Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century for sustainable
agricultural production. Several reports highlighted the need for better agricultural practices …

This paper offers a systematic analysis of the concepts and contexts that frame the climate-
smart agriculture (CSA) discourse in the academic and policy literature. Documents (n= 113) …

Governance of food systems is a poorly understood determinant of food security. Much
scholarship on food systems governance is non-empirical, while existing empirical research …

Nutrient management, water quality protection, and irrigation efficiency top the list of on-farm
resource concerns indicating a need to address them through conservation strategies. A …

Biochar and biochar–fertilizer concoction is imperative to subjugate reduced plant growth
and soil fertility depletion which is a constraint for sustainable agriculture. The aspiration of …

The current industrial crop (IC) expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) may have important
ramifications for food security. This study proposes a rapid appraisal method that can …

Abstract Knowledge of strategies to improve farm household resilience to food insecurity
and counter adverse weather events and poor resource endowment is a pre-requisite for …

Transdisciplinary sustainability research (TSR) is essential to better understand and tackle
wicked problems such as climate change and realisation of sustainable development goals …

The aim of the article is to identify the problem of land and soil degradation and to recognise
the need to counteract these processes as a challenge for the law and policy. The …

Large-scale industrial agriculture promotes soil intensive exploitation that can compromise
its sustainability over time. In response, Agroecology proposes practices that return the soil …