What Do We Need to Know to Enhance the Environmental Sustainability of Agricultural Production? A Prioritisation of Knowledge Needs for the UK Food System

Autor: Tim D. Nevard, Angela Booth, John Ingram, Vanessa King, Inder Poonaji, John M. Holland, Chris M. Brown, Ann Bruce, Richard D. Bardgett, Gavin M. Siriwardena, Stephen J. Ramsden, Maggie Gill, Duncan Sinclair, Ken Norris, Simon J. Butler, James Hallett, Frances Dixon, Steve Norman, Catherine Pazderka, Caroline Drummond, Daniel F. McGonigle, Robert P. Freckleton, Lynn V. Dicks, Tim G. Benton, Tom MacMillan, Jonathan N. Huxley, Paul J. Burgess, William Wolmer, Juliet A. Vickery, Rosie S. Hails, Beth Hart, Jan Bouwman, William J. Sutherland, Andrew P. Whitmore, Carmel McQuaid, Jon Hillier, Claire H. Quinn, Jenny Bell, I. R. Crute, Andrea L. Graham
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
Předmět:
0106 biological sciences
Geography
Planning and Development
TJ807-830
Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Network
010501 environmental sciences
Management
Monitoring
Policy and Law
TD194-195
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Renewable energy sources
farming
12. Responsible consumption
knowledge gaps
Environmental Sustainability Index
jel:Q
Sustainable agriculture
Economics
GE1-350
Sustainability organizations
Environmental planning
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
agriculture
2. Zero hunger
Food security
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
food
Environmental resource management
retail
jel:Q0
15. Life on land
jel:Q2
sustainability
jel:Q3
jel:Q5
environment
Environmental sciences
Agriculture and Soil Science
13. Climate action
jel:O13
Sustainability
Food systems
Natural capital
jel:Q56
business
Zdroj: Sustainability; Volume 5; Issue 7; Pages: 3095-3115
Dicks, L V, Sutherland, W J, Bardgett, B D, Bell, J, Benton, T G, Booth, A, Bouwman, J, Brown, C, Bruce, A, Burgess, P J, Butler, S J, Crute, I, Dixon, F, Drummond, C, Freckleton, R P, Gill, M, Graham, A, Hails, R S, Hallett, J, Hart, B, Hillier, J G, Holland, J M, Huxley, J N, Ingram, J S I, King, V, MacMillan, T, McGonigle, D F, McQuaid, C, Nevard, T, Norman, S, Norris, K, Pazderka, C, Poonaji, I, Quinn, C H, Ramsden, S J, Sinclair, D, Siriwardena, G M, Vickery, J A, Whitmore, A P & Wolmer, W 2013, ' What do we need to know to enhance the environmental sustainability of agricultural production? A prioritisation of knowledge needs for the UK food system ', Sustainability, vol. 5, no. 7, pp. 3095-3115 . https://doi.org/10.3390/su5073095
Sustainability, Vol 5, Iss 7, Pp 3095-3115 (2013)
Scopus-Elsevier
ISSN: 2071-1050
DOI: 10.3390/su5073095
Popis: Increasing concerns about global environmental change and food security have focused attention on the need for environmentally sustainable agriculture. This is agriculture that makes efficient use of natural resources and does not degrade the environmental systems that underpin it, or deplete natural capital stocks. We convened a group of 29 ‘practitioners' and 17 environmental scientists with direct involvement or expertise in the environmental sustainability of agriculture. The practitioners included representatives from UK industry, non-government organizations and government agencies. We collaboratively developed a long list of 264 knowledge needs to help enhance the environmental sustainability of agriculture within the UK or for the UK market. We refined and selected the most important knowledge needs through a three-stage process of voting, discussion and scoring. Scientists and practitioners identified similar priorities. We present the 26 highest priority knowledge needs. Many of them demand integration of knowledge from different disciplines to inform policy and practice. The top five are about sustainability of livestock feed, trade-offs between ecosystem services at farm or landscape scale, phosphorus recycling and metrics to measure sustainability. The outcomes will be used to guide ongoing knowledge exchange work, future science policy and funding.
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