The Hass Avocado Board (HAB) has created The Avocado Sustainability Center which has collected recent research papers from around the avocado world concerning such topics as tree water use, pesticide use, carbon capture and a range of other topics. Check it out:
The site also has the Avocado Quality Manual online which outlines practices the growers and processors can use to maintain optimum fruit quality.
https://hassavocadoboard.com/wp-content/uploads/Hass-Avocado-Board-Quality-Manual.pdf