On Farm Implementation Of Transformative Technologies And Practices For Sustainability Transitions In Agriculture
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On Farm Implementation Of Transformative Technologies And Practices For Sustainability Transitions In Agriculture
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Author : Callum Eastwood
language : en
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Release Date : 2025-05-21
On Farm Implementation Of Transformative Technologies And Practices For Sustainability Transitions In Agriculture written by Callum Eastwood and has been published by Frontiers Media SA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-21 with Technology & Engineering categories.
There is increased pressure on agri-food sectors globally to transition to more sustainable food systems. This is a response to ongoing challenges associated with environmental impacts, food security, workplace attractiveness, changing knowledge and advisory systems, farmer well-being, and technological change. Transformative technology and practices advocated by scholars and policy makers include digitalization and automation, agroecological systems, diversification, de-intensification, local food systems, circularity, transformative value chains and land-use change. These changed practices ultimately need to be implemented at a farm scale, but the implications will ripple through regional and global food systems. The potential role of transformative agricultural technologies and practices in sustainability transitions is widely researched. However, greater focus is required on the ‘real-world’ implications at a farm-system level, and the positive and negative effects of change in the livelihoods of those being urged to change (i.e. farmers, farm businesses and supply chains). At the farm level, transformation can be a complex process that intersects land, livelihoods, and security of the wider food supply system. As a consequence, theoretical concepts of transformation to achieve more sustainable food systems can be difficult to implement for farmers due to unforeseen interactions and implications. Better understanding of these experiences is needed for effective and viable transformation options to progress environmental, social and economic sustainability.
Social Innovation And Sustainability Transition
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Author : Geoff Desa
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-11-09
Social Innovation And Sustainability Transition written by Geoff Desa and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-09 with Philosophy categories.
This book uses a historical and modern lens to reimagine the role that Extension could potentially play in catalyzing reciprocal, co-learning relationships between Land-Grant Universities and their diverse local constituencies. The establishment of statewide extension systems was once seen as a way to ensure that Land-Grant Universities would be accessible and responsive to all of a state’s residents. Extension systems continue to offer a front-door to a major public university in almost every county of the United States, but they tend to be viewed primarily as a way to translate science or distribute information from the university to the public. This books argues for the importance of Extension and shows that we are conceiving of this system too narrowly. Only by retelling the stories of the Extension and getting people to see themselves as part of the story can we imagine a different future in which state universities and land-grant colleges engage more authentically and equitably in two-way relationships with their local constituents.in catalyzing reciprocal, co-learning relationships between Land-Grant Universities and their diverse local constituencies. Chapter “Palatable disruption: the politics of plant milk", chapter “Feeding the melting pot: inclusive strategies for the multi-ethnic city", chapter "A carrot isn't a carrot isn't a carrot: tracing value in alternative practices of food exchange", chapter “Virtualizing the 'good life': reworking narratives of agrarianism and the rural idyll in a computer game" and chapter "'Workable utopias' for social change through inclusion and empowerment? Community supported agriculture (CSA) in Wales as social innovation" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license via link.springer.com.
Agricultural Transformation Trends In Farm Size Crop Diversification And Mechanization In Nicaragua And Peru
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Author : Srinivasan, S.V., Saborío, M., Morales Opazo, C.
language : en
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Release Date : 2022-09-02
Agricultural Transformation Trends In Farm Size Crop Diversification And Mechanization In Nicaragua And Peru written by Srinivasan, S.V., Saborío, M., Morales Opazo, C. and has been published by Food & Agriculture Org. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-02 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Structural change is a process in which the amount of labour, capital and land dedicated to agriculture (and other sectors) changes over time. In this study, we focus on the cases of Peru and Nicaragua using their two most recently administered agricultural censuses. The agricultural censuses permit us to identify dimensions and information available to study the process of structural change in Latin America over the last 20 years. The study includes a comparative analysis and policy recommendations based on the two most recent agricultural censuses administered in Nicaragua (2001 and 2011) and Peru (1994 and 2012). Processing and analysing information from these censuses contribute to identifying dimensions and information available to study the process of structural change in Latin America over the last 20 years. Evidence-based policymaking is increasingly more at the core of the United Nations and member countries’ activity. In the case of FAO, this type of study is crucial to build the knowledge body on which projects and activities are carried forward. The Hand-in-Hand (HiH) initiative is a key example in this context, as it aims at quantitatively identifying high-impact and high-agricultural potential areas in which to invest within developing countries. As Nicaragua and Peru are HiH’s target countries, this study will show very useful to learn about their recent experiences in agricultural transformations.
