Crop residue crucially contributes in running the essential agro-environment services. The
modernization in crop production with high yielding varieties substantially increased the …

Brazil is a major sugarcane producer and its production more than doubled over the last
decades to meet global bioenergy demands for reducing crude oil dependency and …

Cellulose, a natural linear biopolymer composed of hierarchically arranged cellulose
nanofibrils, presents a compelling avenue for sustainable nanocellulose synthesis from …

The use of crop residues as a bioenergy feedstock is considered a potential strategy to
mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, indiscriminate harvesting of crop …

Conservation agriculture, which is based on minimum tillage, permanent soil cover and crop
rotations, has widely been promoted as a practice to maintain or improve soil quality and …

Crop pests and diseases (CPDs) are emerging threats to global food security, but trends in
the occurrence of pests and diseases remain largely unknown due to the lack of …

Sugarcane straw, consisting of green tops and dry leaves, can be maintained on fields to
improve soil quality, or harvested for bioenergy production. The optimum option between …

Sugarcane is the base of a successful agroindustrial system in several tropical and
subtropical regions of the world. This industry is evolving towards diversification of its …

Bioenergy is an important and feasible option for mitigating global warming and climate
change. However, large-scale land-use change (LUC) to expand bioenergy crops, such as …

This article presents a life cycle assessment of bio-based polyethylene terephthalate (PET)
bottles with a cradle to grave scope and provides a comparison with petrochemical PET …