How to square the circle? A conceptual framework synergising strategies for circular agriculture to tackle climate change and enhance overall on-farm sustainability.

IF 5.8 2区环境科学与生态学 Q2 ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL

Ambio Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI:10.1007/s13280-025-02154-4

Sinéad O'Keeffe, Sophie Stein, Michael Curran, Lukas Baumgart, Sabine Zikeli, Marianna Siegmund-Schultze

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Abstract

There is an urgent need to change the current extractive and resource-intensive agricultural practices. Adopting circular practices within the agricultural system could provide multiple benefits of slowing global climate change, reducing extractive practices and helping farmers to adapt to a changing climate. However, there are still many barriers for farmers to adopt these desired circular agriculture (CA) practices, among others, a lack of information about on-farm circular practices. There is a need to support farmers in recognising which strategies can increase the circularity of their farm and what this means in terms of their farms' climate neutrality and its long-term sustainability. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to develop a novel conceptual framework to facilitate a broader and integrated understanding of how on-farm CA strategies and practices contribute to the goals of climate change mitigation and on-farm sustainability, thus supporting farmers in transitioning their farms towards greater circularity.

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怎样才能解决问题？一个概念框架，协同循环农业战略，以应对气候变化和提高整体农场可持续性。

迫切需要改变目前的采掘和资源密集型农业做法。在农业系统内采用循环做法可以带来减缓全球气候变化、减少采掘做法和帮助农民适应气候变化的多重好处。然而，农民采用这些理想的循环农业（CA）实践仍然存在许多障碍，其中包括缺乏有关农场循环实践的信息。有必要支持农民认识到哪些战略可以增加他们农场的循环性，以及这对他们农场的气候中和和长期可持续性意味着什么。因此，本文的目的是开发一个新的概念框架，以促进对农场CA战略和实践如何有助于减缓气候变化和农场可持续性目标的更广泛和综合的理解，从而支持农民将其农场向更大的循环转型。

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Ambio 环境科学-工程：环境

CiteScore

14.30

自引率

3.10%

发文量

123

审稿时长

6 months

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