Threatening the global community is a wide variety of potential threats, most notably
invasive pest species. Invasive pest species are non-native organisms that humans have …

Soil acidification is caused by a number of factors including acidic precipitation and the
deposition from the atmosphere of acidifying gases or particles, such as sulphur dioxide …

Crop diversification has been put forward as a way to reduce the environmental impact of
agriculture without penalizing its productivity. In this context, intercropping, the planned …

Agricultural intensification increased crop productivity but simplified production with lower
diversity of cropping systems, higher genetic uniformity, and a higher uniformity of …

The world's crop productivity is stagnating whereas population growth, rising affluence, and
mandates for biofuels put increasing demands on agriculture. Meanwhile, demand for …

Intercropping is a farming practice involving two or more crop species, or genotypes,
growing together and coexisting for a time. On the fringes of modern intensive agriculture …

Drought is a predominant cause of low yields worldwide. There is an urgent need for more
water efficient cropping systems facing large water consumption of irrigated agriculture and …

A key question for climate change adaptation is whether existing cropping systems can
become less sensitive to climate variations. We use a field-level data set on maize and …

Intercropping is the simultaneous cultivation of plant species in the same field for a
considerable proportion of their growing periods. Interest in intercropping for sustainable …

Outburst of world population in the past decade has forced the agricultural sector to increase
crop productivity to satisfy the needs of billions of people especially in developing countries …