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Food system games for sustainability transformation – A review Open
Interactive serious games can help facilitate sustainable food system transformation that many stakeholders deem necessary, due to their potential of capturing system complexity, stimulating dialogue, and exploring strategies in different …
Philanthropic Funding for Agroecology in Europe – Opening the (black) box of sustainable food system actors Open
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A sustainable game changer? Systematic review of serious games used for agriculture and research agenda Open
CONTEXT: Serious games can be used as a tool for learning, increasing coordination, supporting decision-making processes, and other purposes that can strengthen sustainability transitions. While agriculture is an important corner stone for…
Immutable mobiles Open
Sustainability assessment methodologies such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) are becoming increasingly prevalent in the evaluation of agri-food value-chains. Proponents of such assessment methodologies argue that they offer a factual and ro…
When neglected species gain global interest: Lessons learned from quinoa's boom and bust for teff and minor millet Open
Until recently, many so-called neglected and underutilized species (NUS) were not present in global markets despite playing a pivotal role in the local livelihoods in their places of origin. Today, some NUS receive substantial global inter…
Mimicking nature to reduce agricultural impact on water cycles: A set of mimetrics Open
Metrics of hydrological mimicry (‘mimetrics’) reflect similarity in ecological structure and/or functions between managed and natural ecosystems. Only the land-surface parts of hydrological cycles are directly visible and represented in lo…
Games and sustainable futures for agrobiodiversity and smallholder farmer organizations Open
Smallholder farmer organizations are crucial stakeholders in the development of fair and biodiverse crop markets. Therefore, incorporating their perspectives and needs is as critical to developing and supporting their practices as cultivat…
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Forecasting Agroforestry Ecosystem Services Provision in Urban Regeneration Projects: Experiences and Perspectives from Milan Open
The expansion of urban agglomerates is causing significant environmental changes, while the demand and need for sustainability keep on growing. In this context, urban and peri-urban agriculture can play a crucial role, mainly if associated…
Sustainable Agroforestry Landscape Management: Changing the Game Open
Location-specific forms of agroforestry management can reduce problems in the forest–water–people nexus, by balancing upstream and downstream interests, but social and ecological finetuning is needed. New ways of achieving shared understan…
Combining participatory games and backcasting to support collective scenario evaluation: an action research approach for sustainable agroforestry landscape management Open
The combined and interacting effects of land-use change, resource extraction and climate change threaten the sustainability of millions of mainly smallholder farms in tropical agroforested landscapes. In many of these landscapes, coordinat…
Co-design agricultural systems combining gaming and backcasting methods in smallholder coffee agroforestry systems Open
In Central America, smallholder coffee farmers rely on low input agroforestry systems (AFS) while experiencing increased pressure from climate change and social inequality. In order to increase the sustainability of these systems and to gu…