The eighteenth-century Malthusian prediction of population growth outstrip** food
production has not yet come to bear. Unprecedented agricultural land expansions since …

Mixed crop–livestock systems are the backbone of African agriculture, providing food
security and livelihood options for hundreds of millions of people. Much is known about the …

Crop and livestock production have become spatially decoupled in existing commercial
agricultural regimes throughout the world. These segregated high input production systems …

This paper examines the concept of resilience and its increasing use in the face of both
economic uncertainty and climate change, and applies it to farm management. Resilience is …

Combining crops and livestock within integrated crop–livestock systems (ICLS) represents
an opportunity to improve the sustainability of farming systems. The objective of this paper is …

Paradoxically, the number of crop–livestock farms is declining across Europe, despite the
fact that crop-livestock farms are theoretically optimal to improve the sustainability of …

Sustainable intensification of existing global croplands and rangelands is a pressing
challenge to reconcile competing demands on land systems for food production and …

Integrated crop–livestock systems have been shown to improve nutrient cycling, particularly
by re-coupling nitrogen and carbon cycles. Yet the number of mixed crop–livestock farms …

This paper reviews the shifting fate of legumes in UK agriculture. Legumes were once a
common part of crop rotations, providing food and feed, while enhancing soil fertility and …

Criticism of field crop farming based on the intensive use of pesticides and fertilizers is
growing. Yet, the processes of change toward the ecologization of farming practices are …