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Sustainable Agricultural Management Practices, Policies and Governance

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (16 April 2023) | Viewed by 6437

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Jorge Manuel Guieiro Pereira Isidoro

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Civil Engineering Department, University of Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
Interests: hydraulics; hydrology; water resources
Prof. Dr. Abelardo Antônio De Assunção Montenegro

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Agricultural Engineering Department, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco State, Recife 52171-900, Brazil
Interests: agricultural engineering; soil and water conservation; hydrology; irrigation management
Dr. Daniel Green

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School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle, Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
Interests: urban rainfall-runoff processes; physical and numerical modelling approaches; resilience assessment; investigations on nature-based solutions on hydrological processes

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Agricultural sustainability is a key multidisciplinary goal, impacting food security, social development and environmental protection. Population increases and climate change scenarios pointing to global warming are expected to threaten environmental biodiversity and worsen access to water resources and food in the near future. Hence, several issues related to water conservation, soil-vegetation protection and governance frameworks must be developed and implemented in a holistic way in order to provide effective alternatives to policymakers towards a more resilient future world, and with production inclusion.

We would like to encourage specialists to take part in this Special Issue, addressing innovation technologies on water resources management, soil protection, low carbon solutions, environmental and ecosystemic services alternatives, hydrological processes control technologies, and water reuse in order to enhance agricultural production and sustainability. To achieve such goals, policies on soil and water conservation must be implemented, and new socio-economic instruments such as green bonds, climate bonds, and payment for properly structured environmental services, to finance the development of agricultural production from communal to large-scale. Implementing the aforementioned solutions should require a participatory approach on agricultural management, to be supported by a network of sustainable communities and watershed committees, to promote systematization and dissemination through bottom-up approaches.

The Special Issue on Sustainable Agricultural Management Practices, Policies and Governance will also be alined to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from the United Nations (particularly to SDG 2—“zero hunger”, 12—“responsible consumption and production”, and 15—“life on land”). In addition, contributions related to the  water, energy, and food security nexus will be also expected, which is strongly related to agricultural sustainability.

Hydrological monitoring, instrumentation, and modeling studies are also welcome, to support assessments and provide field evidences of water management, and soil–water retention technologies for the conservation, rehabilitation, and restoration of natural landscapes to support agricultural production, particularly in areas subjected to water scarcity.

Prof. Dr. Jorge Manuel Guieiro Pereira Isidoro
Prof. Dr. Abelardo Antônio De Assunção Montenegro
Dr. Daniel Green
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • water resource management
  • soil protection
  • nature-based solutions
  • irrigation management
  • water reuse
  • water scarcity
  • resilience
  • precision agriculture

