Avenues for improving farming sustainability assessment with upgraded tools, sustainability framing and indicators. A review

P Chopin, CP Mubaya, K Descheemaeker… - Agronomy for …, 2021 - Springer
The sustainability of agriculture is questioned due to major negative environmental and
socioeconomic impacts. To improve the state of agriculture, various management changes …

Financial ratios as indicators of economic sustainability: A quantitative analysis for Swiss dairy farms

A Zorn, M Esteves, I Baur, M Lips - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
In agriculture, a rising number of sustainability assessments are available that also comprise
financial ratios. In a literature review of farm management textbooks, taking account of the …

Trade-offs between economic, environmental and social sustainability on farms using a latent class frontier efficiency model: Evidence for Spanish crop farms

A Ait Sidhoum, KH Dakpo, L Latruffe - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
This article studies trade-offs of farms in terms of economic sustainability (proxied here by
technical efficiency), environmental sustainability (proxied here by farmers' commitment …

[HTML][HTML] Enabling sustainable agrifood value chain transformation in developing countries

DR Hidayati, E Garnevska, P Childerhouse - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
As agri-food value chains in developing countries transform to serve higher value markets,
they are coming increasing under pressure to embrace sustainable practices. Many key …

Developing farm-level sustainability indicators for Ireland using the Teagasc National Farm Survey

M Ryan, T Hennessy, C Buckley, EJ Dillon… - Irish Journal of …, 2016 - JSTOR
In the context of an expanding, export-dependent agri-food sector, indicators of sustainable
development and intensification are necessary to measure, assess and verify the …

Wine consumers' demand for social sustainability labeling: Evidence for the fair labor claim

G Piracci, F Boncinelli, L Casini - … Economic Perspectives and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study aims to investigate consumer preferences for social sustainability labeling for
wine. We explored the potential demand for a fair labor label that certifies wine produced …

Between the social and economic dimensions of sustainability in rural areas—in search of farmers' quality of life

A Wojewódzka-Wiewiórska, A Kłoczko-Gajewska… - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Life quality is an important indicator of sustainable development. Farmers' quality of life
strongly affects the farm's viability. The main goal of this study was to identify the …

Bee farming system sustainability: An assessment framework in metropolitan France

C Kouchner, C Ferrus, S Blanchard, A Decourtye… - Agricultural …, 2019 - Elsevier
Beekeeping is a long-standing production of livestock, which currently faces several
technical and economic challenges such as high colony losses and highly variable honey …

Measuring sustainability efficiency at farm level: a data envelopment analysis approach

A Ait Sidhoum, T Serra, L Latruffe - European Review of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Sound implementation of sustainability practices requires appropriate tools to measure
farms' successes in achieving policy goals. This paper models farms' stochastic production …

Sustainable agrifood value chain—transformation in developing countries

DR Hidayati, E Garnevska, P Childerhouse - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
To service high-value international markets, many agrifood value chains in developing
countries are required to transform to meet the strict quality and safety standards. This …