Deep Learning And Blockchain Technology For Smart And Sustainable Cities
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Author : Subramaniyaswamy V
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2025-05-22
Deep Learning And Blockchain Technology For Smart And Sustainable Cities written by Subramaniyaswamy V and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-22 with Computers categories.
In this digital era, a smart city can become an intelligent society by using advances in emerging technologies. Specifically, the rapid adoption of deep learning (DL) in fusion with blockchain technology has led to a new digital smart city ecosystem. A broad spectrum of DL and blockchain applications promises solutions for problems in areas ranging from risk management and financial services to cryptocurrency to public and social services. Furthermore, the convergence of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology is revolutionizing the smart city network architecture to build sustainable ecosystems. However, these advances in technology bring both opportunities and challenges in creating sustainable smart cities. To help planners and developers to meet these challenges and exploit these opportunities, Deep Learning and Blockchain Technology for Smart and Sustainable Cities takes a deep dive into the technologies and applications that enable smart and sustainable cities. It provides a comprehensive literature review of the security issues and problems that impact the deployment of blockchain systems in smart cities. It presents a detailed discussion of key factors in the convergence of blockchain and DL technologies that help form sustainable smart societies. This book also discusses blockchain security enhancement solutions and summarizes main key points necessary for developing various blockchain and DL‐based intelligent transportation systems. This book concludes with a discussion of open issues and future research direction.These include new security suggestions and guidelines for a sustainable smart city ecosystem. Also discussed is 6G‐enabled DL and blockchain in real‐time applications.
Strategies Of Digitalization And Sustainability In Agrifood Value Chains
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Author : Isabelle Piot-Lepetit
language : en
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Release Date : 2025-03-04
Strategies Of Digitalization And Sustainability In Agrifood Value Chains written by Isabelle Piot-Lepetit and has been published by Frontiers Media SA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-04 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Nowadays, stakeholders of agrifood value chains are developing specific strategies, regarding their sustainable transformations, supported by digital technologies. These strategies are designing new activities within and outside the whole value chains and in each of their specific segments, such as raw products, supplies and machinery, production, transformation, transportation and logistics, distribution, retail and consumption. The strategies developed by agrifood stakeholders, related to the digitalization for more sustainability of their practices and activities, are changing the way stakeholders are interacting and fuel, in one way or another, new reconfigurations of value chains. Most often, sustainability initiatives explore new value-added activities, goods, and services, while digital initiatives acknowledge the opportunities resulting from the use of digital solutions, such as sensors, the Internet of Things, e-commerce platforms, blockchain, or robots, and advanced data analytics based on big data, cloud computing technologies or artificial intelligence applications. Digital and sustainable transformations have been explored in the literature, for some time now, by considering either the changes involved in farms, companies, and business activities or the necessary adjustments of the economic and regulatory environments. However, the setting up of strategies related to the digitalization for sustainable agrifood value chains has not often been investigated.
