Tailored policies for perennial woody crops are crucial to advance sustainable development

IF 25.7 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI:10.1038/s41893-024-01483-8

Carlos Martinez-Nuñez, Elena Velado-Alonso, Jacques Avelino, Pedro J. Rey, G. Martijn ten Hoopen, Guy Pe’er, Yi Zou, Yunhui Liu, Philip Antwi-Agyei, Adrien Rusch, Charles Staver, Tharaka S. Priyadarshana, Denis J. Sonwa, Damayanti Buchori, Lucas A. Garibaldi, Elena D. Concepción, Owen T. Lewis, Ivette Perfecto, Ignasi Bartomeus

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Perennial woody crops, which are crucial to our diets and global economies, have the potential to play a major role in achieving multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals pertaining to biodiversity conservation, socio-economic development and climate change mitigation. However, this potential is hindered by insufficient scientific and policy attention on perennial woody crops, and by the intensification of perennial crop cultivation in the form of monocropping with high external inputs. In this Perspective, we highlight the potential of properly managed and incentivized perennial woody crops to support holistic sustainable development and urge scientists and policymakers to develop an effective agenda to better harness their benefits. Perennial woody crops are important sources of food that can provide ecosystem benefits through their long-lived nature and structural complexity. This Perspective provides a roadmap to harness the potential of perennial woody crops towards holistic sustainable development.

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Nature Sustainability Energy-Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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