Biodiversity-based ecosystem services for the management of monoculture plantation landscape using a transdisciplinary approach: a review

• Published in: IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science Vol. 325; no. 1; pp. 12013 - 12024
• Main Author: Tarigan, S D
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.09.2019
• Subjects: Agricultural development; Agricultural ecosystems; Agricultural land; Agricultural practices; Agricultural research; Agriculture; Biodiversity; Developing countries; Ecosystem management; Ecosystem services; Ecosystems; Land use; Landscape design; LDCs; Monoculture; Socioeconomics; Water resources; Indonesia
• ISSN: 1755-1307; 1755-1315
• DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/325/1/012013

Doubling of the global population in the next 30 years will increase demand on the land and water resources that are in relatively fixed supply. Agriculture intensification will continue to be the main choice in the future. Intensified land use in agriculture is irrefutably the main reason for biodiversity-based ecosystem service loss. In Indonesia, the current area of agriculture land is approximately 40 million ha (21% of total land). Monoculture system is the most adopted practices in the agriculture landscape. Therefore, there is a need to develop an agricultural landscape that supports biodiversity-based ecosystem services. There is an observed linkage between biodiversity and ecosystem service in a tropical agricultural landscape. Redesigning agricultural landscapes for biodiversity-based ecosystem services is not a straightforward undertaking, especially in the developing country like Indonesia where many people already inhabit the agriculture landscape. There are so many socio-economic and policy aspects involved in its real implementation. It requires much effort to reach an agreement for appropriate landscape design that suits all socio-economic setting. We need to move beyond the scientific formalities to dialogue with farmers and other private and public agencies about the advantages and drawbacks of landscape design. We need the so-called transdisciplinary approach involving close collaboration with policymakers and all stakeholders to develop landscape-scale research into the agricultural landscape design.