Authors
Stephanie GODRICH, Rebecca Voisin, Amanda Devine, Pierre HORWITZ, Ros Sambell, Dave BLAKE, Janine JOYCE, Saranne HERRINGTON, Anna HOPKINS
Publication date
2022/12/15
Publisher
OSF
Description
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, sustainable agriculture supports nutritious food is accessible for everyone. It also ensures the environment is protected to enable it to support future population needs. Key principles include increasing productivity, employment and value; environmental protection; improvement of livelihoods; increasing resiliency of humans; supporting governance transition (FAO, 2022). FAO asserts that sustainable agriculture incorporates social, economic and environmental domains (FAO, 2021). The FAO's vision for sustainable food and agriculture is" that of a world in which food is nutritious and accessible for everyone and natural resources are managed in a way that maintain ecosystem functions to support current as well as future human needs. In our vision, farmers, pastoralists, fisher-folks, foresters and other rural dwellers have the opportunity to actively participate in, and benefit from, economic development, have decent employment condition and work in a fair price environment. Rural women, men, and communities live in security, and have control over their livelihoods and equitable access to resources which they use in an efficient way." This review’s objective is to identify global tools measuring attributes of sustainable agricultural practices, incorporating constructs such as economic, nutritional, social and environmental dimensions. The research question is: Which tools are used to measure attributes of sustainable agricultural practices?
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