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This erosion is compounded by an ever tighter global interconnection of crises spanning multiple sociopolitical, technological and environmental domains, in what has been termed a polycrisis (S\u00f8gaard J\u00f8rgensen et al. 2023). The latter encompasses the nexus among human health, biodiversity, climate change, water availability and quality, food (in)security, and inequalities (IPBES 2024). A burgeoning field of research, the nexus polycrisis posits a rather existential question: are humans locked-in in an undesirable trajectory increasingly difficult to escape from? But more importantly, how can humans leverage their collective-action potential to prevent systemic risks and shift to more sustainable pathways at local and global scales? Indeed, the widespread policy consensus is no longer why or whether sustainability pathways are required, but how to trigger, operationalize and accelerate them with urgency and justice (UNEP 2021, UNEP 2021,IPCC 2023 ,IPBES 2024).<\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>In this presentation, we describe the methodological approach and preliminary results of a research initiative dealing with sustainability pathways in the European agrifood sector. The agrifood sector is exemplary of locked-in undesirable trajectories, with implications for the nexus polycrisis and across key production-consumption value chains (Lamine and Marsden 2023). Historically, agrifood technological innovation and high specialization have come at the cost of environmental degradation at multiple spatial scales, ultimately compromising the sustainability of land productivity and food production, and hence human wellbeing (IPBES 2024). This is likely due to a long-term process of post-war stabilization through the convergence of innovations, and technocratic strategies and policies at different levels of the agrifood system (e.g., production, processing, consumption), which generated the system\u2019s \u201cresistance to change\u201d and lock-in at present (Conti et al. 2021, Williams et al. 2023). Using several cases of agrifood systems in 8 LTSER Platforms, our research focuses on two interrelated knowledge and data gaps.<\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>First, governance and politics are inherently implicated in any effort to foster sustainability pathways (M\u00e9ndez et al. 2023). However, understanding the role of governance in fostering sustainability pathways remain underdeveloped in the literature, in particular around the more specific causal mechanisms underlying undesirable trajectories that become stuck in costly-to-escape social-ecological traps, in particular locked-in states (Lambert-Peck et al. 2024). Thus, we engage methodologically with the effect and feedback dynamics of different governance structures on locked-in social-ecological states.<\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>Second, policy mixes for tackling systemic lock-ins and transformative changes require a strong coordination to achieve the necessary directionality and coherence across policy areas affecting multiple socio-economic interests, environmental domains and cultural value systems. In turn, evidence-based coordination mechanisms and policy mixes require long-term research and monitoring programs based on harmonised sets of variables, in order to achieve meaningful understanding of policy impact over time (Pacheco-Romero et al. 2020). Here, we contribute to develop representative, efficient and feasible European long-term monitoring programs, with a focus on eLTER RI Standardised Observation system. Our particular focus is on the development of eLTER RI\u2019s approach and protocol for the long-term monitoring of social-ecological governance in LTSER platforms, in coordination with other key protocols such as those focused on ecosystem services and land-use change. The role of standardised biophysical data and variables is also explored. We aim at revealing their potential to understand the role of key processes like ecological suppression in producing system-level social-ecological lock-ins that can propagate and cumulate across scales and induce systemic risks at biosphere level.<\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>We hope that this research may inform the study of social-ecological lock-ins in a more comparative and applicable way beyond agrifood systems and LTSER Platforms. We also hope that it can support transdisciplinary research processes in their efforts to explore and support co-produced solutions for collectively learning how to navigate away from and out undesirable trajectories of development in a safe and equitable way. At policy level, we aim at highlighting the potential of eLTER RI for informing multi-level policies and governance modes in their role to prevent local and global situations prone to systemic risks derived from lock-in phenomena (e.g., through the development of early warning systems to detect signs of lock-in at multiple scales). Finally, we show how this research is informing the foundation for a collaborative space aimed at mutual-learning and knowledge exchange between the LTSER Platforms network and the nascent network of Soil Health Living Labs under the Soil Mission.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3897\/aca.8.e157080","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,6,2]],"date-time":"2025-06-02T11:46:57Z","timestamp":1748864817000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The role of standardised observation in preventing biosphere risk: Unlocking agrifood systems transformations in LTSER Platforms and beyond"],"prefix":"10.3897","volume":"8","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1825-6496","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Pablo","family":"Mendez","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Management, INGENIO (CSIC-UPV), Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Val\u00e8ncia, Valencia, Spain"}]},{"given":"Mihai","family":"Adamescu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center in Systems Ecology and Sustainability, (RCSES), University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3390-4500","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Bastian","family":"Bertsch-Hoermann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"3Institute of Social Ecology (SEC), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4195-222X","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Floriane","family":"Clement-Kumar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Dynafor, Toulouse University, INRAE, Castanet Tolosan, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-8163-8500","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Merav","family":"Cohen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0460-4616","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Ricardo","family":"Diaz-Delgado","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Remote Sensing and GIS Lab, Estaci\u00f3n Biol\u00f3gica de Do\u00f1ana, EBD (CSIC), Sevilla, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4180-9338","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Jan","family":"Dick","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bush Estate, Penicuik, EH26 0QB, Scotland, United Kingdom"}]},{"given":"Marta","family":"Dobrovodska","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia"}]},{"given":"David","family":"Fajardo-Ortiz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium"}]},{"given":"Sabrina","family":"Gaba","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre d\u2019Etudes Biologiques de Chiz\u00e9, USC 1339 INRAE CNRS La Rochelle Universit\u00e9, 79360, Villiers en Bois, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1620-0408","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Veronika","family":"Gaube","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria"}]},{"given":"Lubos","family":"Halada","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia, Slovakia"}]},{"given":"Jennifer","family":"Holzer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2977-403X","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Zita","family":"Izakovi\u010dov\u00e1","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia"}]},{"given":"Daniel","family":"Orenstein","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel"}]},{"given":"Elisa","family":"Oteros-Rozas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Estaci\u00f3n Biol\u00f3gica de Do\u00f1ana, Sevilla, Spain"}]},{"given":"Giovanna","family":"Ottaviani-Aalmo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Dept. 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