Monodominant natural vegetation provides models for nature-based cereal production

Nature-based solutions, principally diverse systems, are increasingly being promoted as the solution to future food production they perceived be more productive, resilient and ecologically based. This ‘paradigm of in-field diversity’ approach is inciting a growing perception that monocultures, source most global production, dysfunctional highly vulnerable diseases pests. Our perspective paper clearly shows natural monodominant vegetation common in nature ancestral species major cereals including wheat, barley rice grew monocultures maintained by disturbances such fire or flood. Early farmers mimicked these ecological stresses during field management, favouring annual crops. We also present well-supported evidence cereal an ancient method farming founded origins agriculture modern plant breeding generates supports monoculture crops inherently genetically usually resistant prevailing Until research has been done on ecology, agronomy management nature-based solutions agriculture, scarce funding agricultural for better targeted at improving efficient, environmentally benign. Monoculture particularly cereals, proven model production.