测量农业生态学及其绩效:对现有工具和方法的概述和批判性讨论

IF 3.5 3区 经济学 Q1 AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
M. Geck, M. Crossland, C. Lamanna
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摘要

农业和粮食系统本质上是多功能的,是全球危机的主要驱动因素,但同时也代表着同时应对多种挑战并为实现可持续发展目标做出系统贡献的巨大潜力。目前AFS的绩效指标通常没有考虑到这种多功能,不成比例地关注生产力和盈利能力,从而排除了“外部性”,即AFS创造的关键环境和社会价值。由于农业生态学的整体性和变革性,它越来越被认为是农业可持续发展的一种有前途的方法。不同行为者对生态农业日益增长的兴趣和承诺意味着需要统一的方法来确定何时可以将实践、项目、投资或政策视为生态农业,以及确保适当捕捉AFS创造的多重经济、环境和社会价值的方法,从而为生态农业与替代方案的比较创造一个公平的竞争环境。在这篇关于农业生态学特刊的文章中,我们概述了用于定义和衡量农业生态学及其性能的现有工具和框架,并批判性地讨论了它们的局限性。我们发现了一些不足之处,包括缺乏能够衡量生态农业及其在景观和粮食系统尺度上的表现的方法,以及使用标准化指标来衡量生态农业一体化,尽管其具有具体情况的特殊性。这些见解突出表明,需要对这些被忽视的尺度进行评估,并研究如何最好地协调对全球可比方法的需求与以当地相关的方式评估农业生态学。最后,我们代表生态农业变革伙伴关系概述了正在进行的旨在克服这些缺点的举措,并为努力实现方法的统一提供了一个有希望的途径。我们邀请所有读者根据参与和共同创造知识的农业生态学原则,为这些合作努力作出贡献。
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Measuring agroecology and its performance: An overview and critical discussion of existing tools and approaches
Agricultural and food systems (AFSs) are inherently multifunctional, representing a major driver for global crises but at the same time representing a huge potential for addressing multiple challenges simultaneously and contributing systemically to the achievement of sustainable development goals. Current performance metrics for AFS often fail to take this multifunctionality into account, focusing disproportionately on productivity and profitability, thereby excluding “externalities,” that is, key environmental and social values created by AFS. Agroecology is increasingly being recognized as a promising approach for AFS sustainability, due to its holistic and transformative nature. This growing interest in and commitment to agroecology by diverse actors implies a need for harmonized approaches to determine when a practice, project, investment, or policy can be considered agroecological, as well as approaches that ensure the multiple economic, environmental, and social values created by AFS are appropriately captured, hence creating a level playing field for comparing agroecology to alternatives. In this contribution to the special issue on agroecology, we present an overview of existing tools and frameworks for defining and measuring agroecology and its performance and critically discuss their limitations. We identify several deficiencies, including a shortage of approaches that allow for measuring agroecology and its performance on landscape and food system scale, and the use of standardized indicators for measuring agroecology integration, despite its context-specificity. These insights highlight the need for assessments focused on these overlooked scales and research on how best to reconcile the need for globally comparable approaches with assessing agroecology in a locally relevant manner. Lastly, we outline ongoing initiatives on behalf of the Agroecology Transformative Partnership that aim to overcome these shortcomings and offer a promising avenue for working toward harmonization of approaches. All readers are invited to contribute to these collaborative efforts in line with the agroecology principle of participation and co-creation of knowledge.
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Outlook on Agriculture
Outlook on Agriculture 农林科学-农业综合
CiteScore
5.60
自引率
13.30%
发文量
38
审稿时长
>36 weeks
期刊介绍: Outlook on Agriculture is a peer reviewed journal, published quarterly, which welcomes original research papers, research notes, invited reviews and commentary for an international and interdisciplinary readership. Special attention is paid to agricultural policy, international trade in the agricultural sector, strategic developments in food production, the links between agricultural systems and food security, the role of agriculture in social and economic development, agriculture in developing countries and environmental issues, including natural resources for agriculture and climate impacts.
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