Plant breeding is a key mechanism for adaptation of cropping systems to climate change.
Much discussion of breeding for climate change focuses on genes with large effects on heat …

The greatest challenge to ensure global food security is sustained agriculture growth that not
only helps in increased crop productivity but also caters the food and nutritional demand of …

Wheat is fundamental to human civilization and has played an outstanding role in feeding a
hungry world and improving global food security. The crop contributes about 20% of the total …

Biological diversity of agriculture consists of several analytic levels and spatial management
scales that are subject to complex interactions with global change. The complexity of …

The Agricultural Dilemma questions everything we think we know about the current state of
agriculture and how to, or perhaps more importantly how not to, feed a world with a growing …

Since the 1980s, many developing countries have introduced policies to promote seed
industry growth and improve the delivery of modern science to farmers, often with a long …

The genetic improvement of food staple crops cultivated by small-scale farmers is a well-
established route to increasing agricultural productivity and improving rural livelihoods. But …

Kenya is a globally recognized maize “success story.” As the overall percentage of maize
farmers growing hybrids tops 80% and the seed industry matures, the slow pace of hybrid …

Abstract The UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 2.5 explicitly calls for the
maintenance of genetic diversity of seeds through soundly managed and diversified seed …

Field size distributions and their changes have not been studied over large areas as field
size change datasets are not available. This study quantifies agricultural field size changes …