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Control of crop diseases through Integrated Crop Management to deliver climate‐smart farming systems for low‐ and high‐input crop production

Benjamin Richard, Aiming Qi, Bruce D.L. Fitt

Plant Pathology · 2021

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Summary

Abstract Crop diseases affect crop yield and quality and cause significant losses of total food production worldwide. With the ever‐increasing world population and decreasing land and water resources, there is a need not only to produce more food but also to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to mitigate climate change and avoid land use change and biodiversity loss. Thus, alternative climate‐smart farming systems need to adapt to produce more food per hectare in a more sustainable way than conventional high‐input farming systems. In addition to breeding new high‐yielding cultivars adapted to future climates, there is a need to deploy Integrated Crop Management (ICM) strategies, relying less on synthetic inputs for fertilization and crop protection and less on fossil fuel‐p

Subject
Climate & greenhouse gas mitigation
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
System type
Other
DOI
10.1111/ppa.13493
Catalogue ID
SNmojxdcoo-aeuxvj
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