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Jia, Hepeng. "Agriculture: science and technology safeguard sustainability." National Science Review 6, no. 3 (March 16, 2019): 595–600. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwz036.

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Abstract China has traditionally placed tremendous importance on agricultural research. Meanwhile, in recent years, sustainable agriculture has been increasingly highlighted in both policy agenda and the capital market. However, while terms like environmental friendliness, low carbon, organic and green agriculture have become buzzwords in the media, few meaningful discussions have been raised to examine the relationship between science and technology (S&T) development and sustainable agriculture. What's more, some environmentalists stress that sustainable agriculture should abandon modern agriculture's heavy reliance on science and industrialization, making the link between agricultural S&T and sustainable agriculture seem problematic. What is the truth? If S&T are to play an important role in advancing sustainable agriculture, what is the current status of the field? What factors have caused the sustainable development of agriculture in China? At an online forum organized by the National Science Review (NSR), Hepeng Jia, commissioned by NSR executive editor-in-chief Mu-ming Poo, asked four scientists in the field to examine the dynamic relationship between sustainable agriculture and agricultural S&T in the Chinese context. Jikun Huang Agricultural economist at Peking University, Beijing, China Xiaofeng Luo Agricultural economist at Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China Jianzhong Yan Agricultural and environmental scientist at Southwest University, Chongqing, China Yulong Yin Veterinary scientist at Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, China Hepeng Jia (Chair) Science communication scholar at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

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Bharath, T. "Sustainable Agriculture." International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience 5, no. 4 (October 30, 2017): 1104–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.5700.

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Fricker, Alan. "Sustainable agriculture." Futures 32, no. 9-10 (November 2000): 941–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0016-3287(00)00045-8.

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Spedding, Colin. "Sustainable agriculture." International Journal of Human Rights 2, no. 2 (June 1998): 29–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13642989808406727.

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Francis, Charles A. "Sustainable Agriculture." Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 1, no. 1 (May 31, 1990): 97–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j064v01n01_08.

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Senanayake, Ranil. "Sustainable Agriculture." Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 1, no. 4 (July 9, 1991): 7–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j064v01n04_03.

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Hoque, Muhammad Tafazzal. "Sustainable Agriculture." Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 5, no. 3 (June 8, 1995): 97–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j064v05n03_08.

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Reganold, John P., Robert I. Papendick, and James F. Parr. "Sustainable Agriculture." Scientific American 262, no. 6 (June 1990): 112–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0690-112.

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Kanemasu, E. T., Ian Flitcroft, and Bin Li. "Sustainable Agriculture." Journal of Agricultural Meteorology 52, no. 5 (1997): 409–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2480/agrmet.52.409.

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Naizi, Al Khun, and Zish Rahmen. "Effectiveness of Sustainable Agriculture and Industrial Agriculture in Africa." Journal Siplieria Sciences 2, no. 1 (April 11, 2021): 14–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.48173/jss.v2i1.80.

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The aim of this analysis is to examine the efficacy of sustainable farming in Africa and industrial farming. Sustainable agriculture as an approach to food production that combines agriculture's economic, social and environmental dimensions. The agricultural societies in Asia and Africa have effectively followed these values. The growing evidence and accessible scientific review of the creation of programs suggests that sustainable interventions can be highly successful to enhance productivity, promote protection of soil and water incomes and to ensure food safety; improve agricultural, wildlife and plant health; increase natural disasters and climate change resistance, minimize greenhouse gas emissions and promote societies. This demonstrates that the efficiency of organic farming has a positive influence in different countries on the future of agriculture.

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Lloyd, Pauline. "Sustainable agriculture for biodiversity, biodiversity for sustainable agriculture." Biodiversity 18, no. 2-3 (July 3, 2017): 124–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14888386.2017.1366873.

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Appleby, Michael C. "Sustainable Agriculture is Humane, Humane Agriculture is Sustainable." Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 18, no. 3 (May 2005): 293–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10806-005-1490-9.

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Duong, Duc Tam. "Sustainable development for Vietnam agriculture." E3S Web of Conferences 175 (2020): 01015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202017501015.

