With the global population expected to reach over 9 billion by 2050, there is a continuous
need to increase food production and buffer stocks. In this scenario, countries around the …

Homegarden, a type of agroforestry system, is one of the earliest thriving traditional food
systems reported. Studying the contribution of homegardens in the context of Sustainable …

This paper introduces the special feature of Ecology and Society entitled “Traditional
Ecological Knowledge and Global Environmental Change. The special feature addresses …

Although always a part of city life, urban agriculture has recently attracted increased
attention from diverse groups in the United States, which promote it as a strategy for …

Interest in ecosystem services provided by agroecosystems has grown over the last decades
with research focusing on the type of environmental, economic and social benefits delivered …

CONTEXT Agroecosystems' social-ecological resilience largely depends on the crop
diversity generated and maintained by farmers, which provides insurance against changing …

Agricultural intensification with modern plant breeding focuses on few high-yielding crops
and varieties. The loss of traditional crop species and variety diversity contributes to the …

The resilience of a social–ecological system largely depends on its capacity to learn by
absorbing new information to cope with change. But, how resilient are traditional knowledge …

Over the last two dec-ades, traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) has gained increasing
attention as a source of information for environmental science, policy, and management …

The last decades have witnessed a growing research interest of local ecological knowledge
(LEK), with some research focusing on its effective transmission for natural resource …