Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorDe Otálora, D.
dc.contributor.authorDel Prado, A.
dc.contributor.authorDragoni, F.
dc.contributor.authorEstellés, F.
dc.contributor.authorAmon, B.
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-14T10:22:48Z
dc.date.available2023-02-14T10:22:48Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationSustainability (Switzerland): 13 (11): 6332 (2021)es_ES
dc.identifier.issn20711050
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/59807
dc.description.abstractMilk production in Europe is facing major challenges to ensure its economic, environmental, and social sustainability. It is essential that holistic concepts are developed to ensure the future sustainability of the sector and to assist farmers and stakeholders in making knowledge-based decisions. In this study, integrated sustainability assessment by means of whole-farm modelling is presented as a valuable approach for identifying factors and mechanisms that could be used to improve the three pillars (3Ps) of sustainability in the context of an increasing awareness of economic profitability, social well-being, and environmental impacts of dairy production systems (DPS). This work aims (i) to create an evaluation framework that enables quantitative analysis of the level of integration of 3P sustainability indicators in whole-farm models and (ii) to test this method. Therefore, an evaluation framework consisting of 35 indicators distributed across the 3Ps of sustainability was used to evaluate three whole-farm models. Overall, the models integrated at least 40% of the proposed indicators. Different results were obtained for each sustainability pillar by each evaluated model. Higher scores were obtained for the environmental pillar, followed by the economic and the social pillars. In conclusion, this evaluation framework was found to be an effective tool that allows potential users to choose among whole-farm models depending on their needs. Pathways for further model development that may be used to integrate the 3P sustainability assessment of DPS in a more complete and detailed way were identified. © 2021 by the authors.es_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipThis study was financially supported by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) through the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE) under grant number 2819ERA08A (MilKey project, funded under the Joint Call 2018 ERA-GAS, SusAn and ICT-AGRI 2 on ?Novel technologies, solutions and systems to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions in animal production systems?). BC3-Research is supported by the Spanish Government through Mar?a de Maeztu excellence accreditation 2018-2022 (Ref. MDM-2017-0714) and by the Basque Government through the BERC 2018-2021 program. Agustin del Prado is financed through the Ramon y Cajal program by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness (RYC-2017-22143).es_ES
dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.publisherSustainability (Switzerland)es_ES
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/MDM-2017-0714es_ES
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/RYC-2013-13628es_ES
dc.relationEUS/BERC/BERC.2018-2021es_ES
dc.relationES/1PE/MDM-2017-0714es_ES
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses_ES
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/*
dc.subjectDairy farmes_ES
dc.subjectEvaluationes_ES
dc.subjectIntegratedes_ES
dc.subjectSustainabilityes_ES
dc.subjectWhole-farm modelses_ES
dc.titleEvaluating three-pillar sustainability modelling approaches for dairy cattle production systemses_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees_ES
dc.rights.holder© 2021 by the authors.es_ES
dc.rights.holderAtribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 España*
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13116332es_ES
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/su13116332


Files in this item

Thumbnail
Thumbnail

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record

© 2021 by the authors.
Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as © 2021 by the authors.