Industrial agriculture and agroecological transition systems: A comparative analysis of productivity results, organic matter and glyphosate in soil

Aparicio, Virginia; Zamora, Martín; Barbera, Agustin; Castro-Franco, Mauricio; Domenech, Marisa; Gerónimo, Eduardo De; Costa, José Luís

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2018.09.005

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“…For instance, the use of legumes [246] and service crops [143] are promising options to deliver beneficial ecosystem services. The increase in on-farm crop diversity is meant to be a facilitator of favorable ecosystem services [247][248][249][250]. Special attention should be given in future research to ecological weed-management tools and strategies to be oriented to smallholder farmers, as most of the agricultural land is small in size [19].…”

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Sustainable Crop and Weed Management in the Era of the EU Green Deal: A Survival Guide

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Agricultural systems in the EU have become more vulnerable and less sustainable due to an overreliance on herbicides and the tremendous increase in herbicide-resistant weeds. The EU Green Deal aims to reduce the use and risk of chemical pesticides by 50% by 2030, although it is still undefined whether a reduction in herbicide use could be feasible in different farming systems and situations. This review aims to provide a holistic framework for sustainable crop and weed management to reduce the herbicide input and ensure crop protection. Current and future dilemmas and policies that need to be handled to ensure the agroecological transition of the EU’s agricultural systems are also discussed. The integration of non-chemical alternatives for integrated weed management is feasible and includes novel cultivation techniques (e.g., intercropping, false seedbed, reduced tillage, crop rotation and diversification, adjustments on sowing densities and dates), non-chemical tools (e.g., flaming, seed coating, beneficial microorganisms, mechanical weeding, biocontrol agents and natural herbicides), competitive plant material (hybrids and cultivars, cover crops, service crops), and new technologies and precision agriculture tools (e.g., Decision Support Systems, robots, remote sensing, UAVs, omics and nanotechnology). A special focus should be appointed to agroecology and biodiversity conservation.

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Sustainable Crop and Weed Management in the Era of the EU Green Deal: A Survival Guide

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“…Otros estudios observaron que las propiedades fisicoquímicas y biológicas del suelo se recuperan lentamente después de una conversión a agroecología; por ejemplo, Virginia et al (2018) concluyeron que en sistemas de transición agroecológica, donde se aplicaron principios agroecológicos como el incremento de la biodiversidad a través de la rotación de cultivos (utilizando cultivos de cobertura, mezclas de leguminosas y gramíneas), corredores biológicos y sistemas mixtos con ganadería permitieron incrementar el contenido de materia orgánica en los primeros 10 cm del suelo y la densidad aparente fue menor en un periodo de 6,5 años con un clima templado. Aunque también indicaron que es necesario realizar más estudios de este tipo con el fin de confirmar los beneficios del sistema de transición agroecológica en otras condiciones edafo-climáticas.…”

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Agroecología para la seguridad alimentaria y frente al cambio climático en Perú

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Locatelli

Vallet

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Este estudio evalúa la contribución de la agroecología a la seguridad alimentaria y contra el cambio climático en la agricultura familiar en la cuenca Mariño (Perú). Utilizamos como marco analítico los tres principios de la Agricultura Climáticamente Inteligente (CSA). Realizamos encuestasy mediciones en campo, evaluando tres principios, 10 criterios y 12 indicadores. Encontramos que la aplicación de prácticas agroecológicas mejora la autosuficiencia alimentaria e ingresos familiares; asimismo, reduce los antagonismos o incrementa sinergias entre productividad y adaptación o mitigación. Ello sugiere que la agroecología puede ayudar a alcanzar simultáneamente los objetivos (amenudo conflictivos) de la CSA.

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“…Spatial diversity is measurable at a given point in time for a defined spatial unit and enacted through wide-ranging practices: intercropping or polycropping (Mead and Wiley 1980 ; Daryanto et al 2020 ), precision conservation (Delgado and Berry 2008 ), buffer strips, riparian corridors, and hedgerows (Kremen et al 2012 ), creating wildlife habitat patches within and across plots (Pywell et al 2015 ), or integrating crops and livestock (Franzluebbers and Stuedemann 2014 ; Sulc and Franzluebbers 2014 ). Accumulating evidence exhibits broad benefits to implementing these practices, such as improved crop yields (Smith et al 2008 ; Gaudin et al 2015 ; Pywell et al 2015 ; Schulte et al 2017 ; Burchfield et al 2019 ), decreased yield volatility over time (Di Falco and Perrings 2005 ; Abson et al 2013 ; Li et al 2019 ), improved pest management (Chaplin-Kramer et al 2011 ; Bommarco et al 2013 ), improved soil health (Postma et al 2008 ; Berendsen et al 2012 ; McDaniel et al 2014 ; Albizua et al 2015 ; Ghimire et al 2018 ), increased pollinator diversity (Schulte et al 2017 ; Hass et al 2018 ; Guzman et al 2019 ; Raderschall et al 2021 ), and overall greater productivity, or output per acre, than standard industrial operations (Kremen and Miles 2012 ; Virginia et al 2018 ). Moreover, conserving the diversity of on-farm crops can improve agroecosystem resilience and food security in the face of climatic change and disturbance (Massawe et al 2016 ; Matsushita et al 2016 ; Isbell et al 2021 ).…”

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Crop diversification in Idaho’s Magic Valley: the present and the imaginary

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Burchfield

Radel

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Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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The simplification of agricultural landscapes, particularly in the United States (US), has contributed to alarming rates of environmental degradation. As such, increasing agrobiodiversity throughout the US agri-food system is a crucial goal toward mitigating these harmful impacts, and crop diversification is one short-term mechanism to begin this process. However, despite mounting evidence of its benefits, crop diversification strategies have yet to be widely adopted in the US. Thus, we explore barriers and bridges to crop diversification for current farmers, focused on the Magic Valley of southern Idaho—a region with higher crop diversity relative to the US norm. We address two main research questions: (1) how and why do farmers in this region enact temporal and/or spatial strategies to manage crop diversity (the present) and (2) what are the barriers and bridges to alternative diversification strategies (the imaginary)? Through a political agroecology and spatial imaginaries lens, we conducted and analyzed 15 farmer and 14 key informant interviews between 2019 and 2021 to gauge what farmers are doing to manage crop diversity (the present) and how they imagine alternative landscapes (the imaginary). We show that farmers in this region have established a regionally diversified landscape by relying primarily on temporal diversification strategies—crop rotations and cover cropping—but do not necessarily pair these with other spatial diversification strategies that align with an agroecological approach. Furthermore, experimenting with and imagining new landscapes is possible (and we found evidence of such), but daily challenges and structural constraints make these processes not only difficult but unlikely and even “dangerous” to dream of. Therein, we demonstrate the importance of centering who is farming and why they make certain decisions as much as how they farm to support agroecological transformation and reckoning with past and present land use paradigms to re-imagine what is possible. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13593-022-00833-0.

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Industrial agriculture and agroecological transition systems: A comparative analysis of productivity results, organic matter and glyphosate in soil

Cited by 24 publications

References 56 publications

Sustainable Crop and Weed Management in the Era of the EU Green Deal: A Survival Guide

Sustainable Crop and Weed Management in the Era of the EU Green Deal: A Survival Guide

Agroecología para la seguridad alimentaria y frente al cambio climático en Perú

Crop diversification in Idaho’s Magic Valley: the present and the imaginary

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