Agroecological techniques: Adoption of safe and sustainable agricultural practices among the smallholder farmers in Africa

AO Akanmu, AM Akol, DO Ndolo, FR Kutu… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Attaining sufficiency in food supply to support a growing population without compromising
ecosystem functioning remains a top agenda of researchers and agricultural stakeholders …

How social considerations improve the equity and effectiveness of ecosystem restoration

S Löfqvist, F Kleinschroth, A Bey, A De Bremond… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Ecosystem restoration is an important means to address global sustainability challenges.
However, scientific and policy discourse often overlooks the social processes that influence …

Advancing the science and practice of ecological nutrient management for smallholder farmers

LE Drinkwater, SS Snapp - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Soil degradation is widespread in smallholder agrarian communities across the globe where
limited resource farmers struggle to overcome poverty and malnutrition. This review lays out …

Cultivating climate resilience in California agriculture: Adaptations to an increasingly volatile water future

J Medellín-Azuara, A Escriva-Bou, ACM Gaudin… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
California agriculture will undergo significant transformations over the next few decades in
response to climate extremes, environmental regulation and policy encouraging …

[HTML][HTML] Regenerative agriculture—agroecology without politics?

P Tittonell, V El Mujtar, G Felix, Y Kebede… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Agroecology and regenerative agriculture have plenty in common: soil and ecosystem
restoration, reliance on biological interactions and ecosystem services, integration of …

Spatiotemporal dynamics and driving mechanism of arable ecosystem stability in arid and semi-arid areas based on Pressure-Buffer-Response process

Y Yan, Q Guan, W Shao, Q Wang, X Yang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
The stability of the arable ecosystem plays a crucial role in the sustainable utilization of land
resources and the efficiency of agricultural production. However, irrigated agriculture has led …

Farm resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of California direct market farmers

JL Durant, L Asprooth, RE Galt, SP Schmulevich… - Agricultural …, 2023 - Elsevier
CONTEXT The COVID-19 pandemic caused substantial shocks to US food systems at
multiple scales. While disturbances to long-distance supply chains received substantial …

Social risk perceptions of climate change: a case study of farmers and agricultural advisors in northern California

M Petersen-Rockney - Global Environmental Change, 2022 - Elsevier
Crop and livestock farmers must respond to climate change, including a range of physical
and cultural impacts and risks. In rural northern California, farmers face extreme drought and …

The adoption of conservation practices in the Corn Belt: the role of one formal farmer network, Practical Farmers of Iowa

L Asprooth, M Norton, R Galt - Agriculture and Human Values, 2023 - Springer
Substantial evidence has shown that involvement in peer-to-peer farming networks
influences whether a farmer decides to try a new practice. Formally organized farmer …

Nutritionism in a food policy context: the case of 'animal protein'

F Leroy, T Beal, P Gregorini, GA McAuliffe… - Animal Production …, 2022 - CSIRO Publishing
Reductionist approaches to food focus on isolated nutritional criteria, ignoring the broader
physiological and societal benefits and trade-offs involved. They can lead to the inadvertent …