Towards sustainable farming systems: Effectiveness and deficiency of the French procedure of sustainable agriculture

Gafsi, Mohamed; Legagneux, Bruno; Nguyen, Géneviève; Robin, Patrice

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2006.01.002

Cited by 90 publications

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“…SSTB actually lowers the frequency of pruning and improves the land productivity and resource use efficiency of tea plantations, thus lowering the operational cost and unit cost of production. Hence this method leads to sustainable agricultural practices by improving the ability of the agricultural systems to maintain crop productivity in the long run while at the same time producing environmental and social benefits (Francis et al 1987;Gafsi et al 2006;Lichtfouse et al 2009;Peiris and Gunarathne, 2015). These types of investments do not require substantial capital investment or deployment of advanced technology or skilled labour.…”

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confidence: 99%

Assessing the impact of eco-innovations through sustainability indicators: the case of the commercial tea plantation industry in Sri Lanka

Gunarathne

Peiris

2017

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Innovative processes aimed at sustainable development or eco-innovations have received increasing attention during the past years despite the lack of theoretical and methodological approaches to analyzing their impact. This paper focuses on how sustainability indicators can be used to measure the effects of "non-technical" ecoinnovations in the Sri Lankan tea plantation sector. After carrying out an experimental case study on a commercial tea plantation, we employed a combination of physical and monetary sustainability indicators to evaluate the initial results of the ecoinnovation. It shows that innovations aimed at improving economic benefits often result in unintentional environmental and social benefits that support a lean-green relationship. It reveals the difficulty in having a standardized set of indicators to measure the impact of eco-innovations owing to the multidimensionality of sustainability. Hence, the case study suggests adopting broad sustainability indicators that represent the wholeness of the system while capturing the long-term impact.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Assessing the impact of eco-innovations through sustainability indicators: the case of the commercial tea plantation industry in Sri Lanka

Gunarathne

Peiris

2017

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“…Previously published studies have discussed the feasibility of forming a general understanding and consensus on agricultural sustainability (Gafsi, Legagneux, Nguyen, & Robin, 2006;Van Cauwenbergh et al, 2007;Sydorovych & Wossink, 2008). Environmentalists view agricultural sustainability as a multifunctional system to protect rural communities and to criticize the negative impact of agricultural practices on ecosystems and the global environment (Cairol, Coudel, & Laplana, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

Agriculture Sustainability: A California Agribusiness Students’ Perspective

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Vera²

2014

IJBM

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Agribusiness managers as the major players in the agricultural industry greatly determine agribusiness practices and affectperception about agricultural sustainability. This study develops a framework to analyze how agribusiness students, the future agribusiness managers, in California view sustainable agriculture. An educational program was created and implemented to raise awareness and educate students about agricultural sustainability. Pre-and post-surveys were administered to collect relevant data and a conditional logit model was estimated. Our main results suggest that: 1) the educational program is more influential on the ratings of the external social and environmental sustainability than on economic and internal social sustainability; 2) participating in the educational program helped future managers realize the importance of obtaining stable income to achieve economic sustainability; and 3) water quality and farm continuity are important attributes infarm environmental and internal social sustainability. Given the lack of consensus on how to define agricultural sustainability, this study provides insightful information to help understand how future agriculture managers perceive sustainable farming.

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“…For many consumers, organic foods are the perfect example of quality and/or healthy and organic farming is 'farming without chemicals' (Lampkin 1990). Although there is some evidence that consumers are willing to pay more for environmentally 'added value' products such as organic produced foods (DEFRA, 2002;Gafsi et al, 2006) research shows that organic consumers are generally more interested in social and environmental aspects of food production than the average consumer (Sylvander & François, 2006). The ethical concerns of organic consumers can be easily categorized according to the three pillars of the concept of sustainability: ecological, social, and economic sustainability.…”

Section: Organic Agriculture and Eu Regulationsmentioning

confidence: 99%