Abstract
Redesign of agricultural systems according to ecological principles has been proposed for the development of sustainable systems. We review a wide variety of ecologically-based crop production practices that focus on forage crops in farming systems and discuss their potential role in enhancing the profitability, environmental sustainability and resilience. Crop-livestock systems that most closely mimic natural systems through appropriate integration of diverse components appear to offer the greatest potential benefits. These systems are more energy efficient and combine high productivity with low ecological footprint. Greater understanding of ecological relationships within crop-livestock systems are required to purposefully and proactively redesign agricultural systems for profitability, sustainability and resilience.
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Integrated crop-livestock systems that mimic natural systems appear to offer the greatest potential benefits.
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e0“Crop-livestock systems that most closely mimic natural systems through appropriate integration of diverse components appear to offer the greatest potential benefits.”
e1“forage crops”
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Such integrated systems are more energy efficient.
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e0“These systems are more energy efficient and combine high productivity with low ecological footprint.”
e1“forage crops”
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Such integrated systems combine high productivity with a low ecological footprint.
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e0“These systems are more energy efficient and combine high productivity with low ecological footprint.”
e1“forage crops”
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Greater understanding of ecological relationships is needed to redesign crop-livestock systems for profitability, sustainability and resilience.
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e0“Greater understanding of ecological relationships within crop-livestock systems are required to purposefully and proactively redesign agricultural systems for profitability, sustainability and resilience.”
e1“forage crops”