A growing body of evidence shows that agricultural landscapes can be managed not only to produce crops but also to support biodiversity and promote ecosystem health. Innovative farmers and scientists, as well as indigenous land managers, are developing diverse types of ecoagriculturea landscapes to generate cobenefits for production, biodiversity, and local people.
Farming with Nature offers a synthesis of the state of knowledge of key topics in ecoagriculture. The book is a unique collaboration among renowned agricultural and ecological scientists, leading field conservationists, and farm and community leaders to synthesize knowledge and experience across sectors. The book examines:
the knowledge base for ecoagriculture as well as barriers, gaps, and opportunities for developing improved ecoagriculture systemswhat we have learned about managing landscapes to achieve multiple objectives at a landscape scaleexisting incentives for farmers, other land managers, and investors to develop and invest in ecoagriculture systemspathways to develop, implement, manage, and scale up successful ecoagriculture
Insights are drawn from around the world, in tropical, Mediterranean, and temperate environments, from farming systems that range from highly commercialized to semi-subsistence. Farming with Nature is an important new work that can serve as a foundation document for planners, farm organizations, researchers, project developers, and policy makers to develop strategies for promoting and sustaining ecoagriculture landscapes. Replete with valuable best practice guidelines, it is a critical resource for both practitioners and researchers in the field.
Lists of Figures, Tables, and Boxes Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1. The Challenge for Ecoagriculture \ Sara J. Scherr and Jeffrey A. McNeely
PART I. Agricultural Production in Ecoagriculture Landscapes -Overview of Section Chapter 2. Scientific Assessment of Ecoagriculture Systems \ Louise E. Buck, Thomas A. Gavin, Norman T. Uphoff, and David R. Lee Chapter 3. Biodiversity in Agroecosystems \ Judith Thompson, Toby Hodgkin, Kwesi Atta-Krah, Devra Jarvis, Coosje Hoogendoorn, and Stefano Padulosi Chapter 4. Perennial Grains \ Lee R. DeHaan, Thomas S. Cox, David L. Van Tassel, and Jerry D. Glover Chapter 5. Domesticating and Marketing Novel Crops \ Roger R.B. Leakey Chapter 6. Tropical Agroforestry \ Gö tz Schroth and Maria do Socorro Souza da Mota Chapter 7. Livestock Systems \ Constance L. Neely and Richard Hatfield
PART II. Biodiversity and Ecosystem management in Ecoagriculature Landscrapes -Overview of Section Chapter 8. Designing Agricultural Landscapes for biodiversity Conservation \ Celia A. Harvey Chapter 9. Pollinators \ Barbara Gemmill-Herren, Connal Eardley, John Mburu, Wanja Kinuthia, and Dino Martins Chapter 10. From Integrated Pest Management to Adaptive Ecosystem Management \ Hans Herren, Johann Baumg ä rtner and Gianni Gilioli Chapter 11. Watershed Management \ Meine van Noordwijk, Fahmuddin Agus, Bruno Verbist, Kurniatun Hairiah and Thomas P. Tomich Chapter 12. Exploiting Ecological Disturbance \ Jan Sendzimir and Zsuzsanna Flachner Chapter 13. Irrigation \ David Molden, Rebecca Tharme, Iskandar Abdullaev, and Ranjitha Puskur Chapter 14. Remote Sensing \ Aaron Dushku, Sandra Brown, Tim Pearson, David Shoch, and Bill Howley
PART III. Institutional Foundations for Ecoagriculture -Overview of Section Chapter 15. Community Stewardship of Biodiversity \ Augusta Molnar, Sara Scherr and Arvind Khare Chapter 16. Community Leadership in Ecoagriculture \ Donato Bumacas, Delia Catacutan, Gladman Chibememe, and Claire Rhodes Chapter 17. Planning at a Landscape Scale \ William J. Jackson, Stewart Maginnis, and Sandeep Sengupta Chapter 18. Research Partnerships \ Thomas P. Tomich, Dagmar Timmer, Sandra J. Velarde, Cheryl A. Palm, Meine van Noordwijk and Andrew N. Gillison Chapter 19: Multistakeholder Partnerships \ Minu Hemmati Chapter 20: Restructuring the Supply Chain \ Edward Millard Chapter 21: Paying Farmers for Stewardship
"The real contribution of Farming with Nature may be to bring the practices and benefits of ecoagriculture to the attention of managers, directors of programs, legislators, and policymakers. "
