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The Difficult Decision of Using Biopesticides: A Comparative Case-Study Analysis Concerning the Adoption of Biopesticides in the Mediterranean Region (2025)
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Fusar Poli, E., Campos, J. M., Martínez Ferrer, M. T., Rahmouni, R., Rouis, S., Yurtkuran, Z., & Fontefrancesco, M. F. (2025). The Difficult Decision of Using Biopesticides: A Comparative Case-Study Analysis Concerning the Adoption of Biopesticides in the Mediterranean Region. Agriculture, 15(6), Article 640. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture15060640

The adoption of biopesticides in Mediterranean agriculture is shaped by environmental, economic, and socio-cultural factors. This study explores the push and pull factors influencing farmers’ decisions in Spain’s Ebro Delta, Tunisia’s Nabeul region,... Read More about The Difficult Decision of Using Biopesticides: A Comparative Case-Study Analysis Concerning the Adoption of Biopesticides in the Mediterranean Region.

Making Typicality: The Birth and Rebirth of the Torta Mattone of Bressana Bottarone, Italy (2024)
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Fontefrancesco, M. F. (2024). Making Typicality: The Birth and Rebirth of the Torta Mattone of Bressana Bottarone, Italy. Societies, 14(5), Article 72. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14050072

This article addresses the concept of “typicality” in community products, proposing a performative interpretation of this category. It ethnographically demonstrates how identifying products as “typical” is a process that involves a community in const... Read More about Making Typicality: The Birth and Rebirth of the Torta Mattone of Bressana Bottarone, Italy.

Trends in the implementation of biopesticides in the Euro-Mediterranean region: a narrative literary review (2024)
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Fusar Poli, E., & Fontefrancesco, M. F. (2024). Trends in the implementation of biopesticides in the Euro-Mediterranean region: a narrative literary review. Sustainable Earth Reviews, 7(1), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42055-024-00085-8

This article explores the global commitment to achieving sustainable solutions for addressing hunger, emphasizing the urgent need to transform the agricultural sector in the face of escalating global population growth and threats to the food system.... Read More about Trends in the implementation of biopesticides in the Euro-Mediterranean region: a narrative literary review.

Pesticide: A Contemporary Cultural Object (2024)
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Fusar Poli, E., & Fontefrancesco, M. F. (2024). Pesticide: A Contemporary Cultural Object. Encyclopedia, 4(2), 720-734. https://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia4020045

The article provides a narrative review of the social and cultural interpretation of pesticides in contemporary society. In so doing, it highlights the main fields of exploration investigated by social scientists concerning the perception and role pl... Read More about Pesticide: A Contemporary Cultural Object.

Rural Culinary Tourism in Southern Europe: Emerging Educational Needs of a Growing Sector (2023)
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Fontefrancesco, M. F., Boscolo, A., & Zocchi, D. M. (2023). Rural Culinary Tourism in Southern Europe: Emerging Educational Needs of a Growing Sector. Tourism and Hospitality, 4(2), 293-306. https://doi.org/10.3390/tourhosp4020018

Rural culinary tourism is a growing sector in European tourism and is a key resource for rural development, in particular in Southern Europe. The boom of the sector that followed the COVID-19 pandemic, however, poses important questions concerning th... Read More about Rural Culinary Tourism in Southern Europe: Emerging Educational Needs of a Growing Sector.

Keeping the Knives Sharp: Socioeconomic Innovation in the Artisan Sector of Butchery in Italy (2023)
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Fontefrancesco, M. F., & Costa, A. (2023). Keeping the Knives Sharp: Socioeconomic Innovation in the Artisan Sector of Butchery in Italy. Societies, 13(4), Article 80. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc13040080

This paper investigates the socioeconomic and cultural transformation in food artisan entrepreneurship due to the complexification of the food sector and ongoing globalisation through a case study conducted among the artisan butchers of Genoa, Italy.... Read More about Keeping the Knives Sharp: Socioeconomic Innovation in the Artisan Sector of Butchery in Italy.

