Plants living under natural conditions are exposed to many adverse factors that interfere with
the photosynthetic process, leading to declines in growth, development, and yield. The …

Evidence shows the importance of food systems for sustainable development: they are at the
nexus that links food security, nutrition, and human health, the viability of ecosystems …

We explore the role of agriculture in destabilizing the Earth system at the planetary scale,
through examining nine planetary boundaries, or “safe limits”: land-system change …

The adverse effects of climate change are significantly decreasing yield levels and yield
stability over time in current monocrop** systems. Intercrop** (IC), ie. growing more …

Feeding a growing global population in a changing climate presents a significant challenge
to society,. The projected yields of crops under a range of agricultural and climatic scenarios …

The coming decades are likely to see increasing pressures on the global food system, both
on the demand side from increasing population and per capita consumption, and on the …

Rising demands for agricultural products will increase pressure to further intensify crop
production, while negative environmental impacts have to be minimized. Ecological …

In Uganda, Ghana and Bangladesh, participatory tools were used for a socio-economic and
gender analysis of three topics: climate-smart agriculture (CSA), climate analogue …

Yields of crops must increase substantially over the coming decades to keep pace with
global food demand driven by population and income growth. Ultimately global food …

Livestock are responsible for 12% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Sustainable
intensification of livestock production systems might become a key climate mitigation …