Integrating Environmental, Social, and Policy Dimensions in Sustainable Agriculture: A Bibliometric Review (2000–2025)
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Ahmad Ziyadul Haq Al Fisal
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Fadhl Mohammed Awadh Gharamah
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Andrew Mulabbi
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- pertanian berkelanjutan, bibliometric, ecological footprint, IPM, livelihood aproach, SDGs
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Literature on sustainable agriculture following the establishment of the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs in 2015 has experienced a significant growth escalation of 36.29 percent annually encompassing 8272 publications across 2148 academic journals. This discourse attempts to conduct a multidimensional integration that includes the Ecological Footprint, Human Development Index, Sustainable Livelihood Approach, and SDGs. Bibliometric analysis indicates that the integration of the global paradigm remains partial because the SDGs dominate network centrality, while other crucial dimensions tend to be in peripheral positions, with the international collaboration rate limited to 36.58 percent. Current research communities are rigidly segregated into three closed disciplinary silos without comprehensive synergistic modeling, so that various fundamental paradoxes remain unresolved. These fundamental issues include the tension between productivity and ecological burden,the dilemma of income intensification versus pollution, and the gap in causal mechanisms regarding the relations among contextually different dimensions. Extreme geographical disparity is clearly visible through the dominance of half the publications by China compared to the marginalization of the African region, which indicates the presence of epistemological colonialism practices in knowledge production. Future research strategies mandate a profound investigation of the causality of multidimensional interactions, accompanied by the incorporation of local wisdom and the development of standardized composite metrics. The initiation of inclusive cross-disciplinary collaboration, especially from the Global South perspective, is a crucial prerequisite for transforming theoretical fragmentation into tangible sustainability praxis on the ground.
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