Conveners
Cropping systems changes to support agro-ecological transitions
- Charlotte Simon
- Julie Ryschawy
Diversifying crop rotations in arable farming is considered as an option to regulate weeds, pests and diseases, and therefore to decrease the need for pesticides. However, the potential for reducing the reliance on pesticide through crop diversification had, so far, not been quantified at the cropping systems scale. In this study, we analysed this relationship from 1285 cropping systems...
Context description and research question: Reducing pesticide use such as glyphosate, is a key challenge to support agroecological transition and resilience of farming systems. However, politicians and scientists argue that in certain situations, which they describe as "dead-ends", reducing glyphosate use is particularly difficult because of structural barriers (Reboud et al., 2017). Then, our...
Introduction
Intensive use of pesticides in agriculture has led to negative impacts on human and ecosystem health, and to policies aiming at reducing their utilization. Alternative non-chemical pest control strategies, based on holistic Integrated Pest Management implemented in real commercial farms, have been shown to substantially reduce the reliance on pesticides (Nandillon et al., 2024)....
Introduction
Principles around circular agriculture are based on re-using by-products, closing nutrient cycles, minimal feed-food competition, low energy use and low GHG emissions [1]. Moving from current linear to more circular systems is a wicked problem as key trade-offs need to be overcome [2]. The objective here is to provide quantitative insights into such trade-offs and discuss...
Introduction: Renewable energies for sustainable and climate-neutral electricity production are on the rise worldwide. High-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission via underground cables gains influence to connect large production sides with consumer regions. In Germany, almost 5,000 km of new power line projects with an initial start date of 2038 or earlier are planned. During...
Introduction:
Growing awareness of the need to counter the erosion of biodiversity, coupled with political and social injunctions, are prompting rural stakeholders to build and manage agroecological farming systems in multifunctional landscapes. Biodiversity is a key component of these landscapes, which farmers are called upon to preserve and manage.
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