A science framework (SF) for agricultural sustainability

• Main Authors: Ahmed, Ferdous, AI-Amin, Abul Quasem, Masud, Muhammad Mehedi Ehedi, Kari, Fatimah, Mohamad, Zeeda Fatimah
• Format: Article
• Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 2015
• Subjects: HD28 Management. Industrial Management
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/57658/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765201520130368
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

The significance of Science Framework (SF) to date is receiving more acceptances all over the world to address agricultural sustainability. The professional views, however, advocate that the SF known as Mega Science Framework (MSF) in the transitional economies is not converging effectively in many ways for the agricultural sustainability. Specially, MSF in transitional economies is mostly incapable to identify barriers in agricultural research, inadequate to frame policy gaps with the goal of strategizing the desired sustainability in agricultural technology and innovation, inconsistent in finding to identify the inequities, and incompleteness to rebuild decisions. Therefore, this study critically evaluates the components of MSF in transitional economies and appraises the significance, dispute and illegitimate issue to achieve successful sustainable development. A sound and an effective MSF can be developed when there is an inter-linkage within principal components such as of (a) national priorities, (b) specific research on agricultural sustainability, (c) adequate agricultural research and innovation, and (d) alternative policy alteration. This maiden piece of research which is first its kind has been conducted in order to outline the policy direction to have an effective science framework for agricultural sustainability.