In this article, we focused on studying the current barriers to implementing innovations in order for the agricultural sector to become more sustainable. Through a systematic literature review (SLR), 73 scientific articles were obtained with a search equation in SCOPUS. Of these, 48 were analyzed because of the mention of an obstacle preventing the sector from implementing innovations towards sustainability. Information related to the publication year, abstract, authors, keywords, innovation, innovation type, relationship with Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), identified barrier, nature of the barrier (internal/external), agricultural subsector, country, and methodology of each article was identified, and with VantagePoint software, a technological surveillance technique was applied as a quantitative analysis of the information. The United States is the country with the most publications related to the subject. The most mentioned keywords were “Sustainable Agriculture”, “Agroecology”, “Climate Change”, “Innovation”, and “Organic Farming”. Additionally, a qualitative analysis showed 43 types of innovations, 16 of them related to technology. “Organic Agriculture” is the most mentioned innovation, followed by “Genetic Engineering” and “Precision Agriculture”. In addition, 51 barriers were identified, 28 external to farmers and 23 internal. “Lack of policies that promote that innovation Innovative Practices” is the most mentioned barrier, followed by “Epistemic Closure”, “Unfavorable Regulation”, Climate-Smart Agriculture, and “Unskilled Labor”. This article is intended not only to show trends in the barriers to innovation that prevents the achievement of sustainability that the agricultural sector needs, but also to serve as an input for the development of policies that provide solutions to these impediments. It was shown that 17 out of the 28 external barriers are related to topics that could be solved by formulating policies, laws, incentives, guidelines, and regulations.

Governance plays a critical role at the intersection of disaster risk management (DRM) and climate change (CC). As CC increases the frequency and intensity of disasters, so DRM policies must consider the potential impacts of CC and integrate climate resilience measures. Over the past decade, extreme wildfires in wildland–urban interface (WUI) areas have left devastating effects for local economies, local development, environmental protection, and the continuity of government operations worldwide, prompting all actors to work in the same direction to face its changing context. This systematic review of the literature aims to analyze the research trends on wildfire risk governance in WUI areas during 2021–2024 and to identify the key risk governance determinants, thereby offering a robust foundation to guide technical discussions and support decision-making processes in local development planning, land use regulation, and DRM. The study is based on the application of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) declaration to allow the identification, selection, analysis, and systematization of 68 articles from the Scopus database through three bibliographic search equations, which were then categorized using the software of text mining and natural language processing NLP software (VantagePoint 15.2) to identify four key pillars that structure extreme wildfire risk governance: political management, development planning, disaster risk management, and resilience management. Within this framework, ten governance determinants are highlighted, encompassing aspects such as regulatory frameworks, institutional coordination, information systems, technical capacities, community engagement, risk perception, financial resources, accountability mechanisms, adaptive planning, and cross-sectoral integration. These findings provide a conceptual basis for strengthening governance approaches in the face of increasing wildfire risk.

In recent years, the need for changes in the current consumption and development patterns has become evident. To achieve this, it is necessary to innovate, create, and devise new methodologies and ways of thinking that allow for a reorientation towards economically prosperous, socially equitable, and environmentally reasonable practices. The purpose of this study is to identify sustainability variables within the framework of the innovation system concept, and to propose a methodology for diagnosing regions and identifying their gaps in a sustainability-oriented innovation system. The methodology was based on a literature review of different documents, where sustainability variables related to innovation were extracted from this search, consisting of the identification of concepts made by different authors regarding what should be considered an innovation system aligned with sustainable development. These concepts were identified as study variables and a questionnaire was formulated based on them, which was reviewed by experts to determine their relevance and congruence. After obtaining the final questionnaire, which was subsequently referenced as the diagnostic tool, it was applied in a Colombian study region consisting of the states of Quindío and Risaralda, with sustainability stakeholders. As a result, a great lack of knowledge on the subject on the part of the respondents, low accessibility to sources of information, and a high percentage of disarticulation between policies were found, which led to the conclusion that the evaluated region has a low understanding of sustainability. Based on the information discussed in this research, it can be concluded that there are currently no specific methodologies to measure the sustainability of a region or territory. Therefore, the tool is determined to be a guide for the measurement of sustainability in the context of innovation in any region. Finally, from the studies reviewed, the potential to include sustainability in the innovation systems of a region was detected, enabling economic development, the production of goods and services, and strengthening the socio-environmental considerations involved in the adequate use of natural resources and the increase in the quality of life.

Sustainability has been playing a major role on the world stage. As with everything, in the beginning, it was aligned with purely environmental contexts, but with the passing of the years, this concept has encompassed other aspects, such as the way of producing products and services. In this article, to obtain information on the implementation of sustainable innovation, a search equation was formulated in the SCOPUS database, focusing on the period from 2018 to 2023, with a total of 62 articles that are related to the topic addressed. Once the search of the published articles was carried out, seven categories were formed to classify the research topic of each of the publications with Bibliometrix software version 4.1.1 and the PRISMA method, according to the main objective and methodology used in each one. In this sense, 44% of the articles published are related to open innovation, and 26% of the articles are focused on sustainable business models. At the end of the analysis of the implementation of innovation according to the articles consulted, it was possible to establish the fact that sustainable innovation gave rise to some important work in the mitigation of adverse impacts.

La ingeniería agroindustrial es una rama de la ingeniería que estudia el aprovechamiento integral de los recursos biológicos para su uso alimentario y no alimentario, dándoles valor agregado por medio de diferentes procesos. El objetivo de este trabajo fue identificar variables clave, priorizar tecnologías, innovaciones, actores, alcanzables y escenarios para la ingeniería agroindustrial a 2035. Se utilizaron métodos y técnicas tales como análisis Pestal, matrices de impacto cruzado (Micmac), matrices traspuestas (Mactor), probabilidades simples, condicionadas positivas y negativas, moda, frecuencia modal y porcentajes de consenso. Entre los resultados más importantes se resalta la identificación de 295 temas como el uso de energías limpias en producción, microencapsulación, fraccionamiento de fluido supercrítico contracorriente, irradiadores uv no térmicos, sonicación, la priorización de tecnologías e innovaciones, tales como la inteligencia artificial, redes convolucionales, algoritmos genéticos, técnicas de lógica difusa con imágenes digitales, mejoramiento de suelos a través de microorganismos y reducción de la contaminación por bioprocesos. Se encontró la participación de 53 expertos de Chile, Perú, México, España y Colombia, 784 justificaciones, 200 problemáticas, 71 variables, 21 drivers, 9 actores, 7 objetivos de futuro, 64 escenarios y la elección de un escenario de apuesta. El uso de los resultados en la consolidación y actualización de proyectos curriculares de ingeniería agroindustrial podría considerar aspectos relacionados con nanotecnología, inteligencia artificial, sostenibilidad, genética, biotecnología y aprovechamiento de residuos, de tal manera que la vigencia de los contenidos este a la par de tecnologías convergentes.