The Multifunctionality and Territoriality of Peri-Urban Agri-Food Systems: The Metropolitan Region of Madrid, Spain

López-Estébanez, Nieves; Ochoa, Carolina Yacamán; Olmo, Rafael Mata

doi:10.3390/land11040588

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“…As such, it makes sense to ensure this landscape remains productive, the true driver of its management, and that by maintaining these activities, the distinguishing features and patrimony are preserved, as well as its environmental value. The proximity to a great metropolis, like Madrid, can be the key to not only fulfil this weekend role, but also to constitute a Territorialized Agroalimentary System, as proposed elsewhere [74]. Of course, all these considerations should be shared by all the territorial actors that make up and contribute to this landscape [68,101].…”

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“…The elements of the landscapes with cultural value were identified and classified based on fieldwork and previous studies [16,74]. The types of enclosure (dry stone wall, dry stone wall with arboreal vegetation, and dry stone wall covered by multiple strata of vegetation), the types of access (traditional gates, access through gates made with artificial materials, and modern gates that preserve the traditional forms), and the elements of patrimonial nature and identity in the landscape were analyzed.…”

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Preserving the Values of Mediterranean Enclosed Fields with Dry Stone Walls, an Example of Vulnerable Natural and Rural Heritage

López-Estébanez,

Molina-Holgado,

Allende Álvarez

2024

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In the continental Mediterranean mountains of the Iberian Peninsula is located a landscape characterized by the presence of enclosed land parcels delimited by dry stone walls or vegetation, or by both these elements. This landscape has been included, since 2018, in UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity under the name of Art of dry stone walling, knowledge and techniques. However, today’s territorial dynamics jeopardize the maintenance of this landscape heritage. This work set out to understand their origins, dynamics, and evolution from the 11th century (Middle Ages) to the present using historical documentation from different sources and diachronic cartography from aerial photographs. The fieldwork was designed to identify natural, cultural features and recent dynamics, in particular those related to urbanization changes of the last 70 years. Finally, we delved into the new dynamics of exploitation that were based on extensification and a loss of productive diversity. The results obtained lead us to consider that the loss of this agro-landscape must be prevented, with a reasonable livestock grazing criteria and a rational management of its heritage features. This requires regional, national, and European policies that recognize the enclosed landscape as a heritage ecosystem in which biodiversity and agriculture are closely linked.

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Preserving the Values of Mediterranean Enclosed Fields with Dry Stone Walls, an Example of Vulnerable Natural and Rural Heritage

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Molina-Holgado,

Allende Álvarez

2024

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“…Rochefort et al (2021) reviewed the impact of territorialized food systems on health, food security, and the environment. The multifunctionality and territoriality of peri-urban areas have been analyzed to identify the factors needed to re-territorialize food systems and improve their socioecological resilience (López-Estébanez et al, 2022). Territorial studies can facilitate policy design considering all four food security dimensions: availability, access, utilization, and stability.…”

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“…Food systems also differ with regard to structure, governance, and supply chains. The recognition of these unique features that characterize different food systems is important, and there have been recommendations to consider territorialized studies in the analysis of food systems (Gasselin et al., 2020; López‐Estébanez et al., 2022).…”

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Reorienting research investments toward under‐researched crops for sustainable food systems

