Abstract
The agricultural sustainability issues are widely addressed in scientific literature and various reports by international organizations. However, there is lack of harmonized approach in addressing agricultural sustainability issues as different policies are targeting different sustainability issues in agriculture. This article analyses sustainable agriculture development and agriculture sustainability concepts and sustainability assessment approaches and tools developed for agriculture sector. Based on systematic critical literature review, this article develops the new indicators framework for sustainability assessment in agriculture which allows us to achieve harmonization of sustainable development, climate and agricultural policies in European Union (EU). The proposed indicators framework allows us to address the main sustainability issues of agriculture by linking them with sustainable development goals, environmental, climate and rural development policy priorities in EU. The main contribution of this article is linking rural policy goals with sustainable development, climate change mitigation and environmental policy goals by providing agricultural sustainability assessment framework allowing us to track these linkages through indicator.
Štreimikis, J.; Baležentis, T. 2020. Agricultural sustainability assessment framework integratingsustainable development goals and interlinked prioritiesof environmental, climate and agriculture policies. Sustainable Development. Vol. 28, Issue 6, p. 1702–1712; Online ISSN:1099-1719; https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2118; [ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest); AgBiotech News & Information (CABI); AgBiotechNet (CABI); Agricultural & Environmental Science Database (ProQuest); Business Premium Collection (ProQuest); CAB Abstracts® (CABI); Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Clarivate Analytics); Environment Index (EBSCO Publishing); GeoArchive (Geosystems); GEOBASE (Elsevier); Geotitles (Geosystems); Global Health (CABI); Horticultural Science Abstracts (CABI); IBR & IBZ: International Bibliographies of Periodical Literature (KG Saur); Irrigation & Drainage Abstracts (CABI); Journal Citation Reports/Social Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics); Leisure Tourism Database (CABI); Leisure, Recreation & Tourism Abstracts (CABI); Materials Science & Engineering Database (ProQuest); Natural Science Collection (ProQuest); Plant Breeding Abstracts (CABI); Plant Genetic Resources Abstracts (CABI); Political Science Database (ProQuest); Postharvest News & Information (CABI); ProQuest; Proquest Business Collection (ProQuest); ProQuest Central (ProQuest); ProQuest Politics Collection (ProQuest); ProQuest Sociology Collection (ProQuest); Rural Development Abstracts (CABI); SciTech Premium Collection (ProQuest); SCOPUS (Elsevier); Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest); Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics); Soils & Fertilizers Abstracts (CABI); Technology Collection (ProQuest); Tropical Diseases Bulletin (CABI); Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics); World Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology Abstracts (CABI)].