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TAILORED POLICIES FOR PERENNIAL WOODY CROPS ARE CRUCIAL TO ADVANCE SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT

 * Carlos Martinez-Nuñez  ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-7814-49851,
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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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Fig. 1: Overlap between the main perennial crops and hotspots of biodiversity.

Fig. 2: The importance of perennial crops worldwide.

Fig. 3: Scientific attention received by perennial crops and annual crops.

Fig. 4: Effects of agricultural practices in perennial crops along the
sustainability gradient.

Fig. 5: Main threats to the sustainability of key perennial crops worldwide.

Fig. 6: Agricultural practices and farming models that could be incentivized by
new agricultural policies.



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We acknowledge funding from the project SHOWCASE (SHOWCASing synergies between
agriculture, biodiversity and Ecosystem services to help farmers capitalizing on
native biodiversity) within the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme (grant agreement number 862480). C.M.-N. was supported by the ‘Juan de
la Cierva’ programme (reference number FJC2021-046829-I). T.S.P. was supported
by a research scholarship awarded by the Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore (application number R2004096). P.J.R. acknowledges the projects
RECOVECOS (PID2019-108332GB-I00, funded by MICIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) and
OLIVARES VIVOS+ (LIFE20 AT/ES/001487, European Commission). The contribution of
D.J.S. was made possible by financial support from NORAD (grant number
QZA-21/0124) for the CIFOR GCS-REDD+ (Global Comparative Study on REDD+)
project. A.R. acknowledges support from the French National Research Agency
(ANR) under grant number 20-PCPA-0010 and from the National Program PEPR
‘Solutions fondées sur la Nature’ (SOLU-BIOD) through the Living Lab ‘Bacchus’.
G.P. acknowledges funding from the strategic project iCAP-BES through the German
Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig (grant
number DFG FZT 118), as well as from the EU Horizon Europe project
Agroecology-TRANSECT (grant agreement number 101060816). This publication
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AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS

 1.  Department of Ecology and Evolution, Estación Biológica de Doñana EBD
     (CSIC), Seville, Spain
     
     Carlos Martinez-Nuñez, Elena Velado-Alonso & Ignasi Bartomeus

 2.  Functional Agrobiodiversity, George August University of Göttingen,
     Göttingen, Germany
     
     Elena Velado-Alonso

 3.  French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD),
     UMR PHIM, Montpellier, France
     
     Jacques Avelino & G. Martijn ten Hoopen

 4.  PHIM (Plant Health Institute Montpellier), CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro,
     Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
     
     Jacques Avelino

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     de Jaén & Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig (UFZ), Jaén,
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     Pedro J. Rey

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