Ecosystem services and agriculture: tradeoffs and synergies

Power, Alison G.

doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0143

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“…Because certain habitat characteristics may optimize the production of one service, trade-offs may occur when multifunctionality becomes the objective (Power, 2010). Nevertheless, synergies also exist.…”

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“…pest control, pollination, water flow regulation, carbon storage) (Foley et al, 2005;Robinson and Sutherland, 2002). The challenge remains in mobilising functional agrobiodiversity able to provide regulating services for producing resources with fewer external inputs and with a limited provision of disservices (Power, 2010;Zhang et al, 2007). However, there is a debate whether functional agrobiodiversity enhances the delivery of ecosystem services through high species richness, or the presence of some key species, or even the involvement of functional traits of individuals (in the case of insects: e.g.…”

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Spatial diversification of agroecosystems to enhance biological control and other regulating services: An agroecological perspective

Hatt

Boeraeve

Artru

et al. 2018

Science of The Total Environment

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Spatial diversification of crop and non-crop habitats in farming systems is promising for enhancing natural regulation of insect pests. Nevertheless, results from recent syntheses show variable effects.One explanation is that the abundance and diversity of pests and natural enemies are affected by the composition, design and management of crop and non-crop habitats. Moreover, interactions between both local and landscape elements and practices carried out at different spatial scales may affect the regulation of insect pests. Hence, research is being conducted to understand these interdependencies.However, insects are not the only pests and pests are not the only elements to regulate in agroecosystems. Broadening the scope could allow addressing multiple issues simultaneously, but also solving them together by enhancing synergies. Indeed, spatial diversification of crop and non-crop habitats can allow addressing the issues of weeds and pathogens, along with being beneficial to several other regulating services like pollination, soil conservation and nutrient cycling. Although calls rise to develop multifunctional landscapes that optimize the delivery of multiple ecosystem services, it still represents a scientific challenge today. Enhancing interdisciplinarity in research institutions and building interrelations between scientists and stakeholders may help reach this goal. Despite obstacles, positive results from research based on such innovative approaches are encouraging for engaging 2 science in this path. Hence, the aim of the present paper is to offer an update on these issues by exploring the most recent findings and discussing these results to highlight needs for future research.

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Spatial diversification of agroecosystems to enhance biological control and other regulating services: An agroecological perspective

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Boeraeve

Artru

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“…The third is the progress of knowledge on the possibility to provide ecosystem services through management of biodiversity (e.g. biological regulation, fertility, carbon storage, water filtration) (Power, 2010). Taking these new political, technological and cognitive contexts into account, two broad approaches to design pathways for developing innovative agricultural systems have evolved.…”

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Farming system design for innovative crop-livestock integration in Europe

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Duru²,

Nicholas

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The development of integrated crop-livestock systems (ICLS) is a major challenge for the ecological modernisation of agriculture but appears difficult to implement at a large scale. A participatory method for ICLS design has been developed and implemented in 15 case studies across Europe, representing a range of production systems, challenges, constraints and resources for innovation. Local stakeholders, primarily farmers, but also cooperatives, environmental-association representatives and natural-resource managers, were involved in the identification of challenges and existing initiatives of crop-livestock integration; in the design of new options at field, farm and territory levels; and then in qualitative multicriteria assessment of these options. A conceptual framework based on a conceptual model (crops, grasslands, animals) was developed to act as a boundary object in the design step and invite innovative thinking in 'metabolic' and 'ecosystemic' approaches. A diversity of crops and grasslands interacting with animals appeared central for designing sustainable farming systems at the territory level, providing and benefitting from ecosystem services. Within this diversity, we define three types of integrated systems according to their degrees of spatial and temporal coordination: complementarity, local synergy, territorial synergy. Moreover, the options for cooperation and collective organisation between farmers and other stakeholders in territories to organise and manage this diversity of land use revealed opportunities for smart social innovation. The qualitative multicriteria assessment identified farmer workload as the main issue of concern while demonstrating expected benefits of ICLS simultaneously for economic, agronomic, environmental and social criteria. This study concludes that participatory design of ICLS based on a generic multi-level and multi-domain framework and a methodology to deal with a local context can identify new systems to be tested. Further assessment and redesign work will be performed in later stages of the European FP7 CANTOGETHER project.

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“…Agrobiodiversity can impact ecosystem services directly, such as when increased crop diversity increases human nutrition [14], or indirectly, such as when cover crop diversity increases plant biomass, which is associated with improved water quality and decreased runoff [15]. Understanding linkages between agrobiodiversity and ecosystem services is crucial for predicting how changes in environment and management practices will impact the multiple ecosystem services provided by agroecosystems [16][17][18]. Thus, we argue here that a trait-based approach to agriculture that is analogous to that applied in broader ecology (e.g., [4,6,[19][20][21]) could help better identify the mechanisms underlying the role of agrobiodiversity in providing agroecosystem services.…”

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