Environmental Sustainability of Agriculture Stressed by Changing Extremes of Drought and Excess Moisture: A Conceptual Review

Wheaton, Elaine; Kulshreshtha, Suren

doi:10.3390/su9060970

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“…At present, competing uses for land and water resources contribute to the degradation of natural resource capital, a situation that may exacerbate present-day and intergenerational consequences for farmers, other users and the wider population. Sustainable agricultural practices protect the ecosystem through the more efficient use of natural resources and strengthened capacity for adaptation to climate change and climate variability 1 . Therefore, their adoption may have significant benefits for the environment.…”

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A scoping review on incentives for adoption of sustainable agricultural practices and their outcomes

Piñeiro

Arias²,

Dürr³

et al. 2020

Nat Sustain

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The increasing pressure on agricultural production systems to achieve global food security and prevent environmental degradation necessitates a transition towards more sustainable practices. The purpose of this scoping review is to understand how the incentives offered to farmers motivate the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices and, ultimately, how and whether they result in measurable outcomes. To this end, this scoping review examines the evidence of nearly 18,000 papers on whether incentive-based programmes lead to the adoption of sustainable practices and their effect on environmental, economic and productivity outcomes. We find that independent of the incentive type, programmes linked to short-term economic benefit have a higher adoption rate than those aimed solely at providing an ecological service. In the long run, one of the strongest motivations for farmers to adopt sustainable practices is perceived benefits for either their farms, the environment or both. Beyond this, the importance of technical assistance and extension services in promoting sustainable practices emerges strongly from this scoping review. Finally, we find that policy instruments are more effective if their design considers the characteristics of the target population, and the associated trade-offs between economic, environmental and social outcomes.

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A scoping review on incentives for adoption of sustainable agricultural practices and their outcomes

Piñeiro

Arias²,

Dürr³

et al. 2020

Nat Sustain

345

139

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“…Industrial agriculture has been strongly associated with water and soil degradation, a decline in microbial and plant biodiversity, and ultimately with harmful climate change. Climate change, as Wheaton and Kulshreshtha (2017) have pointed out, threatens to destabilize food systems' reliability across the globe. How to create ecologically and socially sustainable food systems is, therefore, an urgent issue of global concern.…”

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Cultivating a Jewish Eco- Education Framework: The Toronto Heschel School’s Teaching and Learning Garden

Ijaz¹,

Mawson²

2021

CJS

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Over the last century, global food systems have increasingly shifted towards a scientific, input-based industrial paradigm whose adverse ecological impacts are well documented. In response, global agricultural movements, such as the agroecology movement, have sought an integration of contemporary science and indigenous agricultural knowledges. Scholars in the field of Jewish ecology similarly propose that biblical Hebrew scripture may provide a framework for thinking about, and acting upon, issues of ecological sustainability in agriculture. In educational settings too, learning about ecology is increasingly approached in an intimate and tangible way in the form of school garden programs. In this work, we highlight the case of the Toronto Heschel School, a Canadian Jewish day school for children in which a Teaching and Learning Garden fosters student learning on ecology and their Jewish identity in tandem. Reporting the thematic results of qualitative interviews with two educators and five alumni from the Heschel School, this study highlights key similarities and differences between this school’s garden program and those taking place in secular school settings. Like secular school gardens, the Heschel program implements experiential, interdisciplinary learning activities within a scientific ecological knowledge (SEK) framework. That said, the Heschel program supplements and deepens these SEK activities with traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) rooted in Judaic traditional teachings. The resulting educational outcomes appear at once universally applicable while specifically relevant to the Jewish identities of learners.

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“…And what are the transport costs and other expenses? [14], food processing technologies and their acceptance at consumers, to another contrast issue of environmental sustainability, e.g., in the events of extremes drought and moisture, due to the impact of agricultural activities [15]. However, there is one affinity that relates one issue of a particular sector to another.…”

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Internet of Things (IoT) in Agriculture Industries

Adesta

Agusman

Avicenna

2017

IJEEI

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The IoT applications in the agriculture industry are intertwined in many ways, creating a hybrid construct of traditional businesses with digital connectivity implementations. Strategic issues and principles on the assimilation of IoT solutions are prevail through time: investment costs, data interconnectivity, management and analysis, as well as data security. The agriculture industry is expected to be always alerted for the changes that may apply, with all the contemporary challenges and future directions responding to the situations, so it can reap the optimum use of the IoT connectivity.

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Environmental Sustainability of Agriculture Stressed by Changing Extremes of Drought and Excess Moisture: A Conceptual Review

Cited by 36 publications

References 30 publications

A scoping review on incentives for adoption of sustainable agricultural practices and their outcomes

A scoping review on incentives for adoption of sustainable agricultural practices and their outcomes

Cultivating a Jewish Eco- Education Framework: The Toronto Heschel School’s Teaching and Learning Garden

Internet of Things (IoT) in Agriculture Industries

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