Resilience and food security: rethinking an ecological concept

JM Bullock, KL Dhanjal‐Adams, A Milne… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Focusing on food production, in this paper we define resilience in the food security context
as maintaining production of sufficient and nutritious food in the face of chronic and acute …

Do diversified crop rotations influence soil physical health? A meta-analysis

EMA Iheshiulo, FJ Larney, G Hernandez-Ramirez… - Soil and Tillage …, 2023 - Elsevier
Crop management practices such as rotation, as well as climatic and edaphic factors,
modulate soil physical health. However, the overall magnitude of crop rotation benefits on …

Natural climate solutions for the United States

JE Fargione, S Bassett, T Boucher, SD Bridgham… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Limiting climate warming to< 2° C requires increased mitigation efforts, including land
stewardship, whose potential in the United States is poorly understood. We quantified the …

Agroecological principles for the conversion of farming systems

CI Nicholls, MA Altieri, L Vazquez - Agroecological practices for …, 2017 - books.google.com
Modern agriculture consists of the replacement of natural plant communities with artificially
supported crop communities. Human manipulation and alteration of ecosystems for the …

Agroecología: Principios para la conversión y el rediseño de sistemas agrícolas

CI Nicholls, MA Altieri, LL Vázquez - Agroecología, 2015 - revistas.um.es
Los agroecosistemas modernos requieren un cambio sistémico, pero los nuevos sistemas
de cultivo rediseñados no emergerán de la simple aplicación de un conjunto de prácticas …

Household food insecurity levels in Ethiopia: quantile regression approach

HT Wubetie, T Zewotir, AA Mitku… - Frontiers in Public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Numerous natural and man-made factors have afflicted Ethiopia, and millions of
people have experienced food insecurity. The current cut-points of the WFP food …

Improving the productivity and stability of oilseed cropping systems through crop diversification

K Liu, EN Johnson, RE Blackshaw, Z Hossain… - Field Crops Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Diversifying cropping systems is essential to enhance oilseed production resiliency in a
changing climate. Here, we determined the productivity and stability of five oilseed crops …

Productivity, economic performance, and soil quality of conventional, mixed, and organic dryland farming systems in eastern Washington State

JM Wachter, KM Painter, LA Carpenter-Boggs… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2019 - Elsevier
The global trends of shortening crop rotations, simplifying cropping systems, and
segregating livestock from cropping enterprises have generated high yields while creating …

Quality of Bokashi-type Biofertilizer Formulations and its Application in the Production of Vegetables in an Ecological System

G Kruker, ES Guidi, JMS Santos, ÁL Mafra, JA Almeida - Horticulturae, 2023 - mdpi.com
Current agriculture faces the challenge of producing food with the least interference from the
environment. In this sense, the implementation of ecological agricultural practices is …

Ecosystem services in permaculture systems

S Hirschfeld, R Van Acker - Agroecology and Sustainable Food …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Permaculture is an internationally recognized sustainable agriculture model, which
strategically integrates traditional and unconventional management practices in order to …