SAFE—A hierarchical framework for assessing the sustainability of agricultural systems

Cauwenbergh, Nora Van; Biała, Katarzyna; Bielders, Charles; Brouckaert, Véronique; Franchois, L.; Cidad, Visi Garcia; Hermy, Martin; Mathijs, Erik; Muys, Bart; Reijnders, J.; Sauvenier, Xavier; Valckx, Jan; Vanclooster, Marnik; Veken, B. Van der; Wauters, Erwin; Peeters, Alain

doi:10.1016/j.agee.2006.09.006

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“…For performing the selection, summarisation, calculation and interpretation of indicators at farm level, a number of methods have been suggested: RISE [20]; SAFE [21]; MOTIFS [22]; SOSTARE [23], as well as a method suggested by M.N. Thieverges [24].…”

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“…developed by S. Bell and S. Morse [25] as well as a research study on sustainability assessment by employing FADN indicators conducted in the EU Member States [16] were used when assessing the appropriateness of every indicator. [21] Using the system of levels for assessment of indicators, change in the values of the agroecosystem services and goods created by all the types of capital is assumed to be the starting point. Certain criteria, from which indicators are derived and which influence a function, are set for any change in capital of each type at the next level.…”

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Sustainability assessment of agricultural production: case study of Latvian crop sector

Lenerts

Popluga

Schulte

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Engineering for Rural Development

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Abstract. The concept of sustainability in agricultural production is characterised by three interrelated dimensions: environmental sustainability; economic sustainability; and social sustainability. Research studies are needed to understand what the specific characteristics of each dimension are and how they interact in time and space. The aim of this research is to make a sustainability assessment of agricultural production in the crop sector in Latvia. In the paper, the authors have compiled existing studies that have tried to include all the three dimensions of sustainability analysis and to provide explanations of factors determining sustainable agricultural production. It was concluded that some agricultural development indicators pointed to the challenges of meeting sustainable economic development objectives in agricultural production. The results showed that this development of agricultural production in the crop sector took place at the expense of natural capital impairment, as the environmental sustainability index had fallen from a neutral value of 0 to a negative value of -0.25 during the last decade. Activity data characterising the production practices of crop farms pointed to a non-sustainable farming system, where the intensity of exploitation of production resources of fossil origin had essentially increased.

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Sustainability assessment of agricultural production: case study of Latvian crop sector

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Popluga

Schulte

et al. 2017

Engineering for Rural Development

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“…As suggested by Binder et al (2010) and Marie (2011), the sustainability assessment of agricultural systems was still in the development stage and had shortcomings. The most commonly-used data source for the evaluation of the farms economic, social and environment sustainability is the farmers' survey, Framework for assessing the farm relative sustainability: a Lithuanian case study Vlada VITUNSKIENE,Vida DABKIENE doi: 10.17221/125/2015-AGRICECON employing a structured questionnaire or/and an indepth interview (Sauvenier et al 2005;Urutyan and Thalman 2011;Jalilian 2012). Therefore, recently the available databases as information sources such as the EU Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) have been employed ; Van der Meulen et al 2013;Barnes and Thomson 2014;Ryan et al 2014;.…”

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“…Farm sustainability assessments were conducted in some countries, such as the Belgium (Sauvenier et al 2005), Spain (Gomez-Limon and Sanchez-Fernandez 2010), Iran (Jalilian 2012), the Netherlands ( Van der Meulen et al 2013), Armenia (Urutyan and Thalman 2011), Greece (Dantsis et al 2010), the Veneto region in Italy , Scotland (Barnes and Thompson 2014) and Ireland (Ryan et al 2014). In Lithuania, the farm sustainability has so far been analysed from the perspective of organic farming only (Čiegis 2009;Skulskis 2010).…”

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Framework for assessing the farm relative sustainability: a Lithuanian case study

Vitunskienė¹,

Dabkienė²

2016

AGR ECON-CZECH

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Th e aim of the study was to develop an analytical tool to assess the relative sustainability of family farms using the FADN data. Th is tool was based on the set of 23 indicators that covered three main components of sustainability (economic, environmental and social). Th e min-max approach was employed to normalise the selected indicators expressed in variety dimensions for their need to be put on a common basis. Th e factor analysis was used to estimate weights for the selected indicators to construct sub-indices and then the sub-indices were aggregated into the farm relative sustainability index (FRSI). Th e FRSI and sub-indices ranged from 0 to 1 (scaled into three intervals), assuming that the closer to 1 were the values of the index and the sub-indices the higher was the relative sustainability of the farm. Th e analytical tool has been applied to the Lithuanian FADN database for 2003 and 2012. Th e research revealed that the FRSI in 2003 and 2012 fell within the medium sustainability interval in all analysed farm size classes. Th e best sustainability situation in the year 2003 was determined on the large-sized farms, while the best sustainability situation in the year 2012 was established on the mid-sized farms.

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“…We consider sustainability as a broader concept encompassing three interdependent dimensions -that is, economic, ecological and social dimensions (Mebratu, 1998). This approach has also been adopted to evaluate agricultural sustainability by, for example, Van Calker et al (2006) and Van Cauwenbergh et al (2007). We thus consider Fair Trade as part of the concept of sustainability (see also Strong, 1998).…”

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Framing as strategy for effective communication about Fair Trade products in Flanders

Stoefs

Mathijs

2009

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

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This paper investigates whether reframing an issue related to sustainable consumption can influence citizens' attitude towards that issue. Our investigation focuses on the case of Fair Trade in Flanders, Belgium. Fair Trade contributes to sustainable development by offering better conditions to marginalized producers in the South. Using an internet-based experimental setup, 1617 individuals were exposed to an NGO-based frame, a retailer-based frame, an experimental frame or no frame. Statistical analysis then indicated whether the experimental frame performed better than the control group and the other frames in shifting people's attitudes. Our results suggest that a brief exposure to a combination of tone, messenger, value and metaphor that signals the systemic aspects of Fair Trade may be successful in shifting the attitude and opinion of Flemish consumers/citizens in favour of Fair Trade. Our analysis suggests that the foundations metaphor that has been developed in the context of the environmental impact of food production can also be applied in the context of the social impact of food production.

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SAFE—A hierarchical framework for assessing the sustainability of agricultural systems

Cited by 370 publications

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Sustainability assessment of agricultural production: case study of Latvian crop sector

Sustainability assessment of agricultural production: case study of Latvian crop sector

Framework for assessing the farm relative sustainability: a Lithuanian case study

Framing as strategy for effective communication about Fair Trade products in Flanders

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