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Recent Advances on Sustainable Agriculture and Organic Farming: Individual Decisions and Public Policies

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Agriculture".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 December 2022) | Viewed by 19255

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Phu Nguyen-Van

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Guest Editor
ECONOMIX, CNRS, University of Paris Nanterre, UPL, 92000 Nanterre, France
Interests: applied econometrics; environmental economics; agricultural economics; behavioral economics
Dr. Anne Stenger-Letheux

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BETA, INRAE, CNRS and University of Strasbourg, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Interests: environmental economics; forest economics; behavioral economics; agricultural economics
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Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite submissions of original research papers for a Special Issue of Sustainability on “Recent Advances on Sustainable Agriculture and Organic Farming: Individual Decisions and Public Policies”.

The adoption of sustainable agriculture (i.e., farming practices that meet sustainability) [1] is necessary to improve food safety and to reduce negative consequences on the environment (soils, water, climate, etc). However, the effectiveness of existing measures to promote environmentally friendly practices in agriculture (including organic farming) is relatively limited. Although production and consumption of organic food products are constantly growing, the sector still remains modest compared to conventional agriculture. Indeed, total land devoted to organic farming corresponds to a very small portion of agricultural land worldwide, only about 1.5% in 2019 [2].

The Special Issue aims at providing original and frontier analyses on pro-environmental farming practices with a focus on individual decisions and public policies. Submissions should investigate the role of sustainable agriculture and its potential drivers or obstacles covering, but not limited to, the following topics:

- Sustainable agriculture: description, facts and figures;

- Sustainable agriculture and environmental impacts: biodiversity, climate change, etc.;

- Sustainable agriculture, economic impacts, and welfare;

- Behavioral factors;

- Monetary and nonmonetary motivations and incentives;

- Market structures;

- Economic policy instruments;

- Institutions and cultural factors;

- etc.

All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed according to journal policy.

References:

  1. "What is sustainable agriculture”, Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program, University of California: Davis, CA, USA. Website online: https://sarep.ucdavis.edu/sustainable-ag (accessed on 5 June 2021).
  2. Willer H. The World of Organic Agriculture. Statistics and Emerging Trends 2021. Trávníček J., Meier C., Schlatter B. (Eds.); 2021. Website online: https://www.organic-world.net/yearbook/yearbook-2021.html (accessed on 5 June 2021).

Dr. Phu Nguyen-Van
Dr. Anne Stenger-Letheux
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • food
  • organic agriculture
  • pro-environmental behaviors
  • sustainability

