Digital and smart technologies to enhance biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: An analysis of stakeholders’ perceptions of opportunities and challenges for broader adoption

IF 5.4 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Environmental and Sustainability Indicators Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI:10.1016/j.indic.2024.100444
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Digital and smart technologies (DSTs1) for agriculture are currently widely discussed in the literature and increasingly included in common farming practices. However, the main agricultural use of DSTs remains yield-increasing and effort-reducing applications focused on the economic advantages of precision. The potential of DSTs to enhance biodiversity in agricultural landscapes has rarely been examined, especially from the stakeholder perspective. In this study, we examined the barriers to and potential for using DSTs to promote biodiversity in agricultural areas in Germany. For this purpose, we conducted a nationwide stakeholder acceptance analysis based on an online survey and an expert discussion. Our analysis revealed the notable potential of DSTs to strengthen biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, which is, however, accompanied by critical barriers to the broad acceptance and regular use of such technologies by farmers. Only if based on adequate legal and financial political framework, which create incentives for solution-focused cooperation among all relevant stakeholders and allow a user-orientated technology development, can DSTs develop their underlying potential and gain acceptance among farmers.

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提高农业景观生物多样性的数字和智能技术:分析利益相关者对更广泛采用技术的机遇和挑战的看法
目前,有关农业的数字和智能技术(DST1)在文献中得到了广泛讨论,并越来越多地应用于常见的农业实践中。然而,DST 在农业上的主要用途仍然是提高产量和减少劳动量,侧重于精准的经济优势。人们很少研究 DST 在提高农业景观生物多样性方面的潜力,特别是从利益相关者的角度进行研究。在这项研究中,我们考察了使用 DST 促进德国农业地区生物多样性的障碍和潜力。为此,我们通过在线调查和专家讨论,对全国范围内利益相关者的接受程度进行了分析。我们的分析表明,DST 在加强农业景观生物多样性方面具有显著的潜力,但与此同时,农民在广泛接受和定期使用此类技术方面也存在严重障碍。只有在适当的法律和财政政治框架基础上,激励所有相关利益方开展以解决方案为重点的合作,并允许以用户为导向的技术开发,DST 才能开发其潜在潜力并获得农民的认可。
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Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
Environmental and Sustainability Indicators Environmental Science-Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
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审稿时长
57 days
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