Organic agriculture has a history of being contentious and is considered by some as an
inefficient approach to food production. Yet organic foods and beverages are a rapidly …

Producing enough food to meet the needs of a growing population has always been the
greatest concern of food policy-makers around the world. Given the increasing attention to …

Agriculture today places great strains on biodiversity, soils, water and the atmosphere, and
these strains will be exacerbated if current trends in population growth, meat and energy …

We hypothesize that biological diversification across ecological, spatial, and temporal scales
maintains and regenerates the ecosystem services that provide critical inputs—such as …

A key issue in the debate on the contribution of organic agriculture to the future of world
agriculture is whether organic agriculture can produce sufficient food to feed the world …

Intercropping, the agricultural practice of cultivating two or more crops in the same space at
the same time, is an old and commonly used cropping practice which aims to match …

The study of natural ecosystems and experiments using mixtures of plant species
demonstrates that both species and genetic diversity generally promote ecosystem …

Soil aggregation is considered as a crucial process in agro-system sustainability due to the
role in soil physical, chemical and biological dynamics. Here we tested the hypothesis that …

It is estimated that more than 95% of organic production is based on crop varieties that were
bred for the conventional high-input sector. Recent studies have shown that such varieties …

The need for increased sustainability of performance in cereal varieties, particularly in
organic agriculture (OA), is limited by the lack of varieties adapted to organic conditions …