Social farming practices to promote social-ecological sustainability in rural areas

The paper uses the social-ecological system framework to analyze the complex relationships established between biophysical and social systems (agricultural land and those ecological processes taken place on them) (Liu et al., 2007; Ostrom, 2009) in the context of agricultural areas conducting SF. Under this approach we identify and characterize the supplied services (ES and the public services co-produced as a result of biophysical and governance dynamics and social needs), the system’s users and the governance system (characterized by bottom-up approaches and a community-based management)