Then an experiment with mucuna grown as a green manure to improve soil fertility, and replicated in about 300 farms, and finally observed soil profiles. #sustainableintensification

Yield gaps in soybean: causes and pathways for increasing yield in smallholder farming from Northeast China - Agronomy for Sustainable Development A relevant pathway to meet future food production targets involves closing existing yield gaps, i.e., the difference between yields in researcher-managed trials and smallholder fields, through the ado...

Zhao, J., Zhao, M., Huang, Z. et al. Yield gaps in soybean: causes and pathways for increasing yield in smallholder farming from Northeast China. Agron. Sustain. Dev. 45, 37 (2025).
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#YieldPotential #YieldGap #SustainableIntensification

Assessing the multidimensional impacts of agroecological practices in Southeast Asia. A review - Agronomy for Sustainable Development Agroecological practices are largely recognized as one way of engaging social actors in the co-design and transformation of food systems towards sustainability. Such comprehensive approaches are diffi...

Blundo-Canto, G., Kangogo, D., Castella, JC. et al. Assessing the multidimensional impacts of agroecological practices in Southeast Asia. A review. Agron. Sustain. Dev. 45, 24 (2025).
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#FarmingSystems #SustainableIntensification #Agroecology

“Lack of scientific humility and dialogue hampers progress towards sustainable agriculture”

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#SusTAINcentre #nature #sustainability #farming #farm #ecology #food #agroecology #SustainableIntensification #RamosFortier

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Progress towards sustainable agriculture hampered by siloed scientific discourses - Nature Sustainability Two major discourses for agricultural sustainability, agroecology and sustainable intensification, have produced extensive research bases, but do not engage or overlap with each other. This analysis e...

#Agroecology and #SustainableIntensification

A new study in Nature Sustainability reveals how fundamentally different worldviews and assumptions shape these two leading approaches to #SustainableAgriculture

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#Efficiency: More output with less input, yet can this justify the environmental cost of high-production models?

#SustainableIntensification: Feeding more mouths without more harm - a noble goal or a subtle justification for maintaining the status quo?

Global population of obese and overweight tops 2.1bn The number of the world's population that are obese or ov...

with 2.1billion overweight or obese, shouldn't the UK be producing less #food, not more? #sustainableintensification http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27586365