Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture

Laura Vang Rasmussen; Ingo Grass; Zia Mehrabi; Olivia M. Smith; Rachel Bezner-Kerr; Jennifer Blesh; Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi; Marney E. Isaac; Christina M. Kennedy; Hannah Wittman; Péter Batáry; Damayanti Buchori; Rolando Cerda; Julián Chará; David W. Crowder; Kevin Darras; Kathryn DeMaster; Karina Garcia; Manuel Gómez; David Gonthier; Purnama Hidayat; Juliana Hipólito; Mark Hirons; Lesli Hoey; Dana James; Innocensia John; Andrew D. Jones; Daniel S. Karp; Yodit Kebede; Carmen Bezner Kerr; Susanna Klassen; Martyna Kotowska; Holger Kreft; Ramiro Llanque; Christian Levers; Diego J. Lizcano; Adrian Lu; Sidney Madsen; Rosebelly Nunes Marques; Pedro Buss Martins; America Melo; Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong; Elissa M. Olimpi; Jeb P. Owen; Heiber Pantevez; Matin Qaim; Sarah Redlich; Christoph Scherber; Amber R. Sciligo; Sieglinde Snapp; William E. Snyder; Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter; Anne Elise Stratton; Joseph M. Taylor; Teja Tscharntke; Vivian Valencia; Cassandra Vogel; Claire Kremen

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Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture

Laura Vang Rasmussen^*, Ingo Grass, Zia Mehrabi, Olivia M. Smith, Rachel Bezner-Kerr, Jennifer Blesh, Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi, Marney E. Isaac, Christina M. Kennedy, Hannah Wittman, Péter Batáry, Damayanti Buchori, Rolando Cerda, Julián Chará, David W. Crowder, Kevin Darras, Kathryn DeMaster, Karina Garcia, Manuel Gómez, David GonthierPurnama Hidayat, Juliana Hipólito, Mark Hirons, Lesli Hoey, Dana James, Innocensia John, Andrew D. Jones, Daniel S. Karp, Yodit Kebede, Carmen Bezner Kerr, Susanna Klassen, Martyna Kotowska, Holger Kreft, Ramiro Llanque, Christian Levers, Diego J. Lizcano, Adrian Lu, Sidney Madsen, Rosebelly Nunes Marques, Pedro Buss Martins, America Melo, Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong, Elissa M. Olimpi, Jeb P. Owen, Heiber Pantevez, Matin Qaim, Sarah Redlich, Christoph Scherber, Amber R. Sciligo, Sieglinde Snapp, William E. Snyder, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Anne Elise Stratton, Joseph M. Taylor, Teja Tscharntke, Vivian Valencia, Cassandra Vogel, Claire Kremen

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Agricultural simplification continues to expand at the expense of more diverse forms of agriculture. This simplification, for example, in the form of intensively managed monocultures, poses a risk to keeping the world within safe and just Earth system boundaries. Here, we estimated how agricultural diversification simultaneously affects social and environmental outcomes. Drawing from 24 studies in 11 countries across 2655 farms, we show how five diversification strategies focusing on livestock, crops, soils, noncrop plantings, and water conservation benefit social (e.g., human well-being, yields, and food security) and environmental (e.g., biodiversity, ecosystem services, and reduced environmental externalities) outcomes. We found that applying multiple diversification strategies creates more positive outcomes than individual management strategies alone. To realize these benefits, well-designed policies are needed to incentivize the adoption of multiple diversification strategies in unison.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	87-93
Number of pages	7
Journal	Science
Volume	384
Issue number	6691
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adj1914
Publication status	Published - 5 Apr 2024

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Rasmussen, L. V., Grass, I., Mehrabi, Z., Smith, O. M., Bezner-Kerr, R., Blesh, J., Garibaldi, L. A., Isaac, M. E., Kennedy, C. M., Wittman, H., Batáry, P., Buchori, D., Cerda, R., Chará, J., Crowder, D. W., Darras, K., DeMaster, K., Garcia, K., Gómez, M., ... Kremen, C. (2024). Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture. Science, 384(6691), 87-93. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adj1914

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