Linking food and land system research in Europe

Food-system studies often assess dynamics in production, consumption or processing and logistics a spatially abstract manner. Land-system traditionally analyze land-use/land cover change with its environmental societal drivers as well impacts are typically explicit. Primary production is main node where food land systems overlap. We used systematic literature review to determine how existing Europe address the interface of systems. identified three pathways studies: economic, footprint crop modeling (pathway 1), scenario-based land-use/land-cover remote sensing 2), (qualitative) policy 3). The reviewed only partially integrate land- food-system research. Most these stronger on than side miss distribution sales. In addition, major linkages between implemented deterministically (e.g., through static requirements for diets). Here, role actors dynamic models considering systemic feedbacks could improve realisms studies. Therefore, this study develops framework reveal interplay food- land-system It focusses urban-rural both research strands processes at interface: rural-urban exchange urban sprawl. Future should especially quantify governance, which hardly quantified date. Urban-rural weakly considered if from an perspective. Thereby, it would be interesting extent rural population governance shape urban-rural-linkages, focus areas provide additional insights.