Climate-smart pest management: building resilience of farms and landscapes to changing pest threats

Heeb, Luca; Jenner, Emma; Cock, Matthew J.W.

doi:10.1007/s10340-019-01083-y

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“…The most salient conclusion was the presence of special risks as regards the impact of diseases and pests directly driven by climate change. This led to urge the adoption of preventive measures and the facilitation of adaptation to the challenge, as well as surveillance and control measures, together with climate-smart pest management (Heeb et al, 2019). In fact, climate change is known to be altering in a gradual but inexorable way pest distribution.…”

Section: More Pestsmentioning

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Mitigation of emerging implications of climate change on food production systems

Gómez-Zavaglia

Mejuto

Simal-Gándara

2020

Food Research International

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Crops, livestock and seafood are major contributors to global economy. Agriculture and fisheries are especially dependent on climate. Thus, elevated temperatures and carbon dioxide levels can have large impacts on appropriate nutrient levels, soil moisture, water availability and various other critical performance conditions. Changes in drought and flood frequency and severity can pose severe challenges to farmers and threaten food safety. In addition, increasingly warmer water temperatures are likely to shift the habitat ranges of many fish and shellfish species, ultimately disrupting ecosystems. In general, climate change will probably have negative implications for farming, animal husbandry and fishing. The effects of climate change must be taken into account as a key aspect along with other evolving factors with a potential impact on agricultural production, such as changes in agricultural practices and technology; all of them with a serious impact on food availability and price. This review is intended to provide critical and timely information on climate change and its implications in the food production/consumption system, paying special attention to the available mitigation strategies.

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Section: More Pestsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mitigation of emerging implications of climate change on food production systems

Gómez-Zavaglia

Mejuto

Simal-Gándara

2020

Food Research International

205

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“…As soil fertility and pest management interact closely [8,9], evaluation and adoption of improved practices such as conservation agriculture (CA) and integrated pest management (IPM) could enable income diversification and crop intensification with minimal external input to build sustainable and resilient opportunities for smallholder farmers [10][11][12][13][14].…”

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Conservation Agriculture and Integrated Pest Management Practices Improve Yield and Income while Reducing Labor, Pests, Diseases and Chemical Pesticide Use in Smallholder Vegetable Farms in Nepal

Paudel

Sah

Devkota³

et al. 2020

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Improving smallholder vegetable farms are critical for improving food security and livelihoods of people in low-income countries. Vegetable production is labor intensive and prone to pests and diseases. Conservation agriculture (CA) and integrated pest management (IPM) practices provide options to increase yields and minimize the use of chemical pesticides. We compared integration of CA and IPM practices (improved alternative system) with farmers’ traditional practice (conventional system) under replicated on-farm tests in four different locations (Lalitpur, Banke, Surkhet, and Dadeldhura) in Nepal. Data on yield, benefit–cost ratio (B:C), labor requirement, insect and disease infestation, and pesticide sprays on five major vegetable crops (tomato, cucumber, bitter gourd, cabbage, cauliflower) were measured. In tomatoes, cucumbers, and bitter gourds, the improved alternative system produced a significantly higher yield, greater benefit-cost ratio, reduced labor, decreased the infestation of pests and diseases, and required fewer pesticidal sprays. Average yield and net income were superior in cabbages and cauliflowers, but nonsignificant. Improved alternative system for all the vegetables were sprayed significantly fewer times than the conventional system. Overall, the improved alternative system for vegetable crops contributed not only to the improved income and livelihoods of people, but also can improve environment and human health due to the reduced use of pesticides. Further research on scaling these improved alternative practices through appropriate farmer organizations, and government and non-government actors can enhance the adoption of CA and IPM practices by smallholder vegetable producers.

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“…changes in temperature and rainfall are likely to vary from location to location, thus adding to the heterogeneity of the TPE represented by organic farms. 2. climate change is not only about temperature and rainfall, because such changes also affect the distribution and outbreak of pests (Heeb et al, 2019), particularly across the insect spectrum (Zavala et al 2008;Deutsch et al 2018) and including pollinators such as bumblebees (Kerr et al, 2015), diseases (Newton et al, 2011;Pautasso et al, 2012) and weeds (Ziska and Dukes, 2010;Colautti and Barrett 2013;Matzrafi et al, 2015); 3. extreme weather events can influence interactions between crops and pests in an unpredictable way (Rosenzweig et al, 2001).…”

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Home / Archives / Vol. 1 No. 2 (2020): July - December / Review Organic agriculture and evolutionary populations to merge mitigation and adaptation strategies to fight climate change

Ceccarelli

2020

S. Sust.

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Organic agriculture mitigates the effects of climate change, is more sustainable than industrial agriculture, provides more nutritious and healthy food, and several ecosystem services. However, its potential to feed the world is largely unexplored, due to the limited number of breeding programs addressing the need of varieties specifically adapted to organic systems. Consequently, organic farmers often cannot find organically produced seed of suitable varieties. This paper presents a plant breeding scheme which combines the use of evolutionary population with decentralized and participatory selection, to serve a multitude of diverse target populations, from environments including those of organic agriculture.

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Climate-smart pest management: building resilience of farms and landscapes to changing pest threats

Cited by 161 publications

References 75 publications

Mitigation of emerging implications of climate change on food production systems

Mitigation of emerging implications of climate change on food production systems

Conservation Agriculture and Integrated Pest Management Practices Improve Yield and Income while Reducing Labor, Pests, Diseases and Chemical Pesticide Use in Smallholder Vegetable Farms in Nepal

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