Agricultural sustainability: concepts, principles and evidence

By J. Pretty. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Pathways to Shape the Bioeconomy (2017, background): “This includes reducing harmful external inputs, promoting nutrient recycling, optimizing energy flows, using natural mechanisms of pest control, and thus creating structures that improve the resilience of the system and maintain its long-term productivity [44,51,69,73].”
Soil and Crop Management Strategies to Ensure Higher Crop Productivity within Sustainable Environments (2019, background): “A more comprehensive discussion of the concept of agricultural sustainability can be found in Pretty [26], who described the following main aspects of: (i) Integration of ecological and biological processes for instance nutrient cycling, N fixation, soil regeneration, allelopathy, competition, preda”
The Future of Food and Farming: Challenges and Choices for Global Sustainability (2011, background): “…Hazell (2009); Toulmin (2009); Wright (2010) 356 World Bank (2008); Project Report SR27 (Annex E refers) 357 See Project Report C9 (Annex E refers); Pretty (2008); The Royal Society (2009); Godfray et al. (2010) The Future of Food and Farming: Challenges and choices for global…”
A review on the practice of big data analysis in agriculture (2017, background): “Lowenberg-DeBoer, 2004), as it enhances the environmental quality and resource base in which agriculture depends, providing basic human food needs (Pretty, 2008).”
A quantitative and qualitative historical analysis of the scientific discipline of agroecology (2009, background): “Pretty et al. (2008) provide a list with a wide variety of”
Beyond the agroecological and sustainable agricultural intensification debate: Is blended sustainability the way forward? (2018, background): “At the same time, the agricultural sector is a contributor to climate change because of nitrogen fertilizer use and greenhouse gas emissions from livestock production (Pingali & Gerpacio, 1997; Pretty, 2008; Steinfeld, Gerber, Wassenaar, Castel, & de Haan, 2006; Tilman, 1999).”
Soil Degradation, Land Scarcity and Food Security: Reviewing a Complex Challenge (2016, background): “Adopting agro-ecological and low input practices may allow us to preserve soil health while still increasing overall farm productivity, for example by adopting a more complex multi-cropping strategy [47,101,120,123,222,223].”
To close the yield-gap while saving biodiversity will require multiple locally relevant strategies (2013, background): “Growth in food production in the past has been strongly correlated with growth in agricultural land area (Pretty, 2008).”
Reconciling food security and bioenergy: priorities for action (2017, background): “Integration helps minimize use of inputs such as fertilizer or pesticides and helps optimize use of assets such as natural, social, physical, and financial capital (e.g., Pretty, 2008; and Mueller et al., 2012).”
Soils and food sufficiency. A review (2011, background): “Recommended practices are those that enhance eco-efficiency or the sustainable use of resources in farm production and land management (Wilkins, 2007; Pretty, 2007).”