Toward a sustainable metric and indicators for the goal of sustainability in agricultural and food production

L Movilla-Pateiro, XM Mahou-Lago… - Critical Reviews in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper reviews the state of the art in agricultural and food sustainability with special
emphasis on metrics for monitoring progress toward their accomplishment, and with a view …

[HTML][HTML] Optimisation of urban-rural nature-based solutions for integrated catchment water management

L Liu, B Dobson, A Mijic - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Nature-based solutions (NBS) have co-benefits for water availability, water quality, and flood
management. However, searching for optimal integrated urban-rural NBS planning to …

Why scale is vital to plan optimal Nature-Based Solutions for resilient cities

MG Hutchins, D Fletcher, A Hagen-Zanker… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A need for multi-functional assessment tools evaluating trade-offs and co-benefits for various
types of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) has been increasingly identified in recent years …

How can models foster the transition towards future agricultural landscapes?

S Poggi, F Vinatier, M Hannachi, ES Sanz… - Advances in Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Modern agriculture faces the dual challenges of feeding a growing human population, while
preserving natural resources and slowing current trends in climate change and its impacts. A …

Time to transition: barriers and opportunities to farmer adoption of soil GHG mitigation practices in dutch agriculture

A Gomes, P Reidsma - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 - frontiersin.org
As the second largest exporter of agricultural products worldwide, the Netherlands is a
production hub, a leading example of high yields per hectare. However, this productivity …

Optimizing wheat production and reducing environmental impacts through scientist–farmer engagement: Lessons from the North China Plain

W Jiang, A Zhu, C Wang, F Zhang… - Food and energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Producing high economic benefits and high grain yields with limited environmental impacts
is crucial for feeding the world's growing population. Yet it remains challenging to improve …

In highly-biodiverse tropical landscapes, multiple-objective optimization reveals opportunities for increasing both conservation and agricultural production

G Wies, JCJ Groot, M Martinez-Ramos - Ecological Modelling, 2023 - Elsevier
In humid tropics, small and medium farming systems are important for producing food but
also because they retain rainforest patches with high conservation value. Forest …

[HTML][HTML] Computing stochastic Pareto frontiers between economic and environmental goals for a semi-arid agricultural production region in Austria

K Karner, E Schmid, UA Schneider, H Mitter - Ecological Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Multi-objective programming is frequently used in agro-environmental management studies
to find compromises between competing policy objectives. We develop an integrated …

Woodchips or potato chips? How enhancing soil carbon and reducing chemical inputs influence the allocation of cropland

S Rössert, E Gosling, M Gandorfer, T Knoke - Agricultural Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
Context Farmers are facing increasing pressure to practice multifunctional agriculture.
Producing woody biomass through short rotation coppices (SRC) provides an economic …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in soil N2O emissions and nitrogen use efficiency following long-term soil carbon storage: Evidence from a mesocosm experiment

LA Kelley, Z Zhang, S Tamagno, ME Lundy… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2024 - Elsevier
Policy and market incentives are rapidly expanding to promote soil organic carbon (SOC)
sequestration in global croplands. Evidence suggests that long-term increases in SOC can …