Enhancing and maintaining on-farm diversity is a potential strategy to improve farming
systems' sustainability and resilience. However, diversification is driven or constrained by …

Understanding farmers' pesticide application behaviors is essential for environmental
sustainability and food safety in China. Based on a nationally representative survey of 603 …

In the context of increasingly tight resource and environmental constraints, understanding
why and how farmers were willing to engage in agricultural green production (AGP) had …

This article explores the increasing impacts of recurrent droughts on dryland smallholders,
causing extensive damage to agriculture that impedes sustainable livelihoods and …

In China, the excessive application and improper disposal of chemical inputs have posed a
great threat to the agricultural ecological environment and human health. The key to solve …

Urban agriculture has become increasingly popular as a viable solution to the global food
insecurity, but the uncontrollable expansion of cities and populations has led to the …

Rural communities in West Africa have long adopted a variety of coping and adaptation
strategies to periods of climate variability and risks. These strategies have mostly been …

More often than not, good innovations introduced to farmers failed to be adopted or diffused
among them, simply because the complexities and the variations in farmers' innovation …

Rice farmers in Bangladesh face various environmental, climatic and market price-related
risks. Choices of various operational tactics used for farm management are mostly …

Farmers' inability to successfully participate in the maize value chain due to the threats of
some risk factors is one of the key reasons for rising food insecurity. This study analyses …