Knowledge domain and emerging trends of climate-smart agriculture: a bibliometric study

Li, Jun; Xia, Enjun; Wang, Lingling; Yan, Kuan; Zhu, Lianqing; Huang, Jieping

doi:10.1007/s11356-022-20796-9

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“…Hence, it is vital to ensure that farmers have access to sufficient resources and knowledge necessary for embracing and executing sustainable agricultural practices that are adaptable to climate change. Collaboratively addressing these challenges enables the establishment of a more resilient and sustainable agricultural sector, effectively tackling climate issues and contributing to enhanced food security, reduced GHG emissions, and sustainable development [49]. These actions necessitate active engagement and participation from all stakeholders, including policymakers, agricultural organizations, research institutions, and local communities, to provide support and a conducive environment for the adoption and success of sustainable agriculture initiatives.…”

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“…While the long-term benefits of CSA, including enhanced agricultural resilience and reduced dependence on external inputs, outweigh the associated costs [48,49], it is essential to address challenges related to technology accessibility and use, particularly among smalland medium-sized farmers in developing countries. Protecting farmers' data privacy and confidentiality regarding information generated by these technologies is paramount [42].…”

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Assessing Agricultural Impact on Greenhouse Gases in the European Union: A Climate-Smart Agriculture Perspective

Vărzaru

2024

Agronomy

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With the increasing concern about climate change and its impacts on agriculture, understanding the dynamics of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the European Union (EU) agricultural sector is essential for devising effective mitigation strategies. This study aims to assess the impact of agriculture on GHG within the EU and to examine how climate-smart agricultural practices can affect these emissions. The research investigates the complex relationship between agricultural activities and GHG emissions within the European Union during the period of 2017–2022 using structural equation modeling based on data from Eurostat and the European Commission. Furthermore, the study examines the influence of the digital economy on labor productivity in agriculture, recognizing the pivotal role of digital technologies in fostering climate-smart agricultural practices. The findings unveil significant positive influences encompassing the digital economy, agricultural productivity, agricultural output, and GHG emissions, underscoring the imperative of integrating climate-smart methodologies into agricultural frameworks. However, the influence of digital technologies is not significant as a result of opposing forces. Digital technologies exert positive indirect influences by increasing agricultural productivity and agricultural output, while they have negative influences by improving production processes through automation and precision agriculture. Digitalization and climate-smart agricultural practices have a significant potential to improve the efficiency and sustainability of the agricultural sector, contributing to food security and environmental protection by reducing GHG emissions. This study highlights the EU’s potential to achieve its environmental objectives through the reduction of GHG emissions and the enhancement of resilience within the agricultural sector, emphasizing the necessity of adopting climate-smart strategies.

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Assessing Agricultural Impact on Greenhouse Gases in the European Union: A Climate-Smart Agriculture Perspective

Vărzaru

2024

Agronomy

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“…For the study, data is extracted from Web of Science (WoS) which is an interdisciplinary electronic database has an extensive coverage of high rated journals in the field of research to conduct bibliometric analysis (Li et al, 2022;Sarkar et al, 2022).The database valued by organisations worldwide conducting research and also used and suggested by many authors in the previous studies (Khare & Jain, 2022;Küster-Boluda et al, 2022;Naeini et al, 2022). The study examine different terminologies and themes related to Sustainability Reporting for which search query was used to find articles, review article and early access on WoS in its category of 'Business, Business Finance, Management, Economics' for time period 2004 till 2022.…”

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Sustainability reporting: Current state and challenges

Paridhi

Arora

2023

Bus Strat Dev

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There exists a huge difference in sustainability reporting adoption & implementation within and between countries which affect achievement of desired results at global level for environmental protection and social development. This study summarises and analyses 133 studies of sustainability reporting published between year 2004 and 2022 in web of sciences (WoS) database through Bibliometric Analysis and also used Theory, Context, Characteristic Methodology framework to represent the state of research in this field for the first time. The study is divided in two sections (1) develop an understanding on sustainability reporting trends and thematic evolution, and (2) discussion on challenges of sustainability reporting adoption and implementation. The present study consolidates the state of research on sustainability reporting. The study finds a thematic shift since 2017 onwards and a significant increase in publications since 2018. It identifies four major thematic clusters namely, sustainability reporting, board gender diversity, content analysis, and ESG disclosure which reveals that ESG reporting, ESG disclosures, and sustainability stakeholder impact assessment has high potential for future research. It also contributes by identifying most prominent theories in the field viz stakeholder, legitimacy and institutional theory and preferred methodology as qualitative research. It finds emerging themes as Sustainability Reporting Quality, ESG disclosure, cross‐country evaluation and also highlights most relevant keywords and trends in the research field. Study recognises lack of common definition and conceptual understanding, standards measurement metrics and cross‐country evaluations as major challenges which stands as big problem at policy formation and implementation stage.

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“…The approach raises a question about the types of knowledge used in CSA implementation. With CSA research and discourse being led by FAO, World Bank, and other international research organizations (Li et al 2022), there is a risk that local governments and donors may push farmers to adopt 'proven' CSA options without fully situating the technology within local knowledge. NGOs, which focus on communities and the poor, can play a strategic role in agricultural development (Kaimowitz 1993).…”

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Finding climate smart agriculture in civil-society initiatives

Davila,

Jacobs,

Nadeem

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Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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International civil society and non-government organisations (NGOs) play a role in implementing agricultural projects, which contribute to the mitigation, adaptation, and food security dimensions of climate-smart agriculture (CSA). Despite the growth of CSA, it remains unclear how CSA is designed, conceptualised, and embedded into agricultural development projects led and implemented by NGOs, creating a lack of clarity as to the direction of future of agricultural development interventions. This paper examines the extent to which development programmes from the NGO sector actively incorporate CSA principles to benefit smallholder farmers under the major pillars of CSA. Drawing from six projects’ documentation since 2009, we conducted a thematic analysis to reveal the alignment of projects with the pillars of CSA and discuss the extent to which CSA allows for localised adaptability given the diverse agricultural contexts in which civil society and NGOs work. We find that despite a lack of clarity in CSA definition and focus, the agricultural practices in the six projects make heterogenous contributions to the adoption of CSA principles. We illustrate the diversity of ways in which CSA is ‘done’ by a global NGO across six areas: greening and forests, practices and knowledge exchange, markets, policy and institutions, nutrition, carbon and climate, and gender. We discuss the need for balance in contextual adaptability across the three pillars of CSA with explicit consideration of trade-offs to reduce unintended outcomes from CSA initiatives. We conclude with reflections on the role of civil society and NGOs as boundary agents in the agricultural development sector.

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Knowledge domain and emerging trends of climate-smart agriculture: a bibliometric study

Cited by 17 publications

References 59 publications

Assessing Agricultural Impact on Greenhouse Gases in the European Union: A Climate-Smart Agriculture Perspective

Assessing Agricultural Impact on Greenhouse Gases in the European Union: A Climate-Smart Agriculture Perspective

Sustainability reporting: Current state and challenges

Finding climate smart agriculture in civil-society initiatives

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