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Sustainable Fruit farming In the CAatinga: managing ecosystem service trade-offs as agriculture intensifies (SUFICA)

卡廷加的可持续水果种植：随着农业集约化管理生态系统服务权衡 (SUFICA)

基本信息

批准号：
BB/R016429/1
负责人：
Lynn Dicks
金额：
$ 55.82万
依托单位：
University of East Anglia
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2018 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB%2FR016429%2F1
关键词：
Sustainable Fruit farming CAatinga managing

项目摘要

The SUFICA project aims to enhance the competitiveness, sustainability and long-term resilience of fruit farming in the São Francisco valley in north-eastern Brazil, as it intensifies. The project will work with growers and international supply companies to co-design and test nature-based innovations on fruit farms, aiming to generate multiple environmental benefits whilst enhancing fruit yield or quality and reducing inputs. It takes a trans-disciplinary approach, bringing scientists, farmers and industry together to tackle the challenge of managing a sensitive agro-ecosystem at the food-water-environment nexus, in the context of economic development. There are three major outcomes: 1) SUFICA experimentally tests 'ecological intensification' as a pathway to sustainable intensive agriculture; 2) SUFICA establishes the necessary research infrastructure and tools to monitor and continually improve biodiversity and ecosystem services on farms in the São Francisco valley; 3) SUFICA demonstrates how a partnership approach enables the benefits of agricultural growth and environmental protection to be combined. This approach can be applied in other developing countries.The SUFICA partnership is a response to strong market signals in the agri-food sector that farmers should take action to support biodiversity. The project links this biodiversity objective with production-enhancing ecosystem services - pollination and water flow regulation - to assess the potential for management that benefits both biodiversity and production. The approach, termed 'ecological intensification', has shown promise in Europe and North America, but has not been experimentally tested in tropical semi-arid environments.The underlying scientific hypothesis is that multiple regulating ecosystem services can be co-erced to flow in bundles, and thus be synergistically enhanced in semi-arid agricultural landscapes, with accompanying biodiversity benefits. SUFICA tests this hypothesis using a replicated, farm-scale, Before-After-Control-Impact (BACI) experiment, co-designed with farmers to monitor the effects of management actions that are feasible and attractive to growers in the region. The SUFICA experiment is the first scientifically robust, replicated test of 'ecological intensification', in which multiple environmental and agronomic outcomes are directly monitored. We include carbon sequestration, as climate change mitigation in agriculture is a development goal for Brazil. The research will use state-of-the-art mapping and modelling approaches to explore mechanisms and predict changes to natural capital stock and ecosystem service delivery. The SUFICA experiment incorporates different landscape and farming contexts and builds capacity among farmers. Through carefully designed knowledge exchange processes, larger farms will learn from ecological and diversified practices of small farms, while small farms are supported to engage with international export markets. All farmers in the project will be involved in developing globally recognised farm-scale biodiversity assessment tools, through which they can demonstrate their positive actions.The São Francisco valley lies in the caatinga, a semi-arid ecoregion of seasonally dry tropical forest with globally important biodiversity. The caatinga is threatened by habitat loss and degradation due to agriculture, and predicted increases in aridity due to climate change. Agricultural development is key for both poverty reduction and long-term economic growth in Brazil. With old intensification trajectories, this growth will come at the expense of biodiversity and ecosystems, reducing long-term resilience and disproportionately impacting on smallholder farmers and the rural poor. SUFICA will establish a process and infrastructure to re-direct intensification to a more environmentally sensitive trajectory, aiming to reduce farm inputs and protect biodiversity in highly productive landscapes.

