What Do We Need to Know to Enhance the Environmental Sustainability of Agricultural Production? A Prioritisation of Knowledge Needs for the UK Food System
What Do We Need to Know to Enhance the Environmental Sustainability of Agricultural Production? A Prioritisation of Knowledge Needs for the UK Food System
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DOI：
10.3390/su5073095
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发表时间：
2013-07-01
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3.9
通讯作者：
Sutherland, William J.
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作者：
Dicks, Lynn V.;Bardgett, Richard D.;Sutherland, William J.
对全球环境变化和粮食安全的日益关注使人们集中注意环境上可持续的农业的必要性。这是一种有效利用自然资源的农业，它不会使作为其基础的环境系统退化，也不会耗尽自然资本存量。我们召集了一个由29名“从业者”和17名环境科学家组成的小组，他们直接参与或拥有农业环境可持续性方面的专业知识。从业人员包括英国工业界、非政府组织和政府机构的代表。我们合作开发了一个长长的264知识需求清单，以帮助提高英国或英国市场农业的环境可持续性。我们通过投票、讨论和评分三个阶段的过程来提炼和选择最重要的知识需求。科学家和从业人员确定了类似的优先事项。我们提出了26个最高优先级的知识需求。其中许多问题要求综合不同学科的知识，为政策和实践提供信息。前五名是关于牲畜饲料的可持续性，农场或景观规模的生态系统服务之间的权衡，磷回收和衡量可持续性的指标。这些成果将用于指导正在进行的知识交流工作、未来的科学政策和供资。
Increasing concerns about global environmental change and food security have focused attention on the need for environmentally sustainable agriculture. This is agriculture that makes efficient use of natural resources and does not degrade the environmental systems that underpin it, or deplete natural capital stocks. We convened a group of 29 'practitioners' and 17 environmental scientists with direct involvement or expertise in the environmental sustainability of agriculture. The practitioners included representatives from UK industry, non-government organizations and government agencies. We collaboratively developed a long list of 264 knowledge needs to help enhance the environmental sustainability of agriculture within the UK or for the UK market. We refined and selected the most important knowledge needs through a three-stage process of voting, discussion and scoring. Scientists and practitioners identified similar priorities. We present the 26 highest priority knowledge needs. Many of them demand integration of knowledge from different disciplines to inform policy and practice. The top five are about sustainability of livestock feed, trade-offs between ecosystem services at farm or landscape scale, phosphorus recycling and metrics to measure sustainability. The outcomes will be used to guide ongoing knowledge exchange work, future science policy and funding.