Diverse perennial circular forage systems are needed to foster resilience, ecosystem services, and socioeconomic benefits in agricultural landscapes
Abstract Prevailing agricultural systems dominated by annual crop monocultures, and the landscapes that contain them, lack resilience and multifunctionality. They are vulnerable to extreme weather events, contribute to degradation of soil, water, and air quality, reduce biodiversity, and negatively...
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| author | Valentin D. Picasso Marisol Berti Kim Cassida Sarah Collier Di Fang Ann Finan Margaret Krome David Hannaway William Lamp Andrew W. Stevens Carol Williams |
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| description | Abstract Prevailing agricultural systems dominated by annual crop monocultures, and the landscapes that contain them, lack resilience and multifunctionality. They are vulnerable to extreme weather events, contribute to degradation of soil, water, and air quality, reduce biodiversity, and negatively impact human health, social engagement, and equity. To achieve greater resilience, stability, and multiple ecosystem services therein, and to improve socioeconomic outcomes, we propose a practical framework to gain multifunctionality at multiple scales. This framework includes forages within agroecosystems that have the essential structural features of diversity, perenniality, and circularity. These three structural features are associated with increased resilience, stability, and provision of several ecosystem services, which in turn improve human health and socioeconomic outcomes. This framework improves understanding of, and access to, tools and materials for promoting the adoption of diverse circular agroecosystems with perennial forages. Application of this framework can result in land transformations that solve sustainability challenges in agriculture if policy, economic, and social barriers can be overcome by a transdisciplinary process of equitable knowledge production. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-98f64908cd3448d1992aab297b0826472022-12-22T04:11:29ZengWileyGrassland Research2097-051X2770-17432022-06-011212313010.1002/glr2.12020Diverse perennial circular forage systems are needed to foster resilience, ecosystem services, and socioeconomic benefits in agricultural landscapesValentin D. Picasso0Marisol Berti1Kim Cassida2Sarah Collier3Di Fang4Ann Finan5Margaret Krome6David Hannaway7William Lamp8Andrew W. Stevens9Carol Williams10Department of Agronomy University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison Wisconsin USADepartment of Plant Sciences North Dakota State University Fargo North Dakota USADepartment of Plant Soil and Microbial Sciences Michigan State University East Lansing Michigan USADepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences University of Washington Seattle Washington USAFood and Resource Economics Department University of Florida Gainesville Florida USADepartment of Sociology St. Cloud State University St. Cloud Minnesota USAMichael Fields Agricultural Institute East Troy Wisconsin USADepartment of Crop & Soil Science Oregon State University Corvallis Oregon USADepartment of Entomology University of Maryland College Park Maryland USADepartment of Agricultural and Applied Economics University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison Wisconsin USADepartment of Agronomy University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison Wisconsin USAAbstract Prevailing agricultural systems dominated by annual crop monocultures, and the landscapes that contain them, lack resilience and multifunctionality. They are vulnerable to extreme weather events, contribute to degradation of soil, water, and air quality, reduce biodiversity, and negatively impact human health, social engagement, and equity. To achieve greater resilience, stability, and multiple ecosystem services therein, and to improve socioeconomic outcomes, we propose a practical framework to gain multifunctionality at multiple scales. This framework includes forages within agroecosystems that have the essential structural features of diversity, perenniality, and circularity. These three structural features are associated with increased resilience, stability, and provision of several ecosystem services, which in turn improve human health and socioeconomic outcomes. This framework improves understanding of, and access to, tools and materials for promoting the adoption of diverse circular agroecosystems with perennial forages. Application of this framework can result in land transformations that solve sustainability challenges in agriculture if policy, economic, and social barriers can be overcome by a transdisciplinary process of equitable knowledge production.https://doi.org/10.1002/glr2.12020climate changeforagesmultifunctionalityresiliencesoil healthsustainability |
| spellingShingle | Valentin D. Picasso Marisol Berti Kim Cassida Sarah Collier Di Fang Ann Finan Margaret Krome David Hannaway William Lamp Andrew W. Stevens Carol Williams Diverse perennial circular forage systems are needed to foster resilience, ecosystem services, and socioeconomic benefits in agricultural landscapes Grassland Research climate change forages multifunctionality resilience soil health sustainability |
| title | Diverse perennial circular forage systems are needed to foster resilience, ecosystem services, and socioeconomic benefits in agricultural landscapes |
| title_full | Diverse perennial circular forage systems are needed to foster resilience, ecosystem services, and socioeconomic benefits in agricultural landscapes |
| title_fullStr | Diverse perennial circular forage systems are needed to foster resilience, ecosystem services, and socioeconomic benefits in agricultural landscapes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Diverse perennial circular forage systems are needed to foster resilience, ecosystem services, and socioeconomic benefits in agricultural landscapes |
| title_short | Diverse perennial circular forage systems are needed to foster resilience, ecosystem services, and socioeconomic benefits in agricultural landscapes |
| title_sort | diverse perennial circular forage systems are needed to foster resilience ecosystem services and socioeconomic benefits in agricultural landscapes |
| topic | climate change forages multifunctionality resilience soil health sustainability |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/glr2.12020 |
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