Over the last decade, there have been increasing calls for robust impact evaluations of
voluntary agricultural sustainability standards (VSS's). In response, this study reviews the …

Policy makers and farmers need to know the status of farmland biodiversity in order to meet
conservation goals and evaluate management options. Based on a review of 11 monitoring …

Lengthening and diversifying crop rotations is an efficient strategy to reduce the use of
fertilizers and pesticides, thereby improving the sustainability of cropping systems. To test …

DNA is the most elemental level of biodiversity, drives the process of speciation, and
underpins other levels of biodiversity, including functional traits, species and ecosystems …

This paper presents an approach for assessing the effectiveness of projects aimed at
creating incentives for smallholder farmers to continue maintaining crop diversity under …

Habitat descriptors are cost effective biodiversity indicators demanded by stakeholders and
required for regional and global biodiversity monitoring. We mapped 195 farms of different …

Northern Italy is an area particularly suitable for the cultivation of different crops. It used to be
characterized by a high agrobiodiversity. However, it is estimated that over the last decades …

Owing to persistent challenges of food and nutritional insecurity, recent literature has
focused on the role diversity of farm production has on food consumption diversity …

Enhancing orphan crops productivity in developing countries is of paramount importance to
providing quality diets to the growing population as well as resilience options to smallholder …

Farm production diversity is widely promoted as a strategy for enhancing smallholders' food
and nutrition security. Nonetheless, empirical evidence from the rural smallholder context is …