Farming with Alternative Pollinators benefits pollinators, natural enemies, and yields, and offers transformative change to agriculture

Abstract Low- and middle-income countries cannot afford reward-based land sparing for wildflower strips to combat pollinator decline. Two small-grant projects assessed, if an opportunity-cost saving land-sharing approach, Farming with Alternative Pollinators, can provide a method-inherent incentive...

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Autores principales:	Stefanie Christmann, Youssef Bencharki, Soukaina Anougmar, Pierre Rasmont, Moulay Chrif Smaili, Athanasios Tsivelikas, Aden Aw-Hassan
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d4147064fbe64e8fa89bf37ed885717f2021-12-02T18:34:01ZFarming with Alternative Pollinators benefits pollinators, natural enemies, and yields, and offers transformative change to agriculture10.1038/s41598-021-97695-52045-2322https://doaj.org/article/d4147064fbe64e8fa89bf37ed885717f2021-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97695-5https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Low- and middle-income countries cannot afford reward-based land sparing for wildflower strips to combat pollinator decline. Two small-grant projects assessed, if an opportunity-cost saving land-sharing approach, Farming with Alternative Pollinators, can provide a method-inherent incentive to motivate farmers to protect pollinators without external rewards. The first large-scale Farming-with-Alternative-Pollinators project used seven main field crops in 233 farmer fields of four agro-ecosystems (adequate rainfall, semi-arid, mountainous and oasis) in Morocco. Here we show results: higher diversity and abundance of wild pollinators and lower pest abundance in enhanced fields than in monocultural control fields; the average net-income increase per surface is 121%. The higher income is a performance-related incentive to enhance habitats. The income increase for farmers is significant and the increase in food production is substantial. Higher productivity per surface can reduce pressure on (semi)-natural landscapes which are increasingly used for agriculture. Land-use change additionally endangers biodiversity and pollinators, whereas this new pollinator-protection approach has potential for transformative change in agriculture.Stefanie ChristmannYoussef BencharkiSoukaina AnougmarPierre RasmontMoulay Chrif SmailiAthanasios TsivelikasAden Aw-HassanNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Stefanie Christmann Youssef Bencharki Soukaina Anougmar Pierre Rasmont Moulay Chrif Smaili Athanasios Tsivelikas Aden Aw-Hassan Farming with Alternative Pollinators benefits pollinators, natural enemies, and yields, and offers transformative change to agriculture
description	Abstract Low- and middle-income countries cannot afford reward-based land sparing for wildflower strips to combat pollinator decline. Two small-grant projects assessed, if an opportunity-cost saving land-sharing approach, Farming with Alternative Pollinators, can provide a method-inherent incentive to motivate farmers to protect pollinators without external rewards. The first large-scale Farming-with-Alternative-Pollinators project used seven main field crops in 233 farmer fields of four agro-ecosystems (adequate rainfall, semi-arid, mountainous and oasis) in Morocco. Here we show results: higher diversity and abundance of wild pollinators and lower pest abundance in enhanced fields than in monocultural control fields; the average net-income increase per surface is 121%. The higher income is a performance-related incentive to enhance habitats. The income increase for farmers is significant and the increase in food production is substantial. Higher productivity per surface can reduce pressure on (semi)-natural landscapes which are increasingly used for agriculture. Land-use change additionally endangers biodiversity and pollinators, whereas this new pollinator-protection approach has potential for transformative change in agriculture.
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author	Stefanie Christmann Youssef Bencharki Soukaina Anougmar Pierre Rasmont Moulay Chrif Smaili Athanasios Tsivelikas Aden Aw-Hassan
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title	Farming with Alternative Pollinators benefits pollinators, natural enemies, and yields, and offers transformative change to agriculture
title_short	Farming with Alternative Pollinators benefits pollinators, natural enemies, and yields, and offers transformative change to agriculture
title_full	Farming with Alternative Pollinators benefits pollinators, natural enemies, and yields, and offers transformative change to agriculture
title_fullStr	Farming with Alternative Pollinators benefits pollinators, natural enemies, and yields, and offers transformative change to agriculture
title_full_unstemmed	Farming with Alternative Pollinators benefits pollinators, natural enemies, and yields, and offers transformative change to agriculture
title_sort	farming with alternative pollinators benefits pollinators, natural enemies, and yields, and offers transformative change to agriculture
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Farming with Alternative Pollinators benefits pollinators, natural enemies, and yields, and offers transformative change to agriculture

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