| Title: |
The role of farmers’ knowledge in closing the yield gap for legumes: results of a large scale EU survey on faba and soya beans |
| Authors: |
Mouratiadou, Ioanna; Jha, Sirinja; Alletto, Lional; Bellingrath-Kimura, Sonoko; Chopin, Pierre; Journet, Etienne-Pascal; Karges, Kathleen; Kluga, Alise; Komossa, Franziska; Lewandowska, Sylwia; Plaza-Bonilla, Daniel; Reckling, Moritz; Schulp, Nynke; Simon-Miquel, Genis; Topp, CFE; Watson, CA; Stoddard, Frederick L. |
| Source: |
Mouratiadou, I, Jha, S, Alletto, L, Bellingrath-Kimura, S, Chopin, P, Journet, E-P, Karges, K, Kluga, A, Komossa, F, Lewandowska, S, Plaza-Bonilla, D, Reckling, M, Schulp, N, Simon-Miquel, G, Topp, CFE, Watson, CA & Stoddard, F L 2021, 'The role of farmers’ knowledge in closing the yield gap for legumes: results of a large scale EU survey on faba and soya beans', Landscape 2021 - Diversification for Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture , Berlin, Germany, 20/09/21 - 22/09/21 pp. 73. < https://www.zalf.de/de/aktuelles/landscape-conference/Documents/Landscape_2021_Book_of_Abstracts.pdf > |
| Publication Year: |
2021 |
| Subject Terms: |
/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/zero_hunger; name=SDG 2 - Zero Hunger; /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action; name=SDG 13 - Climate Action |
| Description: |
The potential of legumes to simultaneously contribute to several production, environmental, and nutritional objectives, is well known by science and policy. Legumes are currently underutilized, despite their high potential to increase the resilience of cropping systems and farm businesses through diversification and to enhance the sustainability of cropping systems via reduction in fertilizer and pesticide use, increase in protein self-sufficiency, and contribution to healthy diets (Watson et al., 2017). The low shares of grain legumes in current agricultural systems are often attributed to yield gaps and high yield variability in legume production (Cernay et al., 2015; Reckling et al., 2018). These phenomena are associated with numerous and diverse factors, such as limiting pedoclimatic conditions, sub-optimal management practices, low investments in breeding, occurrence of pests and diseases, and farmers’ experience, knowledge, and attitude in growing grain legumes. The relative contribution of these different factors on current yield gaps and yield variability remains underexplored. In particular the ‘knowledge gap’, as we term the difference between yields achieved by experienced farmers and those achieved by novices, requires assessment in order to evaluate the potential contribution of knowledge in closing the yield gaps and reducing yield variability in grain legume production. The LegumeGap project analyses the different components and underlying factors of the legume yield gap, in order to propose appropriate interventions. To this purpose, a large-scale farmer survey was conducted in nine European countries to explore the effect of different yield gap factors and evaluate, for the first time, the influence of farmers’ knowledge on yield gaps and yield variability. The survey focused on faba and soya beans, two crops with high production and environmental potential, growing popularity, broad adaptability and high protein concentration in the seeds. It was conducted in countries that comprise areas with ... |
| Document Type: |
conference object |
| Language: |
English |
| Availability: |
https://pure.sruc.ac.uk/en/publications/6b2866ea-639c-49f9-b6d5-16abd290fed5; https://www.zalf.de/de/aktuelles/landscape-conference/Documents/Landscape_2021_Book_of_Abstracts.pdf |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.3CDDF375 |
| Database: |
BASE |