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What is a primary focus for improving arable farms in the Netherlands?

  • Increasing resource-use efficiency (correct)
  • Enhancing economic performance only
  • Lowering yield potential
  • Maximizing water usage

What do yield gaps represent in agricultural fields?

  • The amount of land not used for farming
  • The variability in crop prices
  • The difference between theoretical and realized yield (correct)
  • The total loss of crop due to pests

Which yield gap is concerned with the maximum yield achievable for given input levels?

  • Technology yield gap
  • Gap involving market prices
  • Resource yield gap
  • Efficient yield gap (correct)

Sustainable intensification in agriculture is characterized by which of the following?

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What factor is NOT mentioned as necessary for improving the accessibility of sustainable intensification technologies to farmers?

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What does the technology yield gap attribute to?

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Which management practice is likely a cause of the efficiency yield gap?

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What should agriculture strive to increase in soil productivity?

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Which of the following is an essential outcome sought through public investment in agriculture?

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What is considered a soil genesis process in agriculture?

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Which of the following is advocated for stabilizing crop production?

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What approach should be taken regarding synthetic fertilizers in regenerative agriculture?

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What is a key requirement for regenerative agriculture's biological structuring?

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What type of nitrogen systems should be utilized in integrated agriculture?

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What should be avoided in the feeding and housing of farm animals?

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What is a crucial aspect of agricultural production in the context of regenerative agriculture?

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What are the three classifications of farmers' decisions based on time scales?

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Which understanding of agroecology emphasizes the need for sustainability in agricultural systems?

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Which factor strongly influences farmers' management decisions?

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What is 'political agroecology' primarily concerned with?

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What ultimately determines the actual resource-use efficiencies on a farm?

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Which understanding of agroecology is characterized by minimizing external inputs?

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The concept of sustainable intensification focuses on which of the following?

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What type of knowledge is 'no knowledge of agroecology' referring to?

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What is a proposed alternative framework for analyzing the relationship between food and biodiversity?

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Which of the following factors do the authors incorporate into their model for estimating Earth's carrying capacity?

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What aspect do the authors argue should be linked with biophysical models in assessing carrying capacity?

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What is one of the limitations acknowledged by the authors regarding their approach to carrying capacity?

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Which statement best describes the authors' view on technological advancements?

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How do the authors perceive the debate between land sparing and land sharing?

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What is an important consideration mentioned by the authors when discussing Earth's carrying capacity?

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What do the authors propose regarding the assessment of conservation and land management decisions?

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What distinguishes adaptation from transformation in food systems?

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Which challenge is noted in assessing food system resilience?

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What do the authors suggest as necessary for assessing food system resilience?

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What question do the authors raise regarding the resilience of food systems?

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What potential trade-offs are mentioned concerning resilience and sustainability?

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What distinguishes shocks from stresses in food systems?

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Why is it important to specify the time frame when considering resilience?

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How do food systems operate according to the authors?

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What is a consequence of the interactions between shocks and stresses in food systems?

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Which of the following best exemplifies a shock affecting food systems?

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What type of resilience-building approach is required for managing stresses compared to shocks?

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What do the authors emphasize regarding food systems and resilience?

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What outcome can result from a lack of understanding of shocks and stresses in food systems?

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Flashcards

Regenerative Agriculture

A farming method that increases soil productivity and efficiency by integrating soil flora & fauna, relying on biological interactions and minimizing synthetic inputs.

Soil Productivity

The ability of the soil to support plant growth by increasing depth, fertility, and physical characteristics.

Nutrient-flow systems

Systems that integrate soil organisms into efficient nutrient cycles, improving crop nutrition & reducing environmental impact.

Biological Interactions

Using natural processes like biological nitrogen fixation instead of synthetic inputs for stability in crop production.

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Synthetic Biocides

Chemicals used to control pests and diseases, but they disrupt the biological structure of the farm system.

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Biological Nitrogen Fixation

Natural process where certain organisms convert nitrogen gas to a useable form for plant growth.

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Local & Regional Self-Reliance

Farming systems that are self-sufficient in resources and nutrient handling, with regional control and planning.

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National-level planning

Broader agricultural strategies and policies that support, but don't entirely control local and regional efforts within a country.

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Social-ecological systems

Systems that consider the combined effects of social and ecological factors on agricultural landscapes to analyze food and biodiversity.

