Humanity places a heavy burden on agricultural landscapes, demanding plentiful food,
multiple ecosystem functions, and biodiversity conservation. We quantified areas growing …

Positive deviance is a growing approach in international development that identifies those
within a population who are outperforming their peers in some way, eg, children in low …

Ongoing declines in the structure and function of the world's coral reefs, require novel
approaches to sustain these ecosystems and the millions of people who depend on them. A …

Abstract Conditional Cash Transfers programs (CCTs)—which grant cash to poor families
provided they make specified investments in the human capital of their children—have been …

The increasing expansion of cropland is major driver of global carbon emissions and
biodiversity loss. However, predicting plausible future global distributions of croplands …

Despite the global transition to overnutrition, stunting affected approximately 159 million
children worldwide in 2014, while an estimated 50 million children were wasted. India is an …

Billions of people rely on harvesting wildlife for food, and must contend with catch rates that
vary in space (eg overharvesting near communities) and time (eg seasonal migrations). Yet …

Methods The study consisted of 10 focus group discussions (FGDs) of between eight and
ten mothers each, in a rural coastal community in Kenya. A grounded theory approach was …

Agriculture's influence on humanity is a dichotomy of promise and peril. Research on the
food‐environment dilemma has highlighted the environmental consequences of food …

This paper examines the degree to which four CCT programs, Brazil's Bolsa Alimentaco, the
Programa de Asignacion Familiar-Fase II (PRAF-II) in Honduras, Mexico's Programa de …