Oct 29, 2024 | Food & Agriculture, October 2024
Large Scale Agriculture, often referred to as “Big Ag,” is a focal point of the climate crisis and at the nexus of soil, water, and atmosphere exchange of greenhouse gas emissions [1, 2]. Although this label is widely used, its meaning varies significantly...
Sep 9, 2024 | Food & Agriculture, September 2024
Introduction In an era marked by the pressing challenges of climate change, a rapidly growing global population, and escalating food insecurity, food systems face immense pressure to meet the rising demand for quality food. The yield gap, a critical concept in...
Jul 12, 2024 | Food & Agriculture
Definition and Goals of Sustainable Intensification Sustainable intensification (SI) is defined as the process of “simultaneously raising productivity, increasing resource use efficiency, and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture” [1]....
May 23, 2024 | Food & Agriculture
Introduction The extreme humanitarian situation and reported war crimes in the Russia-Ukraine conflict mean that the effects on the environment have been overlooked [1, 2]. The destruction of the Nova Kakhovka Dam by the Russian troops in June 2023 resulted in one of...
Jun 28, 2023 | Biodiversity, Food & Agriculture
The Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies for 2030 adopts agroforestry as a nature-based solution. Nature-based solutions help society towards socio-ecological goals, such as climate action and promoting life on land and below water [3]. Carbon-negative...
May 7, 2022 | Food & Agriculture
The cocoa industry begins with farmers growing cacao trees and ends with the billions of consumers who eat chocolate and chocolate-based products. Cocoa farming has a very specific geography. It is grown close to the equator because the cacao trees benefit from a warm...
