Agricultural systems in the EU have become more vulnerable and less sustainable due to an
overreliance on herbicides and the tremendous increase in herbicide-resistant weeds. The …

Sustainable strategies for managing weeds are critical to meeting agriculture's potential to
feed the world's population while conserving the ecosystems and biodiversity on which we …

Crop losses from pests threaten global food security and safety. In the last six decades, pest
control using chemical pesticides has resulted in important yield gains per unit area …

A growing world population and increases in food and energy consumption have placed
production agriculture in a difficult situation. The rapid growth in food production through …

Promoting crop diversification in European agriculture is a key pillar of the agroecological
transition. Diversifying crops generally enhances crop productivity, quality, soil health and …

Diversification of crop** systems has been proposed as a major mechanism to move
towards sustainable crop** systems. To date, a diversification option that has received …

Abstract Service crops are crops grown to provide services to other cash crops, rather than
for production purposes, with the ultimate aim of improving the environmental and …

Background Global agriculture is undergoing a phase of agroecological transition. This
transition will be characterized by adoption of agroecological crop** practices and by an …

Weeds are one of the most damaging biotic stresses in crop production, and drought and
salinity are considered the most serious abiotic stresses. These factors harmfully affect …

While many pesticides are detrimental to human health and the environment, drastically
reducing their use and risks in agriculture has been set as a key target for global …