Given both the ongoing expansion of world population and development of climate change
conditions, it is increasingly imperative to develop and deploy sustainable biomass …

Agricultural systems in the EU have become more vulnerable and less sustainable due to an
overreliance on herbicides and the tremendous increase in herbicide-resistant weeds. The …

The concept of integrated pest management (IPM) has been accepted and incorporated in
public policies and regulations in the European Union and elsewhere, but a holistic science …

Past research has demonstrated that decreased biodiversity often reduces ecosystem
productivity, but variation in the shape of biodiversity–ecosystem function (BEF) …

For sustainable agricultural production, we propose bio-tillage, which is defined as
improving soil structure with plant roots to boost the growth of crops, in this paper. Cover …

India has the second largest population in the world and is characterized by a broad
diversity in climate, topography, flora, fauna, land use, and socioeconomic conditions. To …

Intercrop** is known to increase the efficiency of land use, but no meta-analysis has so far
been made on the yield gain of intercrop** compared to sole crop** in terms of absolute …

Companion plant intercrop** involves growing a cash crop with another plant that is not
harvested, to confer a set of benefits on the crop and the environment. Weed control and …

Intercrop** has long been an important agroforestry technique that has been applied
worldwide. While intercrop** increases soil carbon and nitrogen, an elucidation of its …

We review the need for increasing agricultural sustainability, how this can in part be
delivered by positive biodiversity–ecosystem function (BEF) effects, the role within these of …