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An ecological footprint reduction of Germany’s retailer EDEKA and its private brand products has led to a multi-stakeholder project in Spanish citrus production. Developing and applying partly participatory action research and Agroecology principles has led to a considerable reduction of negative environmental impacts in citrus cultivation.
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Beermann, M., Freund, P., Fuentelsaz, F. (2022). Reducing Negative Environmental Impacts in Conventional Agriculture, but Not the Amount of Harvest: A Multi-stakeholder Joint Project in Conventional Citrus Production in Spain. In: Idowu, S.O., Schmidpeter, R. (eds) Case Studies on Sustainability in the Food Industry. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07742-5_7
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