सिंचन विकासामुळे शेतीत मोठा फायदा झाला आहे, परंतु त्याचबरोबर शेतकऱ्यांनी शेतीच्या पद्धतीत बदल केला आहे. भरडधान्य आणि कडधान्य यांच्या शेतीची वाढ झाली आहे, ज्यामुळे शेतीची विविधता वाढली आहे. यामुळे शेतक… · Photo : foxypar4 · CC BY · Flickr

Context Intensive agriculture drives insect decline impacting insect-mediated ecosystem services that support production. Crop diversification shows promise in increasing crop productivity and enhanci...

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EfD researchers examined the impact of electronic agricultural vouchers on crop diversification in Zambia.

Context Intensive agriculture drives insect decline impacting insect-mediated ecosystem services that support production. Crop diversification shows promise in increasing crop productivity and enhanci...

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Oaks farmers discuss diversifying crops and enhancing irrigation systems for agricultural growth.

Reinforcing the regulation of pests by their natural enemies is a promising way of reducing the use of pesticides and can be achieved through the adoption of management options at multiple scales, from field to landscape. In practice, however, most management efforts concentrate on modifying farming practices at the field level and examples of implementation of landscape-scale pest management strategies are scarce. Here, we report on place-based research that combined the co-design of scenarios of landscape-scale changes in farming practices and ex ante evaluation of pest control services under such scenarios, through the development of predictive models mobilizing long-term local data in two contrasting landscape case studies. We found that scenarios of farming change and predictive models of pest control services were site-specific. In both case studies, we show a high degree of spatial interdependency between farmers in the delivery of on-farm pest control services and, more importantly, that a wide adoption of pest control friendly-farming practices in the landscape leads to a win-win situation for each individual farmer. Farms that implemented changes were predicted to increase on-farm pest control services between 2% and 25%, depending on the changes in farming practices and case studies. When changes were implemented more widely at the landscape scale, the gain varied between 12.5% and 20% in farms where changes were implemented and between 9% and 12.5% in farms where no changes in practices were implemented. Additional gains were obtained when neighboring farmers collaborated and adjusted crop allocation on their farm in order to optimize pest control services at the landscape scale. This outcome reinforced the positive attitude of farmers towards the idea of acting collectively to promote pest control services, although such collective management was not perceived as being easy to implement and should be accompanied.

Crop diversification could enhance economic and environmental sustainability of crop farming, but achieving this requires careful planning that accounts for crop interrelationships in a rotation or sp...

Cacao production is facing challenges of low productivity due to low soil fertility and climate change. Agroforestry and organic farming are potential sustainable and climate-resilient alternatives, b...