Sustainability workshop
13 important questions on Sustainability workshop
What do we look at when we do systems analysis?
- System properties in relation to changes in external driving variables
What are system properties in relation to their own structure and functioning?
- Diversity (structure)
- Stability
What facillitates the MESMIS framework?
- Measuring and monitoring of such indicators
- Particapatory and interdisciplinary evaluation process
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What are the key components of sustainability?
- Economic
- Social
What are ecological components?
What does a sustainable production system?
- No pullute the water
- Not increase GHG emmission
- Preserves natural biodiversity
- Use of resources efficienly
- Takes care of health and animal welfare
- Produces healthy, nutritious and safe food
- Economically viable
- Improves qualiy of life
- Resilient to climati and economic crises
What are the limitations of sustainability concept?
- Preferences and priorities differ among stakehoders
- No single appraoch or framework is consisently useful given both temporal and spatial scales
- Sustainability should no be perceived as stagnation or regression
What does a sustainability assesment do?
- Evaluation meant to design mmore sustainable agroecosyses
- Result observed in the long term
What are system properties in relation to changes in external driving variables?
- Adaptability
- Resillience
What is an indicator of productivity?
- Benefit/cost ratio
- Gross margin
- Production Coss
- Economic return to labour
What can be indicators for stability, resillience and reliability?
- Producer perception
- Yield stability
- Input dependency of he system
- Strata
- Numer of tree species
- Shade cover
- Erosion
-Soil cover
- Crop aspect
- Social consensus potential
-basic needs covered
What can be the indicator for self:empowernmen?
- Family inergration to farm labor and degree of participation of family member in decision making
What can be the indicator for adaptablility?
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