1. A network approach for managing ecosystem services and improving food and nutrition security on smallholder farms.
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Timberlake, Thomas P., Cirtwill, Alyssa R., Baral, Sushil C., Bhusal, Daya R., Devkota, Kedar, Harris‐Fry, Helen A., Kortsch, Susanne, Myers, Samuel S., Roslin, Tomas, Saville, Naomi M., Smith, Matthew R., Strona, Giovanni, and Memmott, Jane
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FOOD security ,ECOSYSTEM services ,FOOD sovereignty ,WEED competition ,FARMS ,NUTRITIONAL requirements ,BIOLOGICAL extinction ,FOOD service - Abstract
Managing a farm to increase ecosystem service provisioning requires farmers to understand and balance both these direct (e.g. crop-pollinator) and indirect (e.g. crop-pollinator-wild plant) associations with the crop, though these may not always be obvious. Ecosystem service, food security, Nepal, network, nutrition, pollination, smallholder farm, socio-ecological system Keywords: ecosystem service; food security; Nepal; network; nutrition; pollination; smallholder farm; socio-ecological system EN ecosystem service food security Nepal network nutrition pollination smallholder farm socio-ecological system 563 575 13 04/06/22 20220401 NES 220401 INTRODUCTION Smallholder farms are those operated by individual households, largely with their own labour and generally <2 ha in area (FAO, 2018). [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
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