?Davide Rizzo is an agronomist, characterizing the spatial organization of cropping systems and farming practices at the landscape level to understand the related impact on natural resources. Dr. Rizzo uses different disciplinary approaches ranging from geographical analyses, knowledge capitalization and data-mining of statistical surveys.Elisa Marraccini is an associate professor in Agronomy and Crop Science at the University of Udine, Italy. Her main research interests are the design and assessment of sustainable cropping and farming systems in different contexts and the understanding of the land use trajectories at the farm, landscape and regional levels. Sylvie Lardon is a senior scientist at INRAE and associated professor at AgroParisTech, at Clermont-Ferrand, France. Her research focuses mainly on the development and use of qualitative spatial models to build shared visions and improve actors’ participation in territorial projects.