2023/10/20 by Bruno Colomb, Colomb, Bruno, Jacques-Eric Bergez +1
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Agriculture and Rural Development Research
paper · doi:10.17180/7f9s-d975
The ex-post assessment of existing cropping systems aims firstly at building a comprehensive and well described picture of these cropping systems and how they fit within the different economic, social and agroenvironmental dimensions of sustainability. Due to its creation process, this picture is composite and intersubjective. It is a mandatory prerequisite to find innovative solutions to improve the performances of cropping systems that will combine handles at different levels of organization in order to be sustainable. This paper outlines the sequence of the main phases necessary to develop such a comprehensive picture. The hierarchical qualitative indicators model MASC is chosen as the multicriteria based methodology. We used an actual assessment process on organic cropping systems in Midi-Pyrenees to present the large set of diagnostic elements resulting from this overall picture.