Mapping agricultural land use dynamics through integrated biophysical analysis for Mediterranean farming systems
Résumé
Mediterranean agriculture has evolved over millennia under distinctive climate and terrain constraints (Zeder, 2008). The region’s fragmented systems—marked by diverse management intensities, cultivation strategies, and socio-environmental disparities (Scorsino and Debolini, 2020)—exhibit notable spatial heterogeneity (Biarnès et al., 2021). This heterogeneity is expected to increase as Mediterranean systems face accelerated vulnerability to global changes (Malek and Verburg, 2017). Matching this increasing heterogeneity with the management of resources like soil and water is a wicked problem of increasing complexity (Esgalhado et al. 2021). Addressing such complexity requires analytical approaches calibrated to the spatial level at which environmental processes occur to better inform the decision-making of the concerned socio-technical systems (Rizzo et al., 2013). However, current regional mapping and modelling approaches inadequately integrate biophysical and socio-technical drivers of farmers’ decision-making in a spatially explicit way, limiting the reliability of land use trajectory analyses for informing farming system design. This is partly due to the lack of land use mapping series consistent with the high fragmentation, particularly outside Europe (Biarnès et al. 2021). This study presents a multi-annual mapping method for Mediterranean rainfed agricultural systems contributing to broader research on farmer decision-making and the co-design of farming scenarios with local stakeholders, based on land use spatial-temporal dynamics.
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Fait partie de hal-05219264 Texte Marion Casagrande, Marie-Hélène Jeuffroy, Gentiane Maillet. Farming System Design for Sustainable Agrifood Systems: theories and practices. 8th International Farming System Design Conference, Aug 2025, Palaiseau, France. 2025, ⟨10.17180/j9xc-fs91⟩. ⟨hal-05219264⟩