Munialo,

Siddique,

Barker

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The dominance of a few staple crops (maize, rice, and wheat) in most agricultural systems hampers the application of interventions to improve food security and nutrition. Research and development attention has focused on improving the production and utilization of these crops, leaving other crops under‐researched and underutilized. Subsequently, there have been high malnutrition rates due to poor diet diversity, yet there are “opportunity crops” that remain under researched. The opportunity crops can unlock solutions to food insecurity, malnutrition, a lack of biodiversity, and indeed poor climate adaptation. The study explored diversification in agricultural systems to analyze whether reorientation of research investment to include under‐researched crops can increase nutrient gain and enhance dietary diversity. Research outputs benchmarked as the number of publications from three leading African universities, Nairobi, Pretoria, and Ghana, were related to crop diversity and nutrition of crops in five clusters: cereals, vegetables, legumes, roots and tubers, and nuts. The findings show that maize was the predominantly researched crop across the three institutions. Low research outputs were observed for pearl millet, finger millet, and yam across the three institutions: amaranth and nightshade (Pretoria), sweet potatoes (Pretoria and Ghana), Marama bean (Nairobi), and soya bean (Nairobi and Ghana). There was nutrient gain across all five clusters, particularly from under‐researched indigenous crops such as finger millet, amaranth, nightshade, yam, sweet potatoes, Marama bean, and soybean. Nutrient gain was contributed more by cereals and root and tuber crops from Pretoria, vegetables and nuts (Ghana), as well as legumes (Nairobi). The findings demonstrate that incorporating research on the least researched crops with successful integration of other research and development initiatives (policy and dissemination) can increase nutrition and improve dietary diversity. The nutrient gain will positively affect food security and nutrition, contributing to the achievement of Africa Agenda 2063, the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, and reducing food imports. The findings can inform research investment and decision across different institutions within the African continent. Research investment targeting crops such as finger millet, amaranthus, sweet potatoes, soya beans, and cashew nuts is needed considering the nutritional contribution, climate change adaptability, market potential, and biodiversity contribution. Further analysis should explore production, socio‐economic (marketability and income generation), and environmental gains (adaptive ability to climate change) for specific crops. The development of frameworks to guide the analysis of the nature and scope of factors affecting the contribution of these crops to food security and nutrition, as well as research on specific crops considering geographic distribution and institutional involvement, is also needed.

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“…Estos sistemas productivos generan resultados en tres ámbitos: la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional (SAN), el socioeconómico y político, y el medioambiental (Roosendaal et al, 2021;González et al, 2022;López-Estébanez et al, 2022). De tal forma que dichos sistemas constituyen el mayor sistema económico del mundo en términos de empleo, medios de vida e impacto global, pues se calcula que proporciona empleo a 4.000 millones de personas a nivel mundial, directa e indirectamente.…”

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América Latina ante los (nuevos) retos de la justicia social y ambiental.

Gusman¹,

Guilarte²,

Cidrás³

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La justicia ha sido una cuestión teórica recurrente en las ciencias sociales críticas, entendiendo como tales aquellas que parten de un posicionamiento claro que rehúye de la objetividad pura de las ciencias naturales y que propone una actitud reflexiva explicitada e históricamente contextualizada de los procesos estudiados (Brenner et al., 2012). Ya en los años setenta, autores como Harvey intentan aplicar el concepto de justicia en el que se incluya un componente espacial, con lo que intentan desarrollar una teoría de justicia social territorial: que implique cubrir las necesidades en función de los ingresos obtenidos y redistribuir de tal manera que los territorios con una posición más desaventajada sean los más favorecidos (Harvey, 2014). Investigaciones como las de Young (2000), publicada inicialmente en 1990, contribuyeron a que los geógrafos se centraran, además de en los procesos de redistribución, en las diferencias en las formas de opresión y dominación a los grupos sociales subalternos (Young, 2000; Pzybylinski, 2022). Dentro de ese conjunto, las reflexiones centradas en el carácter de (in)justicia del proceso de urbanización son recurrentes (Lévy et al, 2018). Más concretamente, en lo que se refiere al ámbito puramente geográfico, autores como Hopkins analizan el compromiso de la subdisciplina de la Geografía social con la consecución de justicia social (Hopkins, 2021).A pesar de la importancia que la espacialidad ha asumido en el planteamiento de las cuestiones de justicia, tanto en su vertiente territorial como también temporal, fenómenos como el cambio climático, la integración de las economías nacionales en un sistema económico global, la creciente urbanización, la mejoría de las REFERENCIAS

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The Multifunctionality and Territoriality of Peri-Urban Agri-Food Systems: The Metropolitan Region of Madrid, Spain

Cited by 10 publications

References 60 publications

Preserving the Values of Mediterranean Enclosed Fields with Dry Stone Walls, an Example of Vulnerable Natural and Rural Heritage

Preserving the Values of Mediterranean Enclosed Fields with Dry Stone Walls, an Example of Vulnerable Natural and Rural Heritage

Reorienting research investments toward under‐researched crops for sustainable food systems

América Latina ante los (nuevos) retos de la justicia social y ambiental.

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