Designing a Socio-Ecological Value Scorecard: A Holistic Approach to Farm Performance and Sustainability
摘要
Data-driven digital technologies in agriculture are revolutionizing the industry by enabling precision farming, improving decision-making, and promoting sustainability. However, achieving sustainability remains challenging due to technical, policy, economic, and social barriers that prevent the adoption of data-driven approaches. Furthermore, the diversity of ecological and social situations requires adaptations of climate-smart agricultural practices. This paper posits that the socio-ecological value scorecard can serve as a transformative tool to address these challenges. By integrating environmental, social, and economic measures, the value scorecard can provide a comprehensive framework for evaluating and improving agricultural practices. It emphasizes the importance of data-driven measures for managing sustainability for farmers, which depend on understanding how they use this information and how it can help them. Hence, this position paper argues that the design of a socio-ecological value scorecard has the potential to enhance farming performance by adopting state-of-the-art technologies, foster sustainability, and overcome structural challenges in agriculture. Moreover, designing a dashboard for a socio-ecological value scorecard is essential to provide farmers and stakeholders with an intuitive, visual tool that integrates diverse data sources across environmental, social, and economic domains, enabling them to make informed decisions and drive sustainable agricultural practices.