Prospects for regenerative agriculture in Chile
dc.contributor.author | Wratten, Stephen | |
dc.contributor.author | Shields, Morgan | |
dc.contributor.author | González-Chang, M | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-04-11T23:08:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-08-30 | |
dc.date.available | 2022-04-11T23:08:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-08-30 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2019-07-15 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-04-05T22:19:30Z | |
dc.description.abstract | A global perspective, why we need a greener agriculture? “I am a photosynthesis manager and an ecosystem service provider”. This profound statement was made by a Swedish farmer some years ago (Wratten, 2018). Few farmers describe their occupation in this way. However, there is a major body of work giving substantial evidence that current high-input farming (Figure 1) has no future without changes to its approach (Pretty et al., 2018). One reason for this view is that agriculture is one of the main causes of climate disturbance, largely driven by changes in land-use practices (Bennetzen et al., 2016). The main consequence has been biodiversity loss (Sala et al., 2000). A very worrying example of this is that human activities have made 60% of mammal, bird, fish and reptile species extinct since 1970, as consumption of food and resources by the global human population has de-stabilised the ‘web of life’ (Carrington and Watts, 2018). In more scientific language, we are losing ecosystem functions provided by nature at an alarming rate and with that, ecosystem (nature’s) services are declining rapidly. Examples are declines in pollination, predation of pests and soil services. The seriousness of these losses was recently reported by workers at the University of Sheffield, UK, who predicted that Britain has only 100 harvests remaining before that country’s soils are no longer suitable for growing crops (Dunnett, 2014). | en |
dc.format.extent | 6 pages | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.4206/agrosur.2019.v47n2-01 | |
dc.identifier.eissn | 0719-4196 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0304-8802 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10182/14848 | |
dc.publisher | Universidad Austral de Chile | |
dc.relation | The original publication is available from Universidad Austral de Chile - https://doi.org/10.4206/agrosur.2019.v47n2-01 - http://revistas.uach.cl/index.php/agrosur/article/view/5939 | |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Agro Sur | |
dc.relation.uri | https://doi.org/10.4206/agrosur.2019.v47n2-01 | |
dc.rights | © Universidad Austral de Chile | en |
dc.rights.ccname | Attribution-NonCommercial | |
dc.rights.ccuri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | agroecology | |
dc.subject | monoculture | |
dc.subject | sustainable agriculture | |
dc.subject.anzsrc2020 | ANZSRC::300210 Sustainable agricultural development | |
dc.subject.anzsrc2020 | ANZSRC::410401 Conservation and biodiversity | |
dc.subject.anzsrc2020 | ANZSRC::310399 Ecology not elsewhere classified | |
dc.title | Prospects for regenerative agriculture in Chile | en |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
lu.contributor.unit | Lincoln University | |
lu.contributor.unit | Bio-Protection Research Centre | |
lu.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-5168-8277 | |
lu.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-4795-6013 | |
pubs.issue | 2 | |
pubs.notes | https://www.agrosur-journal.cl/2020/prospects-for-regenerative-agriculture-in-chile-2/ | |
pubs.publication-status | Published | |
pubs.publisher-url | http://revistas.uach.cl/index.php/agrosur/article/view/5939 | |
pubs.volume | 47 |
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