Comparative Energy-Landscape Integrated Analysis (ELIA) of past and present agroecosystems in North America and Europe from the 1830s to the 2010s

Marull, Joan; Cattaneo, Claudio; Gingrich, Simone; Molina, Manuel González de; Guzmán, Gloria I.; Watson, Andrew; MacFadyen, Joshua; Pons, Manel; Aragay, Enric Tello

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2019.05.011

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“…This agroforestry recovering in the alternative and potential scenarios, has also potential benefits for biodiversity conservation (B1), which can go hand in hand with the increase of total agricultural production (E1C), the later with a 2.2-fold increase from the current (S0) to the potential scenario (S3). This synergy found in the SIA indicators supposes an interesting trend that should be corroborated in further studies, supported under the hypothesis of the so-called land sharing strategy ( Fischer et al, 2014 , Marull et al, 2019 ), so that increasing agricultural production by increasing cropland cover while maintaining intermediate levels of human disturbance can hold greater levels of biodiversity than intensifying the already existing cropped surface.…”

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Assessing the sustainability of contrasting land use scenarios through the Socioecological Integrated Analysis (SIA) of the metropolitan green infrastructure in Barcelona

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Landscape and Urban Planning

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Highlights A new Socioecological Integrated Analysis model of green infrastructures is presented. The model integrates landscape ecology and social metabolism for land use planning. The model assesses four land use scenarios under conventional and organic agriculture. Results suggest organic agriculture is not enough to overcome non-sustainable trends. More integrative strategies coupling land use and metabolism integration are required. Green infrastructures facilitate the transition towards sustainable land use policies.

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Assessing the sustainability of contrasting land use scenarios through the Socioecological Integrated Analysis (SIA) of the metropolitan green infrastructure in Barcelona

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“…As a result, there is a big difference between industrial systems in energy metabolic patterns and agroecological systems that show a high rate of energy that remains stored in internal loops (Aguilera et al, 2020). This makes agricultural landscapes mosaics of heterogeneous land cover patterns, providing ecosystem services like biodiversity conservation (Marull et al, 2019). Further, Sirami et al (2019) demonstrated that the mosaic of agroecology enhances multi-trophic diversity more than semi-natural landscape cover.…”

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Agroecological concepts and alternatives to the problems of contemporary agriculture: Monoculture and chemical fertilization in the context of climate change

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El Ghachtouli

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The modernization of agriculture has transformed natural agrarian systems into other new conventional ones, making it possible to exponentially increase agricultural production. This leads to the destruction of ecological functions, and services, and has negative impacts on human health. This critical situation has given rise to a new model of agriculture called agroecology, which has emerged as a systemic approach that can understand the practices of traditional agricultural systems, as a scientific discipline that defines, classifies, and studies agrosystems from an ecological and socio-economic point of view. This paper explores the major problems of agriculture, including climate change, monoculture, and chemical fertilization at the local, regional and global scale. Equally, we defined the different concepts that bring together the agroecological approach. We based on agroecology as a scientific discipline, as a practice by defining the different agroecological practices and their scale of application, as well as the politico-economic aspect of this concept. Further, we have proposed the agroecological alternatives that can remedy the three problems recorded in the first section, based on several recent studies and research that can examine whether agroecological practices have positive results on monoculture, chemical fertilization, and climate changes. However, more advanced studies, using rigorous research design, such as case controls, longitudinal studies, and surveys in regions where agriculture is their main source of income, such as Morocco, are still needed. These investigations are suggested to fill the gap of data on such areas and fields of research.

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“…This graph avoids double-counting energy flows by replacing the addition of their energy content with the proportions of each flow, which are split into two at each node, one looping inside the agroecosystem, the other either going outside it or coming into it. This new analytical approach allowed an Energy-Landscape Integrated Analysis (ELIA) using as indicators the share of NPP that remain temporarily stored within the agroecosystem; the Shannon index of how evenly NPP energy flows circulate across all possible paths of the graph, taken as an indicator of the information complexity of the agroecosystem (Sherwin & Prat-i-Fornells, 2019); and the land cover diversity of the landscape, which corresponds to this pattern of energy flows, calculated by means of another Shannon index through GIS in digital maps (Marull et al, 2016(Marull et al, , 2019aFont et al, 2020).…”

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Agrarian Metabolism and Socio-ecological Transitions to Agroecology Landscapes

Aragay

Molina

2023

Studies in Ecological Economics

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Joan Martínez Alier has made relevant contributions to the agrarian question by treating the southwestern Spanish latifundio and Latin American hacienda systems as capitalist ways of exploiting land and labour, not as backward feudal remnants. He has also invoked the resistance of Latin American tenant-labourers and other smallholder peasants as an explanation for the limited extent of wage labour. To that end, he helped rescue Alexander Chayanov and the former Narodnik movement from oblivion. With José Manuel Naredo, he paid tribute to Sergei Podolinsky, another member of this peasant neo-populist current, for pioneering the first calculation of energy balances and returns from agricultural systems. As agricultural and environmental historians, we have followed both paths to develop new proposals for a form of agrarian metabolism that, while contributing to ecological economics, is also aligned with agroecology. We summarize our contributions to these topics, developed together with Eduardo Sevilla Guzmán, Victor Toledo and Gloria Guzmán, as well as some of the researchers at the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna and many other participants in the international project on Sustainable Farm Systems (SFS). Our teams have also started using these socio-metabolic accounts to take up the agrarian question of labour and gender exploitation through the unequal appropriation of natural resources from a historical point of view, as well as contribute to the next agroecology transition to a fairer food regime within planetary boundaries.

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Comparative Energy-Landscape Integrated Analysis (ELIA) of past and present agroecosystems in North America and Europe from the 1830s to the 2010s

Cited by 21 publications

References 45 publications

Assessing the sustainability of contrasting land use scenarios through the Socioecological Integrated Analysis (SIA) of the metropolitan green infrastructure in Barcelona

Assessing the sustainability of contrasting land use scenarios through the Socioecological Integrated Analysis (SIA) of the metropolitan green infrastructure in Barcelona

Agroecological concepts and alternatives to the problems of contemporary agriculture: Monoculture and chemical fertilization in the context of climate change

Agrarian Metabolism and Socio-ecological Transitions to Agroecology Landscapes

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