Understanding Landscape Multifunctionality in a Post-forest Frontier: Supply and Demand of Ecosystem Services in Eastern Amazonia

Pinillos, Daniel; Bianchi, Felix J.J.A.; Poccard-Chapuis, René; Corbeels, Marc; Tittonell, Pablo; Schulte, Rogier P.O.

doi:10.3389/fenvs.2019.00206

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“…This form of privately-owned livestock operation is often referred to as ranching, and it is more common in the Americas than in Europe. Large areas of tropical forest are being cleared for the establishment of pasture lands, particularly in Brazil's Amazon and Mato Grosso regions (Pinillos et al, 2020). Here, however, we refer to native grasslands, areas that have not been forests since the last glacial period.…”

Section: Regenerative Graze-based Livestock Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A classical tradeoff. However, we think there is room for smart agroecological interventions that would render the relationship between profit and nature synergistic, allowing for high economic productivity and biodiversity conservation (e.g., Modernel et al, 2018;El Mujtar et al, 2019;Pinillos et al, 2020). In this sense, agroecology supports land sharing approaches to conservation, due to the co-benefits that can be expected from greater biodiversity and ecosystem services.…”

Section: Down To Earthmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Agroecology in Large Scale Farming—A Research Agenda

Tittonell¹,

Piñeiro²,

Garibaldi³

et al. 2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Agroecology promises a third way between common global agriculture tradeoffs such as food production and nature conservation, environmental sustainability and ecosystem services. However, most successful examples of mainstreaming agroecology come from smallholder, family agriculture, that represents only about 30% of the world agricultural area. Mainstreaming agroecology among large scale farmers is urgently needed, but it requires addressing specific questions in research, technology and policy development to support sustainable transitions. Here we take stock of the existing knowledge on some key aspects necessary to support agroecological transitions in large scale farming, considering two contrasting starting points: highly subsidized and heavily taxed agricultural contexts, represented here by the examples of Western Europe and temperate South America. We summarize existing knowledge and gaps around service crops, arthropod-mediated functions, landscape and watershed regulation, graze-based livestock, nature-inclusive landscapes, and policy mechanisms to support transitions. We propose a research agenda for agroecology in large scale farming organized in five domains: (i) Breeding for diversity, (ii) Scalable complexity, (iii) Managing cycles beyond fields and farms, (iv) Sharing the cultivated landscape, and (v) Co-innovation with farmers, value chains and policy makers. Agroecology may result in a renewed impetus in large scale farming, to attract the youth, foster clean technological innovation, and to promote a new generation of large-scale farmers that take pride in contributing to feeding the world while serving the planet and its people.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Down To Earthmentioning

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Agroecology in Large Scale Farming—A Research Agenda

Tittonell¹,

Piñeiro²,

Garibaldi³

et al. 2020

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“…The FLM framework is used to assess the supply of soil functions as a function of land use and soil class, where soil class is based on the local soil property that most predominantly defines the interactions between land-based production and the environment. For instance, in Ireland the dominant soil property is the natural drainage capacity of the soil (Coyle et al, 2016), while in the Philippines and Brazil it relates to topography (Dingkuhn et al, 2020;Pinillos et al, 2020). In Latvia, organic soils are important due to the fact that organic soils can be a carbon sink or emitter, depending on land use and management practices.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Similar to Schulte et al (2015) and Pinillos et al (2020), the demand for carbon regulation is evenly spread at the national level, reflecting the absence of sector-specific targeting between the non-ETS sectors such as housing, agriculture, waste and transport (Figure 8). This inference was made because it is currently yet unknown which production sectors and land uses will be affected by the emission reduction target set by the Paris Agreement.…”

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“…Particularly challenging in operationalization of land use and land management planning is the reconciliation of longterm national and regional policy objectives with the myriad of strategic and tactical farm management decisions that are made by thousands of individual land managers on a daily basis. Actors in land management typically have different and sometimes contradictory views (Dingkuhn et al, 2020;Pinillos et al, 2020), which calls for an integrated approach in order to support knowledge-based decisions to link land use management at local scale and territorial planning at regional or national scale. There is a growing awareness of the need for better rural planning, protection of ecosystem services and innovative economic models to ensure environmental and socio-economic development (van Leeuwen et al, 2019).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Assessment of Soil Functions: An Example of Meeting Competing National and International Obligations by Harnessing Regional Differences

Valujeva

Nipers

Lupikis

et al. 2020

Front. Environ. Sci.

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The increased demand for bio based products worldwide provides an opportunity for Eastern European countries to increase their production in agriculture and forestry. At the same time, such economic development must be congruent with the European Union’s long-term climate and biodiversity objectives. As a country that is rich in bioresources, the Latvian case study is highly relevant to many other countries—especially those in Central and Eastern Europe—and faces a choice of transition pathways to meet both economic and environmental objectives. In order to assess the trade-offs between investments in the bioeconomy and the achievement of climate and biodiversity objectives, we used the Functional Land Management (FLM) framework for the quantification of the supply and demand for the primary productivity, carbon regulation and biodiversity functions. We related the supply of these three soil functions to combinations of land use and soil characteristics. The demand for the same functions were derived from European, national and regional policy objectives. Our results showed different spatial scales at which variation in demand and supply is manifested. High demand for biodiversity was associated with areas dominated by agricultural land at the local scale, while regional differences of unemployment rates and the target for GDP increases framed the demand for primary productivity. National demand for carbon regulation focused on areas dominated by forests on organic soils. We subsequently identified mismatches between the supply and demand for soil functions, and we selected spatial locations for specific land use changes and improvements in management practices to promote sustainable development of the bio-economy. Our results offer guidance to policy makers that will help them to form a national policy that will underpin management practices that are effective and tailored toward local climate conditions and national implementation pathways.

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