Resilience of local food systems and links to food security–A review of some important concepts in the context of COVID-19 and other shocks

C Béné - Food security, 2020 - Springer
The objective of this review is to explore and discuss the concept of local food system
resilience in light of the disruptions brought to those systems by the 2020 COVID-19 …

Diverse approaches to crop diversification in agricultural research. A review

J Hufnagel, M Reckling, F Ewert - Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2020 - Springer
Agricultural intensification increased crop productivity but simplified production with lower
diversity of crop** systems, higher genetic uniformity, and a higher uniformity of …

[HTML][HTML] Climate risk management and rural poverty reduction

J Hansen, J Hellin, T Rosenstock, E Fisher, J Cairns… - Agricultural …, 2019 - Elsevier
Climate variability is a major source of risk to smallholder farmers and pastoralists,
particularly in dryland regions. A growing body of evidence links climate-related risk to the …

Plant–soil feedback: bridging natural and agricultural sciences

P Mariotte, Z Mehrabi, TM Bezemer… - Trends in ecology & …, 2018 - cell.com
In agricultural and natural systems researchers have demonstrated large effects of plant–soil
feedback (PSF) on plant growth. However, the concepts and approaches used in these two …

Ecological and evolutionary approaches to improving crop variety mixtures

SE Wuest, R Peter, PA Niklaus - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - nature.com
Variety mixtures can provide a range of benefits for both the crop and the environment. Their
utility for the suppression of pathogens, especially in small grain crops, is well established …

Plant–soil synchrony in nutrient cycles: Learning from ecosystems to design sustainable agrosystems

S Fontaine, L Abbadie, M Aubert, S Barot… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Redesigning agrosystems to include more ecological regulations can help feed a growing
human population, preserve soils for future productivity, limit dependency on synthetic …

Breeding beyond monoculture: Putting the “intercrop” into crops

PM Bourke, JB Evers, P Bijma… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Intercrop** is both a well-established and yet novel agricultural practice, depending on
one's perspective. Such perspectives are principally governed by geographic location and …

Intercrop** with service crops provides multiple services in temperate arable systems: a review

A Gardarin, F Celette, C Naudin, G Piva… - Agronomy for …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Service crops are crops grown to provide services to other cash crops, rather than
for production purposes, with the ultimate aim of improving the environmental and …

[HTML][HTML] Yield gain, complementarity and competitive dominance in intercrop** in China: A meta-analysis of drivers of yield gain using additive partitioning

C Li, E Hoffland, TW Kuyper, Y Yu, H Li, C Zhang… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Intercrop** is known to increase the efficiency of land use, but no meta-analysis has so far
been made on the yield gain of intercrop** compared to sole crop** in terms of absolute …

Managing for multifunctionality in perennial grain crops

MR Ryan, TE Crews, SW Culman, LR DeHaan… - Bioscience, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Plant breeders are increasing yields and improving agronomic traits in several perennial
grain crops, the first of which is now being incorporated into commercial food products …