Ecological theory suggests that biodiversity has a positive and stabilizing effect on the
delivery of ecosystem services. Yet, the impacts of increasing the diversity of cultivated crop …

Diverse, severe, and location-specific impacts on agricultural production are anticipated with
climate change. The last IPCC report indicates that the rise of CO 2 and associated …

The current food system (production, transport, processing, packaging, storage, retail,
consumption, loss and waste) feeds the great majority of world population and supports the …

Humans are altering the composition of biological communities through a variety of activities
that increase rates of species invasions and species extinctions, at all scales, from local to …

Soil organisms are an integral component of ecosystems, but their activities receive little
recognition in agricultural management strategies. Here we synthesize the potential of soil …

Understanding the negative and positive effects of agricultural land use for the conservation
of biodiversity, and its relation to ecosystem services, needs a landscape perspective …

Recognition that climate change could have negative consequences for agricultural
production has generated a desire to build resilience into agricultural systems. One rational …

The forecasted 9.1 billion population in 2050 will require an increase in food production for
an additional two billion people. There is thus an active debate on new farming practices …

World population is projected to reach over nine billion by the year 2050, and ensuring food
security while mitigating environmental impacts represents a major agricultural challenge …

Throughout the develo** world, resource-poor farmers (about 1.4 billion people) located
in risk-prone, marginal environments, remain untouched by modern agricultural technology …