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Time for a shift in crop production: embracing complexity through diversity at all levels

  1. Hanne Østergård1,*,
  2. Maria R Finckh2,
  3. Laurence Fontaine3,
  4. Isabelle Goldringer4,
  5. Steve P Hoad5,
  6. Kristian Kristensen6,
  7. Edith T Lammerts van Bueren7,
  8. Fabio Mascher8,
  9. Lisa Munk9,
  10. Martin S Wolfe10

Article first published online: 11 MAY 2009

DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.3615

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Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Volume 89, Issue 9, pages 1439–1445, July 2009

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Østergård, H., Finckh, M. R., Fontaine, L., Goldringer, I., Hoad, S. P., Kristensen, K., Lammerts van Bueren, E. T., Mascher, F., Munk, L. and Wolfe, M. S. (2009), Time for a shift in crop production: embracing complexity through diversity at all levels. J. Sci. Food Agric., 89: 1439–1445. doi: 10.1002/jsfa.3615

Author Information

  1. 1

    Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark DTU, Biosystem Division, PO Box 49, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark

  2. 2

    Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, University of Kassel, Group of Ecological Plant Protection, Nordbahnhofstraße 1a, D-37213 Witzenhausen, Germany

  3. 3

    Institut Technique de l'Agriculture Biologique, 9 Rue André Brouard, BP 70510, F-49105 Angers Cedex 02, France

  4. 4

    UMR de Génétique Végétale, INRA—Université Paris-Sud—AgroParisTech—CNRS, Ferme du Moulon, F-91190 Gif sur Yvette, France

  5. 5

    Scottish Agricultural College, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK

  6. 6

    Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aarhus University AU, Aarhus, Denmark

  7. 7

    Louis Bolk Institute, Hoofdstraat 24, NL-3972 LA Driebergen, The Netherlands and Wageningen University, Wageningen UR Plant Breeding, PO Box 386, NL-6700 AJ Wageningen, The Netherlands

  8. 8

    Agroscope Changins-Wädenswil Research Station ACW, Route de Duillier, CH-1260 Nyon, Switzerland

  9. 9

    Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK-1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark

  10. 10

    The Organic Research Centre, Wakelyns Agroforestry, Fressingfield, Eye, Suffolk IP21 5SD, UK

*Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark DTU, Biosystem Division, PO Box 49, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 11 JUN 2009
  2. Article first published online: 11 MAY 2009
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 23 MAR 2009
  4. Manuscript Revised: 17 MAR 2009
  5. Manuscript Received: 26 DEC 2008

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