Diversified farming systems are proposed as a major mechanism to address the many
sustainability issues of today's agriculture. Multi-species livestock farming, ie keeping two or …

The purpose of this synthesis paper is to present the motivations and conceptual basis for
research on socio-technical-ecological systems (STES), addressing the need for …

Executive Summary The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use1 (AFOLU) sector
encompasses managed ecosystems and offers significant mitigation opportunities while …

Combining crops and livestock within integrated crop–livestock systems (ICLS) represents
an opportunity to improve the sustainability of farming systems. The objective of this paper is …

Agricultural production in the United States is undergoing marked changes due to rapid
shifts in consumer demands, input costs, and concerns for food safety and environmental …

Paradoxically, the number of crop–livestock farms is declining across Europe, despite the
fact that crop-livestock farms are theoretically optimal to improve the sustainability of …

Anecdotal accounts regarding reduced US cropping system diversity have raised concerns
about negative impacts of increasingly homogeneous cropping systems. However, formal …

Intensification and specialisation of agriculture in developed countries enabled productivity
to be improved but had detrimental impacts on the environment and threatened the …

Integrated crop–livestock systems are often considered a promising way to address
agricultural sustainability issues. Many authors claim that complementarities and synergies …

Sustainability of environment and food production is among the greatest challenges of the
twenty-first century. Green revolution, however, achieved the targets of high food …