Roles of Selective Agriculture Practices in Sustainable Agricultural Performance: A Systematic Review

Basharat Ali and Peter Dahlhaus
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Basharat Ali: Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI), Greenhill Enterprise Centre Ballarat Technology Park, Federation University, Ballarat, VIC 3353, Australia
Peter Dahlhaus: Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI), Greenhill Enterprise Centre Ballarat Technology Park, Federation University, Ballarat, VIC 3353, Australia

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 6, 1-15

Abstract: Feeding the growing global population while improving the Earth’s economic, environmental, and social values is a challenge recognised in both the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Sustaining global agricultural performance requires regular revision of current farming models, attitudes, and practices. In systematically reviewing the international literature through the lens of the sustainability framework, this paper specifically identifies precision conservation agriculture (PCA), digital agriculture (DA), and resilient agriculture (RA) practices as being of value in meeting future challenges. Each of these adaptations carries significantly positive relationships with sustaining agricultural performance, as well as positively mediating and/or moderating each other. While it is clear from the literature that adopting PCA, DA, and RA would substantially improve the sustainability of agricultural performance, the uptake of these adaptations generally lags. More in-depth social science research is required to understand the value propositions that would encourage uptake of these adaptations and the barriers that prevent them. Recommendations are made to explore the specific knowledge gap that needs to be understood to motivate agriculture practitioners to adopt these changes in practice.

Keywords: precision conservation agriculture; digital agriculture; FAIR data; agricultural resilience; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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