We are very glad to announce the publication of a new scientific paper resulting from Agrofossilfree project
- How can Fossil-Energy-Free Technologies and Strategies (FEFTS) be adopted in European Farming?” .Written by Athanassios Balafoutis and Bas Paris, the paper provides policy recommendations for accelerating the adoption of Fossil-Energy-Free Technologies and Strategies (FEFTS) in the EU agricultural sector. The prepared policy recommendations originate out of the key outputs and findings of the Horizon 2020 project “AgroFossilFree”, including an assessment and evaluation of the current energy use status in EU agriculture, survey results on farmers’ needs, ideas and interests on the adoption of FEFTS, FEFTS categories identified through an online inventory of FEFTS called the AgEnergy platform, and key innovative processes through national and transnational workshops that combine expertise from hundreds of keys stakeholders (researchers, innovation brokers, policymakers, farmers, and industry representatives).
- Investigating Published Research towards a Fossil-Energy-Free Agriculture Transformation Written by Athanasios T. Balafoutis ,Magdalena Borzecka, Stelios Rozakis,Katerina Troullaki ,Foteini Vandorou and Malgorzata Wydra, the paper investigates structural and qualitative characteristics of the knowledge produced by research on fossil-energy-free agriculture. It provides evidence on the worldwide research directions, as well as investigate whether academic research and publicly funded research projects foster knowledge creation for the desired transformation. Bibliographic maps are constructed using a query-based methodology as social networks to investigate the efficiency of the EU-funded research to achieve the goals set for the 2050 EU Green Deal. The H2020-funded papers are further analysed with dictionary-based text analysis to quantify the relative emphasis of different types of knowledge in the text.
