We challenge the widespread appraisal that organic farming is the fundamental alternative
to conventional farming for harnessing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. Certification of …

Agroecology increasingly has gained scientific and policy recognition as having potential to
address environmental and social issues within food production, but concerns have been …

In recent decades, the confluence of different global and domestic drivers has led to
progressive and unpredictable changes in the functioning and structure of agri-food markets …

BACKGROUND Biodiversity is under siege, with greatly enhanced rates of local and global
extinction and the decline of once-abundant species. Current rates of human-induced …

The eighteenth-century Malthusian prediction of population growth outstrip** food
production has not yet come to bear. Unprecedented agricultural land expansions since …

Organic agriculture is proposed as a promising approach to achieving sustainable food
systems, but its feasibility is also contested. We use a food systems model that addresses …

One of the primary challenges of our time is to enhance global food production and security.
Most assessments in agricultural systems focus on plant yield. Yet, these analyses neglect …

In augmentative biological control (ABC), invertebrate and microbial organisms are
seasonally released in large numbers to reduce pests. Today it is applied on more than 30 …

Organic agriculture is often perceived as more sustainable than conventional farming. We
review the literature on this topic from a global perspective. In terms of environmental and …

There is an ongoing debate on what constitutes sustainable intensification of agriculture
(SIA). In this paper, we propose that a paradigm for sustainable intensification can be …