Natural regeneration as a tool for large‐scale forest restoration in the tropics: prospects and challenges

RL Chazdon, MR Guariguata - Biotropica, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A major global effort to enable cost‐effective natural regeneration is needed to achieve
ambitious forest and landscape restoration goals. Natural forest regeneration can potentially …

Sustainable intensification in agricultural systems

J Pretty, ZP Bharucha - Annals of botany, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Background Agricultural systems are amended ecosystems with a variety of properties.
Modern agroecosystems have tended towards high through-flow systems, with energy …

Sustainable intensification of agriculture for human prosperity and global sustainability

J Rockström, J Williams, G Daily, A Noble, N Matthews… - Ambio, 2017 - Springer
There is an ongoing debate on what constitutes sustainable intensification of agriculture
(SIA). In this paper, we propose that a paradigm for sustainable intensification can be …

Integrated pest management for sustainable intensification of agriculture in Asia and Africa

J Pretty, Z Pervez Bharucha - Insects, 2015 - mdpi.com
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a leading complement and alternative to synthetic
pesticides and a form of sustainable intensification with particular importance for tropical …

Transformational adaptation when incremental adaptations to climate change are insufficient

RW Kates, WR Travis… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
All human–environment systems adapt to climate and its natural variation. Adaptation to
human-induced change in climate has largely been envisioned as increments of these …

Food sovereignty via the 'peasant way': A sceptical view

H Bernstein - Critical perspectives on food sovereignty, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Henry Bernstein This paper attempts to identify and assess some of the key elements that
'frame'food sovereignty (FS):(1) a comprehensive attack on corporate industrialised …

Evergreen Agriculture: a robust approach to sustainable food security in Africa

DP Garrity, FK Akinnifesi, OC Ajayi, SG Weldesemayat… - Food security, 2010 - Springer
Producing more food for a growing population in the coming decades, while at the same
time combating poverty and hunger, is a huge challenge facing African agriculture. The risks …

Toward climate-smart agriculture in West Africa: a review of climate change impacts, adaptation strategies and policy developments for the livestock, fishery and crop …

R Zougmoré, S Partey, M Ouédraogo… - Agriculture & Food …, 2016 - Springer
Many projections of the impact of climate change on the crop, livestock and fishery
production sectors of African agriculture are reported in the literature. However, they may be …

Rainwater harvesting and management in rainfed agricultural systems in sub-Saharan Africa–a review

B Biazin, G Sterk, M Temesgen, A Abdulkedir… - … of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 2012 - Elsevier
Agricultural water scarcity in the predominantly rainfed agricultural system of sub-Saharan
Africa (SSA) is more related to the variability of rainfall and excessive non-productive losses …

Great green walls: hype, myth, and science

MD Turner, DK Davis, ET Yeh… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Visions of planting walls of trees to block the expansion of the desert have long been
promoted but never realized. The green wall myth persists today even though it is premised …