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Food security and sustainable intensification [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2014
The coming decades are likely to see increasing pressures on the global food system, both on the demand side from increasing population and per capita consumption, and on the supply side from greater competition for inputs and from climate change.
Tara Garnett
exaly   +5 more sources

Smallholder Farms and the Potential for Sustainable Intensification [PDF]

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016
يكتسب التكثيف المستدام للزراعة الأفريقية زخماً مع الحاجة الملحة لزيادة الإنتاج الغذائي والزراعي. في الجنوب الأفريقي، تعتمد أنظمة زراعة أصحاب الحيازات الصغيرة في الغالب على الذرة وتخضع لظروف مناخية غير منتظمة. تتأثر قرارات إدارة المحاصيل والتربة للمزارعين بمجموعة كبيرة من العوامل المعقدة مثل توافر موارد الوصول إلى الأسواق والعلاقات الاجتماعية والبيئة ...
Erin Anders, Leah M Mungai, Robert B Richardson   +2 more
exaly   +7 more sources

Sustainable intensification in agricultural systems. [PDF]

Ann Bot, 2014
Agricultural systems are amended ecosystems with a variety of properties. Modern agroecosystems have tended towards high through-flow systems, with energy supplied by fossil fuels directed out of the system (either deliberately for harvests or accidentally through side effects). In the coming decades, resource constraints over water, soil, biodiversity
Pretty J, Bharucha ZP.
europepmc   +5 more sources

Data on the scope of the literature on sustainable intensification 1997–2016: Bibliography, geography and practical approaches [PDF]

Data in Brief, 2018
The data presented in this DiB article offers a full overview on the scientific sustainable intensification literature from 1997 to 2016. It consists of articles retrieved from the Scopus and the Web of Science databases that feature “Sustainable ...
Meike Weltin, Ingo Zasada, Jana-Maria Plogmann, Fee-Nanett Trau, Annette Piorr   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Prospects for Agricultural Sustainable Intensification: A Review of Research

Land, 2019
In recent years, as a way to achieve higher agricultural output while reducing the negative impact of agricultural production on the environment, agricultural sustainable intensification has attracted worldwide attention.
Hualin Xie, Yingqian Huang, Qianru Chen, Yanwei Zhang, Qing Wu   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Sustainable intensification of agriculture for human prosperity and global sustainability. [PDF]

Ambio, 2017
Existe un debate en curso sobre lo que constituye la intensificación sostenible de la agricultura (SIA). En este documento, proponemos que se pueda definir un paradigma para la intensificación sostenible y traducirlo en un marco operativo para el desarrollo agrícola.
Rockström J, Williams J, Daily G, Noble A, Matthews N, Gordon L, Wetterstrand H, DeClerck F, Shah M, Steduto P, de Fraiture C, Hatibu N, Unver O, Bird J, Sibanda L, Smith J.   +15 more
europepmc   +6 more sources

Sustainable intensification of agriculture in Africa [PDF]

Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering, 2020
Sustainable intensification is a key component of agricultural development in Africa, urgently needed to wean the continent off foreign food supply and to limit agricultural farmland expansion.
Antonius G.T. SCHUT, Ken E. GILLER
doaj   +2 more sources

Gendered impacts of climate-smart agriculture on household food security and labor migration: insights from Bihar, India [PDF]

International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 2021
Purpose – Increasing trends of climatic risk pose challenges to the food security and livelihoods of smallholders in vulnerable regions, where farmers often face loss of the entire crop, pushing farmers (mostly men) out of agriculture in destitution ...
Tripti Agarwal, Prarthna Agarwal Goel, Hom Gartaula, Munmum Rai, Deepak Bijarniya, Dil Bahadur Rahut, M.L. Jat   +6 more
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Patterns of investment in agricultural research and innovation for the Global South, with a focus on sustainable agricultural intensification

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
This study is the first attempt to determine global investment patterns for research and innovation in agriculture systems for the Global South, and specifically for innovation funding targeted at sustainable agricultural intensification. We analyzed and
P. V. Vara Prasad, Nirat Bhatnagar, Vineet Bhandari, George Jacob, Kaushal Narayan, Ruben Echeverría, Nienke Beintema, Paul Farah Cox, Julia Compton   +8 more
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Continuous multi-column sorption-enhanced dimethyl ether synthesis (SEDMES): Dynamic operation

Frontiers in Chemical Engineering, 2023
In this work the continuous production of dimethyl ether (DME) by sorption-enhanced DME synthesis (SEDMES) technology has been demonstrated for the first time with a multi-column test-rig. A continuous single-pass carbon yield up to 95%, higher than ever
Jasper van Kampen, Jasper van Kampen, Johan Overbeek, Jurriaan Boon, Jurriaan Boon, Martin van Sint Annaland   +5 more
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