Old Wine in New Bottles : Exploiting Data from the EU's Farm Accountancy Data Network for Pan-EU Sustainability Assessments of Agricultural Production Systems
Matthews, Keith B. (The James Hutton Institute. Information and Computational Sciences Department)
Renner, Ansel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Blackstock, Kirsty (The James Hutton Institute. Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Department)
Waylen, Kerry A. (The James Hutton Institute. Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Department)
Miller, Dave G. (The James Hutton Institute. Information and Computational Sciences Department)
Wardell-Johnosn, Dough H. (The James Hutton Institute. Information and Computational Sciences Department)
Juarez-Bourke, Alba (The James Hutton Institute. Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Department)
Cadillo Benalcazar, Juan José (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Schyns, Joep F. (University of Twente)
Giampietro, Mario (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)

Data:	2021
Descripció:	26 pàg.
Resum:	The paper presents insights from carrying out a pan-EU sustainability assessment using Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) data (the old wine) with societal metabolism accounting (SMA) processes (the new bottles). The SMA was deployed as part of a transdisciplinary study with EU policy stakeholders of how EU policy may need to change to deliver sustainability commitments, particularly to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The paper outlines the concepts underlying SMA and its specific implementation using the FADN data. A key focus was on the interactions between crop and livestock systems and how this determines imported feedstuffs requirements, with environmental and other footprints beyond the EU. Examples of agricultural production systems performance are presented in terms of financial/efficiency, resource use (particularly the water footprint) and quantifies potential pressures on the environment. Benefits and limitations of the FADN dataset and the SMA outputs are discussed, highlighting the challenges of linking quantified pressures with environmental impacts. The paper concludes that the complexity of agriculture's interactions with economy and society means there is great need for conceptual frameworks, such as SMA, that can take multiple, non-equivalent, perspectives and that can be deployed with policy stakeholders despite generating uncomfortable knowledge.
Ajuts:	European Commission 689669 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CEX2019-000940-M
Nota:	Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Sustainability ; Societal metabolism ; FADN ; Common agricultural policy ; Water-energy-food nexus
Publicat a:	Sustainability, Vol. 13, art. 18 (September 2021) , art. 10080, ISSN 2071-1050

DOI: 10.3390/su131810080

26 p, 9.3 MB

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