How to implement biodiversity-based agriculture to enhance ecosystem services: a review

M Duru, O Therond, G Martin, R Martin-Clouaire… - Agronomy for …, 2015 - Springer
Intensive agriculture has led to several drawbacks such as biodiversity loss, climate change,
erosion, and pollution of air and water. A potential solution is to implement management …

Key research challenges to supporting farm transitions to agroecology in advanced economies. A review

L Prost, G Martin, R Ballot, M Benoit, JE Bergez… - Agronomy for …, 2023 - Springer
In response to the sustainability issues that agriculture faces in advanced economies,
agroecology has gained increasing relevance in scientific, political, and social debates. This …

Have farmers had enough of experts?

NA Rust, P Stankovics, RM Jarvis… - Environmental …, 2022 - Springer
The exponential rise of information available means we can now, in theory, access
knowledge on almost any question we ask. However, as the amount of unverified …

The role of farmers' social networks in the implementation of no-till farming practices

K Skaalsveen, J Ingram, J Urquhart - Agricultural Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper draws on network science and uses a Social Network Analysis to improve our
understanding of how the implementation of no-till in England is influenced by farmers' …

Introducing 'microAKIS': a farmer-centric approach to understanding the contribution of advice to agricultural innovation

LA Sutherland, P Labarthe - The Journal of Agricultural Education …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The importance of agricultural advice (also called extension 1) for supporting innovation and
sustainable development in farming is well recognised, both by the readers of this journal …

Triggering change: Towards a conceptualisation of major change processes in farm decision-making

LA Sutherland, RJF Burton, J Ingram… - Journal of environmental …, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a broad conceptualisation of major change in farm level
trajectories. We argue that as a result of path dependency, major changes in farming …

[HTML][HTML] Rebound effects in agricultural land and soil management: Review and analytical framework

C Paul, AK Techen, JS Robinson, K Helming - Journal of cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Increasing the efficiency of production is the basis for decoupling economic growth from
resource consumption. In agriculture, more efficient use of natural resources is at the heart of …

[HTML][HTML] Knowledge flows: Farmers' social relations and knowledge sharing practices in 'Catchment Sensitive Farming'

E Thomas, M Riley, J Spees - Land use policy, 2020 - Elsevier
The move towards sustainable agriculture requires a more detailed understanding of
farmers' knowledge (s) and knowledge practices. Increasingly, it is important to understand …

Farmers' social networks and regional spillover effects in agricultural climate change mitigation

C Kreft, M Angst, R Huber, R Finger - Climatic Change, 2023 - Springer
Climate change poses a severe threat to global agricultural production and rural livelihoods,
and since agriculture itself is a significant source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, it can …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring how social capital and learning are related to the resilience of Dutch arable farmers

T Slijper, J Urquhart, PM Poortvliet, B Soriano… - Agricultural …, 2022 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Enhancing farm resilience has become a key policy objective of the EU's
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to help farmers deal with numerous interrelated …