Agricultural yields strongly depend on crop protection measures. The main purpose of
pesticide use is to increase food security, with a secondary goal being increased standard of …

Modifications to land can serve to jointly reduce risks of floods and droughts to people and to
ecosystems. Whether land modifications are implemented will depend on the willingness …

Variability in the activity and composition of soil microbial communities may have important
implications for the suite of microbially-derived ecosystem functions upon which agricultural …

In response to agriculture's vulnerability and contribution to climate change, many
governments are developing initiatives that promote the adoption of mitigation and …

This paper considers how farmers perceive and respond to climate change policy risks, and
suggests that understanding these risk responses is as important as understanding …

Pesticides are the chemicals used in the control of weeds and pests. The larger inputs of
pesticides and fertilisers contaminate food commodities with trace amounts of chemical …

Climate change poses unprecedented challenges to agricultural production globally and in
the United States; it is both vulnerable to the impacts of a changing climate and a contributor …

We assess the potential effects of climate change and adaptive management on irrigation
water supply in the Cache Creek watershed in California. Our model, built using the Water …

To examine management options for biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, eight research
regions were classified into social-ecological domains, using a dataset of indicators of …

Adaptive management practices that maximize yields while improving yield resilience are
required in the face of resource variability and climate change. Ecological intensification …