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Find out more about what WLE is doing: wle.cgiar.org
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David George of STC - Profiting from Sustainability Feedback Session April 2015
1. Biodiversity – why bother?
The benefits of going ‘multi-functional’
Avoiding ‘Bad Biodiversity’
Getting more bang for your biodiversity
buck
Where biodiversity fits in ‘sustainable
intensification’
Improving yields and
on-farm biodiversity
David George, Stockbridge Technology Centre
david.george@stc-nyorks.co.uk
2. Biodiversity – how do I relate to it?
Biodiversity is akin to a live-in house keeper
You provide food and shelter, biodiversity provides
services that you’d otherwise have to pay for
3. But how good a job does it do?
This time next year in a world with no constraints
on pest populations*…
The 200 000 million
descendants of 1
pair of houseflies
cover the earth to a
depth of 15km
The descendants of 1
aphid mother – at 250
million tonnes – circle
the equator a million
times
The descendants of 1
pair of cabbage whites
- with wings closed -
cover Austrailia with a
tower rising into the
stratosphere faster
than the speed of light*Assumes max. fecundity and zero mortality…fortunately unrealistic!
4. So if I stick in a flower strip for my EFA /
NELMs, my pests will be controlled?
Pollinatormix
Biocontrolmix
Combination
Selective field
margin flower
mixes do this…
OK in a garden, but
using finite non-
cropped agri land
in such a restricted
way is a waste!
Not quite. As a ‘live-in house keeper’ biodiversity can
be a fussy eater and snobby about accommodation
5. ‘Multi-functional’ field margins can do this…
YIELD
YEAR Carrots Cereals Peas Cabbages
2010 No difference No difference Could not be
analysed: poor crop
No difference
2011 No difference Yield increased
near margin by
22.5%max
Yield increased near
margin by 41.1%max
Yield increased near
margin by 15.8%max
2012 No difference No difference Yield higher near
margin and field
centre by 74.2%max
Yield increased near
margin by 29.9%max
2013 Yield decreased
near margin by
25.4%max
No difference No difference No difference
Biological systems are inherently variable and benefits of even the very
best seed mixes may not be seen year-on-year
6. This ‘multi-functionality’ may be harder to
design, but not to implement on-farm
Ecostac seed
mixes took
years to fully
develop, but the
hard work has
already been
done
They’re still just seed mixes - they costs the same
and can be treated the same as any standard mix
9. But beware ‘Bad Biodiversity’: Some house-
keepers may run off with the family silver!
• Knapweeds often feature in seed
mixes for field margins as they’re
attractive to bees and butterflies
• BUT, many butterflies are pests!
• Brown knapweed around sprouts =
more cabbage white adults/larvae
•
10. How do I get more bang for my biodiversity
buck?
Be ‘multi-functional’ in your approach to ‘CAP
greening’ and environmental stewardship and you
could get ‘paid’ twice – once by the EU and again by
an in-kind contribution to production from biodiversity
Approach non-crop areas as you would crop fields -
plan, maintain and manage them to ensure optimum
biodiversity ‘yields’ whilst avoiding ‘losses’
Consider other on-farm activities and how they can
add value: Biodiversity alone is unlikely to
achieve ‘sustainable intensification’, but it can’t
be achieved without it
11. Fortunately, biodiversity is compatible with
other cogs in the ‘SI’ machine
IN FIELD:
Precision
farming;
controlled
traffic; min. till
IN CROP:
Resistant
varieties;
biopesticides;
biocontrol
ON FARM
BIODIVERSITY:
Shelter, Alternative
prey, Floral resources,
Environment
(SAFE)
Removes variability
to increase yield
and reduce
chemical inputs
Reduces reliance
on conventional
chemical PPPs
Provides services
that would
otherwise have to
be paid for
Tru-Nject
12. “Producing enough food for the
world’s population in 2050 will
be easy. But doing it at an
acceptable cost to the planet will
depend on research into
everything from high-tech seeds
to low-tech farming practices.”
Nature 466: 531-532
Combining high-tech and low-tech is the
key to the ‘SI’ lock
13. Recent in crop innovations typically good
for biodiversity as well as yield
IN FIELD:
Precision
farming;
controlled
traffic; min. till
IN CROP:
Resistant
varieties;
biopesticides;
biocontrol
ON FARM
BIODIVERSITY:
Shelter, Alternative
prey, Floral resources,
Environment
(SAFE)
Removes variability
to increase yield
and reduce
chemical inputs
Reduces reliance
on conventional
chemical PPPs
Provides services
that would
otherwise have to
be paid for
SUSTAINABILITY