O'Keeffe Sinéad, Stein Sophie, Curran Michael, Baumgart Lukas, Zikeli Sabine, Siegmund-Schultze Marianna
Agrosystems Research Group, Wageningen University & Research, 6700AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
University of Hohenheim, Fruwirthstr. 14-16, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany.
Ambio. 2025 Aug;54(8):1334-1352. doi: 10.1007/s13280-025-02154-4. Epub 2025 Apr 10.
There is an urgent need to change the current extractive and resource-intensive agricultural practices. Adopting circular practices within the agricultural system could provide multiple benefits of slowing global climate change, reducing extractive practices and helping farmers to adapt to a changing climate. However, there are still many barriers for farmers to adopt these desired circular agriculture (CA) practices, among others, a lack of information about on-farm circular practices. There is a need to support farmers in recognising which strategies can increase the circularity of their farm and what this means in terms of their farms' climate neutrality and its long-term sustainability. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to develop a novel conceptual framework to facilitate a broader and integrated understanding of how on-farm CA strategies and practices contribute to the goals of climate change mitigation and on-farm sustainability, thus supporting farmers in transitioning their farms towards greater circularity.
迫切需要改变当前掠夺性和资源密集型的农业生产方式。在农业系统中采用循环生产方式可以带来多重益处，包括减缓全球气候变化、减少掠夺性生产方式以及帮助农民适应气候变化。然而，农民采用这些理想的循环农业（CA）生产方式仍面临诸多障碍，其中包括缺乏关于农场循环生产方式的信息。有必要支持农民认识到哪些策略可以提高农场的循环性，以及这对农场的气候中和及其长期可持续性意味着什么。因此，本文的目的是开发一个新颖的概念框架，以促进对农场CA策略和实践如何有助于实现气候变化缓解目标和农场可持续性有更广泛和综合的理解，从而支持农民将其农场向更高的循环性转变。
