By leveraging a wide range of novel, data-driven technologies for agricultural production
and agri-food value chains, digital agriculture presents potential enhancements to …

Climate change and ensuring food security for an exponentially growing global human
population are the greatest challenges for future agriculture. Improved soil management …

CONTEXT Global and national agricultural development policies normally tend to focus
more on enhancing farm productivity through technological changes than on better use of …

Despite the benefits of sustainable innovations in the agricultural sector being widely
recognized, their adoption rate remains below the level designated by the 2030 Sustainable …

In the face of climate change and extreme weather events which continue to have significant
impacts on agricultural production, climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has emerged as one …

Biodiversity-friendly management is pivotal for sustainable agriculture, but rarely put into
practice by farmers despite mounting evidence of the social, environmental, and economic …

Payment for ecosystem services (PES) programmes seek to promote conservation via
payments for desired resource-use behaviours. While PES has been found to produce some …

Agroforestry, or the intentional integration of trees on crop or pastureland, is a sustainable
land use system that provides ecosystem services including climate change mitigation and …

Forest restoration has been proposed as a scalable nature-based solution to achieve global
environmental and socio-economic outcomes and is central to many policy initiatives, such …

Research and development in agricultural sector are becoming a crucial issue, especially to
answer to growing global market needs and, in general, for rural innovation development …