Smart Investments in Sustainable Food Production: Revisiting Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems

By Mario Herrero, P. K. Thornton, A. Notenbaert, S. Wood, S. Msangi, H. Freeman, D. Bossio, J. Dixon, M. Peters, J. Steeg and 7 more. Science, 2010

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology

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Global water crisis and future food security in an era of climate change (2010, background): “Future food supply will be determined by prudent management of the global agricultural resources and smart investments in technologies along with reforms in institutions and policies to achieve sizeable increase in food production (Herrero et al., 2010).”
The development of Brazilian agriculture: future technological challenges and opportunities (2012, background): “Integrated crop–livestock systems are an example of a resource-saving technology, and it has received much attention from researchers worldwide [32,34,35].”
A social-ecological framework for analyzing and designing integrated crop–livestock systems from farm to territory levels (2016, background): “Risk mitigation and ability to match land use to land capacity have also been explored (Sumberg, 2003; Herrero et al., 2010) as well as potential for soil and water resource preservation.”
Managing the Nutrition of Plants and People (2012, neutral): “These include the use of (1) fertiliser recommendations informed by field response trials and based on soil or plant analyses [67, 71], (2) model-based decision support systems to inform fertiliser recommendations [72, 73], (3) fertiliser placement and other precision application technologies [66, 6”
Determinants of farm diversification in integrated crop–livestock farming systems in Ghana (2017, background): “Globally, this type of integrated farming system produces about half the world’s food (Herrero et al., 2010).”
Crop–livestock integration beyond the farm level: a review (2016, background): “1) are suggested as a theoretical ideal for implementing the principles of diversified and (horizontally) integrated agriculture (Hendrickson et al. 2008; Herrero et al. 2010; Lemaire et al. 2014; Ryschawy et al. 2014).”
Exploring future changes in smallholder farming systems by linking socio-economic scenarios with regional and household models (2014, background): “Some smallholders may be 6 able to seize the opportunities that exist and develop, and operate as sustainable and 7 profitable smallholder agricultural production systems (Herrero et al., 2010; Thornton, 8 2010).”
Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems (2013, methodology): “This classification system has been widely used for studying different aspects of livestock production, such as linkages with poverty (21), environmental impacts (1), systems evolution (3), and livestock demographics (17).”
The role of livestock in developing communities: Enhancing multifunctionality (2010, background): “At the same time, they are important providers of nutrients and traction for growing crops in smallholder systems (Herrero et al., 2010).”