Abstract
Irrigated agriculture is a key activity for the long-term survival of human-environmental systems and the assessment of agricultural sustainability has been gaining increasing relevance. In spite o...
Highlights
Agriculture is a key activity for the long-term sustainability of human-environmental systems
Sustainable agriculture must be capable of maintaining its productivity and usefulness to society indefinitely (Ikerd, 1993; Lewandowski, Härdtlein, & Kaltschmitt, 1999)
In this paper we present a framework for the assessment of sustainability of irrigated agricultural systems that was developed in the scope of the EU FP7 SIRIUS project
Summary
Agriculture is a key activity for the long-term sustainability of human-environmental systems. Several approaches to guide the assessment of agricultural sustainability have been proposed in the literature, relying usually on the definition of a set of sustainability criteria and associated indicators, organized around a conceptual or operational framework, generally structured following a hierarchy (de Olde, Oudshoorn, Sørensen, Bokkers, & de Boer, 2016) These methods differ in terms of their purpose, scope for assessment, underlying sustainability concepts, dimensions and indicators covered and development approach. Water management, which is a central issue in irrigated agriculture, is fully addressed only in the Water Vulnerability Index (Sullivan & Meigh, 2005), which, on the other hand does not cover other sustainability aspects These constraints have motivated the proposal for a new framework for assessing the sustainability of irrigated agricultural systems at the scale of an agricultural area/irrigation perimeter
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