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Business organizations are changing their traditional ways of doing business as they become more responsible towards sustainability and social responsibility. For business firms, sustainable development can be a source of social reputation, innovation, and competitive advantage. Earlier it was observed that CSR is a way that contributes to sustainable development in the field of agriculture, economic empowerment, rural infrastructure, education, and health, which mainly make the agricultural sector a significant recipient of CSR interventions. However, to deal with the sustainability issues, an organization needs to study all those enablers that lead to sustainable value creation and help achieve a more compatible relationship with society and the environment.

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This study looks into corporate social responsibility (CSR) and other vital enablers identified through an extensive literature review of CSR and sustainability articles to develop a conceptual framework for sustainable agriculture and analyze the hierarchical relationship between all the enablers.

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The current study's objective was to access social rural development enablers that can help to attain sustainable agriculture. The study finds that support from the corporates obtained in the form of CSR funding supported by the government initiatives helps rural development and brings sustainability in agriculture. Though the study contributes to bringing out the critical enablers of rural development and sustainable agriculture, it still suffers from the limitation of considering only eleven enablers in the study. Future researchers can present an improved version of the study by incorporating more rural development variables and sustainable agriculture.

Dr. Jitendra Yadav
ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education

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This page is a summary of: Modeling corporate social responsibility (CSR) enablers for sustainable agriculture by integrating expert mining and ISM-MICMAC, May 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
DOI: 10.1109/temscon-eur52034.2021.9488576.
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