Impact of Multifunctional and Territorialized Agrifood Systems on Improving Agricultural Landscapes
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Landscape Ecology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 March 2023) | Viewed by 32594
Special Issue Editors
Interests: peri-urban agriculture; cultural landscapes; spatial and environmental planning
Interests: sustainable development; sustainable food systems; agricultural and food policy; planning agricultural economics
Interests: agrosilvopastoral systems; ecosystem services; environmental planning; landscape structure
Interests: heritage landscapes; multifunctional agriculture; territorial development; territorialized multifunctional agri-food systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We cordially invite the submission of original contributions dealing with impact of multifunctional and territorialized agrifood systems (MTAS) on improving agricultural landscapes that are risk of transformation due to the influence of urban sprawl and abandonment of agriculture in peri-urban and rural areas. With this Special issue, we would like to achieve two main goals: (1) to establish the state of art of MTAS from the confluence and integration of different theorical and disciplinary perspectives; (2) to highlight the main drivers of development of MTAS, by focusing on economic, social, and environmental dynamics brought about by specific case studies at various levels, i.e., form local lo regional level experiences, as well as policies and normative contexts that regulate and condition the functioning of the MTAS.
The MTAS, in their different modalities and contexts, are at the same time an objective, a strategy and a good tool to reconstruct the linkages of agriculture and territories, based on agroecological sustainability, the economic viability of the production of territorial quality, and the conservation of a heritage cultural and landscape that strengthens the territorial brand and the links between producers, consumers and users of the agricultural landscape. With these ambitions, we look to draw attention to the implementation of key topical targets including the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the new European Green Deal and its Biodiversity Strategy 2030, the Farm to Fork Strategy, and the European Climate Law including actions to protect the soils as well as the New Leipzig Charter and the Territorial Agenda 2030.
Our Special issue aims at discussing MTAS with special focus on their agrarian landscapes, from an holistic approach integrating (i) the renewed sense of food quality and rooted in the territories; (ii) with sustainable and multifunctional agrosystems increasingly ecological, as a basis for the territorial development of rural spaces and new forms governance; and (iii) with an understanding of the landscapes and agrarian heritage, alive and authentic, as an expression of the character and identity of agricultural territories and as the foundation of renewed marketing strategies; and finally, iv) integrating strategic land policy and sustainable planning at local and regional scale to increase ecosystem for securing fertile soils and ecosystem services of agrarian landscapes.
We are particularly interested on research and innovations, policies, forms of governance related to the food systems, and projects to tackle great societal challenges. These include topics such as food security, climate change, demographic change, sustainable agriculture and ecosystem services, ensuring sustainable management of natural resources and contributing to a sustainable territorial development of rural-urban areas and their communities.
Prof. Dr. Rafael Mata Olmo
Prof. Dr. Carolina Yacamán Ochoa
Prof. Dr. Nieves López-Estébanez
Prof. Dr. Rocío Silva Pérez
Prof. Dr. Jorge Hermosilla-Pla
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agrarian landscapes
- territorialized multifunctional agri-food systems
- food policies
- landscape planning
- land management
- land use policy and planning in rural and peri-urban landscapes
- food security
- ecosystem services
- rural socio-economy, natural and cultural heritage
- sustainability of new forms of agriculture in urban and peri-urban areas
- resilience
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