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Building resilience through improving groundwater management for sustainable agricultural intensification in African Sahel
BackgroundThis paper examines the role of improved groundwater access and management in providing opportunities for sustainable agricultural...
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Agricultural technology as a driver of sustainable intensification: insights from the diffusion and focus of patents
Sustainable intensification (SI) responds to the concurrent challenges of increasing food production while reducing the environmental impacts of...
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Green manuring–system of rice intensification–rice fallow pulses crop** system for enhancing the crop productivity and soil health: a sustainable farming solutions
Rice cultivation in Tamil Nadu, a southern state of India, is a vital component of its agricultural landscape and economy. It holds historical...
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Modeling genotype × environment × management interactions for a sustainable intensification under rainfed wheat crop** system in Morocco
Under the conditions of Moroccan rainfed agricultural areas, wheat crop** systems—the population’s basic staple food—are subject to a set of...
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Farmer responses to an input subsidy and co-learning program: intensification, extensification, specialization, and diversification?
Sustainable intensification aims to increase production and improve livelihoods of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. Many farmers, however,...
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Unravelling sustainable intensification in oil-palm agroforestry on the Adja plateau, Benin
Pathways for mediating the competing land-use claims of landowners and tenants in oil palm agroforestry systems in Benin’s Adja plateau do not...
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The Status and Challenges of Sustainable Intensification of Rice-Potato Systems in Southern China
Potato is the world's largest non-cereal crop, occupying a position critical for global food security. In China, potato is the fourth largest crop...
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Agroforestry for Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture in Asia and Africa
This edited book opens up new vistas for sustainable intensification in agriculture to provide food to ever growing population as well as adapting to...
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Harnessing belowground processes for sustainable intensification of agricultural systems
Increasing food demand coupled with climate change pose a great challenge to agricultural systems. In this review we summarize recent advances in our...
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Synthesis: Agroforestry for Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture in Asia and Africa
Over the last several decades, a large body of work has accumulated demonstrating that agroforestry could be instrumental in bringing stability and...
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Biodiversity–production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes
Intensive agriculture with high reliance on pesticides and fertilizers constitutes a major strategy for ‘feeding the world’. However, such...
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Efficient and Sustainable Crop Intensification: An Assessment of Phenofit Algorithm and Envelope Crop Classification Method for its Monitoring
To optimize use of land, farmers need to make decisions regarding grain varieties, rotation, different crop management systems, and whether to sow a...
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Sustainable Agriculture Through Ecological Intensification
The idea of sustainable agriculture emerges from facts, inspires value judgements and requires adaptation measures – it is an ethical challenge....
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Innovative agronomic practices for sustainable intensification in sub-Saharan Africa. A review
Africa’s need to double food production and feed the burgeoning human population, without compromising its natural resource base, has raised the...
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Global Biodiversity Decline and Loss from Agricultural Intensification Through Agrochemical Application
To meet global food demands for an ever-increasing human population, in the face of changing patterns of temperature and precipitation, agricultural...
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Are agricultural extension systems ready to scale up ecological intensification in East Africa? A literature review with particular attention to the Push-Pull Technology (PPT)
Agricultural extension, or advisory services, have a key role to play in supporting farmers’ learning and adoption of new practices and technologies....
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A stony track towards innovation in remote highland regions: agricultural intensification in the apricot sector of Northern Pakistan
BackgroundTraditional farming practices of remote highland regions are usually well adapted to the local agro-ecological and social conditions....
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From Soil to Fork: Can Sustainable Intensification Guarantee Food Security for Smallholder Farmers?
Agricultural production on smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is hampered by countless challenges, chief among which is soil degradation...
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Ecological Intensification for Sustainable Development
The extent and quantity of natural resources (NRs) are going to degrade day by day due to overexploitation, misuse, unscientific management and some...
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Bioactives from microalgae: A review on process intensification using hydrodynamic cavitation
Microalgae are emerging as an important renewable and sustainable source of high-value biomolecules having applications in food, cosmetics,...
