On-farm water quality: Co-design of result-based indicators

Perrine Branchet, Olivier Godinot, Nouraya Akkal-Corfini, Matthieu Carof, Christophe Jaeger, Bénédicte Roche, Françoise Vertès and Virginie Parnaudeau

Agricultural Systems, 2025, vol. 225, issue C

Abstract: Pollution of water resources by substances emitted by agriculture, such as nitrate, pesticides, pharmaceutical residues, fecal microorganisms and microplastics, remains a crucial issue. To assess the effectiveness of pollution-mitigation projects, water quality is usually monitored at the watershed scale. In parallel, farmers and agricultural advisors use mainly means-based indicators to assess farm sustainability. In Brittany, France, the Terres de Sources project addresses the following issues: (i) individual farmers cannot assess effects of changes in their practices using result-based water-quality indicators at the watershed outlet and (ii) means-based indicators provide little information about local water quality.

Keywords: Participatory research; KCP method; Water quality; Farm scale indicators (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2025.104275

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