Sustainability Transitions in Bosnian Agro-Food System

Luketina, Ruzica; Bilali, Hamid El; Berjan, Siniša; Wurzinger, María

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“…The conversion of agricultural land to forest may be the result of natural forest expansion or tree planting (FAO, 2016). The process of leaving rural areas and overgrowing agricultural land into bushes and shrubs is taking place along with the urbanization.…”

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“…Agriculture plays an important socio-economic role in rural areas of B&H; the rural population accounts for 61% and almost half of the rural households is still engaged in agriculture (Luketina et al, 2018). Statistical data indicate that the lack of a clear vision of development of agrarian and land policies in the country, lack of investments and incentives, fragmentation of the holdings as well as numerous other problems along with large deagrarization resulted in having over 50% of arable land uncultivated.…”

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Structure of Agricultural Land Losses in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Drašković¹,

Berjan²,

Milic³

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As the world's population grows, so does the pressure on agricultural land. Consequently, there is less and less agricultural land. Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the countries whose population is decreasing from year to year, partly owing to negative natural increase and partly owing to the migrations of young people to developed western countries. However, despite the depopulation trend, there has been a significant decline in agricultural land in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The reasons should be sought in various socio-economic processes that crucially affect spatial development. In order to understand the changes that are happening in the field, the paper analyzes the structure of agricultural land losses in B&H based on the database of the European project CORINE Land Cover. In relation to the five main land cover categories (artificial surfaces, agricultural areas, forests and semi-natural areas, wetlands and water bodies), the data show that in the period from 2000 to 2018 artificial areas increased spatial coverage, forests and semi-natural areas as well, while agricultural land decreased.The aim of the research is to identify the spatially largest changes of agricultural land subclasses into other types of land cover, in order to determine the causes and areas with the most intense pressure. This is essential given the fact that agricultural land is becoming an increasingly important natural resource over time. Based on the recent demographic and socio-economic trends, it is to be expected that the trend of decreasing agricultural land will continue in the future, but with a reduced intensity.

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Structure of Agricultural Land Losses in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Drašković¹,

Berjan²,

Milic³

et al. 2021

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“…A relevant embodiment of the macro, meso, and micro concepts to sustainability has been provided by Geels [106,107] with a multi-level perspective (MLP) as a "middle range framework for analyzing socio-technical transitions to sustainability" [107] in which the views of evolution as "a process of variation, selection and retention" as well as "a process of unfolding and reconfiguration" are combined [106]. Recent applications of the MLP-with novel configuration niches (at the micro level) that may change patchworks of socio-technical regimes (meso level), leading to landscape developments and transformation (macro level)-to food systems include its use: (1) to study the transition toward sustainability in the Bosnian agro-food system [108]; and (2) to operationalize the characterization of food systems' diversity with the aim of identifying the one with more promising features in terms of a transition toward sustainable solutions [109].…”

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Food System Sustainability Metrics: Policies, Quantification, and the Role of Complexity Sciences

Matos

Lopes

2021

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The rise of global attention toward sustainability and sustainable development (SD) has provided increased incentives for research development and investment in these areas. Food systems are at the center of human needs and global population growth sustainability concerns. These drives and the need to provide quantified support for related investment projects led to the proliferation of sustainability metrics and frameworks. While questions about sustainability definition and measurement still abound, SD policy design and control increasingly need adequate quantified support instruments. This paper aims to address this need, contributing to a more consistent and integrated application of food system sustainability metrics and quantified management of the implemented solutions. After presenting the relationships between sustainability, resilience, and robustness and summarizing food system sustainability quantification developments so far, we expose complexity sciences’ potential contributions toward SD quantified evaluation, addressing prediction, intangibles, and uncertainty issues. Finding a paramount need to make sense and bring existing sustainability metrics in context for operational use, we conclude that the articulated application of multiple and independent modeling approaches at the micro, meso, and macro levels can better help the development of food SD policies and implemented solution quantified management, with due regard to confidence levels of the results obtained.

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Sustainability Transitions in Bosnian Agro-Food System

Cited by 2 publications

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Structure of Agricultural Land Losses in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Structure of Agricultural Land Losses in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Food System Sustainability Metrics: Policies, Quantification, and the Role of Complexity Sciences

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