Background Agricultural systems are amended ecosystems with a variety of properties.
Modern agroecosystems have tended towards high through-flow systems, with energy …

A major challenge in rice (Oryza sativa L.) production is to enhance water use efficiency
(WUE) and maintain or even increase grain yield. WUE, if defined as the biomass …

A key issue in the debate on the contribution of organic agriculture to the future of world
agriculture is whether organic agriculture can produce sufficient food to feed the world …

Many environmental factors constrain the production of major food crops in Sub-Saharan
Africa and South Asia. At the same time, these food production systems themselves have a …

This article discusses the mitigation and adaptation potential of organic agricultural systems
along three main features: farming system design, cropland management and grassland …

Worldwide, about 79 million ha of irrigated lowlands provide 75% of the total rice production.
Lowland rice is traditionally grown in bunded fields that are continuously flooded from crop …

Motivated by donor interest in innovative thinking on food security, we conducted an
interdisciplinary, triangulation analysis of four divergent conceptual frameworks, each …

The population of Africa will double in the next 33 years to reach 2.5 billion by 2050.
Although roughly 60% of the continent's population is engaged in agriculture, the produce …

We introduce a method for properly attributing observed productivity and risk changes
among new production methods, farmers, and plots by controlling for farmer and plot …

An evaluation was conducted in eastern India over three years, 2005–2007, to compare the
performance of certain System of Rice Intensification (SRI) practices: transplanting single …