Valentina Cristiana Materia

Biographic Data

ID6195964
NAMEValentina Cristiana Materia
GIVEN NAMESValentina Cristiana
FAMILY NAMEMateria
SIGNATUREMATERIA V C
AFFILIATIONSWageningen University & Research
ORCID0000-0002-8486-1857
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS17
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Degrowth-oriented entrepreneurial identity in rural agrifood

    Open AccessKlaudia Pasik, Valentina Cristiana Materia et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2026

    This paper introduces the concept of degrowth-oriented entrepreneurial identity, and theorises how it is formed and enacted in practice by combining degrowth research with rural women entrepreneurship, employing a Feminist Political Ecology (FPE) lens. Drawing on eleven semi-structured interviews with small-scale women agrifood entrepreneurs in rural Ireland, we demonstrate that degrowth values of sufficiency, care, reciprocity, and locality shap…

  • Unlocking the potential of boundary crossing research to address sustainability challenges

    Open AccessNina de Roo, Jillian Student et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2026

    Addressing societal challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, pandemics, and food insecurity requires organisational and political action, as much as scientific and non-scientific knowledge and understandings. Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary (ITD) research holds large potential to address these sustainability challenges and meet the associated sustainable development goals (SDGs). However, due to the design of the current rese…

  • Goal frames and sustainability transitions

    Open AccessChiara Sophia Weituschat, Stefano Pascucci et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2022Cited by: 4References: 22

    Transitions towards more sustainable agricultural systems are often characterised by ‘lock-ins’, understood as self-reinforcing mechanisms that reproduce the status quo and impede change. While socioeconomic, technological and institutional lock-ins have been widely used to understand processes of sustainable transitions in agri-food systems, the role of so-called cognitive lock-ins is still under-investigated. In this study, we focus on how inst…

  • Smart farming technologies adoption

    Open AccessCarlo Giua, Valentina Cristiana Materia et al.ARTICLETechnology in Society2022Cited by: 4References: 49

  • Management information system adoption at the farm level

    Open AccessCarlo Giua, Valentina Cristiana Materia et al.ARTICLEBritish Food Journal2021

    Purpose This paper reviews the academic contributions that have emerged to date on the broad definition of farm-level management information systems (MISs). The purpose is twofold: (1) to identify the theories used in the literature to study the adoption of digital technologies and (2) to identify the drivers of and barriers to the adoption of such technologies. Design/methodology/approach The literature review was based on a comprehensive review…

  • Embeddedness or Over-Embeddedness? Women Entrepreneurs’ Networks and Their Influence on Business Performance

    Open AccessLavlu Mozumdar, Geoffrey Hagelaar et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Development…2019Cited by: 5References: 9

  • The Plant Protection Products (PPP) Sector in the European Union

    Open AccessAlessandro Bonanno, Valentina Cristiana Materia et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Development…2017Cited by: 4

  • Understanding the selection processes of public research projects in agriculture

    Open AccessValentina Cristiana Materia, Stefano Pascucci et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2015References: 2