The recent Russia–Ukraine conflict has raised significant concerns about global food
security, leaving many countries with restricted access to imported staple food crops …

The timely diagnosis of plant-available soil nutrient contents is crucial in enhancing
agricultural intensification and bridging yield gaps. There is a global demand for a practical …

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

Beef production in pasture-based systems is increasingly contested due to related
biophysical and environmental challenges. Addressing these requires rigorous science …

Agricultural land use (ALU) critically influences food production and water resource
allocation. This study examines the dynamics of ALU in the North China Plain (NCP), a …

Land-use expansion is linked to major sustainability concerns including climate change,
food security and biodiversity loss. This expansion is largely concentrated in so-called …

Identifying untapped opportunities for crop production improvement in current cropland is
crucial to guide food availability interventions. Here we integrated an agronomically robust …

Brazil once set the example for curtailing deforestation with command and control policies,
but, in the last decade, these interventions have gone astray. Environmental research and …

Important public and private initiatives to map agricultural lands and natural resources have
been carried out in Brazil to support land use planning. Some studies indicate that Brazil still …

CONTEXT Most studies assessing the genetic progress in soybean have traditionally
focused on retrospectives approaches, where commercial genotypes released over an …