Table 1.
Examples of trade-offs between cropping-system yield and yield of individual crops reported in the literature.
| Cropping system | Climate | References |
|---|---|---|
| A – Sequential (crops are not grown simultaneously) | ||
| wheat-maize | temperate (Argentina, New-Zealand) | Monzon et al. (2007); Fletcher et al., (2011) |
| wheat-soybean | temperate (USA) | Shapiro et al. (1992) |
| maize-maize | semi-arid (Chile) | Meza et al. (2008) |
| maize-soybean | temperate (Argentina) | Monzon et al. (2014) |
| rice-rice-rice | tropical (Asia) | Evans, (1993) |
| B – Simultaneous (crops are, at least partly, grown simultaneously) | ||
| maize-barley | semi-arid (China, Gansu) | Li et al. (2011) |
| maize-wheat | semi-arid (China, Gansu) | Li et al. (2011) |
| maize-faba bean | semi-arid (China, Gansu) | Li et al. (2011) |
| maize-pigeon pea | sub-humid (Brazil) | Baldé et al. (2011) |
| maize-soybean | temperate (Argentina) | Monzon et al. (2014) |
| maize-cassava | tropical | Mutsaers et al. (1993) |
| maize-potato | tropical | Wu et al. (2012) |
| wheat-pea | temperate (Europe) | Bedoussac and Justes (2010a,b), Bedoussac et al. (2015) |
| vegetable-vegetable | – | Yildirim and Guvenc (2005) |