Crop diversity underpins the productivity, resilience and adaptive capacity of agriculture.
Loss of this diversity, termed crop genetic erosion, is therefore concerning. While alarms …

What are the potential consequences when a relatively small number of large firms come to
dominate markets within the global food system? This Perspective examines the …

The growing use of chemical herbicides for weed control has become a dominant feature of
modern industrial agriculture and a major environmental and health concern in agricultural …

There is a clear need for transformative change in the land management and food
production sectors to address the global land challenges of climate change mitigation …

Farming systems that support locally diverse agricultural production and high levels of
biodiversity are in rapid decline, despite evidence of their benefits for climate, environmental …

Financial investment in the food and agriculture sector has grown in recent decades,
including investment in equity-related funds that invest in or track the performance of a range …

The agricultural input industry has become more concentrated in the wake of recently
announced corporate mergers in the sector. This article examines the environmental …

Modern food systems as they have developed over the past half-century are unsustainable:
their health and environmental impacts, as well as their failure to reduce rural poverty in …

Interlocked challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and land degradation require
transformative interventions in the land management and food production sectors to reduce …

Longlisted for the Fleck Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Citizen
science—research involving nonprofessionals in the research process—has attracted both …