1. Wie nehmen Akteure die Nachhaltigkeit und Resilienz der landwirtschaftlichen Systeme in der EU wahr?
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Reidsma, Pytrik, Meuwissen, Miranda, Accatino, Francesco, Appel, Franziska, Bardaji, Isabel, Coopmans, Isabeau, Gavrilescu, Camelia, Heinrich, Florian, Krupin, Vitaliy, Manevska‐Tasevska, Gordana, Peneva, Mariya, Rommel, Jens, Severini, Simone, Soriano, Bárbara, Urquhart, Julie, Zawalińska, Katarzyna, Paas, Wim, Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen] (WUR), Business Economics, Sciences pour l'Action et le Développement : Activités, Produits, Territoires (SADAPT), AgroParisTech-Université Paris-Saclay-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Research Centre for the Management of Agricultural and Environmental Risks (CEIGRAM), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Agricultural and Farm Development, Institute for Agricultural, Food and Fisheries Research (ILVO), Division of Bioeconomics, Institute of Agricultural Economics (IAE), Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Agrifood Economic Center, Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)-Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Department of Natural Resources Economics, University of National and World Economy [Sofia] (UNWE), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Department of Agriculture, Forest and Food Sciences, Università degli studi di Torino (UNITO), Countryside and Community Research Institute [Cheltenham] (CCRI), University of Gloucestershire [Gloucester], and Plant Production Systems and Business Economics
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[SDV.SA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences ,stresses ,maintenance of natural resources ,Technological innovation ,economic viability ,stakeholders - Abstract
International audience; An increasing variety of stresses and shocks provides challenges and opportunities for EU farming systems. This article presents findings of a participatory assessment on the sustainability and resilience of eleven EU farming systems, to inform the design of adequate and relevant strategies and policies. According to stakeholders that participated in workshops, the main functions of farming systems are related to food production, economic viability and maintenance of natural resources. Performance of farming systems assessed with regard to these and five other functions was perceived to be moderate. Past strategies were often geared towards making the system more profitable, and to a lesser extent towards coupling production with local and natural resources, social self-organisation, enhancing functional diversity, and facilitating infrastructure for innovation. Overall, the resilience of the studied farming systems was perceived as low to moderate, with robustness and adaptability often dominant over transformability. To allow for transformability, being reasonably profitable and having access to infrastructure for innovation were viewed as essential. To improve sustainability and resilience of EU farming systems, responses to short-term processes should better consider long-term processes. Technological innovation is required, but it should be accompanied with structural, social, agro-ecological and institutional changes.
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- 2020
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