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The impact of the food sector on achieving the sustainable development goals is increasingly debated worldwide amid growing climate change effects and on the background of a lack of quickly responses on mitigating them. Initially, the state of the art is quantitatively analyzed for emphasizing the scientific evolution on food consumption in the context of sustainability and the main themes discussed by researchers. Further, several indicators on food consumption expenditures, daily calorie supply, emissions, waste...

Small and medium sized enterprises (SME) have an important role in developing the economies of each country in the world, no matter their domain of activity. In Romania, the number of such enterprises is significantly smaller than in other EU countries, as official Eurostat (2018) statistics prove. In this case, the Romanian authorities’ decision of supporting the creation of new SME’s through a four-year program is praiseworthy. While the main idea of such a program is to offer the beneficiaries at least a part o...

The global need for specific actions intended at reducing the climatic changes, the regional disparities and increasing the quality of life have led to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, a set of 17 main focal points acknowledged by all the United Nations Organization (UN) members as totally necessary for contributing to ensuring a global sustainable development. Even so, not all the countries have developed their own National Sustainable Development Strategy, due to different factors such as a very...