million observations of households in Switzerla…
View article: Development and Commercialization of Adaptive Feedback Welding Technology for Fabrication and Repair Applications
Development and Commercialization of Adaptive Feedback Welding Technology for Fabrication and Repair Applications Open
There is a growing need to automate the gas tungsten arc welding process for fabrication and repair of nuclear components due to an increasing shortage of experienced welders. Therefore, a collaborative effort has been performed in this st…
View article: Causes and Impacts of Various Agricultural Extension Service Strategies in Bangladesh
Causes and Impacts of Various Agricultural Extension Service Strategies in Bangladesh Open
Purpose: The success factors of agricultural extension are not well known. In addition, extension services are often treated as homogeneous actors in agricultural research. We intend to show the impact of different strategies in agricultur…
View article: Is the Behavioural Gender Gap Decreasing? Evidence from Food Consumption in Swiss Single-Person Households
Is the Behavioural Gender Gap Decreasing? Evidence from Food Consumption in Swiss Single-Person Households Open
While Switzerland has made some progress over the past few decades in treating men and women more equally, this study intends to find out whether Swiss men and women’s food consumption patterns also converged between 1990 and 2017. After a…
View article: Farming without farms? Challenges for organisational behaviour research in an upcoming transformation process
Farming without farms? Challenges for organisational behaviour research in an upcoming transformation process Open
Purpose The paper intends to show why farms as we know them today may soon be a thing of the past and that organisational behaviour research has an important contribution to make in assisting the upcoming transformation. Design/methodology…
View article: Sweet home or battle of the sexes: who dominates food purchasing decisions?
Sweet home or battle of the sexes: who dominates food purchasing decisions? Open
By analysing big data collected from 1990 to 2017 on the consumption behaviours of men and women living alone and in heterosexual couples in Switzerland, we classified 75 food items in terms of their consumption within couple versus single…
View article: Planned versus instinctive behaviour: The connection between personality and food waste
Planned versus instinctive behaviour: The connection between personality and food waste Open
Personality may influence food waste through planned as well as instinctive behaviour. Considerable attention has been devoted to planned behaviour because instincts are difficult to measure using attitudes, behaviours, and intentions. Our…
View article: Evaluating Longevity as a Farm Animal Welfare Indicator
Evaluating Longevity as a Farm Animal Welfare Indicator Open
In assessing the welfare of dairy cows and laying hens, longevity has recently been introduced as an indicator. This paper presents recent attempts to transfer the normative power of longevity to non-human animals and evaluates this choice…
View article: Is There a Food Waste Kuznets Curve? Some Evidence from China, Romania and Switzerland
Is There a Food Waste Kuznets Curve? Some Evidence from China, Romania and Switzerland Open
The environmental Kuznets curve is defined as the proposition that pollution increases in the early stages of economic development and decreases in advanced economies. It could be verified for many environmental parameters and is based on …
View article: Rice Variety Preferences in Bangladesh – What is the Role of Public Breeders?
Rice Variety Preferences in Bangladesh – What is the Role of Public Breeders? Open
This study compared preferred rice varieties by millers and farmers in Bangladesh, hypothesizing that public breeders would focus on public goods like disease resistance, whereas private breeders would focus on profits in the entire chain.…
View article: Wolves' contribution to structural change in grazing systems among swiss alpine summer farms: The evidence from causal random forest
Wolves' contribution to structural change in grazing systems among swiss alpine summer farms: The evidence from causal random forest Open
The return of wolves to Swiss mountains and the damage they cause to sheep and goat herds in the region have raised concerns about a consequent wave of farm closures. In this paper, we examine the relationship between wolf attacks and the …