Evergreen Agriculture: a robust approach to sustainable food security in Africa

DP Garrity, FK Akinnifesi, OC Ajayi, SG Weldesemayat… - Food security, 2010 - Springer
Producing more food for a growing population in the coming decades, while at the same
time combating poverty and hunger, is a huge challenge facing African agriculture. The risks …

The roles and values of wild foods in agricultural systems

Z Bharucha, J Pretty - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Almost every ecosystem has been amended so that plants and animals can be used as
food, fibre, fodder, medicines, traps and weapons. Historically, wild plants and animals were …

Transforming the food system to fight non-communicable diseases

F Branca, A Lartey, S Oenema, V Aguayo… - Bmj, 2019 - bmj.com
Transforming the food system to fight non-communicable diseases Page 1 SOLUTIONS FOR
PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES 24 BMJ 2019;365:Suppl …

[PDF][PDF] From uniformity to diversity: a paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems

EA Frison - 2016 - cgspace.cgiar.org
Today's food and farming systems have succeeded in supplying large volumes of foods to
global markets, but are generating negative outcomes on multiple fronts: widespread …

[BOEK][B] Water for food water for life: A comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture

D Molden - 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
Managing water resources is one of the most pressing challenges of our times-fundamental
to how we feed 2 billion more people in coming decades, eliminate poverty, and reverse …

Improving agricultural water productivity: Between optimism and caution

D Molden, T Oweis, P Steduto, P Bindraban… - Agricultural water …, 2010 - Elsevier
In its broadest sense, water productivity (WP) is the net return for a unit of water used.
Improvement of water productivity aims at producing more food, income, better livelihoods …

Beyond reserves: A research agenda for conserving biodiversity in human‐modified tropical landscapes

RL Chazdon, CA Harvey, O Komar, DM Griffith… - Biotropica, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
To truly understand the current status of tropical diversity and to forecast future trends, we
need to increase emphasis on the study of biodiversity in rural landscapes that are actively …

What conservationists need to know about farming

A Balmford, R Green, B Phalan - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Farming is the basis of our civilization yet is more damaging to wild nature than any other
sector of human activity. Here, we propose that in order to limit its impact into the future …

[CITAAT][C] Conservation biology for all

NS Sodhi - 2010 - books.google.com
Conservation Biology for All provides cutting-edge but basic conservation science to a
global readership. A series of authoritative chapters have been written by the top names in …

Agroecology: A review from a global-change perspective

TP Tomich, S Brodt, H Ferris, R Galt… - Annual Review of …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
This review by a multidisciplinary team maps key components and emerging connections
within the intellectual landscape of agroecology. We attempt to extend and preview …