Together with Prof. Ingo Grass from the University of Hohenheim in Germany – and 57 co-authors, we examined the effects of agricultural diversification strategies on both environmental and social outcomes. We did so by harmonizing data from 24 studies across 11 countries. We found that farmers who implemented multiple diversification strategies in tandem had more win-win outcomes.
Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture
Agricultural simplification continues to expand at the expense of more diverse forms of agriculture. This simplification, for example, in the form of intensively managed monocultures, poses a risk to keeping the world within safe and just Earth system…
