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Methodologies for Assessing Sustainability in Farming Systems

In: Sustainability Assessment and Reporting

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  • Fabian Cruz
  • Yolanda Mena
  • Vicente Rodriguez-Estevez

Abstract

Development of composite indicators is considered an important approach for evaluating sustainable development. For agriculture, different indicators have been developed such as Delphi, IDEA, MESMIS, MOTIFS, RISE, or SAFE. For its construction, usually bivariate and multivariate statistical techniques were employed. These are pragmatic tools used to simplify the description of complex systems by the use of three functions: to simplify, to quantify, and to communicate easily. Criteria for indicator selection include policy relevance, validity, accessibility, and measurability. However, operational evaluation of agricultural sustainability presents problems, because it requires analyzing the future production of goods and services, which need to be observed on a reasonable time horizon, and other difficulties involve interpreting the combination of indicators required for such analyses. This chapter realizes a review of these methodologies and its applications.

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  • Fabian Cruz & Yolanda Mena & Vicente Rodriguez-Estevez, 2018. "Methodologies for Assessing Sustainability in Farming Systems," Chapters, in: Soner Gokten & Pinar Okan Gokten (ed.), Sustainability Assessment and Reporting, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:160767
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.79220
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    1. Shankarappa Sridhara & Pradeep Gopakkali & Konapura Nagaraja Manoj & Kiran Kumar R. Patil & Venkatesh Paramesh & Prakash Kumar Jha & P. V. Vara Prasad, 2022. "Identification of Sustainable Development Priorities for Agriculture through Sustainable Livelihood Security Indicators for Karnataka, India," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(3), pages 1-23, February.
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    3. Cipriano Díaz-Gaona & Manuel Sánchez-Rodríguez & Vicente Rodríguez-Estévez, 2021. "Assessment of the Sustainability of Extensive Livestock Farms on the Common Grasslands of the Natural Park Sierra de Grazalema," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-19, February.

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    Keywords

    sustainable development; indicators; index; organic; natural resources;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics

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