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| Puech, Camille; Baudry, J.; Aviron, Stéphanie. |
| Food security and biodiversity conservation are among the main challenges of modern agriculture. Organic Farming (OF) is considered as a promising type of production to meet these challenges due to the use of alternative practices on organic systems. In particular, biological control of pests by their natural enemies is considered as a possible way to reduce pesticide use in Conventional Farming (CF). The aim of this work is to describe the diversity of practices on winter wheat in organic and conventional farms, and to understand their effects on natural enemies, at field and landscape scales. Entomological surveys and agronomic surveys were carried out in forty fields (twenty under OF and twenty under CF) located in different landscape contexts. The... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity and ecosystem services Crop health; Quality; Protection. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/26336/1/Puech_2013_CIAG_Vol32.pdf |
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| Aviron, Stéphanie; Nitsch, Heike; Jeanneret, Philippe; Buholzer, Serge; Luka, Henryk; Pfiffner, Lukas; Pozzi, Stefano; Schüpbach, Beatrice; Walter, Thomas; Herzog, Felix. |
| In ecological cross compliance, farmers have to meet environmental standards in order to qualify for area-related direct payments. Because this is a strong financial incentive, cross compliance is a potentially powerful policy instrument. We monitored the effectiveness of cross compliance in promoting biodiversity on grassland and on arable land in Switzerland over 8 years. We observed measurable benefits for flora, butterflies, ground beetles, and spiders, in terms of species numbers and/or community composition. However, populations of threatened species showed no signs of benefit. While cross compliance has been in force in Switzerland for almost a decade, it has only recently been introduced in the neighbouring European Union. We argue that – provided... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity and ecosystem services; Policy environments and social economy. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/17809/1/aviron%2Detal%2D2009%2Dfront%2Decol%2Denviron.pdf |
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