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Ecosystem Services from Ecological Agroforestry in Brazil: A Systematic Map of Scientific Evidence

Land, 2022
(1) Brazil has great potential to expand the area under agroforestry, and thereby simultaneously enhance multiple ecosystem services. However, divergent interests are currently polarized between drastic environmental deregulation and public resource ...
Hanna R. Schuler, Gisele G. Alarcon, Fernando Joner, Karine Louise dos Santos, Alexandre Siminski, Ilyas Siddique   +5 more
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New Roots for Ecological Intensification

CSA News, 2014
This month, ASA, CSSA, and SSSA have teamed up with the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) to produce a joint issue under the theme “Feeding the World in 2050.” More than 20 articles were written on various topics addressing the challenges we face in feeding the world, a handful of which appear in this issue of CSA News ...
Timothy Crews, Thomas Cox, Lee De Haan, Sivaramakrishna Damaraju, Wes Jackson, Pheonah Nabukalu, David Van Tassel, Shuwen Wang   +7 more
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Ecological Intensification for Crop Protection

, 2014
We need to break away from intensive agriculture based on non-renewable and toxic inputs . Safer practices are indeed emerging. Sustainable agriculture started about 50 years ago with the design of integrated pest management (IPM) to counteract pesticide misuse and abuse. Ecological intensification emerged only a few years ago.
Ratnadass, Alain, Barzman, Marc
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Synthesis of Geopolymer-Based Fenton-like Catalytic Tubular Membrane for Dye Wastewater Treatment

Separations
Membrane technology is widely used in various aspects of wastewater treatment; however, single membrane technology has a series of disadvantages, such as high selectivity, poor recycling performance, and susceptibility to contamination.
Pei Xiao, Qing Yang, Xingfa Deng, Kunyu Chu, Xuemin Cui   +4 more
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Vegetation diversification alters flying insect families in organic fields

Basic and Applied Ecology
Ecological intensification is globally promoted as a pathway toward sustainable agriculture, yet its multitrophic effects in organic field crops remain insufficiently understood.
Young-gyun Park, Sophia M. Yager-Motl, Hira Poudel, Samuel A. Treminio, Christian H. Krupke   +4 more
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Crop fertilization affects pollination service provision - Common bean as a case study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
The demand for insect-pollinated crops is increasing. Conventional agricultural intensification heavily relies on increased input of fertilizers, which can have negative effects on local biodiversity.
Davi de L Ramos, Mercedes M C Bustamante, Felipe D da Silva E Silva, Luísa G Carvalheiro   +3 more
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Contribution of traditional goat farming systems to the sustainable intensification of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: The example of the western part of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Farming System
Integrated crop-livestock systems (ICLS) increase smallholder yields and environmental benefits by enabling positive interactions between livestock and crops.
Alain Ndona, Bienvenu Kambashi, Yves Beckers, Charles-Henri Moulin, Jérôme Bindelle   +4 more
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Getting More Power from Your Flowers: Multi-Functional Flower Strips Enhance Pollinators and Pest Control Agents in Apple Orchards

Insects, 2017
Flower strips are commonly recommended to boost biodiversity and multiple ecosystem services (e.g., pollination and pest control) on farmland. However, significant knowledge gaps remain regards the extent to which they deliver on these aims.
Alistair John Campbell, Andrew Wilby, Peter Sutton, Felix Wäckers   +3 more
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Smallholder Coffee in the Global Economy—A Framework to Explore Transformation Alternatives of Traditional Agroforestry for Greater Economic, Ecological, and Livelihood Viability

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
Sixty percent of global coffee is produced from farms of <5 ha. Studies show that returns from such farms do not generate a living income for producers or workers threatening supplies.
Pablo Siles, Carlos R. Cerdán, Charles Staver, Charles Staver   +3 more
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Processing Tomato–Durum Wheat Rotation under Integrated, Organic and Mulch-Based No-Tillage Organic Systems: Yield, N Balance and N Loss

Agronomy, 2019
In a 4-year study, the biannual crop rotation processing tomato−durum wheat was applied to three cropping systems: (i) an innovative organic coupled with no-tillage (ORG+) where an autumn-sown cover crop was terminated by roller-crimping and then ...
Giacomo Tosti, Paolo Benincasa, Michela Farneselli, Marcello Guiducci, Andrea Onofri, Francesco Tei   +5 more
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