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Agricultural sustainability: concepts, principles and evidence
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Concerns about sustainability in agricultural systems centre on the need to develop technologies and practices that do not have adverse effects on environmental goods and services, are accessible to and effective for farmers, and lead to improvements in food productivity. Despite great progress in agricultural productivity in the past half-century, with crop and livestock productivity strongly driven by increased use of fertilizers, irrigation water, agricultural machinery, pesticides and land, it would be over-optimistic to assume that these relationships will remain linear in the future. New approaches are needed that will integrate biological and ecological processes into food production, minimize the use of those non-renewable inputs that cause harm to the environment or to the health of farmers and consumers, make productive use of the knowledge and skills of farmers, so substituting human capital for costly external inputs, and make productive use of people's collective capacities to work together to solve common agricultural and natural resource problems, such as for pest, watershed, irrigation, forest and credit management. These principles help to build important capital assets for agricultural systems: natural; social; human; physical; and financial capital. Improving natural capital is a central aim, and dividends can come from making the best use of the genotypes of crops and animals and the ecological conditions under which they are grown or raised. Agricultural sustainability suggests a focus on both genotype improvements through the full range of modern biological approaches and improved understanding of the benefits of ecological and agronomic management, manipulation and redesign. The ecological management of agroecosystems that addresses energy flows, nutrient cycling, population-regulating mechanisms and system resilience can lead to the redesign of agriculture at a landscape scale. Sustainable agriculture outcomes can be positive for food productivity, reduced pesticide use and carbon balances. Significant challenges, however, remain to develop national and international policies to support the wider emergence of more sustainable forms of agricultural production across both industrialized and developing countries.
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“Emphasis on increasing output, and ignorance of the relationship between agricultural production and the ecological environment, often leads to excessive reclamation, increased irrigation and mechanical working of area, and rapid increases in the use of fertilizers and pesticides (Pretty, 2008).”
BackgroundUllah, S., Ahmad, W., Majeed, M. T., & Sohail, S. (2021) · Environmental Science and Pollution Research · doi:10.1007/s11356-021-15077-w · Cited by 42
“Pretty (2008) states that if organic waste is used instead of fertilizer, it protects the environment and also increases agricultural productivity.”
BackgroundYork, L. M., Slack, S., Bennett, M. J., & Foulkes, J. M. (2018) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/280875 · Cited by 48
“Planting more hectares is not a viable option (Pretty, 2008).”
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“Sub-Saharan West Africa requires improved food security driven by a sustainable increase in food production [16,17].”
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Credibility beyond compliance: Uncertified smallholders in sustainable food systems
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Shrestha, J., Subedı, S., Timsina, K. P., Subedi, S., Pandey, M., Shrestha, A., Shrestha, S., & Hossain, M. A. (2021) · Journal of Nepal Agricultural Research Council · doi:10.3126/jnarc.v7i1.36937 · Cited by 41
“The concept of sustainability in the scenario of food and agricultural production is the chief factor to any future challenges (Pretty 2008).”
BackgroundInfluentialLi, F., Gao, J., Xu, Y., Nie, Z., Fang, J., Zhou, Q., Xu, G., Shao, N., Xu, D., Xu, P., et al. (2021) · Aquaculture Reports · doi:10.1016/j.aqrep.2021.100763 · Cited by 41
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“2011) and to evoke highly localized case studies (Cunningham et al. 2013; Pretty 2008).”
Ajibade, S., Simon, B., Gulyás, M., & Bálint, C. (2023) · Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems · doi:10.3389/fsufs.2023.1101528 · Cited by 47
“However, the implementation of SI is complicated by temporal delays in yield increase and positive returns, including limited supportive policy frameworks for sustainable agriculture, as reported by Pretty (2008) and Petersen and Snapp (2015).”
BackgroundNijbroek, R., & Andelman, S. J. (2015) · International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability · doi:10.1080/14735903.2015.1071548 · Cited by 40
“Similarly, global grain production doubled during the past 50 years while arable land increased by only 9% (Pretty, 2008).”
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“There is 41 economic and ecological pressure on farmers to optimise the N uptake efficiency of crop 42 plants (Hawkesford, 2014) and by reducing the reliance on non-renewable inputs, improve 43 the sustainability of agriculture (Pretty, 2008).”
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“Over the past decades, conventional farming practice that mainly relies on agrochemical inputs has significantly increased the global per capita agricultural production (Pretty, 2008).”
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Who will feed the world? The production challenge
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“(Pretty, 2008)”
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Commercializing genetically modified crops under EU regulations
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Alternative Land Management Strategies and Their Impact on Soil Conservation
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“Sustainable agricultural practices can be effective in improving water use efficiency in particular in poor developing country affected by water scarcity [93,92].”
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Meat Industry Protein By-Products: Sources and Characteristics
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“There is a huge diversity in practices and principles within organic systems, with gradients in sustainability (Pretty 2008; Shennan et al. 2017).”
BackgroundAgricultural Pollution: An Emerging Issue
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Agricultural sustainability: progress and prospects in crop research
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Biodiversity management of organic farming enhances agricultural sustainability
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Agroecological practices for whole-system sustainability
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Metadata
- Authors
- Pretty, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Essex (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Pretty, Jules
- ORCID
- Pretty, Jules
- Venue
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 2007-07-25
- Volume
- 363
- Issue
- 1491
- Pages
- 447-465
- ISSN
- 0962-8436 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-2970
- PMC
- PMC2610163
- OpenAlex
- W2124217459
- Cited by
- 1,941
- References
- 175
- Citations by year
- 2026: 159 · 2025: 178 · 2024: 180 · 2023: 138 · 2022: 123 · 2021: 140 · 2020: 123 · 2019: 123 · 2018: 101 · 2017: 105 · 2016: 110 · 2015: 80 · 2014: 74 · 2013: 86 · 2012: 76
- FWCI
- 1.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Open Access at Essex (University of Essex) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agronomy and Crop Science › Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant and soil sciences
- Social Sciences › Development › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Keywords
- sustainable agriculture, agroecosystems, natural capital, social capital, human capital, financial capital, physical capital, ecological management, nutrient cycling, system resilience, food productivity, pesticide reduction, carbon balance, farmer knowledge, agricultural policy, environmental goods and services
- MeSH terms
- Agriculture, Animals, Animal Husbandry, Conservation of Natural Resources, Developing Countries, Environment, Food Supply, Humans, Pesticides, Ecosystem, Crops, Agricultural, Developed Countries
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