AGROECOLOGICAL INDICATORS OF CROPPING SYSTEMS: THE PHOSPHORUS INDICATOR IN THE SUD MILANO AGRICULTURAL PARK (NORTHERN ITALY)

Agroecological indicators (OECD, 2001) are useful to integrate data about cropping and farming systems and to draw conclusions about their sustainability. One important aspect of sustainability is the management of nutrients; for this reason we calculated nutrient budgets (Bechini et al., 2004) for the farms of the regional agricultural metropolitan Park "Parco Agricolo Sud Milano " (PASM)