Does Your Landscape Mirror What You Eat? A Long-Term Socio-metabólico Analysis of a Local Food System in Vallès County (Spain, 1860-1956-1999) [Socio-Metabolic Perspectives on the Sustainability of Local Food Systems]
Autors/es:
- Roc Padró (UB)
- Inés Marco (UB)
- Claudio Cattaneo (Institut Metròpoli)
- Jonathan Caravaca (UB)
- Enric Tello (UB)
[*] Autor a qui s'ha d'adreçar la correspondència.
Data de realizació:
01/2018
Resum:
Authors assesses the social metabolism of very different farm systems that existed in Vallès County, along the socio-ecological transition from organic to industrial agriculture at three different time points from 1860 to 1999. This allows us to analyze these contrasting food systems by focusing on four perspectives: agricultural labour productivity in relation to regional diets, the importance of multi-functionality in agroecosystems, the loss of landscape diversity and species richness, and the impacts of the current food regime at global and local scales. The socio-metabolic profiles obtained show that (1) winegrowing specialization co-existed with sustenance-oriented organic farming in 1860; (2) in 1956, the resumption of grain growing, combined with incipient use of industrial fertilizers, led to a more diverse agroecosystem where greater dependence on external inputs was countered by an increased productivity, providing more balanced diets and producing minor impacts on landscape ecology; (3) by 1999, a specialization in feedlots had disconnected local diets from a linear agro-industrial feed-meat chain based on huge feed imports from the Global South, leading to highly polarized socio-ecological impacts. Whereas unequal ecological exchange affects peasant communities and agroecosystems in feed-exporting countries, local landscapes suffer from the accumulation of dung waste poured into flatlands and from forest abandonment in steeper areas.
Published in: Frankova, E., Haas, W. i Singh, S. (eds.)(2018). Socio-Metabolic Perspectives on the Sustainability of Local Food Systems (pp. 133-164). Cham: Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69236-4_5
Padró, R. [Roc]; Marco, I. [Inés]; Cattaneo, C. [Claudio]; Caravaca, J. [Jonathan]; Tello, E. [Enric]. (2018). Does Your Landscape Mirror What You Eat? A Long-Term Socio-metabólico Analysis of a Local Food System in Vallès County (Spain, 1860-1956-1999) [Socio-Metabolic Perspectives on the Sustainability of Local Food Systems]. , .
https://www.institutmetropoli.cat/altrepublicacion/does-your-landscape-mirror-what-you-eat-a-long-term-socio-metabolico-analysis-of-a-local-food-system-in-valles-county-spain-1860-1956-1999-socio-metabolic-perspectives-on-the-sustainability-of-lo-3/
