Investigating Published Research towards a Fossil-Energy-Free Agriculture Transformation

Autor: Athanasios T. Balafoutis, Magdalena Borzecka, Stelios Rozakis, Katerina Troullaki, Foteini Vandorou, Malgorzata Wydra
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Energies, Vol 17, Iss 17, p 4409 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1996-1073
DOI: 10.3390/en17174409
Popis: The defossilisation of the agricultural sector is driven by intense worldwide academic research on non-fossil, renewable and energy-efficient agriculture, and the acknowledgment of the need for sustainable farming practices. For this purpose, not only technical transformations but also socio-technical system changes towards sustainability need to take place in a co-evolutionary manner. This paper investigates structural and qualitative characteristics of the knowledge produced by research on fossil-energy-free agriculture. We provide evidence on the worldwide research directions, as well as investigate whether academic research and publicly funded research projects foster knowledge creation for the desired transformation. Bibliographic maps are constructed using a query-based methodology as social networks to investigate the efficiency of the EU-funded research to achieve the goals set for the 2050 EU Green Deal. The H2020-funded papers are further analysed with dictionary-based text analysis to quantify the relative emphasis of different types of knowledge in the text. This approach is eventually used to relate transformational capacity to project profiles in the European Union, to evaluate past funding schemes and to improve the shape of future research programs on renewable and sustainable agriculture.
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals
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