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Agriculture is one of the important and complex sectors, it is not only a simple economic sector but also a biological - technical system. Because the basis for agricultural development is the use of bio-energy - plants and animals. Agricultural sector, if understood in a narrow sense, is only the cultivation, husbandry and service sectors. As for agriculture, in broad terms it also includes forestry and fishery. Agriculture provides food and food for social needs, agriculture is the basic material production industry, plays a major role in economic development in most of the country, especially in developing countries. At present, Vietnam’s agriculture has great potential and can be enriched from agriculture. However, wastage and loss in agriculture are still high in the stages of processing, harvesting and preserving. Mechanization is still low, lower than Thailand, so agricultural labor productivity is not high. Over the past years, Vietnam’s Agriculture has achieved important developments, contributing to the development of Vietnam’s economy. However, to achieve higher goals in the next 10 years, Vietnam’s agriculture needs to promote its strengths, such as: Well implementing land policies in agriculture; training high quality human resources; building a credible agriculture, which is clean, safe, quality agriculture and organic agriculture; protect natural environment, such as: land, climate, weather, hydrology, etc. In order to ensure sustainable agricultural development.

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Lyson, Thomas A. "Advanced agricultural biotechnologies and sustainable agriculture." Trends in Biotechnology 20, no. 5 (May 2002): 193–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0167-7799(02)01934-0.

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Cheteni, Priviledge. "Sustainable development: biofuels in agriculture." Environmental Economics 8, no. 2 (July 10, 2017): 83–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ee.08(2).2017.09.

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Biofuels are socially and politically accepted as a form of sustainable energy in numerous countries. However, cases of environmental degradation and land grabs have highlighted the negative effects to their adoption. Smallholder farmers are vital in the development of a biofuel industry. The study sought to assess the implications in the adoption of biofuel crops by smallholder farmers. A semi-structured questionnaire was administered to 129 smallholder farmers who were sampled from the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa. A binary probit model was used to investigate the determinants of smallholder farmers adopting biofuel crops. The empirical results showed that the variables, such as membership in association, occupation and incentives were statistically significant in influencing farmers’ decision to adopt biofuel crops. Furthermore, it was discovered that the studied areas have a potential to grow biofuel crops.

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Robertson, G. Philip. "A Sustainable Agriculture?" Daedalus 144, no. 4 (September 2015): 76–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_00355.

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The defining challenge of sustainable agriculture is the production of food and other agricultural products at an environmental cost that does not jeopardize the food security and general welfare of future generations. Feeding another three billion people in the face of climate change, biodiversity loss, and an environment already saturated with excess nitrogen and other reactive pollutants requires new approaches and new tools in the design and deployment of workable solutions. Solutions will be local but all will require an ecological systems approach that considers sustainable farming practices in the full context of ecosystems and landscapes. And their deployment will require an understanding of the social systems capable of building incentives that produce socially desired outcomes. Socioecological models for agriculture provide an opportunity to explore feedbacks, trade-offs, and synergies that can optimize and strengthen emerging connections between farming and society. With the right incentives, innovative research, and political will, a sustainable agriculture is within our reach.

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Woods, A. "Agriculture: Sustainable Business ? Sustainable Environment?" Water and Environment Journal 14, no. 2 (April 2000): 94–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-6593.2000.tb00233.x.

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Friedrich*, Heather, Curt R. Rom, Jennie Popp, Barbara Bellows, and Donn Johnson. "University of Arkansas Agriculture Professionals' Perceptions toward Sustainable Agriculture." HortScience 39, no. 4 (July 2004): 831C—831. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.39.4.831c.

