The growth of our global food production capacity over the past century is unprecedented, and has been facilitated by advances in crop breeding, mechanization, intensification, and the application of chemical inputs. This has come at a cost in terms of biodiversity loss and land degradation.
This apparent trade-off between productivity and environment can be resolved through adoption of new farming practices that emphasize restoring and maintaining biodiversity on agricultural land to the benefit of soils and crops. The science underpinning such practices is still being developed and trialed, but we know enough to propose alternative management principles. Similarly, farmers have long been experimenting and adapting their farming systems, sometimes drawing on scientific outputs, but more often than not drawing on their own experiential learning and knowledge exchange across farmer networks.
In recognition of the developing science coupled with the growing interest of farmers in exploring new approaches to enhance farm resilience, ETH Zurich and IFPRI shared their research findings undertaken as part of the Enhancing Biodiversity and Resilience in Crop Production project, supported by Bayer.
In recognition of the developing science coupled with the growing interest of farmers in exploring new approaches to enhance farm resilience, ETH Zurich and IFPRI shared their research findings undertaken as part of the Enhancing Biodiversity and Resilience in Crop Production project, supported by Bayer.
Over the course 2021-2022, ETH Zurich and IFPRI, together with partners in Germany, France, Brazil, and the USA, conducted systematic reviews of the scientific literature, complemented with interviews with farmers in each country, to evaluate management options for enhancing biodiversity and resilience in crop production.
A panel composed of farmers, researchers, government and private sector actors commented on these research findings through the lens of farm management realities, and offer their perspectives on how to advance this area of research and how to achieve greater coherence of multiple policies, programs, and efforts.
- Biodiversity And Resilience Interventions: Analysis Of Interviews With Farmers In Germany
- Biodiversity And Resilience Interventions: Analysis Of Interviews With Farmers In France
- Biodiversity And Resilience Interventions: Analysis Of Interviews With Farmers In Brazil
- Biodiversity And Resilience Interventions: Analysis Of Interviews With Farmers In The United States
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