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Agroecological soil management in North Africa: practices, challenges, and prospects for sustainable transition

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
North Africa faces multiple environmental challenges, including soil degradation, climate change, desertification, and water scarcity. In this context, agroecology offers a sustainable and promising approach to land management by enhancing the resilience
Abdellatif Boutagayout, Anas Hamdani, Mohamed Kouighat, Inass Zayani, Atman Adiba   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ecological and Technological Insights to Enhance Rice Production: A Machine Learning Approach for Sustainable Agriculture in Granma, Cuba

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid the quest for sustainable agriculture, this study explores key ecological and technological factors influencing crop production under climate change. We conduct a comprehensive assessment of temperature, biomass, farmer education, renewable energy devices, greenhouse gas emissions and their effects on rice yields in Granma, Cuba, from ...
Afzal Ahmed Dar, Zhi Chen, Sergio RodrIguez‐Rodríguez, Fariborz Haghighat, Chunjiang An, Roberto Alejandro García Reyes, Beatriz González‐Rosales   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Isolation, Insularity and Resilience: A Review of the Geophysical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Vulnerabilities of Gran Canaria and Lesvos Islands for Policy Interventions to Global Change

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho, Mazen Marouani, Takwa Boughanmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plant traits mediate agroecological outcomes in restored agricultural lands

Ecological Indicators
Despite being cultivated with annual crops, marginal agricultural lands are usually more suitable for grasses, trees, or other perennial vegetation with persistent roots that are better adapted to unfavorable growth conditions.
Andres G. Rolhauser, Marney E. Isaac
doaj   +1 more source

How Program‐ and Community‐Led Design Settings Affect Resilience Approaches to Sustainable Development Projects

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable Development interventions must deal with rapid and novel changes affecting complex social‐ecological systems, calling for design based on a resilience approach. However, limited analytical attention has been paid to the design settings in which such approaches are deployed.
Yiheyis Maru, Deborah O'Connell, Nicola Grigg, Annette Cowie, Million Belay, Alice Ruhweza, Mark Stafford Smith   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Path to Sustainability: Apricot Growers' Willingness to Adopt Agroecological Practises in Malatya, Türkiye

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global food system faces sustainability, safety, and equity challenges. Agroecological practises offer solutions through sustainable production and resource conservation. This study examines apricot producers' willingness to adopt agricultural practises in Malatya, Türkiye, focusing on their attitudes, behaviours and the factors ...
Deniz Sarica, Seydanur Albayrak
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamics of Using Digital Technologies in Agroecological Settings: A Case Study Approach

Agriculture
The main objective of this study is to offer fresh empirical insight into the evolving relationship between digitalisation and agroecology by examining Mulini Di Segalari, a biodynamic vineyard in Italy.
Harika Meesala, Gianluca Brunori
doaj   +1 more source

Expansion of the Brazilian Sugarcane Bioenergy System Promotes Greenhouse Emission Reductions and Sustainable Development Without Compromising Food Security

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The growing global demand for biofuels has raised concern about compromising food security. This study uses two independent economy‐wide models to evaluate the impact of expanding the Brazilian sugarcane bioenergy system on economic growth, social outcomes and food security.
Angelo C. Gurgel, Sofia M. Arantes, Luciane C. Bachion, Marcelo M. R. Moreira, Marcelo Justus, David Chiaramonti, Lee R. Lynd   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soil Fauna and Ecosystem Services in Agroecological Cropping Systems: Focus on Experimental Open-Field Market Gardens

Soil Systems
Agroecological practices can be used to optimise ecological functions and improve the health of agroecosystems. The present study aimed to determine the effects of two agroecological systems (AG and AGSPP) on soil biodiversity and ecosystem services in ...
Coraline Moulin-Rouyard, Victor Vaillant, Valérie Angeon, Jean-Louis Diman, Jean Vaillant, Gladys Loranger-Merciris   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Leveraging the Potential of Public Food Procurement to Achieve Multiple Food System Outcomes: Insights From a Policy Analysis in Australia

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Government food procurement investment offers significant potential to advance health and sustainability goals; yet, integrating these dimensions into policy design has proved challenging. We mapped and analysed 38 food procurement and catering‐specific policies in Australia to identify ways to strengthen policy design: 20 governing ...
Carolina Venegas Hargous, Anne Marie Thow, Belinda Reeve, Erica Reeve   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source