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Mapping Policy Actors Using Social Network Analysis on Integrated Urban Farming Program in Bandung City
by Yanne Yuniarti Widayat, Nina Karlina, Mas Dadang Enjat Munajat and Sinta Ningrum
Sustainability 2023, 15(12), 9612; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15129612 - 15 Jun 2023
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This study aimed to produce a network structure in Integrated Urban Farming Program in Bandung City to map the involved policy actors to realize a food-smart city. In this study, a mixed method was used with an exploratory sequential strategy involving policy actors [...] Read more.
This study aimed to produce a network structure in Integrated Urban Farming Program in Bandung City to map the involved policy actors to realize a food-smart city. In this study, a mixed method was used with an exploratory sequential strategy involving policy actors from the government, private sector, academia, community, and mass media. To obtain a network structure in Integrated Urban Farming toward determining the most important actors, the Social Network Analysis (SNA) approach was also employed through the Gephi application. From this context, the structure emphasized four dimensions, namely Degree, Betweenness, Closeness, and Eigenvector Centralities. The results showed that the actor with the most connections (degree of centrality) and best communication control (betweenness centrality) is Parahyangan Catholic University (academic). At the same time, the actor that plays the most important role (eigenvector) is at the lower level of the government’s Sub-District and Urban Village. This study is useful for explaining the importance of the position of actors in the urban farming policy network, which is the key to the success of a program. Full article
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Relationship of Cooperative Management and Green and Low-Carbon Transition of Agriculture and Its Impacts: A Case Study of the Western Tarim River Basin
by Guangyan Ran, Guangyao Wang, Huijuan Du and Mi Lv
Sustainability 2023, 15(11), 8900; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15118900 - 31 May 2023
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Clarifying the relationship between cooperative management and cultivated land use eco-efficiency (LUEE) is of great significance to promoting the green and low-carbon transition of agriculture. To explore the role of cooperative management in the green and low-carbon transition of agriculture of smallholder farmers [...] Read more.
Clarifying the relationship between cooperative management and cultivated land use eco-efficiency (LUEE) is of great significance to promoting the green and low-carbon transition of agriculture. To explore the role of cooperative management in the green and low-carbon transition of agriculture of smallholder farmers in the western Tarim River Basin, in this study, based on the field survey data of 444 farmers in 2021, the carbon emissions of cultivated land were used to measure the LUEE with the slack-based model (SBM) with undesirable outputs. Then, propensity score matching (PSM) was used to test the relationship between cooperative management and LUEE. Additionally, the mediating effect of farmers’ green development willingness (FGDW) and the moderating effect of farmers’ part-time off-farm employment (POE) on the relationship was explored. The present study hypothesized that joining cooperatives has an improving effect on the LUEE, which can be achieved by increasing FGDW, and this effect can be enhanced by farmers’ POE. The results show that: (1) The LUEE was generally low (average LUEE value: 0.2678), and there was a significant difference between farmer households (the difference between the maximum and minimum values was as high as 2.8716). (2) Cooperative management had a significant improving effect on the LUEE. The LUEE of cooperative farmers (ACF) increased by 8.6% compared with that of non-cooperative farmers (NACF). (3) Joining a cooperative could improve the LUEE by improving FGDW. (4) POE could enhance the improving effect of cooperative management on the LUEE. Overall, all three hypotheses were supported: cooperative management could achieve scale effects that small farmers cannot achieve, which had a positive effect on improving the LUEE. This study provides a new ecological perspective for the analysis of the relationship between agricultural cooperatives and LUEE and decision-making reference for the rational utilization of cultivated land in northwest China. Full article
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Subsidy Accountability and Biodiversity Loss Drivers: Following the Money in the Chilean Silvoagricultural Sector
by Cristian Pérez and Javier A. Simonetti
Sustainability 2022, 14(22), 15411; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142215411 - 19 Nov 2022
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In Chile, promotion of activities in the silvoagricultural sector has been made through the implementation of Instruments of Productive Promotion, which are governmental interventions oriented to increase productive systems by applying economic incentives. However, its use has not been exempted of criticism due [...] Read more.
In Chile, promotion of activities in the silvoagricultural sector has been made through the implementation of Instruments of Productive Promotion, which are governmental interventions oriented to increase productive systems by applying economic incentives. However, its use has not been exempted of criticism due to the poor articulation and coordination between the programs and because their implementation has lacked a coordinated territorial approach. Chile has committed to different international frameworks to protect biodiversity, including the Convention on Biological Diversity that, through the Aichi targets, aimed to either eliminate or reform incentives, including subsidies, to minimize negative impacts and to manage agriculture in a sustainable manner. Allocation of IPPs used to finance field work (IPP-FFWs) at the silvoagricultural sector was analyzed, including amounts granted, use of the funds, and geographical distribution; they explored eventual links with biodiversity trends, including identified drivers of biodiversity loss. We found that, in the last two decades, IPP-FFWs have more than quintupled; the activities funded relate to main anthropogenic factors associated with ecosystems deterioration, including land use change and plantations with exotic species; the funding mostly occurs where most relevant Chilean terrestrial biodiversity features concentrate and where most ecosystems that have been classified under risk are located. Full article
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A Study on Smallholder Farmers’ Willingness to Sustain Cooperation with New Farmers—Analysis Based on the Perspective of Smallholder Farmers’ Satisfaction
by Liancui Wu, Runjie Du and Qiang Liu
Sustainability 2023, 15(14), 11363; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151411363 - 21 Jul 2023
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In the context of rural revitalization, it is important to promote the establishment of lasting cooperation between small farmers and new farmers to drive farmers to increase their income and achieve common prosperity. Based on the research data of 342 small farmers in [...] Read more.
In the context of rural revitalization, it is important to promote the establishment of lasting cooperation between small farmers and new farmers to drive farmers to increase their income and achieve common prosperity. Based on the research data of 342 small farmers in six provinces, the article empirically analyzes the willingness of small farmers to continue cooperation with new farmers in the future from the perspective of satisfaction using an ordered logistic model. The research results show that small farmers’ satisfaction with the benefit linkage model, with the benefit distribution, and with benefit dispute handling positively and significantly influence small farmers’ willingness to continue cooperation with new farmers in the future. For every 1% increase in satisfaction with the benefit linkage model, the probability of continuing to cooperate with new farmers in the future increases by 9.40%, and for every 1% increase in satisfaction with the benefit distribution and satisfaction with benefit dispute handling, the probability of continuing to cooperate with new farmers increases by 7.30% and 9.40%, respectively. Accordingly, this paper puts forward policy suggestions such as respecting the choice of interest linkage model of small farmers, improving the benefit distribution mechanism, and handling cooperation disputes reasonably, in order to improve the satisfaction of small farmers’ cooperation, promote the construction of lasting cooperation between small farmers and new farmers, and build a rural community of interest. Full article
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