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Sustainable Agricultural Intensification [PDF]
, 2014 Sustainable agriculture is broadly established in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), but the way that food is being produced and consumed requires rethinking. Sustainable agricultural intensification (SAI) is becoming an approach to address various complex challenges in agriculture.
Ortiz Rios, Rodomiro Octavio +1 more
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The sustainable intensification of agriculture
Natural Resources Forum, 1997Agricultural development is currently facing unprecedented challenges. With 800 million people already having insufficient access to food, population growth estimates project an even bleaker situation in the future. The article summarizes the major schools of thought regarding how to face the dilemma, and advocates sustainable intensification of ...
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Agricultural Intensification and Sustainability
Outlook on Agriculture, 2003Agricultural revolutions in the past have been characterized by synergistic interactions between several innovations, which have yet to emerge with biotechnology. Although the intensification of agriculture has created new problems of sustainability, it has ameliorated others.
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What is sustainable intensification?
2018New approaches to agriculture are required if we are to reduce the environmental impacts of farming while also feeding more people with a sufficient quantity and diversity of nutritious and safe foods. This building block explains the concept of sustainable intensification.
Walter Fraanje, Samuel Lee-Gammage
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Ecological intensification of agriculture — sustainable by nature
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2014Strategies towards agricultural intensification differ on the definitions of sustainability and the variables included in its evaluation. Different notions of the qualifiers of intensification (ecological, sustainable, durable, etc.) need to be unpacked.
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Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture: Impacts on Sustainable Soil Management
2017There is a growing recognition of the fundamental importance of soils in supporting productive and sustainable agricultural systems. The term sustainable intensification is now widely used to characterise the importance of linking productivity with sustainability.
Rees, RM, Griffiths, BS, McVittie, A
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Sustainable intensification of arable agriculture
2021By 2050, global food production must increase by 70% to meet the demands of a growing population with shifting food consumption patterns. Sustainable intensification has been suggested as a possible mechanism to meet this demand without significant detrimental impact to the environment.
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Sustainable Intensification—An Overview
2016Even though the intensive crop production practices adopted in achieving green revolution (using fertilizers, pesticides, and machines) led to enormous gains in food production and improved world food security, it had negative impacts on production, ecosystems, and the larger environment (causing environmental damage, pollution, reliance on fossil ...
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Science and Sustainable Intensification
Abstract Sustainable intensification grew out of agricultural researchers’ continuous effort to articulate a rationale for support of innovations. Articulated through publications and government documents, the rationale stresses the importance of maintaining global agricultural productivity at a level capable of meeting the needs of ...openaire +1 more source
Process intensification and sustainability
2022Juan Gabriel Segovia-Hernández +3 more
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