Ecological Interactions Within the Biodiversity of Cultivated Systems

Ratnadass, Alain; Blanchart, Éric; Lecomte, Philippe

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7984-6_5

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“…These examples show that agrobiodiversity can provide ecological means to protect and intensify agricultural production and that this generally leads to the diversification of the agrosystem. There are yet a lot of knowledge gaps to be filled to be able to really manage these interactions at different scales of time and space and obtain improvements of performances and resilience [39].…”

Section: Use Of Agrobiodiversity As Leverage For Intensificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making transition towards ecological intensification of agriculture a reality: the gaps in and the role of scientific knowledge

Caron

Biénabe

Hainzelin

2014

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

107

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Section: Use Of Agrobiodiversity As Leverage For Intensificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making transition towards ecological intensification of agriculture a reality: the gaps in and the role of scientific knowledge

Caron

Biénabe

Hainzelin

2014

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

107

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“…A pull strategy was developed to combat Chilo sacchariphagus (spotted borer), a significant sugarcane pest. Female borers were pulled to nesting sites on a trap plant, Erianthus arundinaceus, which was planted around the perimeter of the sugarcane plot achieving a 90 % reduction in attacks with a 20 % increase in yield (Ratnadass et al 2013). The effects were observed up to 40 m from the edge of the plot (Nibouche et al 2012).…”

Section: Multiple Cropping Systems To Reduce the Use Of Pesticidesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multiple cropping systems as drivers for providing multiple ecosystem services: from concepts to design

Gaba

Lescourret

Boudsocq

et al. 2014

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

287

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Provisioning services, such as the production of food, feed, and fiber, have always been the main focus of agriculture. Since the 1950s, intensive cropping systems based on the cultivation of a single crop or a single cultivar, in simplified rotations or monocultures, and relying on extensive use of agrochemical inputs have been preferred to more diverse, self-sustaining cropping systems, regardless of the environmental consequences. However, there is increasing evidence that such intensive agroecosystems have led to a decline in biodiversity as well as threatening the environment and have damaged a number of ecosystem services such as the biogeochemical nutrient cycles and the regulation of climate and water quality. Consequently, the current challenge facing agriculture is to ensure the future of food production while reducing the use of inputs and limiting environmental impacts and the loss of biodiversity. Here, we review examples of multiple cropping systems that aim to use biotic interactions to reduce chemical inputs and provide more ecosystem services than just provisioning. Our main findings are the identification of underlying ecological processes and management strategies related to the provision of pairs of ecosystem services namely food production and a regulation service. We also found gaps between ecological knowledge and the constraints of agricultural practices in taking account of the interactions and possible trade-offs between multiple ecosystem services as well as socioeconomic constraints. We present guidelines for the design of multiple cropping systems combining ecological, agricultural, and genetic concepts and approaches.

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“…Leguminous cover crop rotations increase productivity, breaking pest cycles, reducing using chemical fertilizer, increasing soil microbial, improve soil fertility, and prevent soil erosion due to their N-fixation and increasing soil microbial [44][45][46] and can be adapted to any legume-based cropping system [47]. While incorporated legume in soil provides N to following crops depends on the quantity of N-fixed [37,48].…”

Section: Crop Rotationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges and Opportunities for the Global Cultivation and Adaptation of Legumes B. Opportunities for Increasing Legumes Production and Availability

WF¹,

RH²,

EF³

2022

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Legumes cultivation is subjected to different constraints, which reduce productivity, particularly effects of global warming, and other constraints. While the large diversity of legumes play an important contributing role to food and nutrition security by the sustainable agriculture (crop and livestock systems) and food systems worldwide. Improving legumes production needs numerous strategies achievement proper production for humanity. Through different ways that include policy creativities to encourage legume cultivation, produce legume varieties adapted to changing climatic conditions. In addition to using proper agricultural strategies to increase the availability of legumes like increasing annual cultivation by both horizontal extensions by increasing planted area and reclamation the poor soil and using intensive planting system as a Vertical development tool. Besides, planting legumes with other crops in the intercropping system, as well as involving legumes into the annual agriculture system, improving postharvest processing to minimize crop losses. Furthermore, using modern technology in agriculture like smart agriculture to increase legumes productivity. There are many health benefits to legume crops due to their component, particularly protein, which reaches two or three-fold as in other crops such as cereals, which contain less than half of the protein in legumes. In addition to carbohydrates, folic acid, fibers, also, legumes are considered low-fat seeds. In addition, to using leguminous crops as fodder resources for animals both directly and as a part of different feeds for livestock and poultry.

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Ecological Interactions Within the Biodiversity of Cultivated Systems

Cited by 8 publications

References 107 publications

Making transition towards ecological intensification of agriculture a reality: the gaps in and the role of scientific knowledge

Making transition towards ecological intensification of agriculture a reality: the gaps in and the role of scientific knowledge

Multiple cropping systems as drivers for providing multiple ecosystem services: from concepts to design

Challenges and Opportunities for the Global Cultivation and Adaptation of Legumes B. Opportunities for Increasing Legumes Production and Availability

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