Resilience of local food systems and links to food security–A review of some important concepts in the context of COVID-19 and other shocks

C Béné - Food security, 2020 - Springer
The objective of this review is to explore and discuss the concept of local food system
resilience in light of the disruptions brought to those systems by the 2020 COVID-19 …

The impact of population growth on natural resources and farmers' capacity to adapt to climate change in low-income countries

MM Maja, SF Ayano - Earth Systems and Environment, 2021 - Springer
Population growth and natural resources are intricately linked and play role in climate
disruption and farmers' ability to adapt to climate change especially in developing countries …

Carbon for soils, not soils for carbon

GYK Moinet, R Hijbeek, DP van Vuuren… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The role of soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration as a 'win‐win'solution to both climate
change and food insecurity receives an increasing promotion. The opportunity may be too …

[PDF][PDF] Land–climate interactions

ÉL Davin - 2022 - boris.unibe.ch
Executive summary Land and climate interact in complex ways through changes in forcing
and multiple biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks across different spatial and …

[HTML][HTML] Soil and the intensification of agriculture for global food security

PM Kopittke, NW Menzies, P Wang, BA McKenna… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Soils are the most complex and diverse ecosystem in the world. In addition to providing
humanity with 98.8% of its food, soils provide a broad range of other services, from carbon …

Plant rhizodeposition: A key factor for soil organic matter formation in stable fractions

SH Villarino, P Pinto, RB Jackson, G Piñeiro - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
Soil organic carbon formation remains poorly understood despite its importance for human
livelihoods. Uncertainties remain for the relative contributions of aboveground, root, and …

Arable lands under the pressure of multiple land degradation processes. A global perspective

R Prăvălie, C Patriche, P Borrelli, P Panagos… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
While agricultural systems are a major pillar in global food security, their productivity is
currently threatened by many environmental issues triggered by anthropogenic climate …

Biochar application to low fertility soils: A review of current status, and future prospects

A El-Naggar, SS Lee, J Rinklebe, M Farooq, H Song… - Geoderma, 2019 - Elsevier
Rapid industrial development and human activities have caused a degradation of soil
quality and fertility. There is increasing interest in rehabilitating low fertility soils to improve …

Abundant fungi adapt to broader environmental gradients than rare fungi in agricultural fields

S Jiao, Y Lu - Global Change Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Soil communities are intricately linked to ecosystem functioning, and a predictive
understanding of how communities assemble in response to environmental change is of …

Rice paddy soils are a quantitatively important carbon store according to a global synthesis

Y Liu, T Ge, KJ van Groenigen, Y Yang… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Rice paddies account for~ 9% or the world's cropland area and are characterized by
environmental conditions promoting soil organic carbon storage, methane emissions and to …