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Interest IN and conversion to sustainable agriculture practices, such as organic agriculture, integrated pest management or increasing biodiversity, has been increasing for a number of years among farmers and ranchers across the United States In order to meet the needs of producers, university researchers and educators must adapt their program areas to reflect this change toward sustainable agriculture practices. Although consumers, producers, and extension workers have been surveyed regarding their attitudes and interests in sustainable agricultural practices, few surveys have examined sustainable agriculture perceptions among university agriculture professionals. The object of this study was to survey 200 agriculture professionals, including research scientists, classroom educators of the Land-Grant agricultural college and the Cooperative Extension service of a southern state with a traditional agricultural economy in order to determine their perceptions and attitudes toward sustainable agriculture and to gather information on current research and education activities relevant to sustainable agriculture. Seventy-eight questions were asked concerning professional incentives, personal and professional importance of topics under the sustainable agriculture rubric, current research and educational activities, and demographics. By conducting this research we hope to identify factors that are an impedance or assistance to future research and education to support sustainable agriculture. The survey findings will provide a foundation for directing and developing agriculture research and education programs for row crops, fruit, vegetable and livestock production.

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Gáthy, Andrea. "Conceptions regarding sustainable agriculture – the national sustainable development strategy." Acta Agraria Debreceniensis, no. 20 (May 23, 2006): 42–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.34101/actaagrar/20/3154.

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The task of the national sustainable development strategy is to provide a long term conception for the economy and society, so that this might function and develop in harmony with the environment. Creating the conditions for sustainable agricultural production requires the elaboration and implementation of long-term programs spanning generations. The objective is to find a compromise between the conceptions appearing in the long-term and the short-term programs.In Hungary, several principles, conceptions and proposals have been suggested regarding sustainable agriculture. In the present study, I intend to systematize the above mentioned principles and conceptions, and compare them to the conceptions regarding agriculture in the national strategies of the EU member states. Furthermore, I examine to what extent the agricultural policy of the European Union supports the conceptions regarding agriculture in the strategies. This topic deserves special attention, as the Hungarian national sustainable development strategy is being prepared and is supposed to be finished by the end of 2005.

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Kirschenmann, Frederick. "Facilitating Sustainable Agriculture." Crop Science 41, no. 3 (May 2001): 914. http://dx.doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2001.413914x.

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Flora, Cornelia Butler. "Building Sustainable Agriculture." Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 2, no. 3 (September 25, 1992): 37–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j064v02n03_04.

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Pollock, Chris, Jules Pretty, Ian Crute, Chris Leaver, and Howard Dalton. "Introduction. Sustainable agriculture." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 363, no. 1491 (July 25, 2007): 445–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2007.2193.

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Basso, Bruno, and John Antle. "Digital agriculture to design sustainable agricultural systems." Nature Sustainability 3, no. 4 (April 2020): 254–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-0510-0.

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Hobbs, Peter R., Ken Sayre, and Raj Gupta. "The role of conservation agriculture in sustainable agriculture." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 363, no. 1491 (July 24, 2007): 543–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2007.2169.

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The paper focuses on conservation agriculture (CA), defined as minimal soil disturbance (no-till, NT) and permanent soil cover (mulch) combined with rotations, as a more sustainable cultivation system for the future. Cultivation and tillage play an important role in agriculture. The benefits of tillage in agriculture are explored before introducing conservation tillage (CT), a practice that was borne out of the American dust bowl of the 1930s. The paper then describes the benefits of CA, a suggested improvement on CT, where NT, mulch and rotations significantly improve soil properties and other biotic factors. The paper concludes that CA is a more sustainable and environmentally friendly management system for cultivating crops. Case studies from the rice–wheat areas of the Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia and the irrigated maize–wheat systems of Northwest Mexico are used to describe how CA practices have been used in these two environments to raise production sustainably and profitably. Benefits in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and their effect on global warming are also discussed. The paper concludes that agriculture in the next decade will have to sustainably produce more food from less land through more efficient use of natural resources and with minimal impact on the environment in order to meet growing population demands. Promoting and adopting CA management systems can help meet this goal.

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Manimozhi.K, Manimozhi K., and Vaishnavi N. Vaishnavi.N. "Eco-Friendly Fertilizers for Sustainable Agriculture." International Journal of Scientific Research 2, no. 11 (June 1, 2012): 255–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.15373/22778179/nov2013/81.

