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DESCRIPTION:Extreme weather events\, including droughts\, heatwaves\, inten
 se rainfall and episodic non-seasonal frosts\, are increasingly disrupting
  soil functionality and agricultural production stability. In Mediterranea
 n agricultural landscapes\, these pressures interact with long-standing so
 il degradation processes such as declining organic matter\, erosion\, sali
 nisation\, compaction and reduced biological activity\, creating new risks
  for food security and land management. There is therefore a growing need 
 for integrated\, spatially explicit tools that can assess not only the cur
 rent condition of soils\, but also their capacity to buffer climatic stres
 s\, recover after disturbance and support stable crop production over time
 . \n\nThe Soil Resilience and Food Security Index (SRFSI) is proposed as a
  composite framework for evaluating the resilience of agricultural landsca
 pes under climate-extreme conditions. The index integrates four complement
 ary dimensions: Soil Resilience Capacity\, representing the ability of soi
 ls to sustain carbon storage\, water regulation\, nutrient cycling\, struc
 tural stability and biological functioning\; Biological and Agroecological
  Management\, capturing the contribution of practices such as compost and 
 manure application\, biofertilisers\, microbial inoculants\, cover crops\,
  crop-residue retention\, reduced tillage\, diversified rotations and land
 scape elements that enhance biodiversity and water regulation\; Climate-Ex
 treme Resilience\, assessing exposure and response to drought\, heatwaves\
 , heavy rainfall\, erosion risk\, salinity stress and crop-relevant non-se
 asonal frosts\; and Food Security Stability\, reflecting yield stability\,
  stress-year yield retention\, production reliability and post-event recov
 ery. \n\nThrough SRFSI\, a framework is proposed that can function both as
  a baseline diagnostic approach and as a scenario-based tool for assessing
  soil and production resilience. By comparing index scores under current c
 onditions\, climate-extreme scenarios and post-intervention conditions\, r
 esilience loss and adaptation gain can be quantified across different crop
 s\, soil types and management systems. Remote-sensing proxies\, open soil 
 and climate datasets\, field measurements and farm-management information 
 are combined to support implementation at field\, farm\, municipal and reg
 ional scales. This approach is intended to support the identification of v
 ulnerable agricultural areas\, the evaluation of biological and agroecolog
 ical soil-management interventions\, and the design of strategies that hel
 p maintain productive\, resilient and food-secure agricultural systems und
 er increasing climate uncertainty.
DTSTAMP:20260825T193324Z
LOCATION:Basement (Foyer)
SUMMARY:Towards a Soil Resilience and Food Security Index for Climate-Resil
 ient Agricultural Landscapes - Konstantinos Karyotis\, Maria Marily Christ
 ou
URL:https://pretalx.earthmonitor.org/soil-health-now-2026/talk/TZFHT8/
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