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The Progress of the Development of a Climate-smart Agriculture in Europe: Is there Cohesion in the European Union?

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The development of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is crucial in ensuring the creation of a low-carbon society and mitigation of climate change. These tasks require concerted actions from multiple stakeholders since the very concept of CSA is rather complex and requires multi-dimensional consideration. This study defines and applies various indicators to evaluate the development of CSA in the European Union (EU). To do this, three different multi-criteria decision-making methods, namely Simple Additive Weighting (SAW), Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) and Vlse Kriterijumska Optimizacija Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR; multi-criteria optimization and compromise solution), were employed for the construction of a composite indicator. A combination of both objective (entropy) and subjective (Analytic Hierarchy Process) weighting techniques was utilized to derive the weights of the indicators. The leaders in the EU in terms of CSA are Austria, Denmark and the Netherlands, whereas the countries with the lowest levels of CSA development are Cyprus, Greece and Portugal. This study also revealed divergence in the development of these practices in the EU-24 for the period 2004–2019. Thus, a more inclusive approach is needed to ensure the spread of climate-smart ideas in European agriculture sectors.

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Morkunas, M., Volkov, A. The Progress of the Development of a Climate-smart Agriculture in Europe: Is there Cohesion in the European Union?. Environmental Management 71, 1111–1127 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-022-01782-w

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