System-level approach needed to evaluate the transition to more sustainable agriculture
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Yields of intensive agriculture come at the cost of destroying ecological processes, which in turn impacts crop development.
“As yields of intensive agriculture come at the cost of destroying ecological processes, which, in turn, impacts crop development, all ESs should be included in the assessment of agricultural system performance [2].”
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The passage beginning “Further, the negative consequences” (section and page not provided) says high-input agriculture harms the capacity to produce food and calls for evaluating ecosystem services alongside production and livelihoods. The passage beginning “There is, however, growing evidence” links pest control and pollination services to potential yield gains. The source does not establish the stronger claim that intensive-agriculture yields necessarily come at the cost of destroying ecological processes. (LLM, conf=0.81)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredScientific literature warns about environmental, social, and economic limitations of the current intensive agricultural model.
“Scientific literature abounds to warn about the environmental, social, and economic limitations of the current intensive agricultural model [1,2].”
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- Authors
- Ponisio, L. C., & Kremen, C.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 2016-02-10
- Volume
- 283
- Issue
- 1824
- Pages
- 20152913
- ISSN
- 0080-4649 (ISSN-L)
- 0962-8452
- 1471-2954
- PMC
- PMC4760179
- OpenAlex
- W2409148247
- Cited by
- 28
- References
- 36
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 3
- FWCI
- 3.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Chemistry › Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Keywords
- sustainable agriculture, agricultural transformation, system-level evaluation, sustainability assessment
- MeSH terms
- Agriculture, Conservation of Natural Resources, Humans
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