Agroecological intesification
8 important questions on Agroecological intesification
What is the goals as 'agro-ecologists'?
How can you reduce the demand for food?
- Reducing over-consumption in human diets
- Rebalancing livestock components of future diets
- Develop 'smart biofuel', policies and technologies
How do you fill the production demand?
- Net expansion of the irrigation footprint
- Increasing cropping intensity
- Closing yield gaps (including raising eco-efficiency)
- Raising the yield ceiling through new technolgies
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How do you avoid losses of productive capacity?
- Avoiding further soil and water degradation
- Climate change mitigation withoud loss of food security
- Adapting to unavoidable climate change
What are the key messages regarding ecological intensification: how much?
- Nevertheless by 2050 productivity will have to increase, but not everywhere and/or at any costs
- This needs to happen in the face of climate change
- The level of animal protein in future diets has a stronger impanct on global food demand than population growth
- Food demand to be met by reducing waste and rebalancing diets, filling yield gaps with appropriate technologies and avoiding loss of productive capacity
What is the challeging agenda for re-design?
- Sustianable 'ecologicalisation' in the North
What is required for supporting design and co-innovation in farming systems?
- Prospecting farming futures
- Inspiration from nature and local knowledge systems
- Landscape level agroecology and multifunctionality
- Involve key agents of change in 1 to 4
Where does design relie on?
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