TY - JOUR
T1 - Sustaining our natural resources in the face of increasing societal demands on agriculture
T2 - Directions for future research
AU - Khanna, Madhu
AU - Swinton, Scott M.
AU - Messer, Kent D.
N1 - Madhu Khanna is the ACES Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Scott M. Swinton is a professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University. Kent D. Messer is the Unidel H. Cosgrove Chair for the Environment, Department of Applied Economics and Statistics, University of Delaware, Newark. Khanna gratefully acknowledges support from USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture. Swinton gratefully acknowledges support from the NSF Long-term Ecological Research Program (DEB 1027253), the USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture, and Michigan AgBioResearch. Messer gratefully acknowledges support from the USDA Economic Research Service and the Center for Behavioral and Experimental Agri-Environmental Research (CBEAR). *Correspondence to be sent to: [email protected].
PY - 2018/3/1
Y1 - 2018/3/1
N2 - U.S. agriculture is vital to meeting a growing global population's demand for food, fiber, feed, and fuel. Smart technologies, big data, and improvements in crop genetics present producers with promising new opportunities for meeting these needs. However, a changing climate and an expanding global population impose challenges to increasing crop and livestock production while sustaining the natural resource base and protecting environmental quality. Sustainable agricultural development will call for systems approaches to allocate land among competing uses, coupled with the adoption of conservation technologies incentivized by cost-effective policies that have been based on evidence from sound economic, behavioral, biological, and technological research. This paper suggests directions for future research in nine key dimensions that can fill important gaps in the existing literature and build on new research methods and policy needs, as well as inform strategies for sustainable growth of agriculture.
AB - U.S. agriculture is vital to meeting a growing global population's demand for food, fiber, feed, and fuel. Smart technologies, big data, and improvements in crop genetics present producers with promising new opportunities for meeting these needs. However, a changing climate and an expanding global population impose challenges to increasing crop and livestock production while sustaining the natural resource base and protecting environmental quality. Sustainable agricultural development will call for systems approaches to allocate land among competing uses, coupled with the adoption of conservation technologies incentivized by cost-effective policies that have been based on evidence from sound economic, behavioral, biological, and technological research. This paper suggests directions for future research in nine key dimensions that can fill important gaps in the existing literature and build on new research methods and policy needs, as well as inform strategies for sustainable growth of agriculture.
KW - Agricultural technology adoption
KW - Agro-environmental policy
KW - Ecosystem services
KW - Sustainable agriculture
KW - Systems approach
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U2 - 10.1093/aepp/ppx055
DO - 10.1093/aepp/ppx055
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85043487798
SN - 2040-5790
VL - 40
SP - 38
EP - 59
JO - Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
JF - Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
IS - 1
ER -