Land use transitions: Progress, challenges and prospects

H Long, Y Zhang, L Ma, S Tu - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
The study of land use transition has generally become an important breakthrough point to
deeply understand the human-land interaction and reveal major socio-economic …

Crop harvests for direct food use insufficient to meet the UN's food security goal

DK Ray, LL Sloat, AS Garcia, KF Davis, T Ali, W Xie - Nature Food, 2022 - nature.com
Rising competition for crop usage presents policy challenges exacerbated by poor
understanding of where crops are harvested for various uses. Here we create high …

Spatio-temporal evolution characteristics and driving mechanisms of Urban–Agricultural–Ecological space in ecologically fragile areas: A case study of the upper …

W Wei, N Wang, L Yin, S Guo, L Bo - Land Use Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Ecologically fragile areas, which are vulnerable to human disturbances, are facing
development dilemmas due to the contradiction between economic development and …

Silvopastoral systems and remnant forests enhance carbon storage in livestock-dominated landscapes in Mexico

DR Aryal, DE Morales-Ruiz, S López-Cruz… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
A large area of the terrestrial land surface is used for livestock grazing. Trees on grazing
lands provide and can enhance multiple ecosystem services such as provisioning, cultural …

Turning food loss and waste into animal feed: a Mexican spatial inventory of potential generation of agro-industrial wastes for livestock feed

S Quintero-Herrera, P Zwolinski, D Evrard… - Sustainable Production …, 2023 - Elsevier
It is estimated that 37% of all food produced in Mexico for human consumption is lost or
wasted, while the national dairy herd consumes approximately 455,000 tons of feed …

The relationships between land tenure, cattle production, and climate change–A systematic literature review

MFD Baca, LM Lerma, NT Ángel, S Burkart - Land Use Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate change is one of humanity's greatest concerns because of its environmental,
economic, and social impacts. Our study addresses land tenure (expressed through …

Mapping, intensities and future prediction of land use/land cover dynamics using google earth engine and CA-artificial neural network model

MAA Osman, EM Abdel-Rahman, JO Onono… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Mapping of land use/land cover (LULC) dynamics has gained significant attention in the past
decades. This is due to the role played by LULC change in assessing climate, various …

Is rural food security primarily associated with smallholder agriculture or with commercial agriculture?: An approach to the case of Mexico using structural equation …

JM Galeana-Pizaña, S Couturier, D Figueroa… - Agricultural …, 2021 - Elsevier
CONTEXT The challenge of food security has become more relevant in global agendas
given growing food demands and the persistence of hunger and undernutrition. Due to the …

[HTML][HTML] Ecosystem services supply and interactions along secondary tropical dry forests succession

S Cortés-Calderón, F Mora, F Arreola-Villa… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Secondary forests will likely dominate future tropical landscapes, and the ecosystem
services they provide to humanity will be particularly relevant. However, few empirical …

Agriculture and biodiversity damage: A prospective evaluation of the impact of Brazilian agriculture on its ecoregions through life cycle assessment methodology

KRG Lucas, CE Caldarelli, MU Ventura - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The natural ecosystems' replacement by farmland and the consequent biodiversity damage
(BD) for agriculture are one of the principal concerns worldwide. The development of the life …