The Circular Economy in the Agri-food system: A Performance Measurement of European Countries

Journal title Economia agro-alimentare
Author/s Brunella Arru, Roberto Furesi, Pietro Pulina, Paola Sau, Fabio A. Madau
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2022/2
Language English Pages 35 P. 1-35 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/ecag2022oa13245
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation click here

View article Download Open Access article

FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.

Agriculture and the agri-food industry are central to fostering economic growth and the Sustainable Development Goals’ targets. However, to meet the world’s future development, it is necessary to make the agri-food system more resource-efficient. The transition towards the circular economy (CE) paradigm is commonly seen as a promising strategy to overcome the critical issues affecting the sector. However, different theoretical and practical problems still need to be solved. Specifically, the CE performance measurement of specific sectors or national systems is crucial as it helps to identify and correct any deviation from the vision set out for achieving the sustainable development objectives. This article aims to contribute to CE research, focusing on European agriculture and the agri-food sector. Drawing on the EE-MRIO database EXIOBASE v3.7, this paper estimates the level of circularity in the European Union countries and the role of agriculture and agri-food in determining circularity. Results showed that circularity in the EU is low and significant differences between countries exist. Agriculture contributes to 80.5% of the entire amount of recycled materials in Europe. Vice versa, the contribution provided by the agri-food sector is limited to 1%. Some policy implications derive from this study.

  • Entrepreneurship, Technological Change and Circular Economy for a Green Transition Antonino Kamutali, Pedro Henriques, Maria Raquel Lucas, Ana Marta-Costa, pp.275 (ISBN:978-3-031-48078-2)
  • The economic and environmental sustainability dimensions of agriculture: a trade-off analysis of Italian farms Brunella Arru, Federica Cisilino, Paola Sau, Roberto Furesi, Pietro Pulina, Fabio A. Madau, in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 1474903/2024
    DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1474903
  • Debt Sustainability Assessment in the Biogas Sector: Application of Interest Coverage Ratios in a Sample of Agricultural Firms in Italy Mattia Iotti, Elisa Manghi, Giuseppe Bonazzi, in Energies /2024 pp.1404
    DOI: 10.3390/en17061404
  • Circular Economy in the European Union: A Prisma-Based Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis Viktoriia Vovk, Öznur Taşdöken, Gülden Bölük, Alexandru Stratan, Jan Polcyn, in Sustainability /2025 pp.1282
    DOI: 10.3390/su17031282
  • Role of environmental, social and governance disclosure in business profitability and cost of debt: An analysis of small Southern Italian agri‐food businesses Arru Brunella, Delrio Federico, Furesi Roberto, Pulina Pietro, Fabio Albino Madau, in Agribusiness agr.21933/2024
    DOI: 10.1002/agr.21933
  • Circular economy of the agricultural sector: Strategies and challenges in the context of globalisation Vyacheslav Shebanin, Olena Shebanina, Iurii Kormyshkin, Antonina Drobitko, Natalia Potryvaieva, in Scientific Horizons /2024 pp.148
    DOI: 10.48077/scihor9.2024.148

Brunella Arru, Roberto Furesi, Pietro Pulina, Paola Sau, Fabio A. Madau, The Circular Economy in the Agri-food system: A Performance Measurement of European Countries in "Economia agro-alimentare" 2/2022, pp 1-35, DOI: 10.3280/ecag2022oa13245