Tailored policies for perennial woody crops are crucial to advance sustainable development

Martínez Núñez, Carlos; Velado Alonso, Elena; Avelino, Jacques; Rey, Pedro J.; Hoopen, G. Martijn ten; Pe’er, Guy; Zou, Yi; Liu, Yunhui; Antwi-Agyei, Philip; Rusch, Adrien; Staver, Charles; Priyadarshana, Tharaka S.; Sonwa, Denis J.; Buchori, Damayanti; Garibaldi, Lucas A.; Concepción, Elena D.; Lewis, Owen T.; Perfecto, Ivette; Bartomeus, Ignasi; European Commission; Agencia Estatal de Investigación; Nanyang Technological University; Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación; Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation; Agence Nationale de la Recherche; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research; Martínez Núñez, Carlos [0000-0001-7814-4985]; Velado Alonso, Elena [0000-0003-4805-2929]; Avelino, Jacques [0000-0003-1983-9431]; Rey, Pedro J. [0000-0001-5550-0393]; Hoopen, G. Martijn ten [0000-0003-2133-3130]; Zou, Yi [0000-0002-7082-9258]; Liu, Yunhui [0000-0001-7282-834X]; Rusch, Adrien [0000-0002-3921-9750]; Staver, Charles [0000-0002-4532-6077]; Priyadarshana, Tharaka S. [0000-0003-3962-5465]; Garibaldi, Lucas A. [0000-0003-0725-4049]; Concepción, Elena D. [0000-0002-6715-6902]; Lewis, Owen T. [0000-0001-7935-6111]; Perfecto, Ivette [0000-0003-1749-7191]; Bartomeus, Ignasi [0000-0001-7893-4389]; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]

Tailored policies for perennial woody crops are crucial to advance sustainable development

2025

Perennial woody crops, which are crucial to our diets and global economies, have the potential to play a major role in achieving multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals pertaining to biodiversity conservation, socio-economic development and climate change mitigation. However, this potential is hindered by insufficient scientific and policy attention on perennial woody crops, and by the intensification of perennial crop cultivation in the form of monocropping with high external inputs. In this Perspective, we highlight the potential of properly managed and incentivized perennial woody crops to support holistic sustainable development and urge scientists and policymakers to develop an effective agenda to better harness their benefits.

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We acknowledge funding from the project SHOWCASE (SHOWCASing synergies between agriculture, biodiversity and Ecosystem services to help farmers capitalizing on native biodiversity) within the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement number 862480). C.M.-N. was supported by the ‘Juan de la Cierva’ programme (reference number FJC2021-046829-I). T.S.P. was supported by a research scholarship awarded by the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (application number R2004096). P.J.R. acknowledges the projects RECOVECOS (PID2019-108332GB-I00, funded by MICIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) and OLIVARES VIVOS+ (LIFE20 AT/ES/001487, European Commission). The contribution of D.J.S. was made possible by financial support from NORAD (grant number QZA-21/0124) for the CIFOR GCS-REDD+ (Global Comparative Study on REDD+) project. A.R. acknowledges support from the French National Research Agency (ANR) under grant number 20-PCPA-0010 and from the National Program PEPR ‘Solutions fondées sur la Nature’ (SOLU-BIOD) through the Living Lab ‘Bacchus’. G.P. acknowledges funding from the strategic project iCAP-BES through the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig (grant number DFG FZT 118), as well as from the EU Horizon Europe project Agroecology-TRANSECT (grant agreement number 101060816).

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Peer reviewed

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