CONCEPTUALISING FIELDS OF ACTION FOR SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION – A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE AND APPLICATION TO REGIONAL CASE STUDIES

Meike Weltin, Ingo Zasada, Annette Piorr, Marta Debolini, Ghislain Geniaux, Olga Moreno Perez, Laura Scherer, Lorena Tudela Marco and Nynke Schulp

No 262179, 57th Annual Conference, Weihenstephan, Germany, September 13-15, 2017 from German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA)

Abstract: Given the challenges of food security and environmental degradation, sustainable intensification (SI) that combines food production and environmental goals has received growing attention. This study traces the heterogeneous debate in a systematic literature review covering 20 years. To enhance structured, action-oriented understanding, we propose a conceptual framework that anchors the portfolio of SI practices in four fields of action covering farm to landscape level and land-use to organisational optimisation. Applying the framework in four European case studies demonstrates that future research and context-specific implementation must focus on the decision-making rationales of agents, coordinated action and coupling of locally-adapted practices.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Productivity Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 3
Date: 2017-08-15
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.262179

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