Nutrient recycling and soil fertility management in the course of the industrial transition of traditional, organic agriculture: The case of Bruck estate, 1787–1906

Güldner, Dino; Krausmann, Fridolin

doi:10.1016/j.agee.2017.07.038

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“…Consequently N balance over arable land was very low (5 ± 7, 1 ± 5 and 1 ± 3 kg N ha −1 yr -1 for Picardy, Loire Amont and Brittany, respectively), while the P balance was almost balanced in Brittany and Loire Amont but slightly negative over arable land in Picardy (−2 ± 1 kg P ha −1 yr −1 ), indicating that soil P was being mined at a time when P enrichment of soil was low, which challenged the sustainability of the agro-food system. Mining in soil fertility around the mid-19th century has also been reported in other studies (Güldner and Krausmann, 2017).…”

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“…In this context, a number of recent studies have focused on the socioecological metabolism of agro-food systems, applying material, nutrients or energy flow analysis approaches from local to global scales (Güldner and Krausmann, 2017;Guzmàn et al, 2017;Garnier et al, 2015Garnier et al, , 2016Soto et al, 2016;Billen et al, 2012). Analyses of ⁎ Corresponding author.…”

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Long-term socioecological trajectories of agro-food systems revealed by N and P flows in French regions from 1852 to 2014

Noë

Billen

Esculier

et al. 2018

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

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We present a quantitative description of the N and P flows characterizing the agro-food system metabolism of 33 agricultural regions in France and their time evolution since the middle of the 19th century. The data were interpreted in terms of connection between crop production, livestock breeding, human nutrition and trade of agricultural goods, and were linked to their historical background. Until the early 20th century, the integrated crop and livestock farming model dominated everywhere, and the slow increase in crop production was only possible because of an increase in livestock density. Specialized cash crop farming systems appeared in the central Paris basin only in the first half of the 20th century together with the increase in the use of industrial fertilizers. Only after WWll, under the pressure of strong interventionist policies, did specialization of French territories lead to five types of systems, favoring their openness and integration into the international market, with harmful environmental impacts. The 1980s were marked by a policy shift towards more liberalism, which reinforced specialization. However, greater environmental concern stabilized or decreased nutrient losses, while maintaining largely open biogeochemical cycles.

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Long-term socioecological trajectories of agro-food systems revealed by N and P flows in French regions from 1852 to 2014

Noë

Billen

Esculier

et al. 2018

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

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

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-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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“…The current state of research in landscape agroecology is set in the outcomes of the Sustainable Farm Systems research project, which has focused on an innovative development of EROI analysis [29,41,69,71] also merging it with MuSIASEM [74], on nutrient cycles [72,73] and on the original development of Energy-Landscape Integrated Analysis [40][41][42][43], which in turn draw from previous work on social metabolism [20,75,77] and EROI analysis [76]. As well, these novel methods applied in landscape agroecology can bridge with and contribute to the land sharing/sparing debate [78] which is still a controversial issue [79,80] The main aim of this paper is to assess, for the case study of the Barcelona Metropolitan Region, the loss in sustainability that has occurred as a result of agricultural industrialization by highlighting the virtues of a past model that could inspire future developments towards more sustainable agriculture, landscape and diets.…”

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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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Nutrient recycling and soil fertility management in the course of the industrial transition of traditional, organic agriculture: The case of Bruck estate, 1787–1906

Cited by 26 publications

References 44 publications

Long-term socioecological trajectories of agro-food systems revealed by N and P flows in French regions from 1852 to 2014

Long-term socioecological trajectories of agro-food systems revealed by N and P flows in French regions from 1852 to 2014

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

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