Rice‐Animal Co‐Culture Systems Benefit Global Sustainable Intensification
Abstract Producing more food with less pollution and greenhouse gas emissions is a grand challenge for the 21st century. Strategies to successfully promote win‐win outcomes for both food security and environmental health are not easy to identify. Here we comprehensively assess an ecological rice‐ani...
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| author | Jinglan Cui Hongbin Liu Hongyuan Wang Shuxia Wu Muhammad Amjad Bashir Stefan Reis Qiaoyu Sun Jianming Xu Baojing Gu |
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| description | Abstract Producing more food with less pollution and greenhouse gas emissions is a grand challenge for the 21st century. Strategies to successfully promote win‐win outcomes for both food security and environmental health are not easy to identify. Here we comprehensively assess an ecological rice‐animal co‐culture system (RAC) (e.g., rice‐fish, rice‐duck, and rice‐crayfish) through a global meta‐analysis and identify the potential benefits of global promotion. Compared to traditional monoculture of rice or animal production, the RAC can not only reduce the demand for agricultural land areas, but also increase rice yields (+4%) as well as nitrogen use efficiency of rice (+6%). At the same time, RAC reduces nitrogen losses (−16% runoff and −13% leaching) and methane emissions (−11%), except for rice‐fish coculture systems, which are likely to increase methane emissions (+29%). Furthermore, RAC increases the net income of farmers through reducing cost of fertilizer and pesticide input and achieving higher outputs with more marketable products. According to the development stage of different countries, promotion of RAC will thus realize multiple benefits and aid sustainable intensification. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-27051ec16bbe4accb8a700f99df1962e2023-02-24T17:18:32ZengWileyEarth's Future2328-42772023-02-01112n/an/a10.1029/2022EF002984Rice‐Animal Co‐Culture Systems Benefit Global Sustainable IntensificationJinglan Cui0Hongbin Liu1Hongyuan Wang2Shuxia Wu3Muhammad Amjad Bashir4Stefan Reis5Qiaoyu Sun6Jianming Xu7Baojing Gu8College of Environmental and Resource Sciences Zhejiang University Hangzhou ChinaKey Laboratory of Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Beijing ChinaKey Laboratory of Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Beijing ChinaKey Laboratory of Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Beijing ChinaKey Laboratory of Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Beijing ChinaUK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Midlothian UKKey Laboratory of Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Beijing ChinaCollege of Environmental and Resource Sciences Zhejiang University Hangzhou ChinaCollege of Environmental and Resource Sciences Zhejiang University Hangzhou ChinaAbstract Producing more food with less pollution and greenhouse gas emissions is a grand challenge for the 21st century. Strategies to successfully promote win‐win outcomes for both food security and environmental health are not easy to identify. Here we comprehensively assess an ecological rice‐animal co‐culture system (RAC) (e.g., rice‐fish, rice‐duck, and rice‐crayfish) through a global meta‐analysis and identify the potential benefits of global promotion. Compared to traditional monoculture of rice or animal production, the RAC can not only reduce the demand for agricultural land areas, but also increase rice yields (+4%) as well as nitrogen use efficiency of rice (+6%). At the same time, RAC reduces nitrogen losses (−16% runoff and −13% leaching) and methane emissions (−11%), except for rice‐fish coculture systems, which are likely to increase methane emissions (+29%). Furthermore, RAC increases the net income of farmers through reducing cost of fertilizer and pesticide input and achieving higher outputs with more marketable products. According to the development stage of different countries, promotion of RAC will thus realize multiple benefits and aid sustainable intensification.https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF002984 |
| spellingShingle | Jinglan Cui Hongbin Liu Hongyuan Wang Shuxia Wu Muhammad Amjad Bashir Stefan Reis Qiaoyu Sun Jianming Xu Baojing Gu Rice‐Animal Co‐Culture Systems Benefit Global Sustainable Intensification Earth's Future |
| title | Rice‐Animal Co‐Culture Systems Benefit Global Sustainable Intensification |
| title_full | Rice‐Animal Co‐Culture Systems Benefit Global Sustainable Intensification |
| title_fullStr | Rice‐Animal Co‐Culture Systems Benefit Global Sustainable Intensification |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rice‐Animal Co‐Culture Systems Benefit Global Sustainable Intensification |
| title_short | Rice‐Animal Co‐Culture Systems Benefit Global Sustainable Intensification |
| title_sort | rice animal co culture systems benefit global sustainable intensification |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF002984 |
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