Any human effort of value creation and dissemination has bearing on society, economy as well as the ecology. So building limits into our systems is healthy. Measuring our efforts of value creation against three core ethics (People care, Planet care, Profit care) serves as a litmus test for sustainability, as per permaculture school of thought.
Agriculture as a value proposition in its current form is marred by a lot of issues in all the facets of core ethics, making it the least sustainable. All these issues are/were being continuously addressed by policy makers, organizations, individuals etc. Yet, history has always shown that impact is created only when larger sections of society involve.
The proposed agro-economic framework is intended to create business interventions and structural reforms to scale up social participation in the path to sustainability
All the discrete problems concerning People, Planet, Profit cares are better addressed integrally with an unified solution. A fragmented approach can only address the symptoms, but never uproot the problem. An integrated approach can reduce efforts significantly, at the same time will be impact full.
Stable market is created when consumers unite and join hands with farmers
Economy of scale is realized when organized farmers are custodians of a unified land bank
Money meets & means sustainability when the crowds become healthy and keep so their environments