Changes in crop yield and production over time are driven by a combination of genetics,
agronomics, and climate. Disentangling the role of these various influences helps us …

Continuing global population growth requires an increase in food production, but also new
strategies to reduce negative effects of intensive land use on the environment. Rice as key …

Agricultural biodiversity has a high importance in social-cultural, economic, and
environmental aspects, and can help in adapting to and withstanding climate change …

Mountainous agricultural landscapes experienced large-scale land cover changes in the
past decades due to traditional land modification practices and increasing permanent …

Pericolonial archaeology investigates areas where European military conquests were
unsuccessful, but were economically and politically affected by conquests and subsequent …

The social-ecological systems of rice terraces across Southeast Asia are the result of
centuries of long-term interactions between human communities and their surrounding …

Indigenous and local communities have developed a rich array of nature-based
technologies for water security built upon place-based knowledge-belief-practice systems …

The transverse harvest knife, also commonly called the finger or finger-bladed knife, has
been utilized by rice farmers in southeast Asia for many centuries. The finger knife persisted …

In the past few years, there has been a growing amount of research on economic
quantifications and valuations of ecosystem services (ES) in agricultural systems. However …

Water & Heritage… tells the story of water heritage in all its diversity. It reveals the technical
ingenuity that water heritage has always inspired, and it presents the challenges that this …