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1) Corn and soybeans now occupy over 60% of Iowa's total land area and over 80% of its cropland, showing a decline in crop diversity in the central US. 2) Diversified farming systems that incorporate perennials, cover crops, and livestock into crop rotations can provide environmental benefits like improved soil health, water quality, climate resilience, and wildlife habitat compared to monoculture corn and soybean systems. 3) Barriers to adopting more diverse farming practices include economic and policy incentives for specialization, lack of markets and infrastructure, and cultural beliefs; while drivers include risk management, interest in new markets, and support from community.
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The popularity of functional foods among scientists and common people has been increasing day by day. Awareness and modernization make the consumer think better regarding food and nutrition. Now a day’s individual knows very well about the relation between food consumption and disease prevalence. Humans have a diversity of microbes in the gut that together form the gut microflora. Probiotics are the health-promoting live microbial cells improve host health through gut and brain connection and fighting against harmful bacteria. Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus are the two bacterial genera which are considered to be probiotic. These good bacteria are facing challenges of viability. There are so many factors such as sensitivity to heat, pH, acidity, osmotic effect, mechanical shear, chemical components, freezing and storage time as well which affects the viability of probiotics in the dairy food matrix as well as in the gut. Multiple efforts have been done in the past and ongoing in present for these beneficial microbial population stability until their destination in the gut. One of a useful technique known as microencapsulation makes the probiotic effective in the diversified conditions and maintain these microbe’s community to the optimum level for achieving targeted benefits. Dairy products are found to be an ideal vehicle for probiotic incorporation. It has been seen that the encapsulated microbial cells show higher viability than the free cells in different processing and storage conditions as well as against bile salts in the gut. They make the food functional when incorporated, without affecting the product sensory characteristics.
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Diversified farming systems bryant
- 1. Lara Bryant, Natural Resources Defense Council Diversified Farming Systems SWCS Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY July 2016
- 2. • “In Iowa…corn and soybeans now occupy 63% of the state’s total land area and 82% of its cropland.” (Liebman and Schulte 2015) • Findings from Aguilar, et al. 2015: • Cornbelt region diversity declined from 1978 to 2012, and • it is the least diverse region. • “Since 1945, corn and soybean acreage increased 29 and 80%, respectively, in the U.S. Corn Belt.” (Sulc and Tracy 2007) 2 Diversified Agriculture in the MRB
- 3. Incorporating livestock into the crop rotation Image: USDA, Ryan Thompson 3 Replace a portion of corn and soy acres with other crops (perennials) Image: Wikimedia Commons Crop rotations of three or more years and continuous living cover, cover crops Image: USDA NRCS South Dakota A more diverse Corn Belt…
- 4. • Soil health • Water quality • Climate resilience • Pest and disease cycles • Weed control • Drought and flood • Climate mitigation • Improved habitat for pollinators and wildlife 4 Image: Luc Viatour www.lucnix.be Environmental Benefits
- 5. 1. Climate Resilience 2. Climate mitigation 3. Water quality 4. Soil health 5Graphic: NRDC, Climate Ready Soil Climate Ready Soil findings
- 6. • Centralized (monoculture) agriculture has been drawing resources away from rural communities (Iles and Marsh 2012) • Increased profitability to farmer; lower inputs, higher yields • On the flip side….there are also risks, and the benefits aren’t guaranteed…. • Risk management strategy 6 Economic Benefits
- 8. • Economic and Legislative • True costs are not internalized or passed on to consumers (Iles and Marsh 2012) • Specialization found to be more profitable (Aguilar 2015, Swenson 2010, Weingarten 2016) • Policy incentives for monoculture row crops (Lin 2011) • Crop insurance replacing the need for other risk management strategies 8 Barriers to Diversification
- 9. • Cultural • Belief that specialization more productive (Lin 2011) • Not enough resources for DFS • Negative peer pressure • Diversified farming lacks positive social branding (Iles and Marsh 2012) 9 Barriers to Diversification
- 10. • Operational Challenges • Equipment, labor, lack of resources and information on alternate crops • Market • Probably the major barrier in the literature review 10 Barriers to Diversification
- 11. 1. Risk management 2. Desire to try new markets 3. Supportive community 4. Wish for a lifestyle change; ideology 11 Drivers of Diversification
- 12. • Can’t be forced. • Grassroots and CDFI can connect farmers to regional supply chains. • Educate consumers on benefits of DFS; branding or standards 12 Policy Opportunities - Market
- 13. • Redistribute subsidies • Create new crop insurance products (example: Whole Farm Insurance) • Improve credit access for DFS • Branding for DFS and regional foods • Invigorate markets with SNAP dollars (Iles and Marsh 2012) • Loan forgiveness for sustainable/DFS farmers 13 Policy Opportunities – Institutional
- 14. • Research, Technical Assistance, Decision Support Tools • Other areas for exploration • Educate public institutions on sourcing from DFS • Develop guidelines and best practices • Promote DFS through existing programs • Assess landowner and lender awareness of DFS • Develop messaging to promote DFS 14 Other Policy Opportunities
- 15. • Reexamine barriers within crop insurance program • Improve access to land • Improve credit access • Educate consumers on benefits of DFS 15 Conclusion
- 16. Thank you
- 17. Benefits of DFS Davis AS, Hill JD, Chase CA, Johanns AM, Liebman M (2012) Increasing Cropping System Diversity Balances Productivity, Profitability and Environmental Health. PLoS ONE 7(10): e47149. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047149 “[H]erbicide inputs in the 3‐yr and 4‐yr rotation plots were 6 to 10 times lower, and freshwater toxicity 200 times lower, than in the 2‐yr rotation.”