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Ervin, David E., Leland L. Glenna, and Raymond A. Jussaume. "Are biotechnology and sustainable agriculture compatible?" Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 25, no. 2 (March 30, 2010): 143–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742170510000189.

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AbstractAgricultural biotechnology has been largely opposed by advocates in the sustainable agriculture movement, despite claims by the technology's proponents that it holds the promise to deliver both production (economic) and environmental benefits, two legs of the sustainability stool. We argue in this paper that participants in this polarized debate are talking past each other because assumptions about biotechnology and sustainability remain simplistic and poorly defined. Genetically engineered (GE) herbicide-resistant and insect-resistant crop varieties are the most visible current forms of agricultural biotechnology, and thus the form of biotechnology that many in the sustainability movement react to. However, these crops represent a biotechnology option that has paid insufficient attention to the integrated and systemic requirements of sustainable agriculture. In particular, common definitions of sustainable agriculture reinforce the need to include consideration of socio-economic distributive or equity effects into any assessment of sustainability. However, the frameworks that have been proposed to assess the potential for GE crops to enhance sustainable agriculture generally neglect this essential socio-economic dimension. We present an analysis that augments the sustainability frameworks to include the full suite of environmental, economic and social impacts. A review of the latest science on each impact category reveals that crop biotechnology cannot be fully assessed with respect to fostering a more sustainable agriculture due to key gaps in evidence, especially for socio-economic distributive effects. While the first generation of GE crops generally has made progress in reducing agriculture's environmental footprint and improving adopting farmers' economic well-being, we conclude that these early products fall short of the technology's capacity to promote a more sustainable agriculture because of the failure of those developing and promoting the technology to fully engage all stakeholders and address salient equity issues. To realize the sustainability potential of biotechnology will require fundamental changes in the way public and private research and technology development and commercialization are structured and operated. We identify new approaches in these areas that could make this powerful biological science more compatible with sustainable agriculture.

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Firbank, Leslie. "What is sustainable agriculture?" Biochemist 40, no. 4 (August 1, 2018): 4–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bio04004004.

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We all want to eat food that is produced sustainably. But it's not at all clear what that means in practice. Fundamentally, agriculture can be regarded as sustainable if it can continue to meet human needs whilst avoiding irreversible harm to the planet. The human needs are not just food, but include employment, leisure, social cohesion and the many ecosystem services provided by agricultural land that benefit people, including regulating water quantity and quality, carbon storage, maintaining landscapes of cultural and spiritual value, and providing homes for wildlife. Agriculture causes harm to the planet from habitat loss, carbon emissions, and pollution of air and water. Meeting these challenges is tough now, but it will only become more difficult as the human population rises and climate change becomes more difficult to cope with.

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Hanson, J. D., John Hendrickson, and Dave Archer. "Challenges for maintaining sustainable agricultural systems in the United States." Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 23, no. 04 (July 4, 2008): 325–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742170507001974.

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AbstractDuring the 20th century, US agriculture underwent vast transformations. The number of farmers has decreased, more farmers are relying on off-farm income, agriculture's proportion of the US GDP has declined, and a minority of non-metro counties in the US are farming dependent. Agriculture's evolution will continue and we have identified key trends and future challenges to effectively manage our changing agricultural system. Eight current trends in US agriculture were identified. These included: (1) increased land degradation; (2) competing land uses; (3) focus on single ecosystem service; (4) increase in farm size; (5) movement toward commercialization; (6) genetic engineering; (7) global markets; and (8) changing social structure. Future trends likely to affect agriculture include: (1) diminishing and increasingly volatile farm incomes; (2) reduced government involvement in food regulation; (3) continued transition from farming to agribusiness; (4) land-use will become a major issue; (5) increasing animal protein consumption in the US; (6) increased public input on livestock production practices; (7) increasing urbanization of historically rural US counties; (8) increased public concern over food safety; (9) increased medicinal production from agriculture; (10) new tastes, markets and opportunities will emerge. We further postulated that future challenges facing US agriculture might include: (1) competitive pressures; (2) sustainable development; (3) resource conservation; and (4) research and development. Integrated agricultural systems may be flexible enough to address these challenges. However, robust principles will be needed to design adaptable integrated agricultural systems. We present a nonexclusive list of preliminary principles under the four general categories of (1) economics and economic policies; (2) environmental; (3) social and political; and (4) technological.

