IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jsusta/v18y2025i1p313-d1828329.html

The Transition to Farm Sustainability Data Network (FSDN): A New Approach to Analyse the Environmental and Social Aspects of EU Farming Systems

Author

Listed:
  • Sonia Marongiu

    (Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Policies and Bioeconomy, 35028 Legnaro, Italy)

  • Nicola Casolani

    (Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Policies and Bioeconomy, 00187 Rome, Italy)

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to describe the process of transition from the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) to the Farm Sustainability Data Network (FSDN), a European survey that gathers yearly data about agricultural holdings at microeconomic level. Established initially to monitor economic aspects of farm income and support Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) evaluations, the network has now broadened its scope to integrate environmental and social aspects of farm management, in line with the EU Green Deal and the Farm to Fork strategy. The Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2674 formalizes this integration, adding new variables, encouraging the participation of the farms (voluntary), and supporting the improvement in interoperability to reduce the statistical burden on farmers and data collectors. The paper discusses the main challenges and opportunities of this transition, emphasizing how FSDN will deliver a more comprehensive and reliable dataset for policy evaluation and for advancing the understanding of farm-level sustainability.

Suggested Citation

  • Sonia Marongiu & Nicola Casolani, 2025. "The Transition to Farm Sustainability Data Network (FSDN): A New Approach to Analyse the Environmental and Social Aspects of EU Farming Systems," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 18(1), pages 1-13, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:18:y:2025:i:1:p:313-:d:1828329
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/18/1/313/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/18/1/313/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:18:y:2025:i:1:p:313-:d:1828329. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.