Strategies for the Sustainable Intensification of Agricultural Production
Agriculture is a strategic sector of primary importance and plays a fundamental role in the current and near-future global challenges. In fact, agriculture will have to guarantee access to, stability, usability, and availability of food for 10 billion people in 2050. At the same time, it must be able to reduce the demand for resources and environmental impacts per unit of product and manage, in a sustainable way, the territory and its natural capital. To respond to the challenges of sustainable intensification, knowledge, strategies, and techniques are required that refer to multiple disciplines and their interactions. The sustainable management of agricultural and livestock systems must properly consider the systemic interactions between primary (plants), secondary (animal) producers, and biotic communities and the socio-ecological processes in which these interactions take place. This requires multidimensional approaches (which consider processes at different levels, from molecular to ecosystem dynamics) and multidimensional approaches (which take into account the different actors with their interests and objectives and the resulting socio-economic dynamics of food systems).
Involved groups:
General and Applied Entomology
Environmental Sanitary Engineering