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How to implement biodiversity-based agriculture to enhance ecosystem services: A review

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Duru, Michel, Therond, Olivier, Martin, Guillaume, Martin-Clouaire, Roger, Magne, Marie-Angélina, Justes, Eric, Journet, Etienne-Pascal, Aubertot, Jean-Noël +3 more·2015·Agronomy for Sustainable Development

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Intensive agriculture has led to several drawbacks such as biodiversity loss, climate change, erosion, and pollution of air and water. A potential solution is to implement management practices that increase the level of provision of ecosystem services such as soil fertility and biological regulation. There is a lot of literature on the principles of agroecology. However, there is a gap of knowledge between agroecological principles and practical applications. Therefore, we review here agroecological and management sciences to identify two facts that explain the lack of practical applications: (1) the occurrence of high uncertainties about relations between agricultural practices, ecological processes, and ecosystem services, and (2) the site-specific character of agroecological practices required to deliver expected ecosystem services. We also show that an adaptive-management approach, focusing on planning and monitoring, can serve as a framework for developing and implementing learning tools tailored for biodiversity-based agriculture. Among the current learning tools developed by researchers, we identify two main types of emergent support tools likely to help design diversified farming systems and landscapes: (1) knowledge bases containing scientific supports and experiential knowledge and (2) model-based games. These tools have to be coupled with well-tailored field or management indicators that allow monitoring effects of practices on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Finally, we propose a research agenda that requires bringing together contributions from agricultural, ecological, management, and knowledge management sciences, and asserts that researchers have to take the position of “integration and implementation sciences.”

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Duru, M., Therond, O., Martin, G., Martin-Clouaire, R., Magne, M.-A., Justes, E., Journet, E.-P., Aubertot, J.-N., Savary, S., Bergez, J.-E., & Sarthou, J. P.
Affiliations
  • Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (FR)
  • AGroécologie, Innovations, teRritoires (FR)
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
Corresponding author
Duru, Michel
Venue
Agronomy for Sustainable Development
Published
2015-06-10
Volume
35
Issue
4
Pages
1259-1281
ISSN
  • 1773-0155 (ISSN-L)
  • 1774-0746
OpenAlex
W601488478
Cited by
659
References
186
Citations by year
2026: 41 · 2025: 74 · 2024: 62 · 2023: 92 · 2022: 97 · 2021: 78 · 2020: 64 · 2019: 45 · 2018: 55 · 2017: 27 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 4
FWCI
117.37
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Agronomy for Sustainable Development (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-09-STRA-0008, ANR-09-STRA-06, ANR-09-STRA-0006, ANR-13-AGRO-0006, ANR-13-AGRO)
  • FP7 Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Biotechnology (289328)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant and soil sciences
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Chemistry › Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
Keywords
ecosystem services, agroecology, agroecological principles, adaptive management, site-specific management, knowledge base, management indicators, biodiversity monitoring, diversified farming systems, implementation science, knowledge management

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