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The paper presents insights from carrying out a pan-EU sustainability assessment using Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) data (the old wine) with societal metabolism accounting (SMA) processes (the new bottles). The SMA was deployed as part of a transdisciplinary study with EU policy stakeholders of how EU policy may need to change to deliver sustainability commitments, particularly to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The paper outlines the concepts underlying SMA and its specific implementation using the FADN data. A key focus was on the interactions between crop and livestock systems and how this determines imported feedstuffs requirements, with environmental and other footprints beyond the EU. Examples of agricultural production systems performance are presented in terms of financial/efficiency, resource use (particularly the water footprint) and quantifies potential pressures on the environment. Benefits and limitations of the FADN dataset and the SMA outputs are discussed, highlighting the challenges of linking quantified pressures with environmental impacts. The paper concludes that the complexity of agriculture’s interactions with economy and society means there is great need for conceptual frameworks, such as SMA, that can take multiple, non-equivalent, perspectives and that can be deployed with policy stakeholders despite generating uncomfortable knowledge.

This repository contains datasets used in the production of figures contained in MAGIC Deliverable 5.1 Matthews K.B. (Hutton), Blackstock K.L. (Hutton), Waylen K.A. (Hutton), Juarez-Bourke A. (Hutton) Miller D.G. (Hutton), Wardell-Johnson D.H. (Hutton), Rivington M. (Hutton), Hague A. (Hutton), Fisher D. (Hutton), Renner A. (UAB), Cadillo-Benalzacar J. (UAB), Schyns J. (UT), Giampietro M. (UAB) MAGIC (H2020-GA 689669) Project Deliverable 5.1 - July 2020 MAGIC Deliverable 5.1

This dataset contains a land use change scenario (2050) for Scotland within the scope of a SSP1 - Low emissions scenario (Shared Socio-Economic Pathways). For achieving a low-emissions scenario, simulated land use change targeted woodland expansion (including silvo-arable and silvo-pastoral) and decreased grazing intensity, both land use changes also aimed at benefitting four aspects of ecosystem services: carbon storage through tree planting, emission reduction through deintensification, biodiversity enhancement through tree planting, and pollination to support food production. The 2019 baseline land use map at 100m resolution, was created by combining the Land Cover Map 2019 (Morton et al, 2020), estimations of stocking rates from IACS (Wardell-Johnson, 2022), and grazing conservation thresholds (Chapman, 2007; FAS, 2021). The land use scenario map was created using the SLM-OptionsTool, a land use change tool for Ecosystem Services based on the LandSFACTS model (Castellazzi et al, 2010). The attached land use scenario map for 2050 is not an optimised result, but it is only one possibility among others that meets all the constraints stipulated for the scenario. For a detailed description of the scenario refer to the following web storymap : https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/c3d3feff85f14460b6c973127089d6f9 This analysis was conducted as part of the Land use Transformations (https://landusetransformations.hutton.ac.uk/) project (JHI-C3-1) in the Scottish Government funded Strategic Research Programme 2022-27. The exact licence for this dataset is currently being finalised. When ready, the dataset will be uploaded as a new version.

This repository contains datasets used in the production of figures contained in MAGIC Deliverable 5.5 Matthews K.B., Blackstock K.L., Waylen K.A., Juarez-Bourke A., Miller D.G., Wardell-Johnson D.H., Rivington M. (2018) Report on the Quality Check of the Robustness of the Narrative behind the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). MAGIC (H2020-GA 689669) Project Deliverable 5.5 - 29th November 2018 MAGIC Deliverable 5.5