Assessment and Principles of Environmentally Sustainable Food and Agriculture Systems

Agriculture, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 13(5), С. 1073 - 1073

Опубликована: Май 17, 2023

Feeding the world depends on protecting our valuable ecosystems and biodiversity. Currently, increasing public awareness of problems posed by current industrialized food system has resulted in increased support for creative market economically, socially, ecologically sustainable production systems enhanced demands variations agricultural policies regulations. In production, restoration protection must be given priority, which requires a forward-looking rational management strategy fundamental changes patterns practices economic development, product, production. Food should redesigned to have neutral positive environmental impact, as well ensure healthy nutrition safety, low impact strategies become priority. This review paper aims discuss, build, guide evaluate systems, principles, transition such agroecological, organic, biodynamic, regenerative, urban, precision agriculture, are imperative visions agriculture To this end, we analyzed evolution established develop created assessment key sustainability issues related food, environment, climate, rural development priorities resource use practices.

Язык: Английский

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Divergent agricultural development pathways across farm and landscape scales in Europe: Implications for sustainability and farmer satisfaction

Global Environmental Change, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 86, С. 102855 - 102855

Опубликована: Май 1, 2024

Current agricultural practices in Europe are increasingly aggravating societal and environmental safety concerns. This creates social regulatory pressures on farmers, which can lead to declining material status of farmer discontent, anti-regulation protests. These tensions rooted conflicting value systems for development, range from productivist pathways (i.e. valuing production above all else) increasing multifunctionality agriculture its contribution multiple economic, needs). It is largely unknown what degree individual farms landscapes transitioning towards productivism or practice. Here, we mapped landscape changes interviewed farmers (n = 274) examine the diversity development 17 study sites across over last 20 years (2000–2020). We also assessed associations between farmers' perceptions socio-economic outcomes, namely job satisfaction, valuation, economic performance. Farm-level was aligned with pathways, while landscape-level more closely an pathway. Farmers did not perceive improved outcomes livelihood indicators as compared farmers. Furthermore, were concentrated very high management intensities that face strong pressure regulations, well low-intensity, mountainous sites, where opportunities intensification limited. results suggest current increase arise mostly by necessity. Successful transformation will therefore require policy create enabling environments provide socioeconomic benefits multifunctionality, a civil society market conditions sustainable agriculture.

Язык: Английский

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Why has farming in Europe changed? A farmers’ perspective on the development since the 1960s

Regional Environmental Change, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 23(4)

Опубликована: Ноя. 11, 2023

Farming in Europe has been the scene of several important socio-economic and environmental developments crises throughout last century. Therefore, an understanding historical driving forces farm change helps identifying potentials for navigating future pathways agricultural development. However, long-term have so far studied, e.g. anecdotal local case studies or systematic literature reviews, which often lack context dependency. In this study, we bridged continental scales by conducting 123 oral history interviews (OHIs) with elderly farmers across 13 study sites 10 European countries. We applied a framework to systematically analyse OHIs. find that most prevalent were introduction new technologies, markets pushed size enlargement technological optimisation, policies, but also cultural aspects such as cooperation intergenerational arrangements. considerable heterogeneity specific influence individual sites, implying generic assumptions about dynamics impacts drivers hold limited explanatory power on scale. Our results suggest site-specific factors their development will need be considered when addressing agriculture scientific policy context.The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10113-023-02150-y.

Язык: Английский

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Geographic similarity analysis for Land System Science: opportunities and tools to facilitate knowledge integration and transfer

Journal of Land Use Science, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 18(1), С. 227 - 248

Опубликована: Июнь 6, 2023

Advances in Land System Science (LSS) rely on the evidence generated by different types of research activities, including place-based case studies, landscape/land-system mapping and synthesis research. However, these activities are usually conducted parallel, with a lack integration often leading to important knowledge gaps limitations. In this article, we provide tools for application geographic similarity analysis (GSA), collection spatially-explicit methods assessing degree between locations, thereby help address We identify opportunities employing GSA support: 1) selecting geographically representative sets studies; 2) integrating empirical at scales levels abstraction; 3) facilitating context-sensitive transfer. The resulting toolbox provides approaches researchers get an enhanced understanding multi-scale land change processes, as well supporting governance scaling up solutions LSS

