| | 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 ‘ecoagriculture’
landscapes to generate co-benefits 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 synthesise knowledge and experience
across sectors. The book examines: the knowledge base for ecoagriculture as well as barriers, gaps, and opportunities for developing improved ecoagriculture systems; what we have learned about managing landscapes to achieve multiple objectives at a
landscape scale; existing incentives for farmers, other land managers, and investors to develop and invest
in ecoagriculture systems; and pathways 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 commercialised to semi-subsistence. Farming with
Nature is an important new work that can serve as a foundation document for planners, farm
organisations, 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. | |
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