TY - JOUR
T1 - CHALLENGES PROVIDING MULTIPLE ECOSYSTEM BENEFITS FOR SUSTAINABLE MANAGED SYSTEMS
AU - Lambers, Hans
AU - Cong, Wen Feng
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Since humans started practicing agriculture at the expense of natural forests, 8000 years ago, they have affected atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Their impact on atmospheric CH4 started about 5000 years ago, as result of the cultivation of paddy rice. A challenge of modern agricultural practices is to reverse the impact cropping has had on greenhouse gas emissions and the global climate. There is an increasing demand for agriculture to provide food security as well as a range of other ecosystem services. Depending on ecosystem management, different practices may involve trade-offs and synergies, and these must be considered to work toward desirable management systems. Solution toward food security should not only focus on agricultural management practices, but also on strategies to reduce food waste, more socially-just distribution of resources, changes in lifestyle including decarbonization of the economy, as well as reducing human population growth
AB - Since humans started practicing agriculture at the expense of natural forests, 8000 years ago, they have affected atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Their impact on atmospheric CH4 started about 5000 years ago, as result of the cultivation of paddy rice. A challenge of modern agricultural practices is to reverse the impact cropping has had on greenhouse gas emissions and the global climate. There is an increasing demand for agriculture to provide food security as well as a range of other ecosystem services. Depending on ecosystem management, different practices may involve trade-offs and synergies, and these must be considered to work toward desirable management systems. Solution toward food security should not only focus on agricultural management practices, but also on strategies to reduce food waste, more socially-just distribution of resources, changes in lifestyle including decarbonization of the economy, as well as reducing human population growth
KW - Crop diversification
KW - Ecosystem services
KW - Food security
KW - Sustainable cropping systems
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85131454195&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.15302/J-FASE-2022444
DO - 10.15302/J-FASE-2022444
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85131454195
SN - 2095-7505
VL - 9
SP - 170
EP - 176
JO - Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering
JF - Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering
IS - 2
ER -