Prospects of bioenergy crop** systems for a more social-ecologically sound bioeconomy

M Von Cossel, M Wagner, J Lask, E Magenau… - Agronomy, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
The growing bioeconomy will require a greater supply of biomass in the future for both
bioenergy and bio-based products. Today, many bioenergy crop** systems (BCS) are …

Invited review: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, agriculture, and food—A case of shifting cultivation and history

JR Porter, AJ Challinor, CB Henriksen… - Global Change …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Since 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has produced
five Assessment Reports (ARs), in which agriculture as the production of food for humans via …

[HTML][HTML] The science, policy and practice of nature-based solutions: An interdisciplinary perspective

C Nesshöver, T Assmuth, KN Irvine, GM Rusch… - Science of the total …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
In this paper, we reflect on the implications for science, policy and practice of the recently
introduced concept of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), with a focus on the European context …

[كتاب][B] The ecological hoofprint: The global burden of industrial livestock

T Weis - 2013‏ - books.google.com
The exploding global consumption of meat is implicated in momentous but greatly
underappreciated problems, and industrial livestock production is the driving force behind …

Food sovereignty

R Patel - The journal of peasant studies, 2009‏ - Taylor & Francis
What does food sovereignty look like? Raj Patel Hannah Arendt observed that the first right,
above all others, is the right to have rights. In many ways, Via Campesina's call for food …

The agroecological matrix as alternative to the land-sparing/agriculture intensification model

I Perfecto, J Vandermeer - Proceedings of the National …, 2010‏ - National Acad Sciences
Among the myriad complications involved in the current food crisis, the relationship between
agriculture and the rest of nature is one of the most important yet remains only incompletely …

The accelerating biophysical contradictions of industrial capitalist agriculture

T Weis - Journal of agrarian change, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
The productivity of industrial capitalist agriculture is central to dominant development
narratives. It is also highly unstable, with intractable biophysical problems created in the …

Agroecology as a vehicle for contributive justice

C Timmermann, GF Félix - Agriculture and human values, 2015‏ - Springer
Agroecology has been criticized for being more labor-intensive than other more
industrialized forms of agriculture. We challenge the assertion that labor input in agriculture …

The meat of the global food crisis

T Weis - The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2013‏ - Taylor & Francis
The global food crisis has been widely described in terms of the volatility of grain and
oilseed markets and the associated worsening conditions of food security facing many poor …

[كتاب][B] Coffee agroecology: a new approach to understanding agricultural biodiversity, ecosystem services and sustainable development

I Perfecto, J Vandermeer - 2015‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Based on principles of the conservation and optimization of biodiversity and of equity and
sustainability, this book focuses on the ecology of the coffee agroecosystem as a model for a …