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From weather reliance to digital empowerment: the role of the digital economy in enhancing agricultural industry resilience

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
IntroductionTraditional agriculture is highly dependent on climatic conditions, making its output particularly sensitive to climate variability. The uncertainties associated with climate change pose ongoing challenges to agricultural industry resilience (
Jin Wang, Aizhi Li, Xiaobao Mao
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Advanced Manufacturing of Composite‐Based Systems for Energy Applications

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Advanced manufacturing enables the integration of polymers, ceramics, metal oxides, and composites into architected microstructures with tailored transport pathways. By coupling material selection, manufacturing strategy, and structural design, multifunctional energy systems can simultaneously improve electrochemical performance, thermal management ...
Sri Vaishnavi Thummalapalli, Dhanush Patil, Libin Yang, M. Taylor Sobczak, Anshul Kulkarni, Xiao Sun, Arunachalam Ramanathan, Tiantian Li, Ramaraja P. Ramasamy, Jason J. Locklin, Yanyu Chen, Xianqiao Wang, Arunachala Mada Kannan, Kenan Song   +13 more
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Strong Agricultural Resilience to 2022 Southern China Drought

Earth's Future
Meteorological drought, especially when influenced by human activities, significantly impacts agriculture. We assessed the Yangtze River Basin (YRB)’s crop ecosystem resilience during the 2022 southern China drought.
Yijing Cao, Yongqiang Zhang, Jing Tian, Xiaojie Li, Zixuan Tang, Xuening Yang, Xuanze Zhang, Ning Ma   +7 more
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Interannual and Intraseasonal Effects of Drought and Heatwaves on Expanding Soybean Production Regions in Brazil

Atmosphere
Climate extremes are major constraints on agricultural productivity, especially in tropical regions experiencing rapid expansion and intensification of soybean agriculture.
Greici Joana Parisoto, Francisco Muñoz-Arriola, Felipe Gustavo Pilau   +2 more
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Chitin‐Chitosan Cryogels for the Reversible Sequestration and Recovery of Heavy Metals From Wastewater

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Chitin‐chitosan cryogels with degrees of N‐acetylation from 12.2% to 71.4% are fabricated by dissolution, coagulation and lyophilization for the sequestration of heavy metals from water. Colorimetry and differential pulse voltammetry showed controlled adsorption and desorption capacities for As5+, Co2+ and Cu2+, making this material attractive for ...
Marta García‐Castrillo, Maialen Uribarrena, Jorge Sáiz, Guillermo Copello, Erlantz Lizundia   +4 more
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Does Crop–Livestock Integration Enhance Economic Resilience in Organic Farming? Evidence from Polish FADN During the 2020–2022 Multi-Crisis Period

Agriculture
Agriculture, as a production sector, is exposed to external shocks. The instability of agricultural markets, changes in prices of inputs, dropping crop prices, or changes in climate patterns put their economic resilience to the test.
Andrzej Madej, Adam Kleofas Berbeć
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Learning‐Based Soft Robotic Grasping: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review analyzes learning‐based soft robotic grasping from a pipeline‐oriented perspective, encompassing soft gripper design, multimodal sensing, and learning‐based planning and control. It surveys key neural network architectures and benchmark datasets and identifies critical challenges such as sim‐to‐real transfer, generalization, and continual ...
Arnab Majumder, Jelizaveta Konstantinova, Graham Deacon, Kaspar Althoefer   +3 more
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Underground Signals: The Ecological Power of Root Volatiles

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Root volatiles mediate rhizosphere chemical communication, shaping interactions among plants, microbes, herbivores, and natural enemies. Their production, transport, and perception underpin ecological adaptation, multitrophic interactions, and plant resilience, offering opportunities for sustainable crop protection, resilient agroecosystems, and ...
Xueyao Cao, Nanli Song, François Verheggen, Meritxell Pérez‐Hedo, Andrea Clavijo McCormick, Antonino Cusumano, Arthur de Fouchier, Bing Wang, Chen‐Zhu Wang, Emmanuelle Jacquin‐Joly, Gary W. Felton, Geoff M. Gurr, Hao Guo, Jiancai Li, Jin Zhang, Li Chen, Manqun Wang, Michele Ricupero, Peng Han, Peng He, Qi Yan, Qingbo Tang, Qingsong Liu, Shiheng An, Xiangbo Kong, Xiaoling Sun, Xueming Ren, Yuanyuan Song, Yang Liu, Yanhui Guo, Yunhe Li, Xiao Sun   +31 more
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Agricultural Resilience Under Synergistic Compensation Policies: A System Dynamics Study of Nenjiang, Heilongjiang Province, China

Land
Policies designed to enhance agricultural resilience may produce unintended trade-offs among ecological, industrial, and social subsystems due to resource competition, structural constraints, and cross-subsystem feedback.
Han Wu, Xiaohong Chen, Wenhao Du, Jinming Mou, Xinyu Wang, Yi Cui, Donghong Xie, Yujie Zhang   +7 more
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