Does Your Landscape Mirror What You Eat? A Long-Term Socio-metabolic Analysis of a Local Food System in Vallès County (Spain, 1860–1956–1999)

Padró, Roc; Marco, Inés; Cattaneo, Claudio; Caravaca, Jonathan; Aragay, Enric Tello

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“…Even if an increasing part of green crops is destined as BR to livestock, the near to abandonment of animal grazing and pasturing in wood crops, vineyards, meadows, and forests results in an overall loss of BR from land to livestock. In turn, this implies more feed imports from beyond the BMR boundaries [40]. Table 6.…”

Section: Spatially Explicit Flow-fund Relationships: Nexus and Landscmentioning

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“…Moreover, a balance between flows-in particular, Final Product is also required: in agroecological landscapes, it will be unsustainable to have an excessive share of animal produce in relation to vegetal produce; to this extent, the change towards meat-based diets should be drastically reversed, as local agroecosystem cannot supply enough feed neither they have capacity for safely assimilating all livestock waste (Table 5.1 in [40] show changes in Catalan diet between 1956 and 1999 in which caloric and fresh weight consumption of meat, eggs, milk and cheese have both gone up by more than 90%. In 2009, animal products constituted 24% in weight and 35% in expenditure of the average Catalan household food budget [54].…”

Section: Policy Perspective: From Organic Agriculture To Landscape Agmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Landscape Agroecology. The Dysfunctionalities of Industrial Agriculture and the Loss of the Circular Bioeconomy in the Barcelona Region, 1956–2009

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The paper analyses how between 1956 and 2009 the agrarian metabolism of the Barcelona Metropolitan Region (BMR) has become less functional, losing circularity in biomass flows and in relationship to its landscape. We do so by adopting a Multi-Energy Return on Investment (EROI) and flow-fund (MuSIASEM) analyses and the nexus with landscape functional structure. The study of agricultural flows of Final Produce, Biomass Reused and External Inputs is integrated with that of land use, livestock, power capacity, and population changes between 1956 (at the beginning of agrarian industrialization) and 2009 (fully industrialized agriculture). A multi-scale analysis is conducted at the landscape scale (seven counties within the Barcelona metropolitan region) as well as for the functions deployed, within an agroecosystem, by the mutual interactions between its funds (landscape, land-uses, livestock, and farming population). A complex nexus between land, livestock, dietary patterns, and energy needs is shown; we conclude that, from the perspective of the circular bioeconomy the agrarian sector has gone worse hand in hand with the landscape functional structure. Therefore, a novel perspective in landscape agroecology is opened.

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Section: Spatially Explicit Flow-fund Relationships: Nexus and Landscmentioning

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Section: Policy Perspective: From Organic Agriculture To Landscape Agmentioning

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Landscape Agroecology. The Dysfunctionalities of Industrial Agriculture and the Loss of the Circular Bioeconomy in the Barcelona Region, 1956–2009

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“…Oluges and another Catalan case study: four townships in the Vallés county with an approximate total area of 120 km 2 (Sentmenat, Caldes de Montbui, Castellar del Vallès and Polinyà) ( Figure 2). Vallès has been widely studied from a historical sociometabolic perspective (Badia-Miró, Tello, Valls & Garrabou, 2010;Cussó, Garrabou & Tello, 2006;Galán et al, 2016Marco et al, 2018Padró, Marco, Cattaneo, Caravaca, & Tello, 2017).…”

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“…Pollution by slurry from feedlots, and landscape biodiversity losses, are two clear examples of this socio-ecological deterioration (Naylor et al, 2005;Padró, Marco, Cattaneo, Caravaca, & Tello, 2017;Tilman & Clark, 2014).…”

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More than energy transformations: a historical transition from organic to industrialized farm systems in a Mediterranean village (Les Oluges, Catalonia, 1860–1959–1999)

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International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

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More than energy transformations: A historical transition from organic to industrialised farm systems in a Mediterranean village (Les Oluges, Catalonia, 1860-1959-1999)The analysis of energy efficiency of agroecosystems from a sociometabolic perspective is a useful way to assess the sustainability of farm systems. In this article we examine the transition of a Mediterranean agroecosystem from an organic farm system in the mid nineteenth century to an industrialised one at the end of the twentieth century by means of the technologies and ideology of the Green Revolution. Given that many of the world's agricultural systems have experienced, or are currently experiencing this transformation, our results are relevant for building more sustainable agricultural systems in future. Our results highlight the relevance of livestock density, and the flows of biomass reused and unharvested biomass as key elements affecting the sustainability of the agroecosystem not only from a socioeconomic perspective, but also from an agroecological point of view. Additionally, from a biocultural perspective our investigation sustains the relevance of the study of traditional farm systems for the development of a sustainable agriculture.

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“…The increase of animal products in diets [67] has further exacerbated the disruption of the delicate equilibrium between funds, resulting in an increase of livestock densities and feed oriented crops while the increase of highly productive feedlots has modified the landscapes [38,66]. A new perspective is opened in landscape agroecology [14,63], one that envisions agroecological landscapes [69].…”

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Landscape Agroecology. the Dysfunctionalities of Industrial Agriculture and the Loss of the Circular Bioeconomy in the Barcelona Region, 1956-2009

Cattaneo¹,

Marull²,

Aragay³

2018

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The paper analyses how between 1956 and 2009 the agrarian metabolism of the Barcelona Metropolitan Region (BMR) has become less functional, losing circularity in biomass flows and in relationship to its landscape. We do so by adopting a Multi-EROI and flow-fund (MuSIASEM) analyses and its nexus with landscape functional structure. The study of agricultural flows of Final Produce, Biomass Reused and External Inputs is integrated with that of land use, livestock, power capacity and population changes between 1956 (at the beginning of the Green Revolution) and 2009 (fully industrialized agriculture). A multi-scale analysis is conducted at the landscape scale (seven districts within the Barcelona metropolitan region) as well as for the functions deployed, within an agroecosystem, by the mutual interactions between its funds (land-uses, livestock and farming population). A complex nexus between land, livestock, dietary patterns and energy needs is shown; we conclude that from the perspective of the circular bioeconomy the agrarian sector has gone worse hand in hand with the landscape functional structure. Therefore, a novel perspective in landscape agroecology is opened

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Does Your Landscape Mirror What You Eat? A Long-Term Socio-metabolic Analysis of a Local Food System in Vallès County (Spain, 1860–1956–1999)

Cited by 12 publications

References 66 publications

Landscape Agroecology. The Dysfunctionalities of Industrial Agriculture and the Loss of the Circular Bioeconomy in the Barcelona Region, 1956–2009

Landscape Agroecology. The Dysfunctionalities of Industrial Agriculture and the Loss of the Circular Bioeconomy in the Barcelona Region, 1956–2009

More than energy transformations: a historical transition from organic to industrialized farm systems in a Mediterranean village (Les Oluges, Catalonia, 1860–1959–1999)

Landscape Agroecology. the Dysfunctionalities of Industrial Agriculture and the Loss of the Circular Bioeconomy in the Barcelona Region, 1956-2009

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