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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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“7 *연락저자 : Phone: +82312900337 E-mail: ha0sk@korea.kr 서 언 농업은 녹색 경관이나 쾌적한 환경을 조성하여 삶의 질 을 향상시키고 토양 미생물에 의한 생태계의 순환과 더불 어 환경과 가장 조화된 산업이다 (Pollock et al., 2008, Pretty, 2008; Zhao et al., 2008).”
Rótolo, G. C., Montico, S., Francis, C. A., & Ulgiati, S. (2015) · Agricultural Systems · doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2015.08.005 · Cited by 31
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“132 describe the elements of such a paradigm: (1) improved understanding and analysis of telecoupled ecosystem service flows; (2) information translation for decision-makers at the science–policy interface; and (3) governance to address the sustainability of telecoupledecosystemservice flows.”
BackgroundSustainable water use and management for agricultural transformation in Africa
Iyiola, A. O., Kolawole, A. S., Ajayi, F. O., Ogidi, O. I., & Ogwu, M. C. (2023) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-443-18778-0.00001-5 · Cited by 30
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“Mankind has succeeded in producing food crops by developing technologies that improve the plant performance of, for example, irrigation and fertilizers (Pretty, 2008).”
BackgroundEnhancing crop yields and farm income through climate-smart agricultural practices in Eastern India
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“CSA practices yield a dual advantage for private and public stakeholders and play a pivotal role in alleviating poverty among rural communities (Pretty 2008; Branca et al. 2021).”
Rapid Solution-Based SERS Detection of Pesticides Using Graphene Oxide-Coated Silver–Gold Nanostars
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Human management of ongoing evolutionary processes in agroecosystems
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“This approach views the agricultural system in its broadest sense, encompassing individual farms, local ecosystems, and the communities impacted by the farming system, both locally, nationally, and globally [27,63,64].”
Bousset, L., & Chèvre, A. (2013) · Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment · doi:10.1016/j.agee.2012.12.005 · Cited by 29
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The resilience of big river basins
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The Role of Precision Agriculture in the Promotion of Food Security
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“Inefficient use of water causes waterlogging, and salinization and agricultural machinery increases the consumption of fossil fuels (Pretty, 2008).”
BackgroundSustainability Assessment of Annual and Permanent Crops: The Inspia Model
Triviño-Tarradas, P., Ariza, M. R. G., Basch, G., & González-Sánchez, E. J. (2019) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su11030738 · Cited by 29
Soil and crop management to save food and enhance food security
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Corn Height Estimation Using UAV for Yield Prediction and Crop Monitoring
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“They are essential in modern agriculture, which increases farm productivity [82].”
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Enset Production System Diversity across the Southern Ethiopian Highlands
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Innovation Diffusion in Conservation Agriculture: A Network Approach
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“…have intensified this quest in recent decades, some of which include a rising demand for food (Godfray et al., 2010), the detrimental effect of some technologies on the environment such as soil fertility decline, land degradation, and loss of biodiversity (Tilman et al., 2002; Pretty, 2008).”
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Co-producing agricultural policy with beekeepers: Obstacles and opportunities
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“As the industrial food system is seen as a challenge to global environmental thresholds (Pretty, 2008; Kennedy et al., 2021), so is pollinator decline increasingly situated as a manifestation of the Anthropocene (Marshman, 2019).”
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“During the last five decades, worldwide fertilizer consumption has grown approximately fourfold, for nitrogen fertilizers even sevenfold (Pretty 2008).”
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“Industrial food systems also produce a multitude of negative environmental impacts such as decreased biodiversity, soil erosion and degradation of water supplies (Pretty 2008).”
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“Furthermore, several studies (Pretty, 2017; Ologeh et al., 2021 ; Onyeneke et al., 2020; Tiamiyu et al.,2018), concluded that subsistence farmers with poor adaptation measures would be more vulnerable to climate change impacts than their commercial counterparts.”
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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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