The Bangladeshi folklore cultural heritage embraces myriad proverbs, adages, sayings, folktales, and folksongs, including the songs of Baul mystic minstrels. Many are linked to various aspects agriculture – from tilling harvest, storage yields, consumption. paper draws on this develop concept traditional sustainability accounting in agriculture. Although without formal quantification, these pro...

The term “sustainability” is based on three main pillars: environment, society and economy. To achieve sustainable development, agriculture one of the fields to be considered it key address economic, environmental ethical problems. Besides, consumers are increasingly demanding foods produced under practices aiming get involved in process enhancing food sustainability. Under such premises, a stu...

In the most recent U.S. Dietary Guidelines, the USDA Advisory Committee recommended for the first time the inclusion of sustainability considerations (DGA Committee, 2015). Since the U.S. Dietary Guidelines provide standards for nutrition and targets for federal and state food programs, explicitly incorporating sustainability would advance considerably discussions of food system sustainability ...

The aim of this study was to generate an easy to use index to evaluate the ecological state of agricultural land from a sustainability perspective. We selected environmental indicators, such as the use of organic soil amendments (green manure) versus chemical fertilizers, plant biodiversity (including crop associations), variables which characterize soil conservation of conventional agricultura...

Sustainability of agriculture is challenged by increasing sprawl in urban agglomerations. Under increasing agglomeration economies in large and even medium sized cities, more and more soil is being subtracted to agriculture, depriving agricultural activities of the main production factor. The extent to which the expanding urbanization threatens agricultural development depends on the urban spat...