Agricultural sustainability: concepts, principles and evidence

J Pretty - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Concerns about sustainability in agricultural systems centre on the need to develop
technologies and practices that do not have adverse effects on environmental goods and …

Herbicide‐resistant crops and weed resistance to herbicides

MDK Owen, IA Zelaya - Pest Management Science: formerly …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops has increased dramatically during the last 3
years, and currently over 52 million hectares of GM crops are planted world‐wide …

Integrating sustainable development in the supply chain: The case of life cycle assessment in oil and gas and agricultural biotechnology

S Matos, J Hall - Journal of operations management, 2007 - Elsevier
It is widely accepted that firms play an important stewardship role in addressing sustainable
development concerns. A key challenge in this role is to balance the often conflicting …

How agro-ecological research helps to address food security issues under new IPM and pesticide reduction policies for global crop production systems

AN E. Birch, GS Begg, GR Squire - Journal of experimental …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Drivers behind food security and crop protection issues are discussed in relation to food
losses caused by pests. Pests globally consume food estimated to feed an additional one …

Assessing environmental risks of transgenic plants

DA Andow, C Zwahlen - Ecology letters, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
By the end of the 1980s, a broad consensus had developed that there were potential
environmental risks of transgenic plants requiring assessment and that this assessment …

[LIBRO][B] Pesticides: health, safety and the environment

G Matthews - 2015 - books.google.com
Crop protection continues to be an important component of modern farming to maintain food
production to feed an expanding human population, but considerable changes have …

National‐scale regulation of the weed seedbank by carabid predators

DA Bohan, A Boursault, DR Brooks… - Journal of Applied …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Assuring future food productivity and security will require that better use is made of pest
regulation provided by naturally occurring ecological services. However, empirical evidence …

Questions concerning the potential impact of glyphosate‐based herbicides on amphibians

N Wagner, W Reichenbecher… - Environmental …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Use of glyphosate‐based herbicides is increasing worldwide. The authors review the
available data related to potential impacts of these herbicides on amphibians and conduct a …

Responses of plants and invertebrate trophic groups to contrasting herbicide regimes in the Farm Scale Evaluations of genetically modified herbicide–tolerant crops

American Association for Research … - … of the Royal …, 2003 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Effects of genetically modified herbicide–tolerant (GMHT) and conventional crop
management on invertebrate trophic groups (herbivores, detritivores, pollinators, predators …

Weed species shifts in glyphosate‐resistant crops

MDK Owen - Pest Management Science: formerly Pesticide …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The adoption of glyphosate‐based crop production systems has been one of the most
important revolutions in the history of agriculture. Changes in weed communities owing to …