A review of the interactions between biodiversity, agriculture, climate change, and international trade: research and policy priorities

AMD Ortiz, CL Outhwaite, C Dalin, T Newbold - One Earth, 2021 - cell.com
Striving to feed a population set to reach almost 10 billion people by 2050 in a sustainable
way is high on the research and policy agendas. Further intensification and expansion of …

Social-ecological outcomes of agricultural intensification

LV Rasmussen, B Coolsaet, A Martin, O Mertz… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Land-use intensification in agrarian landscapes is seen as a key strategy to simultaneously
feed humanity and use ecosystems sustainably, but the conditions that support positive …

Global impacts of future cropland expansion and intensification on agricultural markets and biodiversity

F Zabel, R Delzeit, JM Schneider, R Seppelt… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
With rising demand for biomass, cropland expansion and intensification represent the main
strategies to boost agricultural production, but are also major drivers of biodiversity decline …

Predicting landscape configuration effects on agricultural pest suppression

NL Haan, Y Zhang, DA Landis - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2020 - cell.com
Arthropod predators and parasitoids attack crop pests, providing a valuable ecosystem
service. The amount of noncrop habitat surrounding crop fields influences pest suppression …

Salt stress proteins in plants: An overview

HR Athar, F Zulfiqar, A Moosa, M Ashraf… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Salinity stress is considered the most devastating abiotic stress for crop productivity.
Accumulating different types of soluble proteins has evolved as a vital strategy that plays a …

Conventional land‐use intensification reduces species richness and increases production: A global meta‐analysis

M Beckmann, K Gerstner, M Akin‐Fajiye… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Most current research on land‐use intensification addresses its potential to either threaten
biodiversity or to boost agricultural production. However, little is known about the …

[HTML][HTML] Ecosystem services and nature's contribution to people: negotiating diverse values and trade-offs in land systems

EC Ellis, U Pascual, O Mertz - Current Opinion in Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Biodiversity and ecosystem services are perceived differently by different
stakeholders.•Land management decisions require negotiating trade-offs among values and …

Global agricultural trade and land system sustainability: Implications for ecosystem carbon storage, biodiversity, and human nutrition

T Kastner, A Chaudhary, S Gingrich, A Marques… - One Earth, 2021 - cell.com
Global land systems are increasingly shaped by international trade of agricultural products.
An increasing number of studies have quantified the implications of agricultural trade for …

Social-ecological systems insights for navigating the dynamics of the Anthropocene

B Reyers, C Folke, ML Moore, R Biggs… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Social-ecological systems (SES) research offers new theory and evidence to transform
sustainable development to better contend with the challenges of the Anthropocene. Four …

Development pathways toward “zero hunger”

J Blesh, L Hoey, AD Jones, H Friedmann, I Perfecto - World Development, 2019 - Elsevier
Globally, industrial agriculture threatens critical ecosystem processes on which crop
production depends, while 815 million people are undernourished and many more suffer …