An ecological future for weed science to sustain crop production and the environment. A review

C MacLaren, J Storkey, A Menegat, H Metcalfe… - Agronomy for …, 2020‏ - Springer
Sustainable strategies for managing weeds are critical to meeting agriculture's potential to
feed the world's population while conserving the ecosystems and biodiversity on which we …

Ecological intensification: bridging the gap between science and practice

D Kleijn, R Bommarco, TPM Fijen, LA Garibaldi… - Trends in ecology & …, 2019‏ - cell.com
There is worldwide concern about the environmental costs of conventional intensification of
agriculture. Growing evidence suggests that ecological intensification of mainstream farming …

Long-term evidence for ecological intensification as a pathway to sustainable agriculture

C MacLaren, A Mead, D van Balen, L Claessens… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Ecological intensification (EI) could help return agriculture into a 'safe operating space'for
humanity. Using a novel application of meta-analysis to data from 30 long-term experiments …

[HTML][HTML] An integrated weed management framework: a pan-European perspective

M Riemens, M Sønderskov, AC Moonen… - European Journal of …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Initiatives to reduce the reliance of agriculture on pesticides, including the European Union
(EU) Directive 2009/128/EC on the sustainable use of pesticides (SUD), have yet to lead to …

Prairie strips improve biodiversity and the delivery of multiple ecosystem services from corn–soybean croplands

LA Schulte, J Niemi, MJ Helmers… - Proceedings of the …, 2017‏ - National Acad Sciences
Loss of biodiversity and degradation of ecosystem services from agricultural lands remain
important challenges in the United States despite decades of spending on natural resource …

Does diversifying crop rotations suppress weeds? A meta-analysis

D Weisberger, V Nichols, M Liebman - PLoS One, 2019‏ - journals.plos.org
Over the past half-century, crop rotations have become increasingly simplified, with whole
regions producing only one or two crops in succession. Simplification is problematic from a …

Farming without glyphosate?

HJ Beckie, KC Flower, MB Ashworth - Plants, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Recent statements from scientific organisations and court decisions have resulted in
widespread public interest and concern over the safety of glyphosate, the most popular and …

[كتاب][B] The real cost of cheap food

M Carolan - 2018‏ - taylorfrancis.com
This thought-provoking but accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on
its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and by exploring what …

Herbicide resistance management: Recent developments and trends

HJ Beckie, MB Ashworth, KC Flower - Plants, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
This review covers recent developments and trends in herbicide-resistant (HR) weed
management in agronomic field crops. In countries where input-intensive agriculture is …

Diversifying crop rotations enhances agroecosystem services and resilience

C Liu, D Plaza-Bonilla, JA Coulter, HR Kutcher… - Advances in …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
A significant challenge in our time is to produce sufficient agricultural products on limited
farmable land to meet the needs for food, feed, fiber, and industrial uses in the face of a …