What is sustainable agriculture? A systematic review
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In: Sustainability, Vol. 7, No. 6, 18.06.2015, p. 7833-7865.
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T1 - What is sustainable agriculture? A systematic review
AU - Velten, Sarah
AU - Leventon, Julia
AU - Jager, Nicolas Wilhelm
AU - Newig, Jens
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2015 by the authors.
PY - 2015/6/18
Y1 - 2015/6/18
N2 - The idea of a sustainable agriculture has gained prominence since the publication of the Brundtland Report in 1987. Yet, the concept of sustainable agriculture is very vague and ambiguous in its meaning, which renders its use and implementation extremely difficult. In this systematic review paper, we aim to advance understandings of sustainable agriculture from a social science and governance perspective by identifying areas of complementarity and concern between emerging definitions of sustainable agriculture. For this purpose, we conducted a structured literature review in combination with a cluster analysis in order to (1) identify the overall ideas and aspects associated with sustainable agriculture; (2) detect patterns and differences in how these ideas and aspects are adopted or applied; (3) evaluate how the different ideas and aspects of sustainable agriculture are combined in the scientific debate, and assess whether these different conceptions match with those that have been claimed to exist in the debate. There are two valuable outcomes from this research. The first is a framework for understanding the components of sustainable agriculture. The second outcome is in highlighting ways for actors involved with sustainable agriculture to deal with the complexity and multiplicity of this concept in a constructive manner.
AB - The idea of a sustainable agriculture has gained prominence since the publication of the Brundtland Report in 1987. Yet, the concept of sustainable agriculture is very vague and ambiguous in its meaning, which renders its use and implementation extremely difficult. In this systematic review paper, we aim to advance understandings of sustainable agriculture from a social science and governance perspective by identifying areas of complementarity and concern between emerging definitions of sustainable agriculture. For this purpose, we conducted a structured literature review in combination with a cluster analysis in order to (1) identify the overall ideas and aspects associated with sustainable agriculture; (2) detect patterns and differences in how these ideas and aspects are adopted or applied; (3) evaluate how the different ideas and aspects of sustainable agriculture are combined in the scientific debate, and assess whether these different conceptions match with those that have been claimed to exist in the debate. There are two valuable outcomes from this research. The first is a framework for understanding the components of sustainable agriculture. The second outcome is in highlighting ways for actors involved with sustainable agriculture to deal with the complexity and multiplicity of this concept in a constructive manner.
KW - Sustainability Science
KW - Agriculture
KW - sustainable agriculture
KW - qualitative content analysis
KW - cluster analysis
KW - grey literature
KW - fields of action
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U2 - 10.3390/su7067833
DO - 10.3390/su7067833
M3 - Scientific review articles
VL - 7
SP - 7833
EP - 7865
JO - Sustainability
JF - Sustainability
SN - 2071-1050
IS - 6
ER -