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Abstract

The world’s population grows yearly, so increasing food production is necessary, to meet consumer demands. This production must be clean; thus, sustainable agriculture seems to represent a solution. However, social, economic, and environmental barriers impede the adoption of this practice. Therefore, this research identified these barriers, according to the sustainability triple-bottom line through a literature review, and analyzed which barriers are more influential and vulnerable to influences, using the Fuzzy DEMATEL method, as well as by considering the opinions of 30 mixed crop producers. As a result, eleven barriers were identified; and “technical knowledge and qualified workforce” was the most influential on not adopting sustainable agriculture. A multi-criteria model was provided and could be replicated in further research. Thus, sustainable practices are provided, to minimize the barriers’ negative impacts and assist producers; highlighting investment and policies for training farmers to have the technical knowledge to practice sustainable agriculture. Theoretical implications were reviewed, such as an analysis of the barriers found in the literature and the lack of studies reporting on the difficulty of producers in adopting sustainable agriculture, as well as the practical implications of providing assistance and transferring knowledge, to eliminate these barriers, so that sustainable practices can be efficiently implemented.

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Title
How to Identify Barriers to the Adoption of Sustainable Agriculture? A Study Based on a Multi-Criteria Model
Author
Moisés Barbosa Junior 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Pinheiro, Eliane 2 ; Sokulski, Carla Cristiane 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Diego Alexis Ramos Huarachi 1 ; de Francisco, Antonio Carlos 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Sustainable Production Systems Laboratoy (LESP), Postgraduate Program of Production Engineering (PPGEP), Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), R. Doutor Washington Subtil Chueire 330—Jardim Carvalho, Ponta Grossa 84017-220, PR, Brazil 
 Fashion Department, Regional Campus of Cianorte, State University of Maringá, R. Afonso Pena 130, Zona 1, Cianorte 87200-000, PR, Brazil 
First page
13277
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20711050
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2728545271
Copyright
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.