Memorias de investigación
Ponencias en congresos:
Indicators of sustainability of agriculture and livestock in Spain [Indicadores de sostenibilidad de la agricultura y ganadería española]
Año:2013
Áreas de investigación
  • Producción vegetal
Datos
Descripción
Sustainability is an adjective used to characterize agriculture according to the degree of fulfillment of goals. Those goals are related to agro-ecological, environmental and socio-economic dimensions. Sustainability is a dynamic and temporal character. In absolute terms there is not an ending value because it changes as its dimensions make it. Spain is one of the main agricultural countries of the European Union both in terms of crop land and value of productions. The object of this study is to present a methodology of sustainability account to be incorporated into national statistical and to assess their performance in the course of the years. For that reason the data sources used have been the statistics of the Department of Agriculture and from others database. We presented a set of indicators of sustainability and its evaluation in a time series of at least 30 years. The trend analysis offers the evolution of the numerical values of the indicators in terms of efficiency, physical units used for a unit of product or its value in euros. The analyzed crops have been: wheat, barley, maize, sunflower, sugar beet, wine grape, olive oil, citrus, melon and tomato. Physical indicators were: land, water, energy, erosion, soil organic matter, and carbon balance; socio-economic indicators were: agricultural final production, prices, income, employment and use of fertilizers. In general, all crops increased their productive efficiency, higher in irrigated than on dry land. Spanish agricultural carbon sequestration capacity has multiplied by five in the last seventy years, as a result of the increase in the productivity of crops, in terms of total biomass and the modification of the soil management techniques. Livestock sector presents data of pork, broilers and laying hen. Those showed an improvement in efficiency and economic indicators. Overall we can say that Spanish agriculture and livestock subsector have a tendency towards sustainability, being its main threats extreme meteorological factors and the instability of today's markets.
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
V SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE AGROPECUÁRIA SUSTENTÁVEL II CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL DE AGROPECUÁRIA SUSTENTÁVEL
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
Viçosa, Brasil
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
9788590506775
DOI
Fecha inicio congreso
18/10/2013
Fecha fin congreso
20/10/2013
Desde la página
114
Hasta la página
148
Título de las actas
Multifuncionalidades sustentaveis no campo: agricultura, pecuária e florestas
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Participantes
Grupos de investigación, Departamentos, Centros e Institutos de I+D+i relacionados
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Grupo de Sistemas Agrarios (AgSystems)
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Centro de Estudios e Investigación para la Gestión de Riesgos Agrarios Medioambientales (CEIGRAM). Centro Mixto UPM-AGROMUTUA-ENESA