Crop diversity underpins the productivity, resilience and adaptive capacity of agriculture.
Loss of this diversity, termed crop genetic erosion, is therefore concerning. While alarms …

Organic agriculture is often perceived as more sustainable than conventional farming. We
review the literature on this topic from a global perspective. In terms of environmental and …

To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A
moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, María Puig de la …

The magnitude and urgency of the challenges facing agriculture and food systems demand
profound modifications in different aspects of human activity to achieve real transformative …

Dairy production systems have rapidly intensified over the past several decades. Dairy farms
in many world regions are larger and concentrated in fewer hands. Higher productivity can …

Highlights•Sustainable and ecological intensification differ less in their definitions than in
their discourses.•Ecological intensification is compatible with and relies on nature and …

Organic agriculture is often proposed as a more sustainable alternative to current
conventional agriculture. We assess the current understanding of the costs and benefits of …

Agroforestry has been increasingly recognized as a key example of agroecological praxis
contributing to the sustainable intensification of food production while providing a number of …

A growing world population and increases in food and energy consumption have placed
production agriculture in a difficult situation. The rapid growth in food production through …

Most efforts to improve agricultural production remain focused on practices driven by an
intensification agenda and not by an agroecological one. Agroecology transcends the …