Enhancing the Multifunctionality of US Agriculture
Enhancing the Multifunctionality of US Agriculture
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DOI：
10.1525/bio.2010.60.1.10
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发表时间：
2010-01-01
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影响因子：
10.1
通讯作者：
Warner, Keith Douglass
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作者：
Jordan, Nicholas;Warner, Keith Douglass
多功能农业（MFA）通过联合生产农产品和一系列生态服务，提高了农业向社会提供效益的质量和数量。在发达国家，新的农业生态系统设计正在迅速出现，但采用有限。我们提出了一种启发式策略，通过发展新的企业，使农民能够从农产品和生态服务的生产中获利，从而增加对MFA的采用。我们提出，这样的企业可以通过在一系列尺度上运行的社会和生物物理系统之间的反馈而产生。这种反馈取决于一系列相互依存的社会部门中经济行为者之间的协调创新，并得到产生特定地点农业生态知识的新“子系统”的支持，以及舆论和政策的包容性“超系统”的变化。这一战略可以帮助指导增加MFA采用的工作。
Multifunctional agriculture (MFA) enhances the quality and quantity of benefits provided by agriculture to society, by joint production of both agricultural commodities and a range of ecological services. In developed countries, new agroecosystem designs for MFA are appearing rapidly, but adoptions are limited. We present a heuristic strategy for increasing the adoption of MFA through development of new enterprises that enable farmers to profit from production of both agricultural commodities and ecological services. We propose that such enterprises can arise through feedback between social and biophysical systems operating across a range of scales. Such feedback depends on coordinated innovation among economic actors in a range of interdependent social sectors, supported by new "subsystems" that produce site-specific agroecological knowledge, and by change in the encompassing "supersystem" of public opinion and policy. This strategy can help guide efforts to increase the adoption of MFA.