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Shrestha, Jiban, Subash Subedi, Krishna Prasad Timsina, Sudeep Subedi, Meena Pandey, Aakriti Shrestha, Sajina Shrestha, and Mohammad Anwar Hossain. "Sustainable Intensification in Agriculture: An Approach for Making Agriculture Greener and Productive." Journal of Nepal Agricultural Research Council 7 (April 30, 2021): 133–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jnarc.v7i1.36937.

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Sustainable intensification of agriculture is a good approach for reducing the yield gap without exacerbating the current condition of the environmental components, which is a big challenge for agriculture in the modern world. This review provides a summary of the role and approaches of sustainable intensification in agriculture which offer ways to increase crop production and create long-term sustainability in agriculture production. The current demand for food has continued to rise as a result of the world's rapidly increasing population. In order to increase crop/food production, agricultural systems should be intensified by more sustainable practices, as well as by reforming existing production systems/techniques and diversifying them into newer and more profitable enterprises. Despite the heavy use of inputs, farmers have recently been unable to achieve optimal crop yields. The judicious use of agricultural inputs, combined with improved management techniques, is important for advancing sustainable intensification. New scientific techniques in agronomic practices, as well as improved farm mechanization, are helping to boost resource use efficiency in sustainable crop production. The sustainable agricultural intensification is necessary to increase the agricultural productivity under the changing and adverse climatic conditions while maintaining healthy production practices.

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Lowrance, Richard, Paul F. Hendrix, and Eugene P. Odum. "A hierarchical approach to sustainable agriculture." American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 1, no. 4 (1986): 169–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0889189300001260.

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Abstract“Sustainable agriculture” means many things to different people in agriculture. At least three different definitions of sustainability are available: sustainability as food sufficiency; sustainability as stewardship; and sustainability as community. Since increased human populations will cause demands for food to continue to grow in the foreseeable future, agricultural sustainability needs to be assessed in ways that will incorporate competing definitions. We suggest that analyzing agriculture as a hierarchical system is the appropriate way to incorporate different concepts of sustainability. Using this concept, we propose a hierarchical definition of sustainability. Agronomic sustainability refers to the ability of a tract of land to maintain productivity over a long period of time. Microeconomic sustainability is dependent on the ability of the farm, as the basic economic unit, to stay in business. Ecological sustainability depends on the maintenance of life-support systems provided by non-agricultural and non-industrial segments of a region. Macroeconomic sustainability is controlled by factors such as fiscal policies and interest rates which determine the viability of national agriculture systems. In our view, there are critical constraints to sustainability at different scales of the agricultural hierarchy. We propose that agronomic constraints are most important at the field scale; microeconomic constraints are dominant at the farm scale; ecological constraints override at the watershed or landscape scale; and macroeconomic constraints are foremost at the regional and national scale. In this paper, we describe the actions of these critical constraints, discuss interactions among various hierarchical levels, and propose ways that agricultural researchers and policy makers can integrate the various views of sustainability.

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Vennila, Soorya, and K. Ramesh. "Women’s Labour and Sustainable Agriculture." Indian Journal of Gender Studies 26, no. 3 (October 2019): 385–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0971521519861190.

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This article looks at the participation of women in irrigated agriculture in 32 districts of Tamil Nadu and found exceptional involvement in these three districts, which are topographically different from each other, namely Kanyakumari, Nilgiris and South Arcot. The study asked—how does contemporary agriculture support female participation and in turn how does this keep agricultural labour supply and food security sustainable? A range of research methods were used to explore the rationale for exceptional female participation in irrigated agriculture. It concluded that such participation arises because of the existing pattern of labour supply primarily by landowning farm women and labourers. This as a result of male preference for widespread skilled jobs, subsequent changing labour pattern due to male migration, matrilineal property ownership, cropping intensity, multi-tasking of women and the coordinated effort of women’s groups (SHGs) in accessing micro-credits. Finally, subsidies and incentives have further altered and effected greater labour supply of women in agriculture.

