This service consists of designing, testing, and implementing at a pilot scale an integrated assessment framework aiming at assessing socioeconomic benefits and socio-ecological trade-offs of sustainable and resilient agriculture and agrifood system combining data and subjective evaluation of stakeholders.

The framework will build stepwise interactively into five main steps.

1. Selecting indicators (resorting to participatory and deliberative tools or alike) to assess the state and monitor the performance respecting socioeconomic benefits and socioecological trade-offs of sustainability and resilience shaping different agro-ecological transitions;

2. Measuring, building on those indicators, data-based and subjective-evaluated short and long-term benefits and trade-offs (e.g., cost savings, eco-efficiency gains, long-term productivity gains, subjective satisfaction, community acknowledgment, premium in prices, health benefits, among others) for different groups (e.g., producers, processors, advisors, researchers, rural communities, farm workers, smart-tech developers, policy-makers, and others);

3. Diagnosing the current state of value chains or rural landscapes respecting those indicators and trade-offs;

4. Outline feasible and desirable transition paths for value chains or rural landscapes using socio-technical transition scenarios approach encompassing the multidimensionality of the transition, triggers, and drivers (e.g., agro-production systems, technology, regulation, policy incentives, markets, and consumers preferences, society pressures);

5. Identify bottlenecks and constraints hindering (perceived) benefits and accentuating trade-offs and how to overcome them by combining approaches such as policy incentives, regulations, and consumer and citizen awareness.