Many smallholder farmers in vulnerable areas continue to face complex challenges in
adoption and adaptation of resource management and conservation strategies. Although …

Poverty has many faces and poverty reduction many pathways in different contexts. Lack of
food and income interact with lack of access to water, energy, protection from floods, voice …

This paper compares levels of public subsidy and community stakeholders' perspectives on
American and British approaches to managing agricultural landscapes. In the US, changes …

The debate on future global food security is centered on increasing yields. This focus on
availability of food is overshadowing access and utilization of food, and the stability of these …

Highlights•Addressing sustainability challenge through sustainable intensification of
agriculture.•Moving beyond the twin goals of increasing crop yield and conserving …

Agricultural systems are embedded in wider social-ecological processes that must be
considered in any complete discussion of sustainable agriculture. Just as climatic profiles …

Highlights•Ecological intensification implies that research fills knowledge and
methodological gaps.•Agricultural performance must be completely redefined to address …

A move towards more flexible, sustainable agricultural practices is increasingly being seen
as the way to address or avoid environmental and economic problems associated with …

There is a significant gap between the rhetoric of claims about adoption of farm-level natural
resource management practices and the reality. New empirical evidence of low adoption …

Apart from food and raw materials, agriculture can also provide ancillary benefits such as
landscapes, biodiversity, cultural heritage and thriving rural communities. This book offers a …