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Bowers, J. "Sustainability, Agriculture, and Agricultural Policy." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 27, no. 8 (August 1995): 1231–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a271231.

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In this paper, the problem of achieving sustainable development in the context of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and other policy suggestions is examined. Sustainable development is defined as a commitment to conserve necessary biological, cultural, and aesthetic capital for future generations. This is not a costless process. Constraints are required on current economic activity, entailing sacrifices by the current generation, if sustainability requirements are to be met. Specific wildlife sites within the farmed landscape are critical to the sustainability programme. Conservation of these sites entails the continuation of specific and often technically obsolete farming practices. Their conservation cannot be ensured by the practice of efficient sustainable agriculture as advocated by the authors Pretty and Howes. Furthermore, those authors are wrong in believing that such agriculture could be profitable without continuing subsidy. The approach of the CAP is to make payments for the practices necessary to safeguard these sites. However, the economic sustainability of the CAP is doubtful. Its costs are excessive and reforms are not reducing the excessive financial burden and resource costs. Alternative reform packages involving conservation through cross-compliance have even greater resource costs. The ability to safeguard these critical sites in the long run is therefore questionable. This suggests there is a need to rethink sustainability requirements for cultural and biological diversity.

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Lockeretz, William, and Molly D. Anderson. "Farmers' role in sustainable agriculture research." American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 5, no. 4 (December 1990): 178–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0889189300003660.

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AbstractInvolvement of farmers in sustainable agricultural research can have important benefits, since farmers originated many sustainable agriculture innovations and can contribute a valuable perspective different from that of researchers. However, this does not mean, as is sometimes said, that all kinds of sustainable agricultural research necessarily should give farmers a major role—perhaps the dominant role—in choosing topics and overseeing the work. This belief overlooks the fact that farmers are just one of many groups that publicly supported research is supposed to serve and that their interests do not by themselves embody the full range of goals that sustainable agriculture tries to achieve. Moreover, although farmers can bring valuable insights to research, these alone will not be enough to insure that a sustainable agriculture research program has an appropriate mix of applied versus basic, short-term versus long-term, and component-level versus system-level studies.

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Janker, Judith, Stefan Mann, and Stephan Rist. "What is Sustainable Agriculture? Critical Analysis of the International Political Discourse." Sustainability 10, no. 12 (December 10, 2018): 4707. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10124707.

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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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Mustapit, S. Subekti, A. F. Sunartomo, and Rokhani. "Achieving sustainable agriculture through enhancing agricultural extension institution." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 250 (April 5, 2019): 012011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/250/1/012011.

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AbRazak, Nurul Husna, and Abdullah Mat Rashid. "Sustainable Agriculture: Self-Reported Knowledge among Agricultural Students." Indian Journal of Science and Technology 12, no. 32 (August 1, 2019): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.17485/ijst/2019/v12i32/145594.

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Knickel, Karlheinz, Amit Ashkenazy, Tzruya Calvão Chebach, and Nicholas Parrot. "Agricultural modernization and sustainable agriculture: contradictions and complementarities." International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 15, no. 5 (September 3, 2017): 575–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2017.1373464.

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Wang, Zhiguo, Junbin Wang, Guoping Zhang, and Zhixiong Wang. "Evaluation of Agricultural Extension Service for Sustainable Agricultural Development Using a Hybrid Entropy and TOPSIS Method." Sustainability 13, no. 1 (January 2, 2021): 347. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13010347.

