Decision making process in agriculture is fundamentally concerned with achieving integrated, productive and sustainable use of financial, biological and social capital at different levels. As our understanding and knowledge of the environmental and production resource base has improved, the need for integrated approaches to management has been more widely appreciated. The intensification of agr...

Organic agriculture is often proposed as a more sustainable alternative to current conventional agriculture. We assess the current understanding of the costs and benefits of organic agriculture across multiple production, environmental, producer, and consumer dimensions. Organic agriculture shows many potential benefits (including higher biodiversity and improved soil and water quality per unit...

This article presents alternative scenarios for future agriculture in Finland up to 2025. These scenarios are the results of a large Delphi study carried out among Finnish agri-food sector stakeholders. The Delphi panel members gave their future view on desirable and probable futures. From these two dimensions, three scenarios were elaborated through the future images – the subjective future pa...

The CTAHR Economic Issues publication EI-3, Agriculture’s Contribution to Hawaii’s Economy— An Update, reported that in year 2000 agriculture con­ tributed 3.3 percent of total Hawaii sales, 2.2 percent of total real GSP, 3.8 percent of employment, and 2.2 per­ cent of labor income. That publication measured the contribution of agriculture in terms of its size relative to the entire Hawaii econ...

peri-urban area development process decreases agricultural land use because of significant trend of city sprawl. in the agricultural sector, goals for sustainability generally include maintenance or enhancement of the natural environment, meeting of human needs for food, economic viability, and social welfare. as agriculture has enormous environmental impacts on peri-urban regions, it is necess...

Purpose: To identify, analyze, and synthesize the published research about developments to replace synthetic plastics used in agriculture; guide researchers practitioners from various knowledge areas identify gaps of information, most prolific authors, influential scientific papers that have been published. Research method: This paper presents a systematic review with bibliometric analysis; sea...

Pest management is being confronted with immense economic and environmental issues worldwide because of massive utilization over-reliance on pesticides. The non-target toxicity, residual consequence, challenging biodegradability these synthetic pesticides have become a serious concern, which urgently requires the alternative prompt adoption sustainable cost-effective pest control measures. Incr...

Composting is the process of decomposition and transformation solid organic substances by microorganisms (mainly bacteria fungi) into a stable material, which can be used (depending on characteristics) in agriculture, instead chemical fertilizers or land improvement works (soil improvement. The composting consists two stages: mechanical treatment (fermentation). In case treatment, waste crushed...