Abstract
In the recent past there has been concern to address the declining trends and deteriorating ecological elements and their functions in productive agricultural landscapes. The efforts to revive the ecological functions needs multiple scale approach, which include scientific understanding, time dependent restorative activities and incorporation of wisdom of the stakeholders. Conservation initiatives linked to precision farming is an apt mechanism to minimize the loss of natural resources of agricultural landscapes to maintain the complex stabilizers of ecological functions. Such an effort must address the scientific evaluation of the farm as “ecologically sustainable unit” with due consideration to social construct at local to regional level. Sustainability indices can be useful tools for evaluating the farms to isolate degradative factors and identify ecologically conservative practices. This review will analyze certain inter-linked concepts relevant to address the sustainability issues in agro-ecology at the interface of socio-ecological perspective.
Highlights
Agro-ecology and its sustainability are revisited to apply ecological concepts and principles to restore the deteriorating productive landscapes
It is suggested that the absence of community participation in the development of farm-level sustainability indicators is critical to maintain the integrity of regional scale agro-ecological functions [1,3]
Sustainability indicator analysis from farm to landscape scale becomes relevant in designing framework for maintaining the ecological elements
Summary
Agro-ecology and its sustainability are revisited to apply ecological concepts and principles to restore the deteriorating productive landscapes. Recent past has seen increasing debate on participatory action research and its importance in agricultural sector get an insight on the qualitative and quantitative assessment of sustainability of agro-ecology [1] It can be achieved through active participation of stakeholders at multiple scales, as yet such studies have not been realizable due to complexity of issues and lack of social capital. Broad scale mapping of agricultural systems and likely impacting variables such as population pressure and climate change adversities using simple threshold as proxy for complex processes is yet another method to evaluate the sustainability of agro-ecology [6,7] Such an analysis will be useful for identifying the dynamic hot-spots in agricultural landscape.
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