SUFICA项目旨在提高巴西东北部弗朗西斯科山谷水果种植的竞争力、可持续性和长期复原力。该项目将与种植者和国际供应公司合作，在水果农场共同设计和测试基于自然的创新，旨在产生多种环境效益，同时提高水果产量或质量并减少投入。它采取跨学科的方法，将科学家、农民和工业界聚集在一起，在经济发展的背景下应对管理粮食-水-环境关系中敏感的农业生态系统的挑战。有三个主要成果：1）SUFICA实验性地测试“生态集约化”作为可持续集约农业的途径; 2）SUFICA建立了必要的研究基础设施和工具，以监测和不断改善弗朗西斯科山谷农场的生物多样性和生态系统服务; 3）SUFICA展示了伙伴关系方法如何使农业增长和环境保护的好处相结合。这一办法也可适用于其他发展中国家，中美洲小岛屿生产系统伙伴关系是对农业食品部门强烈的市场信号作出的反应，即农民应采取行动支持生物多样性。该项目将这一生物多样性目标与促进生产的生态系统服务-授粉和水流调节-联系起来，以评估有利于生物多样性和生产的管理潜力。这种被称为“生态强化”的方法已在欧洲和北美显示出前景，但尚未在热带半干旱环境中进行实验测试。其基本科学假设是，多种调节生态系统服务可以被强制成束流动，从而在半干旱农业景观中协同增强，并伴随着生物多样性效益。SUFICA使用重复的农场规模的控制前后影响（BACI）实验来测试这一假设，该实验与农民共同设计，以监测对该地区种植者可行和有吸引力的管理行动的效果。SUFICA实验是第一个科学上可靠的、可复制的“生态集约化”测试，其中直接监测多种环境和农艺结果。我们包括碳固存，因为农业减缓气候变化是巴西的一个发展目标。该研究将使用最先进的绘图和建模方法来探索自然资本存量和生态系统服务提供的机制和预测变化。SUFICA试验纳入了不同的景观和耕作环境，并在农民中进行能力建设。通过精心设计的知识交流进程，大型农场将学习小型农场的生态和多样化做法，同时支持小型农场参与国际出口市场。参与该项目的所有农民都将参与开发全球公认的农场规模生物多样性评估工具，通过这些工具，他们可以展示自己的积极行动。弗朗西斯科山谷位于卡廷加，这是一个季节性干旱热带森林的半干旱生态区，具有全球重要的生物多样性。卡廷加是威胁的栖息地丧失和退化，由于农业，并预计增加干旱，由于气候变化。农业发展是巴西减贫和长期经济增长的关键。按照旧的集约化轨迹，这种增长将以牺牲生物多样性和生态系统为代价，降低长期复原力，并对小农和农村穷人产生不成比例的影响。SUFICA将建立一个程序和基础设施，将集约化重新导向对环境更敏感的轨道，旨在减少农业投入，保护高产地区的生物多样性。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（6）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Distinct bird communities in forests and fruit farms of Caatinga landscapes

卡廷加景观的森林和果园中独特的鸟类群落

DOI：
10.1111/ibi.13311
发表时间：
2024
期刊：
Ibis
影响因子：
2.1
作者：
Zielonka N
通讯作者：
Zielonka N

Evidence Synthesis as the Basis for Decision Analysis: A Method of Selecting the Best Agricultural Practices for Multiple Ecosystem Services

DOI：
10.3389/fsufs.2019.00083
发表时间：
2019-10
期刊：
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
影响因子：
4.7
作者：
Gorm E. Shackelford;R. Kelsey;W. Sutherland;C. Kennedy;S. Wood;Sasha Gennet;D. Karp;C. Kremen;N. Seavy;Julie A. Jedlicka;Kelly Gravuer;Sara M. Kross;D. Bossio;Andrés Muñoz‐Sáez;Deirdre G. LaHue;K. Garbach;L. Ford;Mark L. Felice;M. Reynolds;Devii R. Rao;K. Boomer;G. LeBuhn;L. Dicks
通讯作者：
Gorm E. Shackelford;R. Kelsey;W. Sutherland;C. Kennedy;S. Wood;Sasha Gennet;D. Karp;C. Kremen;N. Seavy;Julie A. Jedlicka;Kelly Gravuer;Sara M. Kross;D. Bossio;Andrés Muñoz‐Sáez;Deirdre G. LaHue;K. Garbach;L. Ford;Mark L. Felice;M. Reynolds;Devii R. Rao;K. Boomer;G. LeBuhn;L. Dicks

Manejo Sustentávelde Fruteiras na Caatinga (Sustainable Management of Fruit in the Caatinga): six volume pictorial guides

Manejo Sustentávelde Fruteiras na Caatinga（卡廷加水果的可持续管理）：六卷图画指南