Productivity, biodiversity trade-offs, and farm income in an agroforestry versus an arable system

Staton, Tom; Breeze, Tom D.; Walters, Richard J.; Smith, Jo; Girling, Robbie D.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107214

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“…The benefits of such systems over monocropping could be substantial if yields on agroforestry can be brought to levels comparable with monocropping systems, which the latest evidence suggests is feasible in many contexts (Beillouin et al 2021). While arable crop yields are reported to decrease in African agroforestry systems (between − 100 and − 11%) (Félix et al 2018;Staton et al 2022), there is an expanding body of evidence showing that yields in agroforestry can be comparable or only slightly lower than those in monocropping and are generally higher when harvestable produce from tree products is included in the calculation (Niether et al 2020;Castle et al 2021). Future work could thus include fodder trees in the feed biomass and land management options.…”

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Linking ecosystem services provisioning with demand for animal-sourced food: an integrated modeling study for Tanzania

Enahoro¹,

Kozicka

Pfeifer

et al. 2023

Reg Environ Change

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Standard tools that can quantitatively track the impacts of higher global demand for animal-sourced food to their local environmental effects in developing countries are largely missing. This paper presents a novel integrated assessment framework that links a model of the global agricultural and food system, a landscape-level environmental impact assessment model, and an ecosystem services simulation model. For Tanzania, this integrated assessment showed that a projected increase in the demand and production of foods of livestock origin with optimistic economic growth between 2010 and 2030 leads to an improvement in food security. However, resulting transitions in land use impact negatively on the future provisioning of ecosystem services, increasing phosphorus, nitrogen, and sediment in runoff and reducing water quality in areas downstream of the agricultural expansion. Losses in ecosystem services are lowest when diversified farming practices are adopted in areas of agricultural land expansion. The role of land management in the environmental impacts of expanded livestock production is highlighted, as is the need for a new generation of analytical tools to inform policy recommendations.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Linking ecosystem services provisioning with demand for animal-sourced food: an integrated modeling study for Tanzania

Enahoro¹,

Kozicka

Pfeifer

et al. 2023

Reg Environ Change

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“…The benefits of the fruit tree scenario may extend beyond the effect on mass-flowering arable crop pollination because fruit trees themselves are pollinator-dependent. Mass-flowering arable crops (and other nearby semi-natural habitat) could in turn enhance pollination of the (earlier flowering) fruit-trees, by providing complementary year-round floral resources for bumblebees, relative to monoculture systems (Proesmans et al, 2019;Staton et al, 2022).…”

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Co-benefits from tree planting in a typical English agricultural landscape: Comparing the relative effectiveness of hedgerows, agroforestry and woodland creation for improving crop pollination services

2023

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“…All the Top 10 institutions contributed with at least 45 publications or more. For the University of Reading, the most recent document is focused on productivity, biodiversity trade-offs, and farm income in agroforestry versus an arable system and concluded how a diversified farming system could improve farm income, but support from grants would reduce the initial negative cash flow [ 34 ]. For Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, the most recent document is a review by Baho et al [ 35 ] on microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems by moving beyond the state-of-the-art to minimize the risk of ecological surprise.…”

Section: Ecosystem Services Pollinators and Biodiversitymentioning

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Rethinking the Connections between Ecosystem Services, Pollinators, Pollution, and Health: Focus on Air Pollution and Its Impacts

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Bianchetto²,

Durazzo³

et al. 2022

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Ecosystems provide many services that are essential for human activities and for our well-being. Many regulation services are interconnected and are fundamental in mitigating and hindering the negative effects of several phenomena such as pollution. Pollution, in particular airborne particulate matter (PM), represents an important risk to human health. This perspective aims at providing a current framework that relates ecosystem services, regulating services, pollination, and human health, with particular regards to pollution and its impacts. A quantitative literature analysis on the topic has been adopted. The health repercussions of problems related to ecosystem services, with a focus on the effects of atmospheric particulate matter, have been highlighted in the work throughout a case study. In polluted environments, pollinators are severely exposed to airborne PM, which adheres to the insect body hairs and can be ingested through contaminated food resources, i.e., pollen and honey. This poses a serious risk for the health of pollinators with consequences on the pollination service and, ultimately, for human health.

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Productivity, biodiversity trade-offs, and farm income in an agroforestry versus an arable system

Cited by 22 publications

References 51 publications

Linking ecosystem services provisioning with demand for animal-sourced food: an integrated modeling study for Tanzania

Linking ecosystem services provisioning with demand for animal-sourced food: an integrated modeling study for Tanzania

Co-benefits from tree planting in a typical English agricultural landscape: Comparing the relative effectiveness of hedgerows, agroforestry and woodland creation for improving crop pollination services

Rethinking the Connections between Ecosystem Services, Pollinators, Pollution, and Health: Focus on Air Pollution and Its Impacts

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