The Intersections between Food and Cultural Landscape: Insights from Three Mountain Case Studies (2023)
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Fontefrancesco, M. F., Zocchi, D. M., & Pieroni, A. (2023). The Intersections between Food and Cultural Landscape: Insights from Three Mountain Case Studies. Land, 12(3), Article 676. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12030676

In the last decades, scholars from different disciplines have used the foodscape as a concept and an analytical framework to explore the intersection between landscape, people and food culture. Adopting a comparative case-study analysis, this article... Read More about The Intersections between Food and Cultural Landscape: Insights from Three Mountain Case Studies.

Migrant Entrepreneurship and Social Integration: A Case-Study Analysis among Bangladeshi Vendors in Rome (2022)
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Fontefrancesco, M. F., & Mendonce, S. (2022). Migrant Entrepreneurship and Social Integration: A Case-Study Analysis among Bangladeshi Vendors in Rome. Societies, 12(5), Article 139. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc12050139

Migration and migrants’ integration are prominent aspects of globalized contemporary society. In this respect, a key question appears of how to foster the full participation of migrants in the host society. This article investigates the role of migra... Read More about Migrant Entrepreneurship and Social Integration: A Case-Study Analysis among Bangladeshi Vendors in Rome.

The potatoes of Otro: the reconstitution of an element of the Walser food heritage in NW Italy (2022)
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Fontefrancesco, M. F., & Mello, M. (2022). The potatoes of Otro: the reconstitution of an element of the Walser food heritage in NW Italy. Journal of ethnic foods, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s42779-022-00145-4

The article analyzes the trajectory of the reconstitution of the gastronomic heritage among the Italian Walser community. It focuses on the case study of potato production in the Otro Valley, in Alagna Valsesia (VC), and explores how the process of h... Read More about The potatoes of Otro: the reconstitution of an element of the Walser food heritage in NW Italy.

Jogging during the Lockdown: Changes in the Regimes of Kinesthetic Morality and Urban Emotional Geography in NW Italy (2021)
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Fontefrancesco, M. F. (2021). Jogging during the Lockdown: Changes in the Regimes of Kinesthetic Morality and Urban Emotional Geography in NW Italy. Societies, 11(4), Article 124. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc11040124

Jogging is the most practiced physical activity in the west. This form of light running appears a solution to the health problems caused by the sedentary of contemporary dwelling and affirmed the role of the extensive use of urban space as a key to i... Read More about Jogging during the Lockdown: Changes in the Regimes of Kinesthetic Morality and Urban Emotional Geography in NW Italy.

Food Narrations and Teaching Migration: An Autobiographical Approach to “Knowing the Other” (2021)
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Fontefrancesco, M. F. (2022). Food Narrations and Teaching Migration: An Autobiographical Approach to “Knowing the Other”. World Futures, 78(5), 273-290. https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2021.1959255

Is the clash of civilizations, or that of racism, the paradigm that best describes the intercultural dynamics that characterize the cultural horizon of young people today? This article addresses this question based on research conducted between 2012... Read More about Food Narrations and Teaching Migration: An Autobiographical Approach to “Knowing the Other”.

Just beautiful green herbs: use of plants in cultural practices in Bukovina and Roztochya, Western Ukraine (2021)
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Stryamets, N., Fontefrancesco, M., Mattalia, G., Prakofjewa, J., Pieroni, A., Kalle, R., Stryamets, G., & Sõukand, R. (2021). Just beautiful green herbs: use of plants in cultural practices in Bukovina and Roztochya, Western Ukraine. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 17(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-021-00439-y

Background The use of plants in rituals is a little explored corner of biocultural diversity which has developed through time within a complex socio-ecological system. Indeed, rituals are complex interactions between humans and biodiversity shaped by... Read More about Just beautiful green herbs: use of plants in cultural practices in Bukovina and Roztochya, Western Ukraine.

The Importance of Keeping Alive Sustainable Foraging Practices: Wild Vegetables and Herbs Gathered by Afghan Refugees Living in Mansehra District, Pakistan (2021)
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Manduzai, A., Abbasi, A., Khan, S., Abdullah, A., Prakofjewa, J., Amini, M., Amjad, M., Cianfaglione, K., Fontefrancesco, M., Soukand, R., & Pieroni, A. (2021). The Importance of Keeping Alive Sustainable Foraging Practices: Wild Vegetables and Herbs Gathered by Afghan Refugees Living in Mansehra District, Pakistan. Sustainability, 13(3),