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Promoting the Tripartite Cooperative Mechanism of E-Commerce Poverty Alleviation: Based on the Evolutionary Game Method
by Shizhen Bai, Wenzhen Yu and Man Jiang
Sustainability 2023, 15(1), 315; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15010315 - 25 Dec 2022
Cited by 3 | Viewed by 1827
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E-commerce agriculture has gradually become an important force in poverty alleviation. Some large e-commerce enterprises in China, such as Alibaba and JD, have carried out poverty alleviation activities with the support of the government. With the enthusiasm of consumers towards the goal of [...] Read more.
E-commerce agriculture has gradually become an important force in poverty alleviation. Some large e-commerce enterprises in China, such as Alibaba and JD, have carried out poverty alleviation activities with the support of the government. With the enthusiasm of consumers towards the goal of helping farmers, they can continue to develop e-commerce agriculture and efficiently achieve this goal. However, the unstable relationship among e-commerce enterprises, the government, and consumers with regard to poverty alleviation hinders the realization of poverty reduction goals. To promote the cooperation among the three parties under e-commerce poverty alleviation, this study uses the evolutionary game method. First, this study analyzes the collaborative mechanism of the government, e-commerce enterprises, and consumers participating in poverty alleviation. Second, based on the above analysis, a tripartite evolutionary game model is constructed. A payment matrix is established to analyze the factors that affect the strategic choices of participants, and the conditions for promoting the tripartite collaborative mechanism of poverty alleviation are discussed using numerical simulation. The results show the following: (1) The reduction in poverty alleviation costs and the increase in cooperation benefits are important factors in promoting the choice of poverty alleviation strategies. (2) E-commerce enterprises are more sensitive to consumer preferences for helping farmers. When consumer preferences for helping farmers are low, the government’s early efforts to participate in poverty alleviation can guide e-commerce enterprises and consumers to participate in cooperative poverty alleviation. (3) The government and e-commerce enterprises can reduce poverty alleviation incentives and agricultural product premiums by increasing the willingness of e-commerce enterprises and consumers to support farmers in the initial stage to promote the participation of all parties in poverty alleviation at a relatively low cost. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances on Sustainable Agriculture and Organic Farming: Individual Decisions and Public Policies)
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Evaluation of Crop Diversification on Indian Farming Practices: A Panel Regression Approach
by Suvayan Neogi and Bidyut Kumar Ghosh
Sustainability 2022, 14(24), 16861; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142416861 - 15 Dec 2022
Cited by 6 | Viewed by 3448
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Crop diversification is considered as a means to promote agricultural development while lowering its environmental implications. Diversified food production must substantially increase to fulfil the needs of food security and sustainability for the world’s future population. This study identified the finer details of [...] Read more.
Crop diversification is considered as a means to promote agricultural development while lowering its environmental implications. Diversified food production must substantially increase to fulfil the needs of food security and sustainability for the world’s future population. This study identified the finer details of diversification in India’s 20 agriculturally prosperous states through analyzing the regional trends in agricultural diversification. The analysis, which covered the period from 1971–1972 to 2017–2018, showed that agricultural diversification has taken place in several states of India. This study revealed that, due to the significant heterogeneity in agro-climatic and socio-economic conditions, the type of diversification varies among the regions. In these periods, cash- crop percentage in the gross-cropped area has increased from 18 percent to 37 percent, reflecting a major impact on the Shannon-Wiener diversification index. Crop diversification has been influenced by rural literacy, irrigation intensity, road infrastructure, per-capita, gross-state-domestic products, regional-rural-branch intensity, rainfall deviation, credit intensity, and India’s growing urban population, whereas cropping intensity has not affected crop diversification in India. Full article
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Economic Impact of Organic Agriculture: Evidence from a Pan-India Survey
by Anugu Amarender Reddy, Indrek Melts, Geetha Mohan, Ch Radhika Rani, Vaishnavi Pawar, Vikas Singh, Manesh Choubey, Trupti Vashishtha, A Suresh and Madhusudan Bhattarai
Sustainability 2022, 14(22), 15057; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142215057 - 14 Nov 2022
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The demand for organic foods is increasing worldwide due to health and environmental benefits. However, there are several unanswered questions, such as: Do organic farmers generate higher profits? Will the cost of cultivation reduce to compensate for low yields? Can farmers practice as [...] Read more.
The demand for organic foods is increasing worldwide due to health and environmental benefits. However, there are several unanswered questions, such as: Do organic farmers generate higher profits? Will the cost of cultivation reduce to compensate for low yields? Can farmers practice as per the organic agriculture protocols and obtain certification? The literature on organic agriculture varies widely in terms of profitability, yields and costs of organic products. A few studies have researched site-specific organic agriculture, but none have compared organic with conventional agriculture at larger scale in India. The Indian government has promoted organic agriculture since 2015 through its pan-India scheme—Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY). Under this program, there were 13.9 million certified organic farmers in 29,859 organic clusters, covering 0.59 million hectares (about 0.4% of the cropped area in India). This study assessed the implementation process of PKVY and the impact at the farmer level using the Difference-in-Difference approach. An economic surplus model was employed to observe the macro scale using data from an all-India representative sample from 576 clusters for the crop year 2017. The results identified that organic farmers experienced 14–19 percent less costs and 12–18 percent lower yields than conventional farmers. The net result is a marginal increase in profitability compared to traditional agriculture. The economy-wide economic surplus model indicates that there will be a reduction in producer and consumer surplus due to reduced crop yields. However, if the shift from conventional to organic is confined to rainfed, hilly and tribal areas, there will be an increase in both consumer and producer surplus. Full article
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Role of Farmers’ Risk and Ambiguity Preferences on Fertilization Decisions: An Experiment
by Camille Tevenart and Marielle Brunette
Sustainability 2021, 13(17), 9802; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13179802 - 31 Aug 2021
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In the context of climate change, the agricultural sector offers a large number of mitigation possibilities through diverse practices, such as the reduction of pollutant inputs. However, most farmers do not adopt the mitigation practices recommended, including the reduction of nitrogen fertilization. At [...] Read more.
In the context of climate change, the agricultural sector offers a large number of mitigation possibilities through diverse practices, such as the reduction of pollutant inputs. However, most farmers do not adopt the mitigation practices recommended, including the reduction of nitrogen fertilization. At the same time, various uncertainties characterize agricultural production, so that the farmer’s risk and ambiguity preferences may be potential determinants to the adoption of mitigation practices. In this context, the objective of the article is to determine if the farmer’s risk and ambiguity preferences explain (or not) the fertilization decision. A questionnaire was submitted to French farmers to elicit risk and ambiguity preferences through lottery choices, and ask questions about fertilization. Two regressions were realized, the first to explain the total fertilization and the second to identify the determinants of the first fertilization application. The results reveal that respondents were mostly risk-averse and ambiguity-neutral. In addition, risk and ambiguity aversion impact fertilization practices through diverse drivers in opposite directions. Indeed, being risk-averse is associated with a lower level of total fertilization, whereas ambiguity aversion has a positive and significant impact on the level of fertilization at the first application. This last result highlights the need to reduce the uncertainty farmers face. Full article
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