Efficient soil microorganisms: A new dimension for sustainable agriculture and environmental development

Singh, Jay Shankar; Pandey, Vimal Chandra; Singh, Devendra P.

doi:10.1016/j.agee.2011.01.017

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“…landscape or watershed) implies a social system composed of users, managers and governance institutions using technologies and infrastructures to manage artificial and natural resources, as well as a complex ecological system generating these natural resources. Conceptual frameworks produced to analyse or model such social-ecological systems (Anderies et al 2004;Ostrom 2009;Sibertin-Blanc et al 2011) allow the complexity of social, ecological and socialecological interactions occurring in these systems to be encompassed. Analysing the dynamics of these complex systems is based on the concepts of resilience, adaptation and transformation of system structure and/or functions (Folke et al , 2011Folke 2006;Holling 2001;Walker et al 2006).…”

Section: Social-ecological Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…fertiliser, pesticides and water), recycling waste or byproducts of one subsystem in another (Kuisma et al 2013) and applying sound agricultural practices (Ingram 2008) or precision-agriculture technologies (Rains et al 2011). It is also based on replacing chemical inputs with organic inputs (Singh et al 2011) or genetically modified organisms (Godfray et al 2010). Its main objectives are to reduce negative environmental impacts and raise production limits of production-oriented agriculture.…”

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Designing agroecological transitions; A review

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Concerns about the negative impacts of productivist agriculture have led to the emergence of two forms of ecological modernisation of agriculture. The first, efficiency-substitution agriculture, aims to improve input use efficiency and to minimise environmental impacts of modern farming systems. It is currently the dominant modernisation pathway. The second, biodiversity-based agriculture, aims to develop ecosystem services provided by biological diversity. It currently exists only as a niche. Here we review challenges of implementing biodiversity-based agriculture: managing, at the local level, a consistent transition within and among farming systems, supply chains and natural resource management. We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of existing conceptual frameworks developed to analyse farming, socialecological and socio-technical systems. Then we present an integrative framework tailored for structuring analysis of agriculture from the perspective of developing a territorial biodiversity-based agriculture. In addition, we propose a participatory methodology to design this agroecological transition at the local level. This design methodology was developed to support a multi-stakeholder arena in analysing the current situation, identifying future exogenous changes and designing (1) targeted territorial biodiversity-based agriculture, (2) the pathway of the transition and (3) the required adaptive governance structures and management strategies. We conclude by analysing key challenges of designing such a complex transition, developing multi-actor and multidomain approaches based on a combination of scientific and experiential knowledge and on building suitable boundary objects (computer-based and conceptual models, indicators, etc.) to assess innovative systems designed by stakeholders.

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Designing agroecological transitions; A review

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2015

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“…This form of agriculture is implemented via best management practices (Ingram 2008), use of precision-agriculture technologies (Buman 2013) or improved plant cultivars (Vanloqueren and Baret 2009), or substitution (S) of chemical inputs by biological and environmentally less harmful ones (Singh et al 2011). Hereafter, we call it efficiency/substitutionbased agriculture.…”

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How to implement biodiversity-based agriculture to enhance ecosystem services: a review

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Intensive agriculture has led to several drawbacks such as biodiversity loss, climate change, erosion, and pollution of air and water. A potential solution is to implement management practices that increase the level of provision of ecosystem services such as soil fertility and biological regulation. There is a lot of literature on the principles of agroecology. However, there is a gap of knowledge between agroecological principles and practical applications. Therefore, we review here agroecological and management sciences to identify two facts that explain the lack of practical applications: (1) the occurrence of high uncertainties about relations between agricultural practices, ecological processes, and ecosystem services, and (2) the site-specific character of agroecological practices required to deliver expected ecosystem services. We also show that an adaptive-management approach, focusing on planning and monitoring, can serve as a framework for developing and implementing learning tools tailored for biodiversity-based agriculture. Among the current learning tools developed by researchers, we identify two main types of emergent support tools likely to help design diversified farming systems and landscapes: (1) knowledge bases containing scientific supports and experiential knowledge and (2) model-based games. These tools have to be coupled with well-tailored field or management indicators that allow monitoring effects of practices on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Finally, we propose a research agenda that requires bringing together contributions from agricultural, ecological, management, and knowledge management sciences, and asserts that researchers have to take the position of "integration and implementation sciences."

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“…Lots of studies on flora and fauna diversity, however, we just have little known on microbial diversity due to the limitations of methodology [4]. In ecosystem, soil microorganisms play a role of decomposer and have irreplaceable place in energy flow and matter cycle, from which bacteria communities have the largest number and vital function [5][6]. Therefore learning the metabolic ability, utilization of carbon sources, genetic and functional diversity of soil bacterial communities is meaningful [7][8].…”

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Application and Optimization of Biolog EcoPlates in Functional Diversity Studies of Soil Microbial Communities

Poudel

2015

MATEC Web of Conferences

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Efficient soil microorganisms: A new dimension for sustainable agriculture and environmental development

Cited by 709 publications

References 146 publications

Designing agroecological transitions; A review

Designing agroecological transitions; A review

How to implement biodiversity-based agriculture to enhance ecosystem services: a review

Application and Optimization of Biolog EcoPlates in Functional Diversity Studies of Soil Microbial Communities

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