Farming systems have to face challenges that originate in changes of global dimension in both the bio-physical and the societal sphere, such as Climate change (leading to increasing weather uncertainty and raising average temperatures, thus impacting agro-ecosystems and water supplies); Food safety concerns (spreading in Europe while in other regions food security remains a challenge) and Changing consumption p...
Around all towns in the Alentejo region, the landscape is dominated by an agricultural mosaic, where small scale farming dominates, composed of olive groves combined with pastures, fruit orchards, and vegetable gardens, in the most fertile and water abundant soils. This is a totally different pattern then the large scale landscape of the extensive silvo-pastoral systems in the latifundia that normally is associ...
The Alentejo landscape is dominated by large scale latifundia managed in an extensive silvo-pastoral system. But in the surrounding area to all small towns, small scale farming dominates, with olive groves combined with pastures, fruit orchards, and vegetable gardens, in the most fertile and water abundant soils. These small scale farm units have increasingly lost their importance as production units over the ...
Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Ciências do Ambiente, pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia. ; A conservação da biodiversidade, o desenvolvimento e a ciência modernos tiveram um impacto profundo nos sistemas humanos e naturais acoplados e na sua gestão. Os desafios que hoje se colocam a este nível em regiões moldadas no longo prazo pela presença humana,...
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