Soil tillage, crop residue management, nutrient management, and pest management are
among the core farming practices. Each of these practices impacts a range of soil functions …

Agricultural landscape homogenization has detrimental effects on biodiversity and key
ecosystem services. Increasing agricultural landscape heterogeneity by increasing …

Increasing the resilience of agricultural landscapes requires fundamental changes to the
dominant commodity production model, including incorporating practices such as reduced …

Environmental problems are firmly on the political agenda. The stark threat to the planet from
climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution can no longer be ignored by governments …

Voluntary incentive programs are a keystone policy tool for increasing private landowner
conservation behavior. Although landowner participation in conservation incentive programs …

Federal agricultural land use policies in the United States aimed at protecting soil health and
water quality typically rely on persuading individual farmers to voluntarily adopt conservation …

Although the transition to industrial agriculture in the 20th century resulted in increased
agricultural productivity and efficiency, the attainment of global food security continues to be …

The global recognition of modern agricultural practices' impact on the environment has
fuelled policy responses to ameliorate environmental degradation in agricultural …

Global food production and security rely heavily on finite reserves of newly mined phosphate
for fertilizers. However, systemic inefficiencies result in the deposition in aquatic ecosystems …

Agricultural landscapes are important for natural resource conservation, but present
numerous obstacles associated with intensive agricultural production. Chief among these …