Agri-food systems (AFS) have been central in the debate on sustainable development.
Despite this growing interest in AFS, comprehensive analyses of the scholarly literature are …

Modeling is a crucial approach for understanding the past and exploring the future of
coupled human-natural systems. However, uncertainty in various forms challenges …

The focus of the Special Feature on “Multicriteria assessment of food system sustainability”
is on the complex challenges of making and communicating overall assessments of food …

There is a strong impetus to adopt sustainability targets and measures across primary
industries. Measuring sustainability demands the development of indicators. Conventional …

Sustainability of food production has become the focus of many research projects and has
gained a prominent position in the marketing of food products. To gain insight into the …

A multitude of farm-level sustainability assessment tools (SATs) exists, reflecting a variety of
agricultural practices and sustainability perceptions. Tools differ and insight is lacking about …

Although there are different approaches to sustainability auditing, those considered
authoritative use scientific indicators and instruments to measure and predict the impact of …

Questions have been raised on what role the knowledge provided by sustainability science
actually plays in the transition to sustainability and what role it may play in the future. In this …

Despite the increasing use of private certification standards to meet the demand for
sustainable dairy production, research into these standards is lacking. In this paper, we …

There are many definitions of transdisciplinary, and several typologies. Particularly, Scholz
and Steiner (Sustain Sci 10 (4): 527–544, 2015a) distinguish a theoretical “Mode 1”, largely …