Towards a safe and just operating
space for EU agriculture

Open-access scientific articles

Kuiper, M., de Lange, T., van Zeist, W.-J., & van Meijl, H. (2025). Exploring environmental and distributional impacts of different transition pathways for healthier and sustainable diets: an economic modelling study. The Lancet Planetary Health, 9(10), 101327.
te Wierik, S., DeClerck, F., Beusen, A. et al. Identifying the safe operating space for food systems. Nat Food (2025)
Adenäuer, L., Finger, R., Khanna, M., Kuhn, T., & Storm, H. (2025). Steering Smart Farming Technology Adoption toward a Safe and Just Operating Space. BrightSpace Horizon Europe project GA Nr. 101060075. Working paper.
Marc Müller, Hervé Guyomard, Hans van Meijl, Cécile Détang-Dessendre, Elisa Bardazzi, Michiel van Dijk, Paolo Sckokai, Elke Stehfest, Christoph Krüger, Lukáš Čechura, Beyhan de Jong, Robert M’Barek (2025) Towards a Safe and Just Operating Space for European Agriculture, Q Open, 2025; qoaf026, https://doi.org/10.1093/qopen/qoaf026
Čechura, L., Kumbhakar, S. C., & Žáková Kroupová, Z. (2025). The role of pesticides and fertilizers in Czech cereal output and TFP growth: A flexible production function with endogenous inputs. Food Policy, 136.
Havlík, P., van Meijl, H., Krisztin, T., Müller, M., van Berkum, S., Fellmann, T., Gocht, A., Guyomard, H., Haniotis, T., Matthews, A., Sckokai, P., Stepanyan, D., Witzke, P., Balázs, K., Bos, D. (2025). Sustainable agricultural sector: A key component of EU economic prosperity and security – An economic modellers’ perspective. A joint perspective paper by Horizon Europe projects ACT4CAP27, BrightSpace and LAMASUS.
Havlík, P., van Meijl, H., Krisztin, T., Müller, M., van Berkum, S., Fellmann, T., Gocht, A., Guyomard, H., Haniotis, T., Matthews, A., Sckokai, P., Stepanyan, D., Witzke, P., Balázs, K., Bos, D. (2025). Executive summary – Sustainable agricultural sector: A key component of EU economic prosperity and security – An economic modellers’ perspective. A joint perspective paper by Horizon Europe projects ACT4CAP27, BrightSpace and LAMASUS.
van Vuuren, D. P., Doelman, J. C., Tagomori, I. S., Beusen, A. H. W., Cornell, S. E., Röckström, J., Schipper, A. M., Stehfest, E., Ambrosio, G., van den Berg, M., Bouwman, L., Daioglou, V., Harmsen, M., Lucas, P., van der Wijst, K.-I., & van Zeist, W.-J. (2025). Exploring pathways for world development within planetary boundaries. Nature, 641, 910–916.
Michiel van Dijk, Keith Fuglie, Paul W. Heisey et al. A global database of public agricultural R&D investment: 1960-2022, Sci Data 12, 1140 (2025)
Michiel van Dijk, Keith Fuglie, Paul W. Heisey et al. A global database of public agricultural R&D investment: 1960-2022, 17 April 2025, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square
Linda Arata, Anwesha Chakrabarti, Silvia Coderoni, Anne-Célia Disdier, Tamás Krisztin, Bettina Meinhart, Till Kuhn, Margherita Muzzillo, Ana I Sanjuán, Paolo Sckokai, Alessandro Varacca (2025) A scoping review of the impact of agricultural, food, and environmental policies on the transition towards a safe and just operating space for EU agri-food systems, Q Open, 2025
Z. Smeets Křístková, H.D. Cui, B. Rokicki, R. M’Barek, H. van Meijl, K. Boysen-Urban (2025) European green bonds, carbon tax and crowding-out: The economic, social and environmental impacts of the EU’s green investments under different financing scenarios, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 211, 2025, 115330
Springmann, M., Dinivitzer, E., Freund, F. et al. A reform of value-added taxes on foods can have health, environmental and economic benefits in Europe. Nat Food (2025).
Jin, Y., Kristkova, Z. S., Kardung, M., & Wesseler, J. (2024). Impacts of accelerating agricultural R&D transfer on global food security. GM Crops & Food, 15(1), 1–12.
Thierno Bocar Diop, Lionel Védrine (2025) Did crop diversity criterion from CAP green payments affect both economic and environmental farm performances? Quasi-experimental evidence from France. Ecological Economics. Vol. 277.
S. Moghayer, B. Manouchehrabadi, G. Tiboldo, H. Ferrer-Pérez, M. Kozicka, M. van Dijk, G. Farina, E. Castellari, D. Moro, G. Philippidis (2024) A scoping review of food consumer aspects in transitioning to a safe and just agrifood system. Q Open, 2024; qoae030
Marine Spiteri, Lola Pedrini, Agathe Thierry, Valérie Orozco, Olivier de Mouzon, Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache (2024) Assessing the quantities of legume-based products: A dataset of conversion coefficients into a comparable dry-legume equivalent unit, Data in Brief, Volume 58, 2025, 111222,
D. T. Aladesuru, L. Cechura, S. Neuenfeldt, T. Kuhn, Z. Smeets Kristkova, Z. Žáková Kroupová, T. Ratinger, A. Gocht, M. Müller, H. Storm (2024) Impacts of agricultural production decisions on the safe and just operating space: A systematic literature review. Q Open 2024, qoae027
Frank, S., Lessa Derci Augustynczik, A., Havlík, P. et al. Enhanced agricultural carbon sinks provide benefits for farmers and the climate. Nat Food 5, 742–753 (2024).
van Meijl, H., Bartelings, H., van Berkum, S. et al. The Russia-Ukraine war decreases food affordability but could reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. Commun Earth Environ 5, 59 (2024).