A5007611892- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Water resources management and optimization
- Rural development and sustainability
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Educational Tools and Methods
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
Forschungsinstitut für Biologischen Landbau
2020-2025
International Livestock Research Institute
2014-2023
Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
2019-2021
Wageningen University & Research
2009-2012
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
2012
Digitalisation affects the agri-food sector and its governance. However, what digitalisation of will imply for future agricultural policymaking remains unclear. The objective study is to develop evaluate explorative scenarios in Europe that are explicitly relevant policy. aims provide guidance strategic development policy address potentials, uncertainties unknowns arising with sector. We combine a Delphi participatory scenario workshop plausible Europe's For all we identify gaps achieving...
Agroecology has been proposed as a strategy to improve food system sustainability, but also criticised for using land inefficiently. We compared five explorative storylines, developed in stakeholder process, future systems the EU 2050. modelled range of biophysical (e.g., use and production), environmental greenhouse gas emissions) social indicators, potential regional self-sufficiency, investigated economic policy needed reach these futures by Two contrasting storylines upscaling...
As a result of population growth, urbanization and climate change, agricultural systems around the world face enormous pressure on use resources. There is pressing need for wide-scale innovation leading to development that improves livelihoods food security world's while at same time addressing change adaptation mitigation. A variety promising climate-smart interventions have been identified. However, what remains prioritization investment broad dissemination. The suitability adoption...
The potential to use large-scale dietary transformations meet nutritional needs of the world's poorest populations may have been largely overlooked. A case study is presented food nutrient supplies in eight selected countries within context their growing demand for livestock-derived (LDF). For almost all and under a range scenarios economic climatic change 2050, we find that per capita protein supply from LDF will increase relative plant sources. Survey data indicate higher consumption, up...
Summary The European Commission's Farm to Fork (F2F) Strategy sets ambitious targets transform the whole food system towards greater sustainability, but we are critical about its strong focus on technical innovations while neglecting social and structural aspects in transforming systems. Also, target of 25 per cent EU 's agricultural land under organic production by 2030 can only be reached if policy measures go beyond include processing retail, develop demand side; otherwise, could witness...
ABSTRACT This paper evaluates the role of grasslands in a circular food system Europe by assessing animal‐sourced and manure production potential grass‐fed dual‐purpose cattle system. A computational model integrated grassland yield estimates, livestock productivity data, nitrogen balance calculations. Two scenarios, varying calf fattening duration, were analysed to explore their impacts on numbers, protein production, nutrient cycling, with aim different levels meat from grassland....
Animal production intensification puts pressure on resources, leads to environmental impacts, animal welfare and biodiversity issues. Livestock products provide key components of the human diet contribute rural territories through ecosystem services such as nutrient biomass recycling. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is assess impacts in livestock systems products. A harmonization LCA methods necessary improve evaluations these areas still lacks accuracy robustness addressing sustainability...
The alignment of the environmental, economic and social sustainability farms is necessary for enhancing provision public goods in farming. This study combines use three tools assessment farm sustainability. It provides first insights into performance at different stages agro-ecological transitions 15 case studies covering a range farming systems across Europe. Each reflects transition towards applied were COMPAS (an tool); Cool Farm Tool (a greenhouse gas inventory, water footprint...
Abstract The gap between milk demand and domestic supply in Tanzania is large projected to widen. Meeting such through local production of affordable presents an opportunity improve the welfare producers market agents income employment generated along value chain (VC). Efforts maximize yields, profitability need be balanced with long-term sustainability. We combined environmental economic ex-ante impact assessments four intervention scenarios for two systems Tanzanian dairy VC using CLEANED...
Attempts to structurally transform segments of the agri-food system inevitably involve trade-offs between priorities actors with different incentives, perspectives and values. Trade-offs are context-specific, reflecting socio-economic political realities. We investigate potential structured boundary objects facilitate exposing reconciling these within context multi-stakeholder social learning processes pastoral mixed crop-livestock communities in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia Tanzania. Building on...
This paper investigates how pig housing relates to diversity and circularity of farms this influences the capacity European organic producers cope with economic, legislation, labour climate-related shocks. It identifies resilience strategies in Europe by analysing attributes different shocks, namely input output price disease outbreaks, climate change, legislation change fluctuations. Based on narratives 18 producers, finds three strategies: an efficiency-based strategy, a nutrient...
Prager, S. D., and C. Pfeifer. 2015. Network approaches for understanding rainwater management from a social-ecological systems perspective. Ecology Society 20(4):13. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07950-200413
Demand for animal sourced food is predicted to double in the upcoming 20 years Sub-Saharan Africa. This simultaneously a big opportunity terms of poverty reduction and significant threat environment. The objective this paper present an approach co-create set viable acceptable development pathways livestock sector that maximizes benefits from increased production, exploits synergies between environment, while minimizing negative effects. It engages local stakeholders actors into...
Abstract Standard tools that can quantitatively track the impacts of higher global demand for animal-sourced food to their local environmental effects in developing countries are largely missing. This paper presents a novel integrated assessment framework links model agricultural and system, landscape-level impact model, an ecosystem services simulation model. For Tanzania, this showed projected increase production foods livestock origin with optimistic economic growth between 2010 2030...
Current European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been moving from production support subsidies to direct decoupled income support. The emergence in policy making of the concept multifunctional agriculture leads recognitio n that a farmer produces more than food: he jointly both commodity and non-commodity goods. Environmental contracts were developed order encourage provision goods such as landscape or biodiversity. Next these contrac ts, other activities for example recreation can be...