Chinese agricultural output has been multiple under the intensive input of production factors
since the reform and opening-up. Such a growth pattern that realizes high output through …

The rapid urbanization and industrialization have caused excessive utilization of natural
resources, which seriously threatened food security and ecological security in the world …

Combining economic performance with environmental and social concern has been a
developing topic in recent decades. Eco-efficiency analysis is a widely applied tool to …

The integral development of agriculture and tourism heavily depends on natural resources,
especially agricultural resources, and it also may contribute to the sustainability of …

The mismatch between the supply and consumption of energy indicates that it is important to
promote energy efficiency in the road transportation industry which is high in energy …

Small farms constitute the vast majority of agricultural holdings in the world. Therefore, there
are the questions of how the small farm sector should evolve and whether economic and …

As a world leader in agricultural production, China feeds 20% of the world's population while
containing only 8% of the global cropland. However, the increasing production capacity is …

Highlights•We describe the interaction of macro groups of actors with market forces in the
Brazilian food system, searching for convergences towards existing socio technical …

This study evaluates the eco-efficiency of agriculture in Pupiao Town, in the Yunnan
province of China, through micro-level research. The term" eco-efficiency" refers to the …

Secondary vegetation is the land use that has increased the most in the Brazilian Amazon in
recent years. Approximately 49% of the increase in the total area since the mid-2000s was …