articleScienceApr 4, 2024GREEN OA

Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture

LVLaura Vang RasmussenIGIngo GraßZMZia MehrabiOMOlivia M. SmithRBRachel Bezner Kerr

University of Copenhagen · University of Hohenheim · +48 more institutions

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Abstract

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…

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  • Diversification (marketing strategy)
  • Agriculture
  • Natural resource economics
  • Business
  • Externality
  • Ecosystem services
  • Biodiversity
  • Agricultural diversification
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Zero hunger
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