Assessing the Sustainability of Agricultural Production Systems Using Fuzzy Logic

Sami, Móslem; Shiekhdavoodi, Mohammad Javad; Almassi, Morteza; Marzban, Afshin

doi:10.5513/jcea01/14.3.1323

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“…Sami et al (2013) selected six indicators that were considered appropriate to assess sustainability in a regional context. Additionally, in order to evaluate some of these indicators they used a selection of fuzzy submodels [52]. Van Asselt et al (2014) propose a protocol for the collection and evaluation of indicators for the sustainability assessment of agri-food production systems [49].…”

Section: Indicator Sets Indexed and Frameworkmentioning

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Agricultural Sustainability: A Review of Concepts and Methods

2019

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This paper presents a methodological framework for the systematic literature review of agricultural sustainability studies. The framework synthesizes all the available literature review criteria and introduces a two-level analysis facilitating systematization, data mining, and methodology analysis. The framework was implemented for the systematic literature review of 38 crop agricultural sustainability assessment studies at farm-level for the last decade. The investigation of the methodologies used is of particular importance since there are no standards or norms for the sustainability assessment of farming practices. The chronological analysis revealed that the scientific community’s interest in agricultural sustainability is increasing in the last three years. The most used methods include indicator-based tools, frameworks, and indexes, followed by multicriteria methods. In the reviewed studies, stakeholder participation is proved crucial in the determination of the level of sustainability. It should also be mentioned that combinational use of methodologies is often observed, thus a clear distinction of methodologies is not always possible.

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Agricultural Sustainability: A Review of Concepts and Methods

2019

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“…Traditionally, the structure of the agroecosystem is made up of crop production (based on crop rotation) and livestock (Harrous et al, 2017;Golub et al, 2020a). This agroecosystem requires the supply of diesel fuel, gasoline, heat and electricity carriers to meet energy needs (Sami et al, 2013) (Figure 1). However, recently scientists have expanded the concept of agroecosystem.…”

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Researching of indicators of agroecosystem without external energy supply

Golub¹,

Chuba²,

Lutak³

et al. 2021

j. cent. eur. agric.

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The agroecosystem without external energy supply can provide compensation for the needs of the agroecosystem in liquid fuel, heat and electricity at the expense of plant biomass as a renewable energy source. Based on the analysis of the energy balance of the agroecosystem, the area under rapeseed needed for biodiesel production and the area under crops needed for bioethanol production were calculated for the needs of the agroecosystem, as well as additional quantities of straw to compensate for the loss of humus in crop rotation, which sets the amount of plant biomass that can be used to produce heat and electricity using cogeneration gas plants. It was found that the average typical needs of the agroecosystem in diesel fuel from 60 to 80 kg/ha, and the ratio of the area under rapeseed needed for biodiesel production for the needs of agroecosystem to the total area of crop rotation with grain yield of canola from 1500 to 2500 kg/ha is from 8.3 to 18.5%. At the average typical demand of the agroecosystem for gasoline is from 15 to 16 kg/ha, the ratio of the area under wheat, barley and corn required to produce bioethanol for the needs of the agroecosystem to the total area of crop rotation with a crop yield of 3000 to 5000 kg/ha is from 0.7 to 0.9%. The increase in grain yield from 3000 to 5000 kg/ha causes an increase in the supply of organic matter to soil to a greater extent than its mineralization, and accordingly, the deficit of organic matter and humus decreases from 507 to 180 kg/ha, the volume of plant biomass (mainly straw) to compensate for the deficit of organic matter and humus decreases from 1867 to 217 kg/ha, which causes an increase in the possible volumes of plant biomass for energy production for sale from 27 to 2963 kg/ha.Respectively, electricity production increases from 48 to 2301 kWh/ha and heat power from 0 to 25,5 GJ/ha, while providing its own needs for heat and electricity by burning biogas in a cogeneration plant.

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“…The sustainability of agroecosystems depends on the maintenance of the economic, biological and physical components that make up the system. The high level of integration of these components implies that any evaluation of agroecosystem sustainability must consider the dynamics of multiple components (Belcher et al, 2004;Sami et al, 2013). The main task of the agroecosystem is to ensure stable food production (Mockshell and Villarino, 2019).…”

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The estimation of energetically self-sufficient agroecosystem’s model

Golub¹,

Skydan²,

Kukharets³

et al. 2020

JCEA

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The article deals with the study of a balanced agroecosystem on the production of crop products, livestock products and biofuel with respect to its energy autonomy with ensuring its environmental safety. The structure of straw use in agroecosystem and its influence on humus balance and level of electric and thermal energy supply is investigated. The balance of humus in crop rotation was chosen as the criterion of ecological safety. The criterion of energy autonomy is the level of providing the agroecosystem with electric energy and thermal energy through the use of biofuels of its own production. The coordination of environmental safety, energy autonomy and economic efficiency was taken as the basis for the functioning of the agroecosystem. In a balanced agroecosystem on the production of crop products, livestock products and biofuel up to 41% of straw should be used to maintain the balance of humus in the soil. Up to 22% of straw can be used to produce heat and electricity for own needs. Up to 37% of straw can be used to produce electricity for sale according to the green tariff.

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Assessing the Sustainability of Agricultural Production Systems Using Fuzzy Logic

Cited by 13 publications

References 27 publications

Agricultural Sustainability: A Review of Concepts and Methods

Agricultural Sustainability: A Review of Concepts and Methods

Researching of indicators of agroecosystem without external energy supply

The estimation of energetically self-sufficient agroecosystem’s model

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