Understanding the social dimension of sustainability in agriculture: a critical review of sustainability assessment tools

Janker, Judith; Mann, Stefan

doi:10.1007/s10668-018-0282-0

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“…Future development and application of such indicators (e.g., standardize to official data) should better assess their value in comparative analysis across farms and production systems. This would improve coverage of farmers' wider interactions with society, an area of suggested improvement for existing sustainability assessment tools (Janker and Mann, 2018).…”

Section: Selected Indicators and Farm Management Topicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These include the environmental threats of climate change, land degradation, nutrient mismanagement, biodiversity loss, and resource depletion (Green et al, 2005;Tilman et al, 2011;Newbold et al, 2016;Poore and Nemecek, 2018). Socially, economically and culturally, the agricultural sector also faces severe challenges, such as poor labor conditions, work overload, environmental conflict, waning profitability, and threatened traditional practices (Binder et al, 2010;Rulli et al, 2013;Janker and Mann, 2018). The globalization of modern food systems means landscapes and actors are connected over vast distances via flows of goods, services, and information along global value chains (Lenzen et al, 2012a).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Representative Farm-Based Sustainability Assessment of the Organic Sector in Switzerland Using the SMART-Farm Tool

Curran

Lazzarini

Baumgart

et al. 2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Section: Selected Indicators and Farm Management Topicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Representative Farm-Based Sustainability Assessment of the Organic Sector in Switzerland Using the SMART-Farm Tool

Curran

Lazzarini

Baumgart

et al. 2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…One promising direction has already been initiated. Progress has been made, for example, in the interdisciplinary field known as sustainability sciences [108]: In particular, the integration of several dimensions of sustainability into conceptions provides hope that a more comprehensive and integrative paradigm of sustainability sciences will be created [109]. In our opinion, however, this integration should occur separately from the development politics dominated by the international political discourse.…”

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What is Sustainable Agriculture? Critical Analysis of the International Political Discourse

2018

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The concepts, 'sustainable development' and 'sustainable agriculture', have been shaped by both political discourses of the United Nations and scientific discourses. Using critical discourse and content analysis, we trace the meaning of 'sustainable agriculture' in both international political and in scientific discourses to examine and identify key elements of the representation of sustainable agriculture. We found that the meanings of the concept of sustainable agriculture vary markedly: International political actors primarily produce discourses on sustainable development in agriculture and on sustainable agricultural intensification. Scientists tend to emphasise issues of environmental management. Based on our findings, we highlight the differences in the meaning of sustainable agriculture between the political and scientific discourses and attempt to explain them. In addition, discursive gaps are shown that have the potential to hinder the systematic operationalization of 'sustainable agriculture', such as the integration of a social dimension of sustainable agriculture.

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“…While Janker and Mann [51] stress that the social dimension of sustainability still lacks a clear definition and relies on normative approaches, they conclude that human rights, employment, and life quality are among the topics that occur most prominent in the literature. To illustrate the social dimension arising from our varying parameterisation of CAP support payments, we therefore choose the employment indicator.…”

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European Union Agricultural Support ‘Coupling’ in Simulation Modelling: Measuring the Sustainability Impacts

Boulanger¹,

Boysen-Urban

Philippidis

2021

Sustainability

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Over the last twenty years, the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union has evolved into a multifunctional policy instrument. As part of this transformation, most farmer receipts are paid independently of production, granting this class of payment production-neutral or ‘fully decoupled’ status. In prospective agricultural market studies, simulation models routinely represent these payments as decoupled, despite academic evidence to the contrary that posits a number of ‘coupling-channels’. To explore the ramifications of differing degrees of coupling on the three pillars of sustainability, a natural-resources focused simulation model is employed. Comparing with a ‘standard’ decoupled baseline to 2030, higher coupling increases global agricultural employment and reduces production intensity on European Union agricultural land and agricultural emissions. Higher coupling also diminishes the Common Agricultural Policy’s capacity as a safety-net for European Union food-security and agricultural employment, whilst there is tentative evidence of increasing emissions ‘leakage’. At the very least, if the non-distorting status of decoupled payments is mis-specified, this has direct implications for the design of greener policy initiatives under the auspices of the Green Deal that promote sustainable fairer trade. As a result, further empirical research on the production distorting effects of the European Union’s decoupled payments is needed.

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Understanding the social dimension of sustainability in agriculture: a critical review of sustainability assessment tools

Cited by 103 publications

References 30 publications

Representative Farm-Based Sustainability Assessment of the Organic Sector in Switzerland Using the SMART-Farm Tool

Representative Farm-Based Sustainability Assessment of the Organic Sector in Switzerland Using the SMART-Farm Tool

What is Sustainable Agriculture? Critical Analysis of the International Political Discourse

European Union Agricultural Support ‘Coupling’ in Simulation Modelling: Measuring the Sustainability Impacts

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