Resilience in Agriculture through Crop Diversification: Adaptive Management for Environmental Change

By B. Lin. 2011

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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Farmers’ Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change and Their Implications in the Zou Department of South Benin (2018, background): “Farmers can face growing stress from climate change by implementing a diversified agricultural system which may be a productive way to build resilience into agricultural systems [31].”
Trends in Global Agricultural Land Use: Implications for Environmental Health and Food Security. (2018, background): “However, the benefits of decoupling from nature may fail when systems are pushed to their limits, such as under extreme weather events (95), or, over the long-term, when intensified practices lead to ecosystem degradation (156) which negatively feedback onto crops.”
Ecological intensification of agriculture — sustainable by nature (2014, background): “[4–11]), that making use of the regulating functions of nature requires landscape-level agroecosystem design.”
Companion Planting and Insect Pest Control (2013, background): “Furthermore, companion plants may hinder crop yield and reduce economical benefits [166, 167].”
Climate change adaptation, mitigation and livelihood benefits in coffee production: where are the synergies? (2014, background): “Diversification is an important aspect of the adaptation to climate change (Lin, 2011; Ruf & Schroth, 2013).”
Climate change, cocoa migrations and deforestation in West Africa: What does the past tell us about the future? (2014, background): “…that has become common among tree crop farmers around the world as a way of reducing their vulnerability to environmental and market shocks and is now frequently recommended as a component of strategies to adapt to climate change (Schroth et al. 2009; Lin 2011; Ruf and Schroth 2013).”
Genotypically diverse cultivar mixtures for insect pest management and increased crop yields (2012, background): “crop plants in field borders or intercrops within fields, have not been widely implemented by conventional growers in developed countries because they are expensive, time consuming or logistically challenging for growers to plant mechanically (Lin 2011).”
Synthesis, part of a Special Feature on A Social-Ecological Analysis of Diversified Farming Systems: Benefits, Costs, Obstacles, and Enabling Policy Frameworks Ecosystem Services in Biologically Diversified versus Conventional Farming Systems: Benefits, Externalities, and Trade-Offs (2012, background): “For example, without the integration of farming practices that fix nitrogen, make efficient use of nutrients, and build soil fertility (see Table 1), growers must purchase and apply synthetic fertilizers.”
Adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies in Tanzania (2020, background): “In addition, crop diversity increases resilience and biodiversity on farm, improves soil fertility, and controls pest and diseases (Truscott et al., 2009; Lin, 2011).”
Ecosystem services by birds and bees to coffee in a changing climate: A review of coffee berry borer control and pollination (2019, background): “For example, environmental services payments for forest conservation and restoration, sustainable forest management, and diversified cropping systems would provide income under variable weather conditions and grow demand for coffee produced via sustainable land use and forest conservation (Schroth e”
Crop Diversification for Improved Weed Management: A Review (2021, background): “Most government incentives and subsidies focus mainly on increasing the production of certain agricultural commodities rather than implementing diversified farming [40,159].”
The portfolio concept in ecology and evolution (2015, background): “Similar dynamics are expressed in agricultural systems, where crop variety and landscape diversity have important positive effects on agricultural resilience to climate change (Lin 2011).”
Landscape‐level crop diversity benefits biological pest control (2018, background): “Although hypothesized links between crop diversity and yield, agrochemical usage, ecosystem resilience and farm economic stability need yet to be confirmed (Aguilar et al., 2015; Lin, 2011), our study is one of the first to highlight the importance of crop diversity for biological control.”
Adaptation to climate change through the choice of cropping system and sowing date in sub-Saharan Africa (2013, positive): “They are well known and already appliedinlocalcommunities,astheyconservesoilmoistureandsoil carbon (Nyong et al., 2007) and protect crops from dry spells, extreme temperatures and storm events (Lin, 2011).”