Extreme heat, drought and moisture excess are increasingly co-occurring within a single
growing season, impacting crop yields in global breadbasket regions. In this Review, we …

Crop diversity underpins the productivity, resilience and adaptive capacity of agriculture.
Loss of this diversity, termed crop genetic erosion, is therefore concerning. While alarms …

We discuss recent trends in agricultural productivity in Africa and highlight how
technological progress in agriculture has stagnated on the continent. We briefly review the …

Remote sensing (RS) techniques offer advantages over other methods for measuring soil
properties, including large-scale coverage, a non-destructive nature, temporal monitoring …

Globalization and interconnected supply chains have led to complex disruptions in global
value chains, caused by various factors such as natural disasters, climate events …

Land cover classification in remote sensing is often faced with the challenge of limited
ground truth labels. Incorporating historical ground information has the potential to …

Timely and accurately estimating smallholder crop yield is essential for optimizing
agronomic management, guiding investment and policy-making to reduce poverty and …

This study investigated how energy inflation in the health sector can be controlled. In this
context, research has been carried out using both the AHP and the DEMATEL methods. A …

Rural microfinance must contend with the triple challenges of isolation, small‐scale
transactions, and risk. These challenges result in information asymmetries and transaction …

Crop yields across sub-Saharan Africa are much lower than what is attainable given the
environmental conditions and available technologies. Closing this 'ecological yield gap'is …