The development of future food systems will depend on normative decisions taken at different levels by policymakers and stakeholders. Scenario modeling is an adequate tool for assessing the implications of such decisions, but for an enlightened debate, it is important to make explicit and transparent how such value-based decisions affect modeling results.
Small farms in Northern Europe are found alongside some of the largest - and in some cases, most industrialised - farms in the whole of Europe.
Les petites exploitations agricoles du nord de l’Europe côtoient certaines des exploitations les plus grandes – et dans certains cas, les plus industrialisées – de toute l’Europe.