A better understanding of why EU farmers choose to join agri-environmental schemes
(AESs) is vital to help policy makers design programmes that would be more attractive to …

Nature's contributions to people (NCP) rarely originate from nature alone. Often, only by
joining natural capital with forms of anthropogenic capital, NCP emerge benefitting people …

In natural ecosystems, positive effects of plant diversity on ecosystem functioning have been
widely observed, yet whether this is true in cropping systems remains unclear. Here we …

Sown wildflower strips are increasingly being established in Europe for enhancing
arthropod conservation and the provision of ecosystem services, including biotic pollination …

If the world stays on its current development path, the state of biodiversity will continue to
decline. This is due to projected further increases in pressures, most prominently habitat loss …

Agriculture in India and other Asian countries is facing multiple and complex challenges
which are expected to become more severe with the passage of time. Some of the major …

I examined agrobiodiversity in smallholder cultural landscapes with the goal of offering new
insights into management and policy options for the resilience-based in situ conservation …

Food systems—encompassing food production, transportation, processing and
consumption, including food losses and waste—are currently not delivering what is …

For properly understanding the molecular basis of phenotypic variation, accelerating
breeding programmes and exploiting genetic resources of a particular crop, there is a need …

Despite the productivity, achieving long-term sustainability and maintaining plant
biodiversity have become the pivotal goals in orchard floor management, especially along …