Measuring multifunctional agricultural landscapes

B Song, GM Robinson, DK Bardsley - Land, 2020 - mdpi.com
Multifunctional agriculture (MFA) has attracted increased attention from academics and
policymakers in recent years. Academic researchers have utilised various approaches to …

Eco-efficiency of farms considering multiple functions of agriculture: Concept and results from Austrian farms

F Grassauer, M Herndl, T Nemecek… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Besides producing food for humanity's nutrition, agriculture also fulfills other functions such
as providing a livelihood for farmers and preserving an attractive and biodiverse landscape …

A diagnostic system to assess sustainability at a farm level: The SOSTARE model

ML Paracchini, C Bulgheroni, G Borreani, E Tabacco… - Agricultural …, 2015 - Elsevier
The paper presents a model for integrated sustainability assessment at a farm scale. The
SOSTARE model (analysis of farm technical efficiency and impacts on environmental and …

The design of agri-environmental schemes: Farmers' preferences in southern Spain

AJ Villanueva, JA Gómez-Limón, M Arriaza… - Land use policy, 2015 - Elsevier
Agri-environmental schemes (AES) play a key role in promoting the production of
environmental public goods by European Union agriculture. Although extensive literature …

Digital transformation of the agrifood system: Quantifying the conditioning factors to inform policy planning in the olive sector

C Parra-López, L Reina-Usuga, C Carmona-Torres… - Land Use Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite the growing importance of the digital transformation (DT) of the agrifood sector on
the political agenda, traditional policies are not enough to provide proactive responses to …

Sustainability assessment of traditional, intensive and highly-intensive olive growing systems in Tunisia by integrating Life Cycle and Multicriteria Decision analyses

SB Abdallah, C Parra-López, S Elfkih… - Sustainable Production …, 2022 - Elsevier
Olive cultivation is the most important agro-ecosystem in the Mediterranean basin. Despite
the remarkable intensification of this system (ie, the use of high tree densities and large …

[HTML][HTML] Sustainability assessment of territorial short food supply chains versus large‐scale food distribution: The case of Colombia and Spain

L Reina-Usuga, C Parra-López, T de Haro-Giménez… - Land Use Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Assessing, designing and implementing more sustainable agri-food systems has become a
high priority in scientific research and political agendas worldwide. The ongoing Russia …

Prioritising conservation actions towards the sustainability of the dehesa by integrating the demands of society

C Parra-López, S Sayadi, G Garcia-Garcia… - Agricultural …, 2023 - Elsevier
CONTEXT The dehesa is an important agrosilvopastoral system in the Mediterranean,
consisting of trees, livestock and pasture. It is a multifunctional system that offers a wide …

[HTML][HTML] Expansion of olive orchards and their impact on the cultivation and landscape through a case study in the countryside of Cordoba (Spain)

G Guzmán, A Boumahdi, JA Gómez - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
The sustainability of farming systems has been enhanced by legislation on different scales,
but at the same time these policies also promote more productive systems through farming …

A multifunctional assessment of integrated and ecological farming in olive agroecosystems in southwestern Spain using the Analytic Hierarchy Process

AAR Sousa, C Parra-López, S Sayadi-Gmada… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Olive agroecosystems have for several decades undergone management changes aimed to
meet the demands of new agricultural policy trends and of consumers and society. While the …