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Designing farmer-acceptable rotations that assure ecosystem service provision in the face of climate change

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  • David A. Bohan, Universite de Bourgogne, Frankrig
  • Reto Schmucki, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Storbritannien
  • Abrha Teklay Abay
  • Mette Termansen, Københavns Universitet, Danmark
  • Miranda Bane, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, University of Bristol, Storbritannien
  • Alice Charalabidis, Universite de Bourgogne, Frankrig
  • Rong-Gang Cong
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  • Stephane A.P. Derocles, Universite de Bourgogne, IGEPP, Agrocampus Ouest, INRAe, Université de Rennes 1, Université Bretagne-Loire, Rennes, France, Frankrig
  • Zita Dorner, Faculty of Horticultural Science, Plant Protection Institute, Department of Integrated Plant Protection, Szent István University, Gödöllö, Hungary, Ungarn
  • Matthieu Forster, Universite de Bourgogne, UniLaSalle, Beauvais, France, Frankrig
  • Caroline Gibert, Solagro, Toulouse Cedex 3, France, Frankrig
  • Colin Harrower, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Storbritannien
  • Geoffroy Oudoire, Universite de Bourgogne, Arvalis, Service Agronomie Economie Environnement, Boigneville, France, Frankrig
  • Olivier Therond, Universite de Lorraine, Frankrig
  • Juliette Young, Universite de Bourgogne, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Frankrig
  • Mihály Zalai, Faculty of Horticultural Science, Plant Protection Institute, Department of Integrated Plant Protection, Szent István University, Gödöllö, Hungary, Ungarn
  • Michael J.O. Pocock, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Storbritannien
We believe that approaches to landscape modification should explicitly include farmers, given their understanding of landscape management practices, and consider climate change, so that the landscapes are designed for future environmental conditions. Climate change is an existential threat to farmers and current patterns of arable agriculture, leading to increases in the variability of agricultural productivity and crop failure. The performance of many of the crops that are currently highly productive will decline significantly and the geographical envelopes within which these crops can be grown are expected to shift northwards in Europe. Farmers will likely be faced with a choice: either leave farming or modify the crops that are grown, adopting new cultivars or species able to be cultivated profitably under future climatic conditions. We hypothesised that farmers do not adopt new crops or cultivars individually but use crops within sequences, called rotations, which are agronomically well understood. We know from past research that changes to rotations will lead to changes in biodiversity and the ecosystem services furnished by farmland, both within a field and at landscape scales. Here, we show how we might: use farmer knowledge of crop agronomy to propose future crop rotations in the light of climate change predictions; model these crop rotations to estimate likely effects on economy, biodiversity and ecosystem services; and validate these predictions through empirical study in regions where the rotations are already used. A workflow of co-development would have the benefit of generating practical rotations built on farmer knowledge and demonstrate empirically the predicted economic and ecological effects, markedly increasing the likely credibility of the results for farmers. Such a methodology has the potential to transform future sustainable agricultural landscapes.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelThe Future of Agricultural Landscapes
RedaktørerDavid A. Bohan, Alex J. Dumbrell, Adam J. Vanbergen
Antal sider76
Vol/bindIII
ForlagElsevier
Udgivelsesår2022
Sider169-244
Kapitel5
ISBN (trykt)9780323915038
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2022
SerietitelAdvances in Ecological Research
Vol/bind65
ISSN0065-2504

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