Augstburger, Horacio Florian; Jacobi, Johanna; Schwilch, Gudrun; Rist, Stephan (2018). Agroecosystem Service Capacity Index – A methodological approach. Landscape online, 64, pp. 1-48. International Association for Landscape Ecology 10.3097/LO.201864
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Sustainable food systems (FS) require providing food and other goods and services to humans satisfying food security, right to food, income, social justice and resilience, without degrading human health and hiving high environmental performance. The environmental performance of FS can be evaluated using Life Cycle Assessment. However, research on the impact that FS activities, e.g. crop production have on the capacity of farm-based agroecosystems to provide goods and services to humans is still incipient. Our underlying
aim was to understand how FS impact on the provision of agroecosystem services and how this relates to the environmental performance of FS, as a basis for supporting decision-making on how to make FS more sustainable. We propose the Agroecosystem Service Capacity (ASC) as a method for assessing farmbased agroecosystem services, it builds on the Ecosystem Service Matrix by Burkhard et al. (2009) and assesses land cover classes against 20 agroecosystem services. The method was applied to eighteen farmbased agroecosystems in Bolivia and Kenya. Here we present two examples for exploring its potentials and limitations. The ASC operates on the basis of land cover class units and permits the calculation of an aggregate ASC-index for farm-based agroecosystems forming part of a specific FS.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography > Geographies of Sustainability 08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography 10 Strategic Research Centers > Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) |
Graduate School: |
International Graduate School North-South (IGS North-South) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Augstburger, Horacio Florian, Jacobi, Johanna, Schwilch, Gudrun, Rist, Stephan |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics 900 History > 910 Geography & travel |
ISSN: |
1865-1542 |
Publisher: |
International Association for Landscape Ecology |
Projects: |
[437] Towards food sustainability Official URL
[805] Sustainability Governance |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Stephan Schmidt |
Date Deposited: |
22 Mar 2019 11:02 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:25 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.3097/LO.201864 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.125153 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/125153 |
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