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Integrated Rice-Fish Farming : Safeguarding Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Sustainable Food Production in the Mekong Delta
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- Berg, Håkan (författare)
- Stockholms universitet,Stockholm Resilience Centre
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Berg, Charlotte (författare)
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Nguyen, Thanh Tam (författare)
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- Informa UK Limited, 2012
- 2012
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Journal of Sustainable Agriculture. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1044-0046 .- 1540-7578. ; 36:8, s. 859-872
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Abstract
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- A comparison of agricultural practices, with a specific focus on pesticide use, between rice and rice-fish farmers in the Can Tho' and Tien Giang provinces of the Mekong Delta in 2007, shows that integrated rice-fish farming can provide a competitive alternative to intensive rice mono-cropping, if the farmer restricts the use of pesticides and takes full advantage of the ecosystem services provided by the rice-field ecosystem. In Can Tho', rice-fish farmers had significantly higher income (43.6 million dong ha(-1) year(-1)) than other farmer groups, while this was not seen among rice-fish famers in Tien Giang (32.4 million dong ha(-1) year(-1)), which partly could be due to a high use of insecticides (0.9 kg active ingredient ha(-1) crop(-1)) and comparatively low fish yield among these farmers. The study emphasizes the need to rethink current agricultural systems and to provide opportunities for more diverse systems that maintain and enhance a range of ecosystem services and protect human health. Future production systems should not be optimized to only provide a single ecosystem service, such as rice, but designed to deliver a variety of interlinked ecosystem service such as rice, fish, pest control, and nutrient recycling.
Ämnesord
- LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER -- Bioteknologi med applikationer på växter och djur (hsv//swe)
- AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES -- Agricultural Biotechnology (hsv//eng)
- LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER -- Annan lantbruksvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES -- Other Agricultural Sciences (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- rice-fish farming
- pesticides
- ecosystem services
- biodiversity
- Mekong Delta
- agroecosystem
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- ref (ämneskategori)
- art (ämneskategori)
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