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Organic Agriculture and Food Security in Saudi Arabia
The rapid increase in the global populationPopulation has prompted concernsOrganic about how to ensure a safe food supplyFood supply for the...
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Happy animals at small scales: farmers’ portrayal of local food systems in New Jersey as an organic answer for farm animal welfare ethical concerns
At a time when fast-food restaurants are serving plant-based “meat,” debates over the ethics of eating animals are strongly contested. Local food...
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Assessing public organic food procurement: the case of Zurich (CH)
Organic food is increasingly promoted among authorities and governments to tackle global sustainability challenges and support an agri-ecological...
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Improving Decision Support Tools for Quantifying GHG Emissions from Organic Production Systems
As food companies have adopted sustainability metrics to quantify the environmental impacts of supply chains, we need data-driven decision support...
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Metabolomics of Food Systems
‘Food metabolomics’ is an emerging area in metabolomics, enabling food processors and scientists to understand the biochemistry and composition of...
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The role of organic farming in creating food security and sustainable livelihoods for India’s smallholder farmers: a systematic review using PRISMA
Achieving food security and sustainable livelihood of smallholder farmers is a critical concern in many of the develo** countries including in...
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Climate Change and Food Systems
Climate change affects the functioning of all of the components of food systems, often in ways that exacerbate existing predicaments and inequalities...
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Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Plant Tolerance to Organic Pollutants and Associated Food Safety
Industrialization and the modern world have led to environmental contamination by organic pollutants, many of which are persistent and could engender...
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Innovations for Reconfiguring Food Systems
Reconfiguring food systems to be more resilient, sustainable and equitable presents considerable challenges: food systems are extremely diverse, they...
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Microbiome Applications for Sustainable Food Systems
The present chapter, which combines theoretical and experimental knowledge, is divided into two parts. The first part provides critical insights to...
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Up-scaling organic agriculture to enhance food and water security in South Asia
To combat the adverse climatic condition in agriculture, a sustainable production system like organic agriculture is inseparable, which stimulates...
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Bioeconomy for Sustainable Organic Farming
The intensity of land use to cover world food demand is one of the main causes of climate change, resulting in conflicts between people,...
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Exploring resilience concepts and strategies within regional food systems: a systematic literature review
Adaptive strategies that build resilience within food systems are urgently needed to address food supply chain disturbances. Increasingly severe and...
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Water for Food Systems and Nutrition
Access to sufficient and clean freshwater is essential for all life. Water is also essential for the functioning of food systems: as a key input into...
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Biological soil quality and soil organic carbon change in biodynamic, organic, and conventional farming systems after 42 years
Soils are the basis of life on land and the ways in which we manage them for crop production, impact their role, functions and quality. Conventional...
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The Use of Indigenous Knowledge Systems Practices to Enhance Food Security in Vhembe District, South Africa
This paper seeks to examine how subsistence farmers employ indigenous knowledge methods to enhance food security within rural communities in the...
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Why is nutrient cycling in food systems so limited? A case study from the North-Netherlands region
Identifying pathways to circular agriculture requires a profound understanding of nutrient flows and losses throughout the food system, and of...
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Science for Transformation of Food Systems: Opportunities for the UN Food Systems Summit
Science offers many important contributions to achieving the SDGs, of which we highlight two here: first, science generates the basic inputs for...
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Resilience assessment of centralized and distributed food systems
Resilience, defined as the ability of a system to adapt in the presence of a disruptive event, has been of great interest with food systems for some...
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Land use returns in organic and conventional farming systems: financial and beyond
AbstractLand is a limited resource and essential to the provision of livelihoods. The per capita availability of cropland is constantly being...
