Crop genetic erosion: understanding and responding to loss of crop diversity

CK Khoury, S Brush, DE Costich, HA Curry… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Crop diversity underpins the productivity, resilience and adaptive capacity of agriculture.
Loss of this diversity, termed crop genetic erosion, is therefore concerning. While alarms …

The role of crop diversity in climate change adaptation: Insights from local observations to inform decision making in agriculture

V Labeyrie, D Renard, Y Aumeeruddy-Thomas… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•We review climate-driven changes in crop portfolios reported by farmers.•We
discuss the implications for local calories and nutrient production.•We document increased …

Urbanization in and for the Anthropocene

T Elmqvist, E Andersson, T McPhearson, X Bai… - Npj Urban …, 2021 - nature.com
Key insights on needs in urban regional governance-Global urbanization (the increasing
concentration in urban settlements of the increasing world population), is a driver and …

Specialization in food production affects global food security and food systems sustainability

M Campi, M Dueñas, G Fagiolo - World Development, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding specialization patterns of countries in food production can provide relevant
insights for the evaluation and design of policies seeking to achieve food security and …

Global market report: soybeans

V Voora, C Larrea, S Bermudez - 2020 - JSTOR
Note: VSS-compliant production volumes refer to soybeans produced in compliance with
one or more voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs). Conventional production volumes do …

Against the odds: Network and institutional pathways enabling agricultural diversification

J Blesh, Z Mehrabi, H Wittman, RB Kerr, D James… - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
Farming systems that support locally diverse agricultural production and high levels of
biodiversity are in rapid decline, despite evidence of their benefits for climate, environmental …

Past and current dynamics of US agricultural land use and policy

K Spangler, EK Burchfield… - Frontiers in Sustainable …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Over the past century, agricultural land use in the United States has seen drastic shifts to
support increasing demand for food and commodities; in many regions, this has resulted in …

Fruit and vegetable biodiversity for nutritionally diverse diets: Challenges, opportunities, and knowledge gaps

J Harris, M van Zonneveld, EG Achigan-Dako… - Global Food …, 2022 - Elsevier
Planetary health brings together intrinsically linked issues of human health and natural
systems. This paper reviews evidence of how agrobiodiversity underpins dietary diversity for …

Woody semi‐natural habitats modulate the effects of field size and functional crop diversity on farmland birds

C Frank, L Hertzog, S Klimek… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Agricultural intensification has simplified landscape composition and configuration, which
has led to biodiversity declines. Increasing landscape‐wide crop heterogeneity can promote …

Needle in a haystack: Map** rare and infrequent crops using satellite imagery and data balancing methods

F Waldner, Y Chen, R Lawes, Z Hochman - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Most crop** systems around the world are organised around few dominant crops and a
larger number of less frequent crops. While rare and infrequent crops occupy a small share …