npj Sustainable Agriculture, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 3(1)
Published: March 17, 2025
Language: Английский
European Review of Agricultural Economics, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 50(4), P. 1277 - 1309
Published: June 27, 2023
Abstract Digitalisation is rapidly transforming the agri-food sector. This paper investigates emerging opportunities, challenges and policy options. We show that digital innovations can contribute to more sustainable resilient agricultural systems. For example, enable increased productivity, reduced environmental footprints higher resilience of farms. However, these optimistic outcomes increasing digitalisation sector will not emerge on their own, but this development comes with several challenges, costs risks, e.g. in economic, social ethical dimensions. provide recommendations explore opportunities avoid risks. Moreover, we discuss implications for future research economics.
Language: Английский
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Agronomy for Sustainable Development, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 44(2)
Published: March 19, 2024
Abstract Agroecology is identified as an important solution to increase the sustainability of agricultural and food systems. Despite increasing number publications assessing socio-economic outcomes agroecology, very few studies have consolidated scattered results obtained on various case studies. This paper provides new insights by consolidating evidence varied effects agroecology across a large cases at global level. To this purpose, we used rapid review methodology, screening more than 13,000 retrieve implementation agroecological practices. The indicate that (1) practices are associated often with positive broad range evaluated metrics (51% positive, 30% negative, 10% neutral, 9% inconclusive outcomes); (2) financial capital represent vast majority (83% total) affected positively in share (53%), due favourable income, revenues, productivity efficiency; (3) human (16%) larger negative (46% versus 38% positive), higher labour requirements costs however partly compensated overall greater (55%); (4) vary depending practice assessed; e.g. for agroforestry, identify 53% while cropping system diversification 35%. These potential farms benefit from performance use Yet, magnitude, temporal aspects, success factors related these outcomes, well trade-offs between them, system-level transition be further assessed, since they can influence individual farms.
Language: Английский
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Nature Plants, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 10(3), P. 360 - 366
Published: March 14, 2024
Language: Английский
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Agricultural Systems, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 219, P. 104037 - 104037
Published: June 20, 2024
Language: Английский
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Agricultural Systems, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 217, P. 103950 - 103950
Published: April 13, 2024
Intensive food and feed production in sole-cropped, large fields with high fertilizer pesticide inputs to achieve yields, has contributed detrimental environmental impacts. To move towards more sustainable agricultural landscapes, cropping system diversification been suggested as a promising practice for which the use of digital technologies could be potentially beneficial. Understanding impact diversified, newly arranged systems their management requires long-term experimental data at landscape scale practical experiences using are hardly available. Experimental platforms an setup farmers' involvement meet such demands but have not set up many regions nor process designing described systematically. The overall objective this study was describe how platform can co-designed jointly by researchers practitioners understand practices compared current Eastern Brandenburg, Germany. Specifically, we aimed re-design intensively managed field into smaller segments that called patches assess potential co-created experiment focussing on both, practitioners´ scientists´ perspective. We used DEED research cycle (Describe, Explain, Explore Design) conceptual framework co-design patchCROP within commercial farm. Patches were implemented 0.5 ha original based yield soil maps advanced cluster analysis considered heterogeneity. narrow crop sequence diversified integrating new crops, cover crops flower strips five-year rotation. cultivate patches, machinery during first years will replaced over time autonomous robots. Workshops various methods SWOT adjust reduction. revealed opportunities drawbacks develop participative manner from both scientific farming found farmer-centric position focused mainly economic return feasibility future operations field. perspective other hand needs potentials about evaluating dynamic, interdependent or opposing natural processes interactions like productivity, biodiversity ecosystem service changes context. Co-designed experiments simultaneously developed services beyond level, performance quality multiple scales, implications actors. This is step forward extend systems-based single plot on-farm environment, allowing exploration measures long run.
Language: Английский
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Environmental Science & Policy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 157, P. 103789 - 103789
Published: May 17, 2024
Agriculture is a significant contributor to global environmental problems such as greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss. The EU China are key players in this regard, both have introduced policies for sustainable agriculture. This research takes critical policy analysis approach investigate the extent which current Chinese agricultural reproduce discourses commensurate with transition more Drawing on four-phase methodology analysis, we analyse documents from China, comparing them positioning heuristic scale of weak strong sustainability. Three positions sustainability distinguished, namely techno-economic/productionist, blended, agroecological/ruralist. Our findings suggest that reproduced dominant techno-economic/productionist position, leaning towards sustainability, while aligned fundamental transformation agriculture marginalised. Such shared orientation rooted policymaking processes albeit manifested differently two political contexts. Based our reflections common patterns underlying discourses, call deeper cultural social critique participatory reflexive embrace alternative discourses.
Language: Английский
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Advances in marketing, customer relationship management, and e-services book series, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 553 - 578
Published: Jan. 23, 2025
The world food system faces climate change, biodiversity loss, poverty, and malnutrition. This chapter examines global governance's history to inform a sustainable transition. Analyzing institutions, policies, initiatives from the 20th century onward, it identifies key issues lessons. Dominant approaches prioritized production trade over equity, environment, rights. Alternative models like cooperatives, agroecology, local systems offer solutions. A new paradigm integrating sustainability, human rights, justice is proposed, emphasizing policy reforms, cooperation, stakeholder engagement. transformative shift in values power necessary for just future.
Language: Английский
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Heliyon, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. e42346 - e42346
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
The agri-food systems face many global and local challenges, including climate change, environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity. As the population continues to rise, demand for food other ecosystem services also increases, escalating pressure on systems. There is an urgent need transition systems' goals from production efficiency sustainability address these challenges. Within systems, niche marketing has gained prominence in achieving sustainability. Using PRISMA framework, this study performs a systematic literature review up November 2024 gather existing evidence how markets can promote sustainable while identifying challenges policy options. To end, two databases were employed: Web Sciences Scopus. Findings selected (58 articles) indicate that developing deliver agriculture subject various related risk exposure, entry barriers, changing consumer preferences, institutional context. In general, three main ways through which support identified. Firstly, provide financial incentives encourage farmers adopt environmentally friendly practices by increasing price premiums limiting competitors' market access. Secondly, facilitate partnerships networks enable sharing know-how best practices, reducing high cost transitioning Thirdly, radical innovations technologies increased economic performance. terms implications, public initiatives fostering expansion should increase support, access credit, legal recognition certifications products. Other measures include knowledge transfer networking between consumers.
Language: Английский
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Agricultural Economics, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 55(2), P. 265 - 269
Published: Feb. 15, 2024
Abstract European countries have set ambitious policy goals to reduce the risks of pesticides environment and human health. agriculture could play a leading role in transition low pesticide risk future, with various societal benefits. However, such also involves trade‐offs, costs, for farmers society. Here, we summarize possible implications food systems Europe beyond discuss avenues future research.
Language: Английский
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npj Sustainable Agriculture, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 2(1)
Published: Dec. 5, 2024
Abstract Sustainable and resilient crop production is facing many challenges. The restoration of natural reactive silicon cycles offers an opportunity to improve sustainability through reducing phosphorus fertilizer use increase crops’ resilience drought stress pests. We therefore call upon farmers, agri-food-researchers, policymakers pave the road for transforming agriculture a silicon-improved sustainable production, which represents promising approach achieve food security under global change.
Language: Английский
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