Tendencies and challenges for the assessment of agricultural sustainability

Quintero-Ángel, Mauricio; González-Acevedo, Alejandra

doi:10.1016/j.agee.2017.11.030

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“…Worldwide challenges force us to think in new ways to modernize practice production, lower production cost, increase plant protection, and improve market access to get sustainable agriculture [61,62]. In this sense, the incorporation of emerging technologies along the production chain has been beneficial in many cases.…”

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Technology Roadmapping Architecture Based on Knowledge Management: Case Study for Improved Indigenous Coffee Production from Guerrero, Mexico

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Having demonstrated its importance for economic and human developments, technological change is considered one of the biggest supports worldwide. Today, with the population increase, the inclusion of technology is considered the most appropriate way to reduce the impact of this challenge. Considering 171 indigenous coffee producers from Paraje Montero and Tierra Colorada from Guerrero, Mexico, the present study proposes technological routes for the indigenous coffee production chain and the inclusion of emerging technologies such as sensors, actuators, and processing devices basing on the requirements of the chain. During face-to-face sessions, questionaries, field visits, and literature review for knowledge management, the results expose the need of effective actions against diseases and the reduction of climate change, lack of infrastructure, old plantations, and lack of commercialization channels; for these and considering the requirement of greenhouse technology by indigenous coffee producers and following the labor value driver of the digital compass, the necessity of several kinds of sensors, technologies, and methodologies has been identified with high possibilities to be implemented by similar producers analyzed in this manuscript to help in solving the problems identified in this work. The combination of remote sensing, signal processing, and spectroscopy could be employed to explore mineralogical features of soil and help problems with fertilization; sensor modules to collect temperature, humidity, and light intensity data are a priority for greenhouse monitoring; electrochemical sensors and optical technologies could be of great help to detect the presence of diseases in coffee plants; and the installation of a greenhouse solar dryer is necessary to reduce the time of the sun drying process and protect the coffee cherry. These emerging technologies will help to improve the production of coffee. The study contributes to identify a technology roadmap proposing technological implements according to indigenous coffee production chain requirements and serves as support for future studies in indigenous regions.

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“…This situation is exacerbated by the need to increase food production to feed an increasing global population. Consequently, there is a common interest in the development and implementation of sustainable agricultural practices (Quintero-Angel and González-Acevedo, 2018;Gazzola et al, 2019). Such practices need to maintain the ability of the soil to produce food, while also delivering other ecosystem services such as regulation and storage of nutrients and carbon.…”

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Outlining the Potential Role of Humic Products in Modifying Biological Properties of the Soil—A Review

Pukalchik

Kydralieva

Yakimenko

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Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Such processes facilitate the capture of empirical and traditional knowledge on the one hand and experimental and academic knowledge on the other hand (Wang et al 2019). They connect the knowledge of stakeholders from different backgrounds, disciplines, and know-how (Holzer et al 2018) and across wider thematic disciplines of agricultural sciences (Pretty et al 2010). These processes help in using scientific evidence to inform, on the one hand, strategies toward achieving the global agenda for sustainability and, on the other hand, actions required at the local level to make mountain farms more resilient and responsive to the welfare of the mountain farming communities (Cash and Moser 2000).…”

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A Multiscale Transdisciplinary Framework for Advancing the Sustainability Agenda of Mountain Agricultural Systems

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Schneider

Yang

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Mountain Research and Development

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Tendencies and challenges for the assessment of agricultural sustainability

Cited by 53 publications

References 26 publications

Technology Roadmapping Architecture Based on Knowledge Management: Case Study for Improved Indigenous Coffee Production from Guerrero, Mexico

Technology Roadmapping Architecture Based on Knowledge Management: Case Study for Improved Indigenous Coffee Production from Guerrero, Mexico

Outlining the Potential Role of Humic Products in Modifying Biological Properties of the Soil—A Review

A Multiscale Transdisciplinary Framework for Advancing the Sustainability Agenda of Mountain Agricultural Systems

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