Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

One of the most popular perspectives in the agricultural sector is that of resource conservation, such as habitat or the proper management of basic resources like land and water. However, in recent years, there has been a trend towards combining this more ecological perspective of agriculture with socioeconomic factors and, in general, with a multidimensional perspective. Exploring such new perspectives is the aim of this contribution . These studies deserve a great deal of attention, but it is also clear that research at farm level is not enough, due to the fact that there are factors determined by political matters or others influenced by the socioeconomic environment of the farming system, e.g. productive activities surrounding to agriculture.