Ecological intensification of agriculture — sustainable by nature

By P. Tittonell. 2014

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science

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What Agriculture Can Learn from Native Ecosystems in Building Soil Organic Matter: A Review (2017, background): “Ecological intensification—supplanting the need for purchased inputs with ecological processes that come about through more sophisticated agroecological design—has been proposed as an alternative to input intensification [31,32].”
Beyond the agroecological and sustainable agricultural intensification debate: Is blended sustainability the way forward? (2018, background): “The main actors using the term ‘sustainable agricultural intensification’ include organizations such as USAID, the International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA), the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), the Montpellier Panel, the World Economic Forum (WEF), the F”
Evidence that organic farming promotes pest control (2018, methodology): “It is currently one of the most widespread and rapidly growing alternative farming systems often considered as a prototype of ecological intensification 6,8 .”
Prospects for Agricultural Sustainable Intensification: A Review of Research (2019, background): “However, ecological intensification pays more attention to ecological principles and environmental sustainability [66].”
Crop rotational diversity increases disease suppressive capacity of soil microbiomes (2018, background): “Further, recent attention is being paid to ecological intensification of farms (Tilman et al. 2011, Bommarco et al. 2013, Tittonell 2014, Garratt et al. 2018), and one of the promising specific management practices under this strategy is to diversify farms by rotating crops (Smukler et al. 2010,…”
The economic potential of agroecology: Empirical evidence from Europe (2019, background): “In the longer run, “ agroecological intensi ﬁ cation ” (Titonell, 2014) may lead to the current ‘ yield gap ’ being temporary; several authors argue that AE is capable of increasing yield levels (see for example Gonzalez de Molina and Guzman, 2017).”
Sustainable intensification of agriculture for human prosperity and global sustainability (2016, background): “The aim is to design multi-functional agro-ecosystems that are both sustained by nature and sustainable in their nature (Tittonell 2014).”
Climate-smart agriculture: perspectives and framings (2018, background): “Challenges such as growth in human population, modernization of agriculture that could ‘feed the world’ by 2050, food and financial crises (2007-mid-2008), and rising energy prices are cited as key motivations for transforming agriculture (Holt-Giménez & Altieri, 2013; Jordan & Davis, 2015; Tittonel”
Climate-smart agriculture: what is it good for? (2018, background): “Third, a climate-wise food system would be predicated upon strong normative preference for ecological intensification in which biological processes in combination with human labour underscore productivity advances, rather than cheap energy inputs (Tittonell 2014).”
The potential of different semi-natural habitats to sustain pollinators and natural enemies in European agricultural landscapes (2019, background): “Optimizing the potential of SNH to sustain pollinators and natural enemies is therefore one of the central pillars of ecological intensification to maintain or enhance agricultural production and food security through maximizing ecosystem service provision (Bommarco et al., 2013; Tittonell, 2014).”
Sustainable intensification of agricultural systems in the Central African Highlands: The need for institutional innovation (2016, background): “That this also applies to sustainable intensification is emphasised by Tittonell (2014) and Struik et al. (2014c) who underline that ‘sustainable intensification’ is likely to have different meaning for different groups of stakeholders.”
Agri-Food Markets towards Sustainable Patterns (2020, background): “In fact, the search of novel, original paradigms to sustain the emergent models of agricultural intensification has led to the appearance of numerous ‘intensification’ qualifiers, including ‘sustainable’ intensification [26,27,233,234], ‘eco-functional’ intensification [235] and ‘ecological’ intensi”
An evolutionary ecology perspective to address forest pathology challenges of today and tomorrow (2016, neutral): “This model of intensification with a strong dependence on external, fossil fuel inputs has been increasingly put into question , and new paradigms for intensification have been widely adopted (Tittonell 2014).”
Land use change and ecosystem service provision in Pampas and Campos grasslands of southern South America (2016, background): “© 2016 IOPPublishing Ltd resource use efficiency and reduced need for external inputs through increased reliance on functional biodiversity (Doré et al 2011, Bommarco et al 2012, Tittonell 2014).”