Assessing Ecosystem Services and Job Opportunities in Peri-urban Agriculture Start-Up Projects

Zanzi, A.; Andreotti, Federico; Vaglia, Valentina; Alali, Sumer; Orlando, Francesca; Bocchi, Stefano

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-3738-4_13

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“…This stated fact significantly contributes to the positive evaluation of the start-ups. As stated by [41,54], the OpenAgri start-ups have a robust multifunctional approach that maximises job creation and ES provision.…”

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“…The questionnaire had three parts: (i) The economic dimension, asking the confirmation of what previously planned in the business plan and the employed workforce; (ii) the environmental aspects, in the light of the environmental particularities of the fields (a limitation in water availability) and related ES provided; (iii) the social dimension, to analyse start-up cooperation. Other researches investigate the relationship between ES and job opportunities with Pareto algorithm analysis [41]. These data were implemented into sustainability assessment tool as input.…”

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Assessing Agri-Food Start-Ups Sustainability in Peri-Urban Agriculture Context

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Latest international directives indicate the need for sustainable development, linking socio-economic and environmental aspects, to reach the goals set by Agenda 2030. In this context, peri-urban agriculture can represent the opportunity to increase cities’ sustainability, improving their liveability level, fulfilling a crucial social part since it assures new sources of job opportunities and territorial requalification. This study presents a peri-urban requalification experience, conducted in Milan, Italy, where, within the European funded project OpenAgri, eight agri-food start-ups began their activities in a peri-urban area at the southern gates of the city. The study aims to assess and evaluate these start-ups’ sustainability using the Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture systems (SAFA), which considers four sustainability pillars: Good governance, economic resilience, environmental integrity and social well-being. The application of SAFA indicators to the eight start-ups revealed their positive aspects and some limitations, typical of some not structured enterprises. The research describes a scalable and replicable example of peri-urban agriculture’s potentiality in solving environmental, social and economic issues and tests FAO’s SAFA framework, which is still unexplored in this sustainability assessment context.

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Assessing Agri-Food Start-Ups Sustainability in Peri-Urban Agriculture Context

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Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem Services as Landscape Analysis and Assessment Tools for Ecological Landscape Planning

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Landscape ecology, with its models and indicators and ecosystem services, can be the key to interpreting the processes and characteristics of a landscape. An applied methodology is presented in the case study of a peri-urban context (south of the city of Milan, northern Italy), where the urban-rural boundary is often abrupt and unmitigated, a characteristic that significantly increases ecological vulnerability. The multi-scale study, both in space and time, using landscape ecology and ecosystem services, helps to understand the structure of the landscape, its dynamics and the ecological behaviour of the landscape element system. It will also help to identify drivers of vulnerability and resilience, as well as design and planning solutions to rebalance the urban-rural relationship, increase environmental sustainability and resilience to anthropogenic pressures and climate change, and enhance ecosystem services.

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Assessing Ecosystem Services and Job Opportunities in Peri-urban Agriculture Start-Up Projects

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Assessing Agri-Food Start-Ups Sustainability in Peri-Urban Agriculture Context

Assessing Agri-Food Start-Ups Sustainability in Peri-Urban Agriculture Context

Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem Services as Landscape Analysis and Assessment Tools for Ecological Landscape Planning

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