Abstract
This research provides an overview on horticulture innovations in the last decade through a literature review and the use of a computer qualitative data analysis. We used Leximancer text mining software to identify concepts, themes and pathways linked with horticulture innovations. The software tool enabled us to “zoom out” to gain a broad perspective of the pooled data, and it indicated which studies clustered around the dominant topic. It displays the extracted information in a visual form, to wit, an interactive concept map, which summaries the interconnected themes and demonstrates any interdependencies. The text mining analysis revealed that the themes strongly related to “innovation” are “water”, “urban”, “system”, “countries” and “technology”. The outputs identified have been interpreted to discover meaning from the content analysis, since the software can facilitate a comprehensive and transparent data coding but cannot replace researcher’s interpretive work. Furthermore, we focused on the diffusion and the barriers for the spread of innovation, pointing out the differences about developing and advanced countries. This analysis allows the researcher to have a holistic understanding of the examination area and could lead to further studies.
Highlights
The food and the agriculture sectors are expected to provide healthy and safe nutrition for a growing population without exerting further pressure on the planet’s natural resources [1]
The Leximancer analysis of all 32 papers included in our horticulture innovation lit3
The Leximancer analysis of all 32 papers included in our horticulture innovation erature has produced six main themes, as shown in the histogram bar (Figure 7), which
Summary
The food and the agriculture sectors are expected to provide healthy and safe nutrition for a growing population without exerting further pressure on the planet’s natural resources [1]. Agricultural practices are nowadays the most harmful for the environment, it is increasingly recognized that agriculture can make a huge contribution to mitigate climate change, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to preserve the world’s limited resources, such as water, land and loss of soil To meet these challenges and respond to opportunities, the sector will need to embrace innovative approaches to improve productivity in a sustainable manner. In the context of increasingly digitized information, a large amount of data and a complexity of perspectives, the automatic synthesis of literature is nowadays considered a crucial step in research This approach has several advantages, since it is quick, easy to use and time saving. We used Leximancer text mining software to identify related concepts and themes and pathways linked with innovations in horticulture, including themes that might otherwise have been missed or overlooked through manual data analysis processes. This methodology has allowed us to cluster the innovations
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