Crop Diversification for Ensuring Sustainable Agriculture, Risk Management and Food Security
Abstract Agriculture faces growing challenges from climate change, pest pressures, and market instability. Crop diversification offers a sustainable strategy to enhance resilience and reduce the risks of monoculture. This review examines crop diversification as a response to these challenges, with a...
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| description | Abstract Agriculture faces growing challenges from climate change, pest pressures, and market instability. Crop diversification offers a sustainable strategy to enhance resilience and reduce the risks of monoculture. This review examines crop diversification as a response to these challenges, with a focus on its applications in sustainable agriculture, risk management, and food security. Strategies such as spatial, temporal, genetic, and intercropping diversification enhance soil health, improve pest management, and boost resilience to climate variability. The review highlights key principles, including ecological resilience, risk distribution, and resource optimization. By adopting diverse crops, farmers can mitigate soil degradation, reduce pest outbreaks, and stabilize incomes. Successful case studies from various regions, such as integrated rice‐fish farming and agroforestry, demonstrate how diversification can improve productivity and sustainability. However, challenges remain, such as knowledge gaps, market access issues, and policy limitations. The review concludes with recommendations for future research and policy interventions, stressing the need for tailored diversification strategies, better support systems, and further exploration of innovative practices. This overview underscores the potential of crop diversification to build resilient, sustainable agricultural systems while addressing global food security concerns. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0bf2aa5fbdc94c39b99a86b4c54f836e2025-02-07T04:31:19ZengWileyGlobal Challenges2056-66462025-02-0192n/an/a10.1002/gch2.202400267Crop Diversification for Ensuring Sustainable Agriculture, Risk Management and Food SecurityTesfahun Belay Mihrete0Fasikaw Belay Mihretu1Department of Horticulture College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences Bahir Dar University Bahir Dar 6000 EthiopiaDepartment of Horticulture College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences Bahir Dar University Bahir Dar 6000 EthiopiaAbstract Agriculture faces growing challenges from climate change, pest pressures, and market instability. Crop diversification offers a sustainable strategy to enhance resilience and reduce the risks of monoculture. This review examines crop diversification as a response to these challenges, with a focus on its applications in sustainable agriculture, risk management, and food security. Strategies such as spatial, temporal, genetic, and intercropping diversification enhance soil health, improve pest management, and boost resilience to climate variability. The review highlights key principles, including ecological resilience, risk distribution, and resource optimization. By adopting diverse crops, farmers can mitigate soil degradation, reduce pest outbreaks, and stabilize incomes. Successful case studies from various regions, such as integrated rice‐fish farming and agroforestry, demonstrate how diversification can improve productivity and sustainability. However, challenges remain, such as knowledge gaps, market access issues, and policy limitations. The review concludes with recommendations for future research and policy interventions, stressing the need for tailored diversification strategies, better support systems, and further exploration of innovative practices. This overview underscores the potential of crop diversification to build resilient, sustainable agricultural systems while addressing global food security concerns.https://doi.org/10.1002/gch2.202400267agricultural riskclimate resiliencefood securitymarket volatilitysoil health |
| spellingShingle | Tesfahun Belay Mihrete Fasikaw Belay Mihretu Crop Diversification for Ensuring Sustainable Agriculture, Risk Management and Food Security Global Challenges agricultural risk climate resilience food security market volatility soil health |
| title | Crop Diversification for Ensuring Sustainable Agriculture, Risk Management and Food Security |
| title_full | Crop Diversification for Ensuring Sustainable Agriculture, Risk Management and Food Security |
| title_fullStr | Crop Diversification for Ensuring Sustainable Agriculture, Risk Management and Food Security |
| title_full_unstemmed | Crop Diversification for Ensuring Sustainable Agriculture, Risk Management and Food Security |
| title_short | Crop Diversification for Ensuring Sustainable Agriculture, Risk Management and Food Security |
| title_sort | crop diversification for ensuring sustainable agriculture risk management and food security |
| topic | agricultural risk climate resilience food security market volatility soil health |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/gch2.202400267 |
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