Documents for download:. The need to provide resources to 9 billion human beings in the near future, whilst altogether preserving ecosystem services and biodiversity and facing climate change poses new challenges to agriculture.
Decreasing pesticides quantity, spectrum means that pests should be more numerous and diverse. But decreasing pesticides should also help restoring populations of natural enemies which will act against these pests. The challenge is thus to effectively support the populations of natural enemies so that their recovery is large enough to provide an efficient regulatory service FAO CD Moreover, relying on local ecosystems to effectively provide natural pest control allows farmers not only to decrease costs on pesticides but also those linked to release of commercially captive-bred bio-control agents.
The goal of this work is to contribute to the synthesis of knowledge concerning agrobiodiversity and its related ecosystem services by assessing the effectiveness of interventions aiming at manipulating habitat or landscape features in order to maintain or support natural indigenous population of pest control agents.
A call to the Net work of Knowledge as well as direct contacts with experts has allowed to identify key players in this topic:. The approach chosen to synthesize knowledge is initially that of a systematic review www. We will include the Synopsis of evidence www. Given our limited resources and short deadlines, we will follow all the steps of a systematic review but will probably have to stop at the stage of a systematic map and may have to narrow the range of examination of the literature as there will possibly be a huge range of papers extracted.
We will try at least to report about the quantity of knowledge, establish a structured knowledge base, and if possible highlight knowledge gaps and opportunities for subsequent meta-analysis which would lead to full systematic reviews. We are trying to build up sound foundations so that the project may attract extract funding if the topic and approach was of interest to some.
