Science in the Supply Chain: Collaboration Opportunities for Advancing Sustainable Agriculture in the United States
Consumers and corporations are increasingly interested in understanding the sustainability of agricultural supply chains and reducing the environmental impacts of food, fiber, feed, and fuel production. This emerging need to quantify environmental impacts from agricultural production creates an oppo...
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| author | Allison M. Thomson Stewart Ramsey Ed Barnes Bruno Basso Marlen Eve Sasha Gennet Patricio Grassini Brandon Kliethermes Marty Matlock Eileen McClellen Ed Spevak Clifford S. Snyder Mark D. Tomer Chris van Kessel Tristram West Grant Wick |
| author_facet | Allison M. Thomson Stewart Ramsey Ed Barnes Bruno Basso Marlen Eve Sasha Gennet Patricio Grassini Brandon Kliethermes Marty Matlock Eileen McClellen Ed Spevak Clifford S. Snyder Mark D. Tomer Chris van Kessel Tristram West Grant Wick |
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| description | Consumers and corporations are increasingly interested in understanding the sustainability of agricultural supply chains and reducing the environmental impacts of food, fiber, feed, and fuel production. This emerging need to quantify environmental impacts from agricultural production creates an opportunity for collaboration with the scientific community. Without such collaboration, sustainability efforts risk failure by adopting unrealistic goals or misguided approaches. This commentary explores the role of science in Field to Market, a nonprofit organization developing a sustainability program for US commodity crops, and highlights opportunities to address emerging science challenges. We evaluate changes over the past 35 years in key environmental impacts of crop production used to inform land managers as well as companies that are committed to improvements. Achieving improvements will only be possible if three key gaps are addressed regarding available simulation models and data, scale of implementation and uncertainty, and effectiveness of conservation practices. Filling these gaps presents an opportunity for dialogue between scientists, farmers, and private-sector stakeholders to advance scientific knowledge and promote the common objective of sustainable agriculture. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-33e8732d40b24bd7bd94643e1bfd9c932022-12-22T01:24:32ZengWileyAgricultural & Environmental Letters2471-96252017-07-012110.2134/ael2017.05.0015Science in the Supply Chain: Collaboration Opportunities for Advancing Sustainable Agriculture in the United StatesAllison M. ThomsonStewart RamseyEd BarnesBruno BassoMarlen EveSasha GennetPatricio GrassiniBrandon KliethermesMarty MatlockEileen McClellenEd SpevakClifford S. SnyderMark D. TomerChris van KesselTristram WestGrant WickConsumers and corporations are increasingly interested in understanding the sustainability of agricultural supply chains and reducing the environmental impacts of food, fiber, feed, and fuel production. This emerging need to quantify environmental impacts from agricultural production creates an opportunity for collaboration with the scientific community. Without such collaboration, sustainability efforts risk failure by adopting unrealistic goals or misguided approaches. This commentary explores the role of science in Field to Market, a nonprofit organization developing a sustainability program for US commodity crops, and highlights opportunities to address emerging science challenges. We evaluate changes over the past 35 years in key environmental impacts of crop production used to inform land managers as well as companies that are committed to improvements. Achieving improvements will only be possible if three key gaps are addressed regarding available simulation models and data, scale of implementation and uncertainty, and effectiveness of conservation practices. Filling these gaps presents an opportunity for dialogue between scientists, farmers, and private-sector stakeholders to advance scientific knowledge and promote the common objective of sustainable agriculture.https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/ael/articles/2/1/170015 |
| spellingShingle | Allison M. Thomson Stewart Ramsey Ed Barnes Bruno Basso Marlen Eve Sasha Gennet Patricio Grassini Brandon Kliethermes Marty Matlock Eileen McClellen Ed Spevak Clifford S. Snyder Mark D. Tomer Chris van Kessel Tristram West Grant Wick Science in the Supply Chain: Collaboration Opportunities for Advancing Sustainable Agriculture in the United States Agricultural & Environmental Letters |
| title | Science in the Supply Chain: Collaboration Opportunities for Advancing Sustainable Agriculture in the United States |
| title_full | Science in the Supply Chain: Collaboration Opportunities for Advancing Sustainable Agriculture in the United States |
| title_fullStr | Science in the Supply Chain: Collaboration Opportunities for Advancing Sustainable Agriculture in the United States |
| title_full_unstemmed | Science in the Supply Chain: Collaboration Opportunities for Advancing Sustainable Agriculture in the United States |
| title_short | Science in the Supply Chain: Collaboration Opportunities for Advancing Sustainable Agriculture in the United States |
| title_sort | science in the supply chain collaboration opportunities for advancing sustainable agriculture in the united states |
| url | https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/ael/articles/2/1/170015 |
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