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Land sparing vs. land sharing

Different ways of using land to maintain biodiversity and food production; one focuses on protecting natural areas and another on integrating them with farms.

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Earth's carrying capacity

The maximum number of people Earth can sustainably support.

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Biophysical limits

The physical limitations of our planet like water, sunlight, soil nutrients.

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Technological advancements

Improvements in tools and methods impacting carrying capacity and food production.

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Resource constraints

Limits to available resources like water, soil, and sunlight.

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Linking biophysical and economic models

Combining models that consider physical limitations and economic aspects in analyzing carrying capacity.

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Sustainable support

Meeting current needs without compromising possibilities of future generations.

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Adaptation vs. Transformation

Adaptation changes food system activities, while transformation changes food system outcomes. Transformation requires adapting activities and changing drivers (policies, incentives).

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Food System Resilience

Food system resilience is the capacity to withstand shocks and stresses, but assessing it comprehensively is challenging.

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Resilience Assessment Challenges

Current resilience assessments often focus on specific aspects (e.g., development, food security) lacking a broader view of the system.

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Emergent Food System Resilience

Food system resilience might emerge from the interactions of its components, not just individual actors.

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Resilience-Sustainability Trade-offs

Finding the balance between creating a resilient food system and maintaining sustainability is challenging.

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Yield Gap

The difference between potential yield and actual yield in a farmer's field.

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Efficiency Yield Gap

Difference between technically efficient yield and actual yield; reflects poor management practices.

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Resource Yield Gap

Difference between highest farmer yield and technically efficient yield, due to input limitations.

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Technology Yield Gap

Difference between potential yield and farmer's highest yield; poor technology use compared to achievable yield.

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Sustainable Intensification

Improving food production while maintaining environmental sustainability.

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Arable Farms (Netherlands)

High-performing farms in the Netherlands with good nitrogen use efficiency, needing further improvements.

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Public Investments

Government funding for innovation, making sustainable farming techniques accessible to farmers.

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Yield Gaps Components

Efficiency, resource, and technology gaps contribute to the total yield gap.

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Short-term interruption

Sudden, disruptive events that temporarily affect a system, like IT malfunctions or bad weather.

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Long-term disruption

Gradual, persistent pressures that slowly change a system, like climate change or changing consumer preferences.

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Food system resilience

The capacity of a food system to absorb shocks and stresses and adapt to change, while maintaining essential functions.

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Social-ecological systems (SES)

Systems involving both social and ecological aspects, that interact over time, space and regulations.

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Shocks

Sudden, disruptive events, like unexpected weather events or epidemics.

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Stresses

Long-term, gradual pressures that have a pervasive impact on a system, like climate change.

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Temporal mismatches

Conflicts between the timing of actions and the timing of effects in a system.

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Resilience-building measures

Actions taken to increase a system's ability to withstand or recover from disruptions.

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Sustainable Intensification

Increasing crop production while maintaining environmental and social sustainability.

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Farmer Decisions

Strategic, tactical, and operational choices farmers make about resource allocation and crop management.

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Agroecology Understandings

Different ways people view agroecology, ranging from ignorance to political movements.

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No Knowledge of Agroecology

Lack of familiarity with the concept of agroecology.

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Descriptive Science of Agroecology

Agroecology viewed as the study of interactions between livestock, crops, and the environment.

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Agroecology for Sustainability

Agroecology as a science that designs sustainable agricultural systems considering environmental and economic factors.

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Environmental Sustainable Farming Practices

Agroecology as a set of practices aiming to reduce external inputs and promote environmental sustainability.

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Political Agroecology

Agroecology as a movement promoting human and environmental well-being, food sovereignty, and social justice.

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Study Notes

Demography and Carrying Capacity

  • The framework of land sparing versus land sharing is economically driven, focusing on efficient allocation of land as a scarce resource.
  • Food production is often viewed through a technology-focused lens, emphasizing increased food production to alleviate hunger.
  • Food security is defined as having physical and economic access to sufficient culturally and nutritionally appropriate food for a healthy life, focusing on states.
  • Food sovereignty emphasizes the rights of local communities to decide their own agricultural and food policy, control production and consumption, and have access to land, water, and seeds.

