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Pedoclimatic and Landscape Conditions of Olive Groves in Portugal and Alentejo.
Muñoz-Rojas, Jose; Guiomar, Nuno; Pinto-Correia, Teresa; Prats, SérgioOlive groves in Alentejo have exponentially increased their extent over the past 30 years through irrigation and technological intensification, including also the use of exogenous breeds and cultivars. This has been facilitated by the implementation of the Alqueva irrigation network. This rapid process of change has permitted overcoming many of the bio-physical limitations of the regional soils and climate. Ult...
Assessing the vulnerability of mountain value chains to environmental and socia...
González-Moreno, Pablo; Schmitt, Emilia; Moreno-Ortiz, Javier; Pinto-Correia, Teresa; Guiomar, Nuno; Delgado-Serrano, María del MarMountain ranges are complex socio-ecological systems recognised as the “undervalued ecological backbone” of Europe as they provided essential ecosystem services and goods. However, we lack a deep understanding on their vulnerability to both environmental and social drivers. We carried out a stakeholder-based study assessing the vulnerability of 23 land-use systems supporting a wide range of value chains in Euro...
Operationalisation of Living Labs in agriculture and forestry: A Meta-analysis ...
Rivera Mendez, Maria; Esgalhado, Catarina; Knickel, Marina; Pinto-Correia, TeresaIn the last few years, the European Commission, through EIP-AGRI, has been calling for the establishment of multi-actor partnerships in H2020 and Horizon Europe Programs. This has given rise to a diversity of multi-actor approaches and platforms; Living Labs (LLs) being one of the most popular. LLs can be considered a transdisciplinary approach to enable and foster the integration of a diversity of knowledge an...
Scaling innovations in agriculture and forestry: learnings from eight case stud...
Rivera Méndez, María; Muñoz-Rojas, José; Pinto-Correia, Teresa; da Veiga, José FranciscoContextualization of the problem and main objectives of the communication Agriculture and forestry are facing difficult and various challenges related to their negative impacts on various social, economic and ecological dimensions. This has led to a rise of urgent calls for innovation in the last few years (EU SCAR, 2013). Innovation is key to devise viable, resilient, and sustainable solutions to the multiple ...
Farming for nature in the Montado: the application of ecosystem services in a r...
Guimarães, Maria; Pinto-Correia, Teresa; Freitas, Maria; Ferraz-de-Oliveira, Maria; Batista, Elvira; Veiga, José; Marques, Tiago; Pinto-Cruz, CarlaThe Montado is a silvopastoral system with a tree cover of predominantly Quercus suber but also Quercus rotundifolia, where cattle or sheep graze the understory. It occupies more than one million hectares in southern Portugal, and a similar landscape, the Dehesa, covers ca. three million hectares in Spain. These silvopastoral systems can simultaneously benefit the environment and socio-economic activities by pr...
Chapter 23 - Interactive innovation is a key factor influencing the sustainabil...
Muñoz-Rojas, José; Rivera Méndez, María; Ferragolo da Veiga, José Francisco; Barroso, João Luís; Pinto-Correia, Teresa; Thidell, AakeInnovation is crucial to enhance and promote sustainability in the wine sector. It must encompass whole value chains to become effective beyond the farm level. Interactive innovation, whereby multiple stakeholders and actor-networks interact along the value chain, is advocated by the EU to enhance farming sustainability. The Wine Sustainability Program of Alentejo (WASP), in Portugal, engages farmers, winemaker...
Enacted relations and the resilience of territorially embedded production syste...
Von Munchäusen, Susanne; Kirwan, James; Maye, Damian; Muñoz-Rojas, José; Pinto-Correia, Teresa; Prosperi, Paolo; Vergamini, DanieleGlobalization of food chains and scale increases in business models are dramatically affecting rural areas in Europe, by a simplification of land use, new urban-rural relations and reshaped social networks. While pressures on land use systems have been increasing due to the competition on commodity markets, the role of territorially embedded production systems remains crucial in keeping farm biodiversity and un...
Farming for nature in the Montado: the application of ecosystem services in a r...
Helena Guimarães, M.; Pinto-Correia, Teresa; Costa Freitas, M. B.; Ferraz-de-Oliveira, Isabel; Sales-Baptista, ElviraThe Montado is a silvopastoral system with a tree cover of predominantly Quercus suber but also Quercus rotundifolia, where cattle or sheep graze the understory. It occupies more than one million hectares in southern Portugal, and a similar landscape, the Dehesa, covers ca. three million hectares in Spain. These silvopastoral systems can simultaneously benefit the environment and socio-economic activities by pr...
The ambiguous role of agri-environment-climate measures in the safeguarding of ...
Azeda, Carla; Guiomar, Nuno; Godinho, Sérgio; Medeiros, João Paulo; Pinto-Correia, TeresaThe preservation of High Nature Value farmland (HNVf) is essential for meeting many of the new European Union (EU) Green Deal targets, as they correspond to production systems which respect the preservation of natural resources and support multiple ecosystem services. However, most of the farming systems on which HNVf rely cannot survive without support from public policies. Typically, these are low intensity a...
Assessing food availability: A novel approach for the quantitative estimation o...
Guiomar, Nuno; Godinho, Sérgio; Rivera, Maria; Pinto-Correia, Teresa; Machado, Rui; Czekaj, Marta; Tyran, Ewa; Puchała, JacekRecent findings on the contribution of smallholders to global food production and security challenge the values used in several reports of international organizations. The skewed distribution of the number of farms and the agricultural area by farm size may explain overestimations in small farms' food production. In fact, the highest values found in literature seem to be more strongly correlated to the total nu...