Reducing pesticide use has become a goal shared by several European countries and a
major issue in public policies due to the negative impacts of pesticides on the environment …

Precision farming enables agricultural management decisions to be tailored spatially and
temporally. Site-specific sensing, sampling, and managing allow farmers to treat a field as a …

Climate change poses significant challenges to agriculture, with serious impacts on
smallholder farmers' food security and livelihoods. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is being …

Diversified crop rotation (DCR) improves the efficiency of farming systems all over the world.
It has the potentiality to improve soil condition and boost system productivity. Improved soil …

This year's report should dispel any lingering doubts that the world is moving backwards in
its efforts to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms. We are now only …

To lessen the negative environmental impact of chemical fertilizers, replacing chemical
fertilizers with more organic fertilizers for famers is a good choice. However, most of the …

For decades agricultural development has been led by a modernisation paradigm based on
specialisation, intensification and scale enlargement. This model of development model has …

ObjectiveThe association between farm production diversity and dietary diversity in rural
smallholder households was recently analysed. Most existing studies build on household …

Today's food and farming systems have succeeded in supplying large volumes of foods to
global markets, but are generating negative outcomes on multiple fronts: widespread …

Managing multiple ecosystem services (ES), including addressing trade-offs between
services and preventing ecological surprises, is among the most pressing areas for …