Agile Data Oriented Research Tools To Support Smallholder Farm System Transformation
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Author : James Hammond
language : en
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Release Date : 2023-05-09
Agile Data Oriented Research Tools To Support Smallholder Farm System Transformation written by James Hammond and has been published by Frontiers Media SA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-09 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Smallholder farming systems contribute a substantial quantity of the food consumed in many lower and middle-income countries and contribute to the national and local economies. Despite the importance of smallholder farming, a transformation is needed in order to deliver food security and decent incomes for the farmers themselves and at the national level. This transformation must also be sustainable in terms of environmental impacts and social equity in order to be successful in the long term. The pressures of population growth, climate change, and land fragmentation compound the problem. Addressing these overlapping issues is a big challenge. One obstacle is the lack of good quality granular data linking these issues together. Household surveys are the workhorse method for gathering such data, but there are well-known problems that prevent household survey data from building up a “big picture” and delivering insights beyond the geographical boundary of each individual study. Such obstacles include the lack of access to datasets, differences in survey design, and respondent biases. Agile, data-oriented research tools can help to overcome these challenges. We use the term “agile” to imply methods that do not attempt exhaustive measurements, which are designed to be easy to use, and which entail some degree of flexibility in terms of adaptation to local conditions and integration with other tools or methods. Often these methods also nudge the behavior of tool users towards best practices. In recent years various research tools and approaches have been published which fit within our definition of “agile data-oriented research tools”. The domains these tools function in include monitoring and evaluation, intervention targeting, tailored information delivery, citizen science, credit scoring, and user feedback collection; all with the over-arching aim to improve data quality and access for those studying the sustainable development of smallholder farming systems. The goal of this Research Topic is to better define that niche, the ecosystem of tools and current practices, and to explore how such approaches can provide the underpinning knowledge required for the transformation of smallholder farming systems. One example of an agile data-oriented research tool is the Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey (RHoMIS). It is a modular, digital system for building household surveys addressing the common topics in smallholder development. It was purposefully designed to give a broad overview of the farm system whist keeping survey duration to a minimum, to be user-friendly in implementation, and to be sufficiently flexible to function in a broad variety of locations and projects. Since 2015 it has been used by 30 organizations in 32 countries to interview over 34,000 households. The tool and database are open access and a community of practice is developing around the tool. We particularly welcome contributions that engage with the RHoMIS tool and data. However, we also describe the tool in order to provide an example of what is meant by an agile data-oriented research tool, and welcome contributions focusing on other tools or methodologies. We encourage the submission of manuscripts addressing the above topic, and those which fit within one of the following three sub-themes: (i) Perspectives or review articles which explore the niche, best practices, or promising approaches in agile data-oriented research tools for smallholder farm system transformation. Also, technology and code articles that describe new tools are welcomed. (ii) Original research articles presenting analyses based on data derived from agile data-oriented tools used at the project level. Examples include impact evaluations, adoption studies, targeting studies, or adaptive management, and should reflect on the additional benefit leveraged by the agile method applied. (iii) Original research articles that make use of the large amounts of data generated by such agile methods and/or link between agile data and other data sources. Examples include meta-analyses of data from multiple studies, layering data collected from different agile tools, or linking agile data to remote sensing or large-scale modeling outputs.
Integrated Organic Farming Systems Approach For Efficient Food Production And Environmental Sustainability
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Author : Subhash Babu
language : en
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Release Date : 2023-10-24
Integrated Organic Farming Systems Approach For Efficient Food Production And Environmental Sustainability written by Subhash Babu and has been published by Frontiers Media SA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-24 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Researchers and policy planners are in search of a solution to address the twin challenges of maximizing agricultural production while maintaining/ improving ecosystem sustainability. Enhancing farm productivity is needed in certain regions of the world to satisfy local food consumption and farmers' needs. Linear economy-based-input intensive conventional agriculture (CAPS) has increased production output but has not made agriculture more sustainable. Henceforth, a farming system that aims to reduce the adverse impact on the environment, as well as enhance agricultural productivity by reducing environmental footprint and improving soil health and economic wellbeing is needed in the present day. Integrated organic farming systems (IOFS) involve residue recycling, bio-intensive cropping, high-tech horticulture, mushroom, dairy, poultry, fishery, apiary, etc can improve the ecosystem health and augment the income and livelihood security of the growers. Worldwide, IOFS are gaining popularity due to improved ecosystem services and improving farm productivity and livelihood security. Hence, IOFS- a circular economy-based (reuse-recycle-repair) agricultural production system can be alternatives to energy-intensive inputs based on CAPS. Hence, there is an urgent need to select suitable IOFS models with proper resource optimization for productivity maximization and better ecosystem sustainability. Undoubtedly IOFS reduces energy use from synthetic agrochemicals but food production in IOFS is highly dependent on fossil fuel energy that must be addressed urgently. Despite the enormous positive outlooks, there are several challenges in the adoption of IOFS models. The IOFS is a multiproduct-oriented production system that needs multi specialties and marketing. Capacity building and infrastructure development are also great challenges in adopting IOFS. Moreover, the development of IOFS models is highly individualistic, and location-specific production systems need proper resource optimization and characterization. Hence, the development of site-specific IOFS models to maintain food quality with productivity improvement is a genuine issue to the researchers, which needs to be addressed. Papers (original research/review/letter to the editors) spanning across the discipline related to the IOFS development in sustainable ways are encouraged for inclusion in this research topic. Papers should explicitly cover ecosystem restoration, farm productivity, and profitability and could have a specific focus on the following areas: -the IOFS models for enhancing productivity and environmental quality through an integrated management approach aiming at the maximization of use efficiencies -the management of biomass waste to restore the soil fertility, and ecosystem services the effect of integrated management practices on greenhouse gas emissions and energy use -Critical approaches for climate-smart food production systems
Environmental Transitions
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Author : Petr Pavlínek
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-09-26
Environmental Transitions written by Petr Pavlínek and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-26 with Science categories.
