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Explora: Environment
and Resource Evaluating agricultural efficiency and sustainability

proposed that agricultural biodiversity is influenced by A search on CNN with the keyword “sustainable land
socioeconomic policies on a global scale, underscoring management” resulted in 630 documents, the majority of
the importance of multi-party policy interventions in which focused on the disciplines of agricultural economics,
agroecosystems. Furthermore, a study conducted by resource science, environmental science, and resource
Musters et al. demonstrated a correlation between the utilization, as well as issues associated with SLM. Some
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abundance of agricultural insects and land use, indicating of these studies also explored aspects of land use, land
that there is a relationship between agricultural production conservation, and sustainable agricultural development.
and ecosystem services. The search for “sustainable land management” on PubMed
In conclusion, while existing research has yielded a yielded 2,360 documents, covering a broader spectrum of
wealth of practical and theoretical findings in the areas disciplines, including research related to SLM in agriculture,
of agricultural efficiency evaluation and SLM, there is as well as research that entails ecology and environmental
still significant potential for the further development protection, and more. This demonstrates the significance
of research perspectives, methodological innovation, of PubMed as a valuable source of information on SLM,
and model applicability. Our research applies the DEA- given its broad international scope and diverse subject
BCC model to analyze agricultural efficiency in Shaanxi areas.
province, with a particular emphasis on the dynamic In contrast, the CNN search for the keyword “agricultural
performance of specific variables. The objective is to efficiency evaluation” yielded 4,464 literature results,
offer a more practical reference for the enhancement of most of which were related to agricultural production
agricultural efficiency. efficiency, DEA, and efficiency research. The enhancement
of agricultural efficacy and the optimization of resource
2.2. Databases for literature search
utilization is two of the most significant research topics in
On the basis of the search terms “sustainable land the field of agriculture, and they were the subject of these
management” and “agricultural efficiency evaluation,” studies. The search for “agricultural efficiency evaluation”
databases including China Knowledge Network (CNN) on PubMed returned 6604 results, which cover a broader
and PubMed were queried, yielding a variety of results range of agricultural efficiency evaluation studies. These
(Figure 2). These keywords encompass significant topics studies involved not only the application of DEA models
within the field of agriculture, such as the sustainable but also the investigation of alternative evaluation methods
management of land resources and the evaluation of and strategies for enhancing efficiency.
agricultural efficacy.
It is important to note that CNN has comparatively
fewer literature search results, likely reflecting the
limitations of this database to the domestic research field,
whereas PubMed has a broader international coverage
and thus more literature search results. Furthermore, it
is evident that various nations have invested substantial
resources in agricultural efficiency evaluation and SLM
research on a global scale. In addition, the number of
articles published in the PubMed database has increased
over the past 5 years, indicating that the field of agricultural
efficiency evaluation continues to receive global attention
and research. SLM and agricultural efficacy evaluation are
presently popular research topics in the field of agriculture.
With a growing population and limited resources, the
issue of sustainable development in agriculture is gaining
in importance.
In databases such as CNN and PubMed, agricultural
efficiency evaluation and the factors influencing it, from the
standpoint of SLM, have received considerable attention.
CNN focuses primarily on research related to SLM and
agricultural efficiency evaluation, whereas PubMed
Figure 2. Analysis chart of literature search. Figure created by the author. covers a broader range of international research fields,
Abbreviation: CNKI: China National Knowledge Infrastructure. including related topics like SLM and agricultural efficiency

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