Regenerative agriculture and integrative permaculture for sustainable and technology driven global food production and security

E McLennon, B Dari, G Jha, D Sihi… - Agronomy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Integrated-smart agriculture: contexts and assumptions for a broader concept

VJPD Martinho, RPF Guine - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
The innovative technologies developed in the different fields of science (nanotechnology,
artificial intelligence, genetic modification, etc.) opened new and infinite possibilities for the …

Socio-economic determinants of small family farms' resilience in selected Central and Eastern European countries

M Borychowski, S Stępień, J Polcyn… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
We investigated the resilience of small-scale family farms because of the contemporary
importance of both the farms' resilience and the role of these farms in five countries of …

Farm diversification as a potential success factor for small-scale farmers constrained by COVID-related lockdown. Contributions from a survey conducted in four …

Z Benedek, I Fertő, C Galamba Marreiros, PM Aguiar… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
This paper explores to what extent product and marketing channel diversification contributed
to the economic success of small-scale agricultural producers involved in short food supply …

Farming resilience: from maintaining states towards shaping transformative change processes

I Darnhofer - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Resilience is a concept that focuses on change: it includes the ability of a system to maintain
its current state despite disturbances, its ability to adapt, and to transform. While resilience …

CAP direct payments and economic resilience of agriculture: impact assessment

A Žičkienė, R Melnikienė, M Morkūnas, A Volkov - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study presents an innovative approach to measuring the impact of EU CAP direct
payments on the economic resilience of agriculture at a sectoral level. The construct of …

The role of collaborative farming in generational renewal and farm succession

MW Shin, A Kinsella, MT Hayden, B McNally - International Food and …, 2023 - brill.com
An aging farming population and a decline in younger farmers are global issues of concern
in the pursuit of sustainable agriculture. A gradual transition to collaborative farming through …

Multifaceted social and environmental disruptions impact on smallholder plantations' resilience in Indonesia

A Andani, I Irham, J Jamhari… - The Scientific World …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As one of the most productive plantation producers in the world, Indonesia also faces rapid
change in both social and environmental systems. These conditions are predicted to …

COVID-19 effects and resilience of vegetable farmers in north-western Nigeria

RN Yegbemey, CM Komlan Ahihou, I Olorunnipa… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has particularly affected the supply of perishable foods such as
vegetables, which could adversely affect food and nutrition security. Here, we study the …

Quantifying farm household resilience and the implications of livelihood heterogeneity in the semi-arid tropics of India

T Ramilan, S Kumar, A Haileslassie, P Craufurd… - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
The vast majority of farmers in the drylands are resource-poor smallholders, whose
livelihoods depend heavily on their farming systems. Therefore, increasing the resilience of …