Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture
2024
Rasmussen, Laura Vang | Grass, Ingo | Mehrabi, Zia | Smith, Olivia | Bezner-Kerr, Rachel | Blesh, Jennifer | Garibaldi, Lucas Alejandro | Isaac, Marney | Kennedy, Christina | Wittman, Hannah | Batáry, Péter | Buchori, Damayanti | Cerda, Rolando | Chará, Julián | Crowder, David | Darras, Kevin | Demaster, Kathryn | Garcia, Karina | Gómez, Manuel | Gonthier, David | Hidayat, Purnama | Hipólito, Juliana | Hirons, Mark | Hoey, Lesli | James, Dana | John, Innocensia | Jones, Andrew | Karp, Daniel | Kebede, Yodit | Kerr, Carmen Bezner | Klassen, Susanna | Kotowska, Martyna | Kreft, Holger | Llanque, Ramiro | Levers, Christian | Lizcano, Diego | Lu, Adrian | Madsen, Sidney | Marques, Rosebelly Nunes | Martins, Pedro Buss | Melo, America | Nyantakyi-Frimpong, Hanson | Olimpi, Elissa | Owen, Jeb | Pantevez, Heiber | Qaim, Matin | Redlich, Sarah | Scherber, Christoph | Sciligo, Amber | Snapp, Sieglinde | Snyder, William | Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf | Stratton, Anne Elise | Taylor, Joseph | Tscharntke, Teja | Valencia, Vivian | Vogel, Cassandra | Kremen, Claire | University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH) | Universität Hohenheim = University of Hohenheim | University of Colorado [Boulder] | Michigan State University [East Lansing] ; Michigan State University System | Cornell University [Ithaca] (CU) | University of Michigan [Ann Arbor] ; University of Michigan System | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires] (CONICET) | Universidad Nacional de Río Negro (UNRN) | University of Toronto at Scarborough | The Nature Conservancy | University of British Columbia [Canada] (UBC) | Centre for Ecological Research [Budapest] ; Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)-Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) | Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) | Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza - Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) | Centro para la Investigacion en sistemas Sostenibles de Produccion Agropecuaria - CIPAV (COLOMBIA) ; Centro para la Investigacion en sistemas Sostenibles de Produccion Agropecuaria - CIPAV (COLOMBIA) | Washington State University (WSU) | Ecosystèmes forestiers (UR EFNO) ; Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | University of California [Berkeley] (UC Berkeley) ; University of California (UC) | University of Kentucky (UK) | Federación Colombiana de Ganaderos (FEDEGAN) | Universidade Federal da Bahia = Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) | Universidade Federal de Viçosa [Brasil] = Federal University of Viçosa [Brazil] = Université fédérale de Viçosa [Brésil] (UFV [Brésil]) | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia = National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) | University of Oxford | University of Dar es Salaam = Université de Dar es Salaam (UDSM) | University of California [Davis] (UC Davis) ; University of California (UC) | Ecologie fonctionnelle et biogéochimie des sols et des agro-écosystèmes (UMR Eco&Sols) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro Montpellier ; Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro) | University of Toronto | University of Victoria [Canada] (UVIC) | Georg-August-University of Göttingen = Georg-August-Universität Göttingen | Consejo de Salud Rural Andino (CSRA) | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (VU) | Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut = Thünen Institute | The Nature Conservancy [Bogota] ; The Nature Conservancy | Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz" (ESALQ) ; Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo (USP) | University of Denver | Conservation Science Partners | Universität Bonn = University of Bonn | Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg = University of Würzburg [Würsburg, Germany] (JMU) | Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LAB) | The Organic Center | International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) ; Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR] (CGIAR) | University of Georgia [USA] | Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen] (WUR) | Bishop’s University [Sherbrooke, Canada] | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences = Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU) | National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) under funding received from the National Science Foundation (grant DBI-1639145 .) and by the UBC Research Excellence Cluster forDiversified Agroecosystems. European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant 853222 FORESTDIET). | German Research Foundation (DFG project number 532858005 GR 4844/4-1). | European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant 796451 FFSize) | Daniel and Nina CarassoFoundation. P.B. was funded by the Hungarian National Research,Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH KKP 133839). M.E.I.was funded by the Canada Research Chairs program. S.R. andI.S.D. were funded by the European Union (FP7 311781). C.K. andD.K. were funded by the US Department of Agriculture (USDANIFA project 2015- 67019- 23147/1005662) and the CS Fund.R.B.K., C.B.K., C.V., and I.S.D. were funded through the 2017-2018Belmont Forum and BiodivERsA joint call for research proposals,under the BiodivScen ERA-NetCOFUND program, and by theNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada(NSERC grant 523660-2018), National Science Foundation (NSFgrant 1852587), German Federal Ministry of Education andResearch (BMBF grant 01LC11804A), and the Research Council ofNorway (grant 295442). C.M.K. and O.M.S. were funded byUSDA-NIFA-OREI grant 2015-51300-24155 and C.M.K. through theUSDA-NIFA-AFRI grant 12679452- 2019-67012-29720. D.J.L., A.M.,and H.P. were funded by The World Bank project ColombiaMainstreaming Sustainable Cattle Ranching (CMSCR-P104687),FEDEGAN, CIPAV, TNC, and Action Fund, with financial supportfrom the Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategyof the United Kingdom (BEIS) and the Global Environment Facility(GEF). Data collection in Indonesia was funded by DFG project192626868 in the framework of the collaborative German–Indonesian research center CRC990. C.S. was funded by theEuropean Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programunder agreement 727284 and was partially funded by the DFGunder Germany’s Excellence Strategy (EXC 2070–390732324).Z.M. and M.H. and the ECOLIMITS project were funded through theUK NERC-DFID-ESRC Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation(ESPA) program (grant NE/K010379-1) and NERC (grantsNE/P001092/1 and NE/P00394X/1). Z.M. was also funded by theBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (grantBB/J014427/1) and a Royal Geographic Society postgraduatefieldwork award.
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. Agricultural simplification continues to expand at the expense of more diverse forms of agriculture. This simplification, for example, in the form of intensively managed monocultures, poses a risk to keeping the world within safe and just Earth system boundaries. Here, we estimated how agricultural diversification simultaneously affects social and environmental outcomes. Drawing from 24 studies in 11 countries across 2655 farms, we show how five diversification strategies focusing on livestock, crops, soils, noncrop plantings, and water conservation benefit social (e.g., human well-being, yields, and food security) and environmental (e.g., biodiversity, ecosystem services, and reduced environmental externalities) outcomes. We found that applying multiple diversification strategies creates more positive outcomes than individual management strategies alone. To realize these benefits, well-designed policies are needed to incentivize the adoption of multiple diversification strategies in unison.
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