Sustainable Intensification in Agriculture: Premises and Policies

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3. What is the role of the SI in the development of the world?

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In this paper, the authors argue that SI is only part of what is needed to improve food system sustainability and is by no means synonymous with food security.

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4. Foresight, The Future of Food and Farming.

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In least-developed countries and for low income producers, improving yields and farmer incomes are priorities but are frequently hampered by insufficient economic, physical, and human capital, themselves held back by institutional failure.

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The practical effectiveness of both approaches hinges on real-world constraints -coupling onfarm yield increases to safeguards for conservation elsewhere (in the case of land sparing), and design and widespread adoption of lowimpact farming approaches (for land sharing).

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While attention to many aspects of welfare can increase productivity (particularly where low productivity is caused by disease, insufficient feed, and other causes of ill health), some strategies, such as highly selective breeding for extreme levels of production can produce congenitally harmed animals and undermine wellbeing in other ways (12, 13).

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While land usable for agriculture exists, it consists mainly of forests, wetlands, or grasslands, whose conversion would greatly increase GHG emissions (9) and the loss of biodiversity and important ecosystem services (10).

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Building the social and natural science evidence base to allow formulation of contextdependent SI strategies is a research priority.

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SI needs to engage with the sustainable development agenda to (i) identify SI agricultural practices that strengthen rural communities, improve smallholder livelihoods and employment, and avoid negative social and cultural impacts, including loss of land tenure and forced migration; (ii) invest in the social, financial, natural, and physical capital needed to facilitate SI’s implementation, and (iii) where sustainability objectives (e.g. GHG mitigation or biodiversity protection) require actions that may carry economic costs, develop mechanisms to pay poor farmers for undertaking such measures.

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Targeting investment in agriculture as an engine of economic growth is receiving new attention, as is the possibility that low-income countries can orient production along more sustainable pathways (15).

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The authors should (i) identify where current support mechanisms can be re-orientated to incentivize SI, (ii) revitalize and reinvent extension services to provide support required for SI implementation, and (iii) use modern information and communications technology and appropriate financial instruments to enable food producers applying SI practices to be more resilient to shocks and responsive to market signals.

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Equally radical agendas will need to be pursued to reduce resource-intensive consumption and waste, and improve governance, efficiency, and resilience.

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This requires us to: (i) assess impacts of current production approaches on the spectrum and adequacy of food available to local communities, (ii) better understand the dietary importance for many poor people of wild foods and often neglected indigenous crops and livestock, and take this into account in land use policy, and (iii) apply traditional and modern breeding techniques to improve yields of neglected crop and livestock species.

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In applying SI to the livestock sector the authors need to (i) place SI within a wider ethical framework that may disbar some potential options, (ii) identify areas with the greatest potential for joint SI and welfare gains, and (iii) recognize there are limits on their ability to meet projected future livestock product demand while also achieving animal welfare and environmental goals – limits which signal the need for urgent action to reduce overconsumption and escalating demands.

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The merits of diverse approaches – conventional, “hightech”, agro-ecological, or organic – should be rigorously tested and assessed, taking biophysical and social contexts into account.

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Achieving a sustainable, health enhancing food system for all will require morethan just changes in agricultural production, essential though these are.

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Yield increases in many low-income countries are required today; elsewhere the goal may not necessarily be to increase yields immediately but to develop the potential to respond to future increases in demand.

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