Язык: Английский

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Facilitating Knowledge-Driven Economic and Social Development: the Significance of Demographic Transformation in Tourism Villages in China

Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 15(3), С. 13890 - 13918

Опубликована: Дек. 8, 2023

Язык: Английский

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Agricultural intensity for sustainable regional development: A case study in peri-urban areas of Karawang Regency, Indonesia

Regional Sustainability, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 5(1), С. 100117 - 100117

Опубликована: Март 1, 2024

Peri-urban areas are playing an increasingly crucial role in the agricultural development and intensification Indonesia. agriculture is highly vulnerable to change compared with urban rural agriculture, due its location transitional areas. Indicators of peri-urban intensity can help guide regional development. In this study, we assessed sustainability based on Karawang Regency, We developed a village-based index assess region's by rescaling village (VAI) combining local (LSI) factor analysis. Since unit analysis village, modified LSI (VSI). addition, also logical matrix determine level (LoAS) each village. The combined results three indices (VAI, VSI, LoAS) generated information about sustainability. indicated that villages high tended exhibit low levels social welfare, economic development, disaster risk. Moreover, did not necessarily ensure prosperity people. Instead, there was disparity among study area. Encouraging diversity seems be more critical than promoting itself. Overall, highlights distinctive characteristics dynamic New approaches, variables, regarding combination need as valuable tools for planning.

Язык: Английский

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Developing an Agricultural Futures Framework to explore the option space for agricultural change in Europe under alternative value perspectives

Sustainability Science, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 23, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Experiences in Assessing the Impact of Circular Economy Interventions in Agrifood Systems—A Review

Sustainability, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 17(4), С. 1406 - 1406

Опубликована: Фев. 9, 2025

The circular economy (CE) offers a promising framework for sustainable resource management; however, assessing its performance remains challenging due to lack of robust methodologies, metrics, and data. In agrifood systems, CE has the potential improve efficiency food security. However, limited research explored interventions in this sector, emphasizing need tailored assessment tools. This study seeks advance intervention evaluation systems through realist literature review discussion on system assessments bridge identified knowledge gaps. Our reveals that most frameworks only address technical or environmental dimensions their measurable nature predominance laboratory research. focus underscores necessity incorporating real-world contexts. Insights from evaluations suggest future should develop holistic encompassing technical, environmental, social, economic dimensions. A systems-thinking approach is important understanding complex interactions among these dimensions, involving mapping, key component identification, development context-specific metrics adaptable global local settings, particularly low- middle-income countries. Active stakeholder collaboration throughout design, data collection, essential creating relevant indicators. Integrating elements supports comprehensive systems.

Язык: Английский

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Quantifying sustainability and resilience in food systems: a systematic analysis for evaluating the convergence of current methodologies and metrics

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 9

Опубликована: Фев. 13, 2025

The global food system faces multiple challenges including growing demand, climate change, conflicts, economic shocks, pandemics, and disasters. Food systems aim to provide healthy nutritious for all, while minimizing environmental impacts, ensuring social equity viability, enhancing resilience shocks stresses. fragility of the has been exposed by COVID-19 Russia-Ukraine war, resulting in disruptions supply chains reduced access vulnerable populations. Recognizing importance transitioning more “sustainable” “resilient” systems, a notable gap exists clear metrics quantifying “sustainability” “resilience,” hindering ability track progress inform evidence-based decision-making. This paper explores alignment definitions evaluation methods “resilience” literature, diversity existing across regions scales, distribution distinctive characteristics case studies that have implemented these quantification approaches. analysis literature highlights lack consensus defining sustainability resilience, highlighting need stakeholder- informed, context-specific metrics. divergence observed conceptualizations methodologies illustrates achieving unified assessment framework bridging between practical implementation. To address this, we propose co-creation practical, interpretable tailored through stakeholder engagement, acknowledging limitations one-size-fits-all approach. Notably, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Food-Energy-Water Nexus (FEWN) emerge as promising comprehensively evaluating dimensions. review underscores further conceptual methodological refinement, alongside fostering regional international collaboration, advance discourse action on sustainable resilient systems.

Язык: Английский

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Assessment the impact of palygorskite modified by chlorides on speciation and environmental risk of heavy metals in soil contaminated

Scientific Reports, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 15(1)

Опубликована: Апрель 11, 2025

Язык: Английский

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