Stakeholders evaluate their co-designed farming systems: insights from Greece and Spain

Ferdaous Rezgui (), Laure Hossard (), Louise Blanc (), Daniel Plaza-Bonilla, Jorge Lampurlanés, Christos Dordas, Paschalis Papakaloudis, Andreas Michalitsis, Fatima Lambarraa-Lehnhardt and Moritz Reckling ()
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Ferdaous Rezgui: ZALF - Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung = Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
Laure Hossard: UMR Innovation - Innovation et Développement dans l'Agriculture et l'Alimentation - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Montpellier - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Louise Blanc: Department of Agricultural and Forest Sciences and Engineering, University of Lleida – AGROTECNIO-CERCA Center, Av. Rovira Roure 191, Lleida
Daniel Plaza-Bonilla: Department of Agricultural and Forest Sciences and Engineering, University of Lleida – AGROTECNIO-CERCA Center, Av. Rovira Roure 191, Lleida
Jorge Lampurlanés: Department of Agricultural and Forest Sciences and Engineering, University of Lleida – AGROTECNIO-CERCA Center, Av. Rovira Roure 191, Lleida
Christos Dordas: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Paschalis Papakaloudis: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Andreas Michalitsis: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Fatima Lambarraa-Lehnhardt: ZALF - Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung = Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
Moritz Reckling: ZALF - Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung = Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research

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Abstract: The quest for agricultural productivity has certainly increased the production, but it has come at the cost of natural resources (Egidi et al., 2022).To promote higher ecosystem services, diversifying rotations with legumes has been proposed as a viable alternative (Reckling et al., 2023). Involving local actors when designing and evaluating those alternatives can enhance their transferability and likelihood of implementation (Chopin et al., 2021). During a first workshop with local stakeholders, diversification options with grain legumes for cereal-based systems were co-designed (Hossard et al., 2024) in Greece and Spain. Using a set of agri-environmental, social and economic indicators, we assessed the performance of designed options in comparison to continuous cereal cropping. During a second workshop, stakeholders were presented with the assessment results and asked to rate i) the importance of the assessment indicators and ii) the performance of the assessed systems. In this study, we present the results of the stakeholder's ratings using an Importance-Performance matrix (IPM) that measures the satisfaction of stakeholders towards the assessed farming systems (with and without legumes) based on i) the importance of the indicators (x-axis) and ii) the agri-environmental, social and economic performance (y-axis) (Phadermrod et al., 2019). Despite the importance of economic indicators to Greek and Spanish stakeholders, they rated the economic performance of farming systems (with and without legume rotations) as low. This illustrates how important it is for stakeholders to consider the economic aspect, but legume diversification still isn't improving economic performance. In contrast, agri-environmental indicators performed largely better but are of low significance to stakeholders. Similarly, stakeholders generally placed little importance on social indicators despite rating them as highly performing. Thus, performing better in social or environmental aspects may not be sufficient to justify diversification with legumes as long as it fails to generate profitable returns.

Keywords: diversification; legume; co-design; multi-criteria assessment; stakeholders (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-11-18
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Published in 5. ESP Europe Conference: "Ecosystem Services: One Planet, One Health", Foundation for Sustainable Developement; Ecosystem Services Partnership; Wageningen University, Nov 2024, Wageningen, Netherlands

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