Simone Pira
Biographic Data
| ID | 239649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simone Pira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simone |
| FAMILY NAME | Pira |
| SIGNATURE | PIRA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Hutton Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0334-6800 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The War in Ukraine and Food Security in Eastern Europe
This dispatch outlines some of the immediate consequences and long-term challenges posed by the Ukraine war on food security and production systems in Eastern Europe. We draw particular attention to the food aid and provisioning realities around many million (and increasing) numbers of Ukrainian refugees, and the current lack of systemic, government-coordinated responses to the humanitarian crisis. Further, we outline the distinct forms of agricu…
Spatial justice on the horizon? A combined Theory of Change scenario tool to assess place-based interventions
This paper presents a methodology to assess the internal and external coherence, and the robustness to future uncertainty, of place-based interventions addressing spatial (in)justice. The methodology merges elements of Theory of Change (ToC) and mechanism mapping with scenario planning. It was designed based on analysis of a range of European interventions (public policies and bottom-up initiatives), selected to highlight the ways spatial injusti…
Sustainable Community Movement Organisations and household food waste
Community social capital and status
Post-Soviet smallholders between entrepreneurial farming and diversification. Livelihood pathways in rural Moldova
Home-grown food and the benefits of sharing
The policy literature on postsocialist Europe tends to frame smallholders' practices of food self-provisioning and sharing as driven by necessity and proposes land consolidation to increase productivity and efficiency. However, these practices generate nonfinancial benefits, which need to be accounted for. In this paper, I test the socio-economic relevance of these practices in the Republic of Moldova, the country with the highest density of farm…
Remittance inflow and smallholder farming practices. The case of Moldova
Political debates and agricultural policies
Remittance inflow and smallholder farming practices. The case of Moldova
Political debates and agricultural policies
Post-Soviet smallholders between entrepreneurial farming and diversification. Livelihood pathways in rural Moldova
Sustainable Community Movement Organisations and household food waste
Home-grown food and the benefits of sharing
The policy literature on postsocialist Europe tends to frame smallholders' practices of food self-provisioning and sharing as driven by necessity and proposes land consolidation to increase productivity and efficiency. However, these practices generate nonfinancial benefits, which need to be accounted for. In this paper, I test the socio-economic relevance of these practices in the Republic of Moldova, the country with the highest density of farm…
Remittance inflow and smallholder farming practices. The case of Moldova
Political debates and agricultural policies
Home-grown food and the benefits of sharing
The policy literature on postsocialist Europe tends to frame smallholders' practices of food self-provisioning and sharing as driven by necessity and proposes land consolidation to increase productivity and efficiency. However, these practices generate nonfinancial benefits, which need to be accounted for. In this paper, I test the socio-economic relevance of these practices in the Republic of Moldova, the country with the highest density of farm…
Community social capital and status
Post-Soviet smallholders between entrepreneurial farming and diversification. Livelihood pathways in rural Moldova
The War in Ukraine and Food Security in Eastern Europe
This dispatch outlines some of the immediate consequences and long-term challenges posed by the Ukraine war on food security and production systems in Eastern Europe. We draw particular attention to the food aid and provisioning realities around many million (and increasing) numbers of Ukrainian refugees, and the current lack of systemic, government-coordinated responses to the humanitarian crisis. Further, we outline the distinct forms of agricu…
Spatial justice on the horizon? A combined Theory of Change scenario tool to assess place-based interventions
This paper presents a methodology to assess the internal and external coherence, and the robustness to future uncertainty, of place-based interventions addressing spatial (in)justice. The methodology merges elements of Theory of Change (ToC) and mechanism mapping with scenario planning. It was designed based on analysis of a range of European interventions (public policies and bottom-up initiatives), selected to highlight the ways spatial injusti…
Sustainable Community Movement Organisations and household food waste
Economics (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Agriculture (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Food security (4 works) · Agricultural economics (3 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (3 works) · Engineering (2 works)