Environmental Transitions is a detailed and comprehensive account of the environmental changes in Central and Eastern Europe, both under state socialism and during the period of transition to capitalism. The change in politics in the late 1980s and early 1990s allowed an opportunity for a rapid environmental clean up, in an area once considered one of the most environmentally devastated regions on earth. The book illustrates how transformations after 1989 have brought major environmental improvements, as well as new environmental problems. It shows how environmental policy, economic change and popular support for environmental movements, have specific and changing geographies associated with them. Environmental Transitions addresses a large number of topics, including the historical geographical analysis of the environmental change, health impacts of environmental degradation, the role of environmental issues during the anti-communist revolutions, legislative reform and the effects of transition on environmental quality after 1989. Environmental Transitions contains detailed case studies from the region, which illustrate the complexity of environmental issues and their intimate relationship with political and economic realities. It gives theoretically informed ideas for understanding environmental change in the context of the political economy of state socialism and post-communist transformations, drawing on a wide body of literature from West, Central and Eastern Europe.
Strategic Management And Sustainability Transitions
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Author : Michael Zhang
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-12-01
Strategic Management And Sustainability Transitions written by Michael Zhang and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-01 with Business & Economics categories.
The subject of sustainability transitions has, in the past decade or so, become an established research field for academics, policy makers and practitioners alike. Conceptual and theoretical developments in the filed have gradually advanced from the perspectives of socio-technical systems and business models. Scholars contend that it is the interactions of the networks of actors, technologies, and institutions that drive transition processes toward sustainability. In this volume we further advance this line of inquiry with a special reference to strategic management of sustainability transitions, in both theory and practice. In theoretical development, we have selected three chapters to encompass the themes of (1) the interactions between ecological systems and human systems; (2) a critique on the continuous expansion of large multinational companies and their strategic control of key resource inputs through the lenses of circular economy and natural resource-based view; and (3) a multi-stakeholder ecosystems framework for the management of sustainability transitions with structural alignment of focal value propositions. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are critically addressed and empirically examined. It will become an essential reader and a reference book for researchers and postgraduate students interested in strategic management, international business, innovation studies, consumer behavior, and public administration.
Safeguarding Mountain Social Ecological Systems Vol 2
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Author : Stefan Schneiderbauer
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2024-08-13
Safeguarding Mountain Social Ecological Systems Vol 2 written by Stefan Schneiderbauer and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-13 with Science categories.
Safeguarding Mountain Social-Ecological Systems, Volume Two: Building Transformative Resilience in Mountain Regions Worldwide presents an overview of the relevant research in mountain regions worldwide, identifies existing challenges, and provides an understanding of the diversity of mountain ecosystems in different regions. It focuses on understanding, protecting, and enhancing mountain social-ecological systems.This second volume places a stronger emphasis on building transformative resilience in mountain regions, indicating a focus on proactive measures to address challenges and promote sustainable development. It also highlights regional perspectives and case studies and insights from various mountain regions worldwide. - Focuses on existing efforts, emerging risks, and collaborative initiatives in the field of mountain social-ecological systems - Allows readers to gain insights into diverse social-ecological systems and understand the unique challenges and opportunities associated with each region - Explores strategies and approaches to enhance the resilience of mountain social-ecological systems through case studies, insights, and opportunities presented in each region