- Title
- Ecosystem disservices matter when valuing ecosystem benefits from small-scale arable agriculture:
- Creator
- Herd-Hoare, Shannon C
- Creator
- Shackleton, Charlie M
- Date Issued
- 2020
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175744
- Identifier
- vital:42620
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101201
- Description
- The contribution of ecosystem services to smallholder agriculture is widely recognised. However, they are seldom analysed in tandem with the ecosystem disservices, such as crop weeds and pests, which the same systems produce. We do so by quantifying the provisioning ecosystem services and disservices in smallholder arable agricultural systems in three rural villages in southeastern South Africa. Using a mixed methods approach we consider the relative benefits from ecosystem services after the effects of disservices, and the management and strategies that households adopt to minimise disservices. The role of ecosystem services and disservices was expressed in economic terms to provide a common framework to assess the relative magnitude of their contribution or loss.
- Format
- 11 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Ecosystem Services
- Relation
- Herd-Hoare, S. and Shackleton, C.M., 2020. Ecosystem disservices matter when valuing ecosystem benefits from small-scale arable agriculture. Ecosystem Services, 46, p.101201
- Relation
- Ecosystem Services volume 46 number p. 101201 2020 2212-0416
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- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Elsevier Terms and Conditions Statement (https://www.elsevier.com/legal/elsevier-website-terms-and-conditions)
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