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Agricultural extension service is the foundation of sustainable agricultural development. The evaluation and analysis of the agricultural extension service for sustainable agricultural development can provide an effective analytical tool for sustainable agriculture. This paper analyzes the influence of agricultural extension service on sustainable agricultural development, and constructs an evaluation system for sustainable agricultural development from the four dimensions of agricultural environment, society, economy, and agricultural extension service. This work proposes a framework based on the combination of technique for order performance by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) and entropy method to evaluate the performance of the evaluation system. Taking three national modern agriculture demonstration zones in Suzhou in Jiangsu Province as a case study, the method was verified. Moreover, the main factors affecting sustainable agricultural development are discussed, and the improvement measures and management suggestions are also put forward to reduce the obstacles to sustainable agricultural development and improve sustainable agriculture practice.

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Suvorov, Nicolae, and Alina Mădălina Stancu. "Climate-Smart Approach for Sustainable Agriculture." International Journal of Sustainable Economies Management 10, no. 2 (April 2021): 46–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsem.2021040104.

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The 21st century comes with a great challenge in terms of sustainable agriculture and food security, which is also a worldwide debated issue due to problems such as population growth, degradation of natural resources including loss of biodiversity and considerable soil degradation, and last but not least, climate change. In fact, climate change poses the greatest threat to agricultural systems and the health of ecosystems and natural balance. The green revolution comes as a lifesaver for the environment, streamlining the allocation of natural resources but at the same time involves huge costs in term of money, time, and labor. Due to the intensive use of fossil fuels, chemical treatments in agriculture, and animal husbandry, environmental problems such as climate change tend to become more pronounced resulting in negative environmental externalities globally. A smart approach to sustainable agriculture is to reinvent and innovate traditional agricultural practices in order to identify ways and possibilities to reduce the risks related to the use of pesticides in close connection with the health of ecosystems.

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Srivastava, Rajani, Kalpana Awasthi, and Dheeraj Tripathi. "Nanotechnology towards Sustainable Agriculture." International Journal of Scientific Research in Physics and Applied Sciences 6, no. 6 (December 31, 2018): 155–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.26438/ijsrpas/v6i6.155158.

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Caporali, Fabio. "Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture." Italian Journal of Agronomy 2, no. 2 (June 30, 2007): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ija.2007.71.

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Power, Alison G. "Sustainable Agriculture and Development." Ecology 69, no. 4 (August 1988): 1310–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1941294.

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Mpepereki, S., F. Javaheri, P. Davis, and K. E. Giller. "Soyabeans and sustainable agriculture." Field Crops Research 65, no. 2-3 (March 2000): 137–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0378-4290(99)00083-0.

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Sivakumar, M. V. K., R. Gommes, and W. Baier. "Agrometeorology and sustainable agriculture." Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 103, no. 1-2 (June 2000): 11–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0168-1923(00)00115-5.

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ALLEN, MICHAEL F. "Mycorrhizae in Sustainable Agriculture." Soil Science 157, no. 1 (January 1994): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00010694-199401000-00009.

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Altieri, Miguel A. "Biotechnology and sustainable agriculture." American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 1, no. 4 (1986): 146. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s088918930000120x.

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Schaefer, Peter R. "Trees and Sustainable Agriculture." American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 4, no. 3-4 (December 1989): 173–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0889189300003039.

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AbstractIn the United States, trees constitute an element in agriculture whose importance has been inadequately appreciated. In actuality, they are highly important in several ways. From the time of the earliest settlements, they have served as a source of building materials and energy. They protect the soil against erosion by wind and water. When used as windbreaks adjacent to crop fields, they protect crops against the damaging effects of wind on crop yields. As windbreaks for livestock, they increase feed conversion efficiency, improve weight gains, and increase the survival rate ofnewborns. They provide habitat for wildlife and contribute aesthetically to the appearance of the countryside. They protect water resources. Trees need to have the story of their great benefits more widely and emphatically told.

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van Schilfgaarde, Jan. "Is precision agriculture sustainable?" American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 14, no. 1 (March 1999): 43–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s088918930000802x.

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Best, Michael. "Sustainable Agriculture for Appalachia." Appalachian Heritage 26, no. 4 (1998): 30–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/aph.1998.0094.

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Poincelot, Raymond P., and Haworth Continuing Features Submission. "Fertilizers and Sustainable Agriculture." Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 1, no. 3 (May 22, 1991): 107–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j064v01n03_09.

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