Plastic pollution and climate change have commonly been treated as two separate issues
and sometimes are even seen as competing. Here we present an alternative view that these …

Soil degradation is widespread in smallholder agrarian communities across the globe where
limited resource farmers struggle to overcome poverty and malnutrition. This review lays out …

Synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilizers support global food production and feed over half of the
global population. However, more than half of the N fertilizers applied to croplands are not …

Global climate-change overshoot scenarios, where warming exceeds Paris Agreement limits
before being brought back down, are highly dependent on land-based carbon dioxide …

Framed by efficiency and productivity narratives, technological innovations are conceived as
the inexorable pathway to agricultural development, obscuring the associated appropriation …

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a formidable greenhouse gas with a warming potential~ 300× greater
than CO2. However, its emissions to the atmosphere have gone largely unchecked because …

Agricultural practices require a comprehensive transformation to preserve natural resources
and secure high-quality food supply. Conventional and organic farming practices offer …

Petrochemical-based synthetic plastics poses a threat to humans, wildlife, marine life and
the environment. Given the magnitude of eventual depletion of petrochemical sources and …

Since the beginning of the 21st century, Romanian migrants have become one of the most
significant national groups doing agricultural work in Spain, initially coming via a temporary …

Nitrate (NO 3) leaching from agriculture represents the primary source of groundwater
contamination and freshwater ecosystem degradation. At the field level, NO 3 leaching is …