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Farming with Nature

The Science and Practice of Ecoagriculture

Farming with Nature
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Edited by Sara J. Scherr and Jeffrey A. McNeely

472 pages | 6 x 9
A growing body of evidence shows that agricultural landscapes can be managed not only to produce crops but also to support biodiversity and promote ecosystem health. Innovative farmers and scientists, as well as indigenous land managers, are developing diverse types of “ecoagriculture” landscapes to generate cobenefits
for production, biodiversity, and local people.
 
Farming with Nature offers a synthesis of the state of knowledge of key topics in ecoagriculture. The book is a unique collaboration among renowned agricultural and ecological scientists, leading field conservationists, and farm and community leaders to synthesize knowledge and experience across sectors. The book examines:
 
  • the knowledge base for ecoagriculture as well as barriers, gaps, and opportunities for developing improved ecoagriculture systems
  • what we have learned about managing landscapes to achieve multiple objectives at a landscape scale
  • existing incentives for farmers, other land managers, and investors to develop and invest in ecoagriculture systems
  • pathways to develop, implement, manage, and scale up successful ecoagriculture
Insights are drawn from around the world, in tropical, Mediterranean, and temperate environments, from farming systems that range from highly commercialized to semi-subsistence. Farming with Nature is an important new work that can serve as a foundation document for planners, farm organizations, researchers, project developers, and policy makers to develop strategies for promoting and sustaining ecoagriculture landscapes. Replete with valuable best practice guidelines, it is a critical resource for both practitioners and researchers in
the field.
"Accompanied by excellent schematics, charts, aerial photographs, and glossaries, this collection sharpens the focus of the editors' earlier work. It amplifies significantly their view of the institutional and socioeconomic structure needed to support and sustain such environments.  Summing Up: Recommended."
L.S. Cline, CHOICE


Lists of Figures, Tables, and Boxes

 

Acknowledgments

 

Preface

 

Chapter 1: The Challenge for Ecoagriculture      

By Sara J. Scherr and Jeffrey A. McNeely

 

 

PART I. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN ECOAGRICULTURE LANDSCAPES

 

Overview of Section        

 

Chapter 2: Scientific Assessment of Ecoagriculture Systems

By Louise E. Buck, Thomas A. Gavin, Norman T. Uphoff, and David R. Lee

 

Chapter 3: Biodiversity in Agroecosystems

By Judith Thompson, Toby Hodgkin, Kwesi Atta-Krah, Devra Jarvis,  Coosje Hoogendoorn, and Stefano Padulosi

 

Chapter 4: Perennial Grains                                   

By Lee R. DeHaan, Thomas S. Cox, David L. Van Tassel, and Jerry D. Glover

 

Chapter 5: Domesticating and Marketing Novel Crops                 

By Roger R.B. Leakey

 

Chapter 6: Tropical Agroforestry                          

By Götz Schroth and Maria do Socorro Souza da Mota

 

Chapter 7: Livestock Systems                                 

By Constance L. Neely and Richard Hatfield

 

 

PART II. BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT IN ECOAGRICULTURE LANDSCAPES

 

Overview of Section                                                                    

 

Chapter 8:Designing Agricultural Landscapes for biodiversity Conservation

By Celia A. Harvey

 

Chapter 9: Pollinators                           

By Barbara Gemmill-Herren, Connal Eardley, John Mburu, Wanja Kinuthia, and Dino Martins

 

Chapter 10: From Integrated Pest Management to Adaptive Ecosystem Management

By Hans Herren, Johann Baumgärtner and Gianni Gilioli

Chapter 11: Watershed Management       

By Meine van Noordwijk, Fahmuddin Agus, Bruno Verbist, Kurniatun Hairiah and Thomas P. Tomich

 

Chapter 12: Exploiting Ecological Disturbance

By Jan Sendzimir and Zsuzsanna Flachner

 

Chapter 13: Irrigation

By David Molden, Rebecca Tharme, Iskandar Abdullaev, and Ranjitha Puskur

 

Chapter 14: Remote Sensing

By Aaron Dushku, Sandra Brown, Tim Pearson, David Shoch, and Bill Howley

 

PART III. INSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATIONS FOR ECOAGRICULTURE

 

Overview of Section                                                                    

 

Chapter 15: Community Stewardship of Biodiversity

By Augusta Molnar, Sara Scherr and Arvind Khare

 

Chapter 16: Community Leadership in Ecoagriculture

By Donato Bumacas, Delia Catacutan, Gladman Chibememe, and Claire Rhodes

 

Chapter 17: Planning at a Landscape Scale

By William J. Jackson, Stewart Maginnis, and Sandeep Sengupta

 

Chapter 18: Research Partnerships                                               

By Thomas P. Tomich, Dagmar Timmer, Sandra J. Velarde, Cheryl A. Palm, Meine van Noordwijk and Andrew N. Gillison

 

Chapter 19: Multistakeholder Partnerships

By Minu Hemmati

 

Chapter 20: Restructuring the Supply Chain

By Edward Millard

 

Chapter 21: Paying Farmers for Stewardship                              

By Sara J. Scherr, Jeffrey C. Milder, and Mira Inbar

 

Chapter 22: Policy Implications and Knowledge Gaps                

By Jeffrey A. McNeely and Sara J. Scherr

 

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