A methodology for the sustainability assessment of agri-food systems: an application to the Slow Food Presidia project.

Peano, Cristiana; Migliorini, Paola; Sottile, Francesco

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“…Many tools as MOTIFS, Slow Food Presidia, RISE and SAFA express the importance of communication on results of sustainability assessments (De Mey et al, 2011;Häni et al, 2003;Peano et al, 2014;Triste et al, 2014;Van Cauwenbergh et al, 2007). However, our results suggest that links between farm and sector level on that matter are needed and therefore, the framework has to unhide different options and linkages between levels for communication.…”

Section: "Communicate To Consumer That We Produce High Quality Produccontrasting

confidence: 47%

A framework for guiding sustainability assessment and on-farm strategic decision making

Coteur¹,

Marchand

Debruyne³

et al. 2016

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

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Responding to future challenges and societal needs, various actions are taken in agriculture to evolve towards more sustainable farming practices. These actionsimply strategic choices and suppose adequate sustainability as-sessments to identify, measure, evaluate and communicate sustainable development. However, literature is scarce on the link between strategic decision making and sustainability assessment. As questions emerge on how,what andwhen tomeasure, the objective of this paper is to construct a framework for guiding sustainability assessment and on-farmstrategic decision making. Qualitative research on own experiences fromthe past and a recentproject revealed four categoriesof actualneeds farmers,advisors andexperts have regarding sustainability assessment: context, flexibility, focus on farm and farmer and communication. These stakeholders' needs are then incorporated into a two-dimensional framework that marries the intrinsic complexity of sustainability as-sessment tools and the time frame of strategic decision making. The framework allows a farmspecificand flex-ible approach leading to harmonized actions towards sustainable farming. As this framework is mainly a procedural instrument to guide the use of sustainability assessment tools within strategic decision making, it fits to incorporate, even guide, future research on sustainability assessment tools themselves and on their adop-tion on farms.

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Section: "Communicate To Consumer That We Produce High Quality Produccontrasting

confidence: 47%

A framework for guiding sustainability assessment and on-farm strategic decision making

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Marchand

Debruyne³

et al. 2016

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“…Gasparatos and Scolobig 2012). Peano et al (2014) provide a case study of how to assess sustainability of an alternative food system, and three other papers discuss methodological conflicts in choosing and developing assessment tools. The choice of method is based on built-in methodological differences and trade-offs between different objectives.…”

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“…Different target groups differ in what form of knowledge they expect and use, and the informed consumer identified by Freyer et al (2014) is the most likely to be influenced by multicriteria assessments. Measuring weights given to different disciplines (Peano et al 2014) quantifies differences in emphasis of different types of knowledge and provides a method to reframe the same sustainability data in different ways for different audiences, but it does not reconcile the underlying perspectives and debates about which should take overall precedence in how food and fibre are produced. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol21/iss1/art38/ Fig.…”

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“…The very act of measuring weights also starts to explicitly reveal the values deployed in a given assessment. Peano et al (2014)'s approach included an interactive process with the stakeholders helping them to improve all dimensions of sustainability. In particular the socioeconomic and cultural capital increased by preserving the environmental and quality aspects of the food products.…”

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“…For instance there may be a trade-off between the scope of the assessment and the precision and validity of the results (Schader et al 2014); between complex, expert-based full assessments and participatory rapid assessments ; and between measures of sustainability performance and management and development of agricultural enterprises ). Peano et al (2014)'s test of sustainability within the Slow Food Presidia project in Italy evaluated a farm-to-market system for local, high-quality, sustainable products. They developed an indicator-based tool to monitor the sustainability of the agri-food systems considering quality as well as economic, ecological, social, and cultural aspects.…”

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Opportunities and challenges for multicriteria assessment of food system sustainability

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Møller²,

Læssøe³

et al. 2016

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ABSTRACT. The focus of the Special Feature on "Multicriteria assessment of food system sustainability" is on the complex challenges of making and communicating overall assessments of food systems sustainability based on multiple and varied criteria. Four papers concern the choice and development of appropriate tools for making multicriteria sustainability assessments that handle built-in methodological conflicts and trade-offs between different assessment objectives. They underscore the value of linking diverse methods and tools, or nesting and stepping their deployment, to help build resilience and sustainability. They conclude that there is no one tool, one framework, or one indicator set that is appropriate for the different purposes and contexts of sustainability assessment. The process of creating the assessment framework also emerges as important: if the key stakeholders are not given a responsible and full role in the development of any assessment tool, it is less likely to be fit for their purpose and they are unlikely to take ownership or have confidence in it. Six other papers reflect on more fundamental considerations of how assessments are based in different scientific perspectives and on the role of values, motivation, and trust in relation to assessments in the development of more sustainable food systems. They recommend a radical break with the tradition of conducting multicriteria assessment from one hegemonic perspective to considering multiple perspectives. Collectively the contributions to this Special Feature identify three main challenges for improved multicriteria assessment of food system sustainability: (i) how to balance different types of knowledge to avoid that the most wellknown, precise, or easiest to measure dimensions of sustainability gets the most weight; (ii) how to expose the values in assessment tools and choices to allow evaluation of how they relate to the ethical principles of sustainable food systems, to societal goals, and to the interests of different stakeholders; and (iii) how to enable communication in such a way that the assessments can effectively contribute to the development of more sustainable food systems by facilitating a mutual learning process between researchers and stakeholders. The wider question of how to get from assessment to transformation goes across all three challenges. We strongly recommend future research on the strengths, weaknesses, and complementarities of taking a values-based rather than a performancebased approach to promoting the resilience and sustainability of coupled ecological, economic, and social systems for ensuring food security and agroecosystem health in the coming millennium.

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Consumption and Public Life

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A methodology for the sustainability assessment of agri-food systems: an application to the Slow Food Presidia project.

Cited by 69 publications

References 22 publications

A framework for guiding sustainability assessment and on-farm strategic decision making

A framework for guiding sustainability assessment and on-farm strategic decision making

Opportunities and challenges for multicriteria assessment of food system sustainability

Food Consumption and Food Activism in Italy

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