Abstract

Indonesia as one of the world’s important players in agriculture has great sustainability and innovation challenges. This paper aims to explore the practice of sustainability innovation or sustainability-oriented innovation (SOI) in the agricultural sector in Indonesia. The method used is structured search and analysis, known as a systematic review of scientific articles in the international academic database of Scopus. The qualitative analysis is performed on the articles included in the review. The results show more than 30 articles in international journals involving Indonesian scholars discussing this topic and indicating that the subject is emerging in this area. The development has mainly occurred since about 2018 to date. The top affiliates contributing to the topic came from IPB University, Center for International Forestry Research, Wageningen University and Research, and World Agroforestry Centre. Interestingly, quite a lot of funding for this research comes from abroad, such as Australia, Japan, UK, and US. This field is interdisciplinary with top 3 subject areas, including Agricultural and Biological (23.7%), Social (19.7%), and Environmental (18.4%), indicating the need for interdisciplinary collaborative efforts to develop this scientific area. This paper contributes as an initial attempt to elaborate on the sustainability innovation in the agriculture sector in Indonesia.

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  • Sustainability innovation reflects the implementation or commercialization of new ideas that are profit-oriented but can provide ecological and social benefits [1, 2, 3] Sustainability innovation in the agricultural sector is very important, considering that food demand continues to increase from time to time

  • The top institutions that contributed the most to the topic came from IPB University, Center for International Forestry Research, Wageningen University and Research, and World Agroforestry Centre

  • The purpose of the present paper is to explore the practice of sustainability innovation in the agricultural sector in Indonesia

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Sustainability innovation reflects the implementation or commercialization of new ideas that are profit-oriented but can provide ecological and social benefits [1, 2, 3] Sustainability innovation in the agricultural sector is very important, considering that food demand continues to increase from time to time. Efforts made so far in the agricultural sector to overcome these problems are intensification and extensification which help increase production levels. Sustainable innovation has received increasing attention from various parties due to awareness of environmental and social issues from diverse stakeholders in the agricultural sector

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