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The Progressive Agriculture Index: Assessing the advancement of agri-food systems

机译：进步农业指数：评估农业食品系统的进步

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Indicators and metric systems are crucial tools in efforts to reach societal objectives, and these systems are being employed increasingly in initiativesto improve the environmental, economic, and social sustainability of agri-food systems. Indicators can help clarify values and objectives, providing assessment criteria useful for tracking movement toward or away from targets. Unfortunately, the application of indicators and metrics to agriculturalsystems has been hindered by conflicting definitions of agricultural sustainability and progress, leading to metrics that lack a holistic consideration of social, economic, and environmental factors. To address this shortcoming, we argue for a definitionof progressive agriculture that includes all three of the abovementioned factors, stressing the need for multidimensional improvements in the impact of agri-food systems. Our proposed Progressive Agriculture Index (PAI) integrates data from the U.S. Census of Agriculture, the U.S. Census, and other databases to assess nine variables at the county level for the contiguous United States. Including data from both 2007 and 2012 permits analysis of time trends along with regional and county-level trends inindividual and aggregate measures of progressivity. By ranking counties within their Farm Resource Regions (as defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture [USDA] Economic Research Service [ERS]), as well as within their Urban Influence Categories, thePAI also makes it possible to compare counties with similar socioeconomic and environmental contexts. Given the important goal of improving social, economic, and environmental conditions in concert, we present this index to draw attention back to the often-neglected social facets of progressivity and thus contribute to advancing more integrated, participatory approaches to measuring progress in agri-food systems.
机译：指标和公制系统是努力达到社会目标的重要工具，这些系统正在越来越多地在初始侵入农业食品系统的环境，经济和社会可持续发展方面雇用。指标可以帮助澄清价值观和目标，提供有用的评估标准，可用于跟踪朝向或远离目标的运动。遗憾的是，通过相互冲突的农业可持续性和进步的相互冲突，缺乏对社会，经济和环境因素的整体考虑的指标，对农业系统的应用受到影响。为了解决这一缺点，我们争论逐步农业的定义，包括所有三个上述因素，强调了农业食品系统影响的多维改善。我们拟议的进步性农业指数（PAI）将来自美国普查的数据，美国人口普查和其他数据库纳入了美国人口普查，以评估县级的九个变量为连续的美国。包括来自2007年和2012年的数据允许分析时间趋势以及区域和县级趋势的趋势，进一步和总级别措施。通过在农业资源区域内的县（如美国农业部[美国农业部]经济研究服务[ers]）以及在其城市影响类别中，Thepai也可以比较与类似社会经济和环境的县背景。鉴于在音乐会中提高社会，经济和环境条件的重要目标，我们提出了这一指标，以提请注意往往被忽视的宣传社会方面，从而有助于推进更加综合的，参与性的衡量农业食品进步的综合参与方式系统。

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