World population is projected to reach over nine billion by the year 2050, and ensuring food
security while mitigating environmental impacts represents a major agricultural challenge …

How the growing world population can feed itself is a crucial, multi-dimensional problem that
goes beyond sustainable development. Crop production will be affected by many changes …

The need for increased sustainability of performance in cereal varieties, particularly in
organic agriculture (OA), is limited by the lack of varieties adapted to organic conditions …

Abstract “Conventional” and “organic” farming systems have been compared in many
studies. However, the lack of concern about the diversity of both conventional and organic …

Agrobiodiversity can improve the sustainability of cropping systems in a context of low
external inputs and unpredictable climate change. Agrobiodiversity strategies to grow wheat …

A radical shift in our approach to crop production is needed to ensure food security and to
address the problems of soil degradation, loss of biodiversity, polluted and restricted water …

Agroecology calls for a global approach, integrating scientific, practical, and advocacy
dimensions, to redesign agricultural systems based on ecological and socio-cultural …

Participatory plant breeding (PPB), commonly applied in the Global South to address the
needs of underserved farmers, refers to the active collaboration between researchers …

In agricultural systems, biodiversity includes diversity within species and among species and
provides many benefits for production, resilience and conservation. This article addresses …

Over the last decades, participatory approaches involving on-farm experimentation have
become more prevalent in agricultural research. Nevertheless, these approaches remain …