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Conceptual framework for the transition from conventional to sustainable agriculture.
Stuart B. Hill,Rod MacRae +1 more
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In this paper, a conceptual framework for assessing strategies to support the transition from conventional to sustainable agriculture is described, and examples from farming and institutional settings are provided, with a focus on sustainability.Abstract:
A conceptual framework for assessing strategies to support the transition from conventional to sustainable agriculture is described, and examples from farming and institutional settings are provided.read more
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Agroecological practices for sustainable agriculture. A review
Alexander Wezel,Marion Casagrande,Florian Celette,Jean-François Vian,Aurélie Ferrer,Joséphine Peigné +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors classified 15 agroecological cropping practices in temperate areas according to efficiency, substitution, and redesign, and evaluated the potential use of the practices for future agriculture.
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How to implement biodiversity-based agriculture to enhance ecosystem services: a review
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of agroecological and management sciences to identify two facts that explain the lack of practical applications: (1) the occurrence of high uncertainties about relations between agricultural practices, ecological processes, and ecosystem services, and (2) the site-specific character of agricultural practices required to deliver expected ecosystem services; they also show that an adaptive management approach, focusing on planning and monitoring, can serve as a framework for developing and implementing learning tools tailored for biodiversity-based agriculture.
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Farming systems research into the 21st century : the new dynamic
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of the state of the art in the field of farming systems research in Europe, focusing on the role of action-oriented learning theories for change in agriculture and rural networks.
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Transition pathways towards a robust ecologization of agriculture and the need for system redesign. Cases from organic farming and IPM
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Conversion to organic farming: a multidimensional research object at the crossroads of agricultural and social sciences. A review
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TL;DR: A review of the literature on conversion to organic food and farming can be found in this paper, where a brief historical retrospective enables us to refer the scientific production to the institutional and economic context over the past decades.
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Reinventing Government: How The Entrepreneurial Spirit Is Transforming The Public Sector
David Osborne,Ted Gaebler +1 more
TL;DR: Catalytic government as discussed by the authors steering rather than rowing community-owned government, empowering rather than serving competitive government, injecting competition into service delivery mission-driven government, transforming rule-driven organizations results-orinted government, meeting the needs of the customer, not the bureaucracy enterpirsing government, earning rather than spending anticipatory government, prevention rather than cure decentralized government.
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Strategies to overcome barriers to the development of sustainable agriculture in Canada: The role of agribusiness
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose an efficiency/substitution/redesign framework to categorize strategies for modifying agribusiness practices and then identify a diverse range of short, medium, and long-term strategies to be pursued by governments, community groups, academics and agri-business to support the transition.
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Policies, programs, and regulations to support the transition to sustainable agriculture in Canada
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a framework that uses an efficiency/substitution/redesign spectrum to categorize both sustainable fanning systems and government activities and identify a diverse range of short, medium, and longterm strategies to be pursued by governments in Canada to support the transition from conventional to sustainable agriculture.