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Notes: Our work underlines how ecologically-based tactics support resilience and safeguard primary productivity in (tropical) agro-ecosystems, which in turn help stabilize commodity markets in a similar way as pesticide-centered approaches. Yet,more importantly, (judiciously-implemented) biological control can deliver ample ‘hidden’ environmental and human-health benefits that are not captured by the prices of globally-traded commodities.
