Publications
In the paper “Biodiversity conservation and agricultural sustainability: towards a new paradigm of ‘ecoagriculture’ landscapes (2008)” Scherr and McNeely outline strategic actions required to mobilize ecoagriculture initiatives on a scale that would have a meaningful impact on global challenges.
The paper “Defining Integrated Landscape Management for Policymakers (2013)” by Scherr and Friedmann lays out and explains the five critical elements of integrated landscape management, particularly where agriculture is an important land use.
The report “Ecoagriculture: A Review and Assessment of its Scientific Foundations (2004)" by Buck et al elaborates on the opportunities, concepts, and challenges in ecoagriculture.
The report "Pollinators, Pollination and Food Production (2016)" from IPBES provides a critical assessment of the full range of issues facing decision-makers, including the value of, status, trends and threats to pollinators and pollination, and policy and management response options.
The report "From uniformity to diversity (2016)" from IPES-Food explores the potential for a shift to occur from current food systems, characterized by industrial modes of agriculture, to systems based around diversified agroecological farming.
The guide "Functional agrobiodiversity - Nature serving Europe’s farmers (2012)" by European Learning Network on Functional AgroBiodiversity provides insight into the concept of FAB, its links to agricultural and biodiversity policy.
The book “Mainstreaming Agrobiodiversity in Sustainable Food Systems: Scientific Foundations for an Agrobiodiversity Index (2017)” by Bioversity International is the first step in the process of creating an agrobiodiversity index to help monitor conservation and use of agrobiodiversity.
The meta analysis “The effects of organic agriculture on biodiversity and abundance (2005)” by Bengtsson, Ahnström, and Weibull raised the question if organic farming generally increases species richness within organism groups.
Within the paper “Designing agricultural landscapes for biodiversity-based ecosystem services (2017)“ Douglas Landis evaluates the current status of landscape design, ranging from fundamental ecological principles to resulting guidelines and socioeconomic tools.
The paper “Sustainable intensification in agricultural systems. Annals of Botany (2014)” by Pretty, J. and Z. Barucha describes the process where agricultural yields are increased without adverse environmental impact and without the conversion of additional non-agricultural land.
The “Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land uses (2013)” by National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America synthesize the current consensus on landscape approaches.
The article about the impact of landscape configuration on insects published by the Journal of Animal Ecology (2010) shows evidence that a landscape mosaic of different structures supports higher biodiversity.
The document "The importance of soil organic matter (2005)" by FAO deals with the transformation of organic matter by soil organisms and and discusses the various management practices that affect the accumulation of organic matter in the soil.