Food Sovereignty

  • Emphasizes local processes and deliberative governance
  • Focuses on political equity and autonomy
  • Centers on local, small-scale, and bioculturally heterogeneous landscapes

Food Production

  • Technology-focused
  • Focused on technology-based productivity increase
  • Typically involves specialized landscapes (e.g., monocultures)
  • Distribution typically handled by markets

Food Security

  • Multi-dimensional, encompassing both nutritional and cultural appropriateness and sufficient quantity
  • Tends to focus on top-down/national governance
  • Agnostic on scale, political configuration, and agricultural practices

Biodiversity Conservation

  • Sustainability problems are wicked problems; there is no single correct solution, just varying perspectives.
  • The consequences of a particular land use strategy on other parts of biodiversity may be glossed over.
  • Some species that are rare or provide specific ecosystem functions are vital.
  • Some species that provide ecosystem services, in turn, positively influence yields.

Biodiversity Conservation continued

  • Agricultural landscapes can be viewed as social-ecological systems
  • The interplay of social and ecological factors is important in understanding the relationship between food and biodiversity.
  • A more nuanced approach is needed, moving beyond the simple binary of land sparing versus land sharing.

Humanity's Fundamental Environmental Limits

  • The authors develop a model to estimate human carrying capacity under various technological scenarios.
  • Technological advancements significantly impact carrying capacity estimates
  • The importance of considering multiple resource constraints is stressed.

Population Growth and Earth's Human Carrying Capacity

  • Estimating carrying capacity is inherently uncertain due to continuously changing technology, social, and environmental factors
  • Multiple, interdependent factors constrain human population growth (food, water, energy, other resources, pollution, climate change)
  • Criticisms of deterministic and static models of carrying capacity
  • It advocates for models including stochastic variability and dynamic interactions between human and environmental systems.

Agroforestry

  • Any approach to mitigating tropical deforestation and protecting biodiversity must address the livelihoods and needs of local communities
  • Agroforestry can increase species diversity in landscapes
  • Agroforestry systems can supply resources and can act as dispersal corridors for other species increasing biodiversity.

Population Growth and Earth's Human Carrying Capacity continued

  • Implication of estimations are discussed
  • The challenges of balancing human population growth with the availability of resources and environmental conservation are described.

Contested Farming Styles

  • The paper focuses on regenerative agriculture, exploring its history and potential for addressing modern-day soil and biodiversity problems
  • Soil health and reversal of biodiversity loss
  • Practices for regenerative agriculture (minimizing tillage, maintaining soil cover, building soil carbon, creating agroforestry, relying on biological nutrient cycling, fostering plant diversity, integrating livestock, avoiding pesticides)
  • Acknowledgement of the need to consider local agricultural practices and their appropriateness in different contexts.

Beyond Sparing vs. Sharing

  • The land sparing strategy concentrates on maximizing crop yields in certain areas, leaving others for conservation.
  • The land sharing approach integrates conservation with food production in one area.
  • Critique of both approaches for focusing on maximizing yields at all costs, while overlooking vital social and economic factors.

Beyond Sparing vs. Sharing continued

  • Acknowledging that there is no one-size-fits-all solution; conservation strategies must be tailored to the specific context.
  • Considering global market forces, teleconnections, and the complexity of landscapes.
  • Promoting holistic frameworks that consider the complex interplay of ecological, economic, and social factors.
  • Acknowledging the need for open dialogue and articulating values about the human-nature relationship in order to balance those with societal needs.

Towards Sustainable Land Use

  • Focus on reducing the environmental impact of food production through producer and consumer decisions.
  • Importance of agricultural production practices for biodiversity conservation, and economic considerations.
  • Need for better balancing of various considerations for improved sustainability.

Landscape Degradation

  • Soybean cultivation and cattle ranching are significant drivers of deforestation in South America's dry forests.
  • Soybean and cattle ranching are part of linked systems where either can impact the other.
  • Policymakers must consider the complex relationships between production strategies and land-use changes.

Landscape Degradation continued

  • Key findings reveal cattle ranching as the most significant direct driver, but soybean expansion also creates indirect deforestation pressures.
  • Displacement of activities across borders
  • The impact of global demand for soybeans and how it correlates with deforestation are discussed

Political Ecology and Land Use

  • The chapter examines labor and productivity, emphasizing social and economic factors beyond technology
  • Reproduction, exploitation, accumulation are key concepts
  • The chapter examines the political economy perspective by asking crucial questions affecting agricultural change.

Political Ecology and Land Use continued

  • Discussion of land grabbing
  • The authors argue that sustainability strategies need to be multifaceted and address political, economic, and social concerns, not just environmental concerns.
  • Defining and understanding political ecology

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