Co-designing a landscape experiment to investigate diversified cropping systems

Kathrin Grahmann, Moritz Reckling, Ixchel Hernández-Ochoa, Marco Donat, Sonoko Bellingrath-Kimura and Frank Ewert

Agricultural Systems, 2024, vol. 217, issue C

Abstract: Intensive food and feed production in sole-cropped, large fields with high fertilizer and pesticide inputs to achieve high yields, has contributed to detrimental environmental impacts. To move towards more sustainable agricultural landscapes, cropping system diversification has been suggested as a promising practice for which the use of digital technologies could be potentially beneficial. Understanding the impact of diversified, newly arranged cropping systems and their management requires long-term experimental data at the landscape scale and practical experiences in using digital technologies which are hardly available. Experimental platforms in an agricultural landscape setup with farmers' involvement could meet such demands but have not been set up in many regions nor has the process of designing such platforms been described systematically.

Keywords: Biodiversity; Ecosystem services; DEED; Digitalization; On-farm experimentation; Soil heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2024.103950

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