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

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  • Carlos Martinez-Nuñez

    (Estación Biológica de Doñana EBD (CSIC))

  • Elena Velado-Alonso

    (Estación Biológica de Doñana EBD (CSIC)
    George August University of Göttingen)

  • Jacques Avelino

    (UMR PHIM
    CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Université de Montpellier)

  • Pedro J. Rey

    (Universidad de Jaén & Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig (UFZ))

  • G. Martijn Hoopen

    (UMR PHIM)

  • Guy Pe’er

    (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig (UFZ)
    German Centre for integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv))

  • Yi Zou

    (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)

  • Yunhui Liu

    (China Agricultural University)

  • Philip Antwi-Agyei

    (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology)

  • Adrien Rusch

    (SAVE)

  • Charles Staver

    (Universidad Veracruzana)

  • Tharaka S. Priyadarshana

    (Nanyang Technological University)

  • Denis J. Sonwa

    (Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
    World Resources Institute (WRI))

  • Damayanti Buchori

    (IPB University (Bogor Agricultural University))

  • Lucas A. Garibaldi

    (Universidad Nacional de Río Negro
    Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET))

  • Elena D. Concepción

    (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC))

  • Owen T. Lewis

    (University of Oxford)

  • Ivette Perfecto

    (University of Michigan)

  • Ignasi Bartomeus

    (Estación Biológica de Doñana EBD (CSIC))

Abstract

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.

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  • Carlos Martinez-Nuñez & Elena Velado-Alonso & Jacques Avelino & Pedro J. Rey & G. Martijn Hoopen & Guy Pe’er & Yi Zou & Yunhui Liu & Philip Antwi-Agyei & Adrien Rusch & Charles Staver & Tharaka S. Pri, 2025. "Tailored policies for perennial woody crops are crucial to advance sustainable development," Nature Sustainability, Nature, vol. 8(2), pages 133-141, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natsus:v:8:y:2025:i:2:d:10.1038_s41893-024-01483-8
    DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01483-8
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