This paper projects and analyzes the regional impacts of climate change on the agricultural productivity of family farming and large-scale agriculture in Brazil between 2021 and 2050, using the RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 scenarios. The methodology adopted consists of a cross-sectional estimation of a...

Kerala, renowned for its rich biodiversity, is endowed with home garden based agroecosystems which act as a reservoir to satisfy the escalating food, nutritional and economic demands of the people. The home gardens on the high range area are of typical, with complex biodiversity profile, peculiar...

This paper offers a scholar/activist's reflections on some key conceptual and political articulations shaping current food systems analysis to illustrate that crucial knowledge about food systems and social transformation is generated in a variety of sites and ways. Drawing on personal experiences...

Ecosystem services are the processes of nature that directly or indirectly benefit human beings. These services need to be conserved through incentive-based market approaches for a sustainable future. Payment for ecosystem services (PES) is one approach that aims to manage natural resources and...

Considering the excessive residue and serious harm of sulfamethazine (SM₂), the sensitive determination of SM₂ has attracted wide attention in ensuring food security and human health. Herein, using the unique fluorescence property of aggregation-induced emission (AIE), we reported a simple and...

Ensuring compliance with China's "1.8 billion mu" (120 million hectares) cultivated land preservation policy is a fundamental goal of land policy. Northeast China has experienced significant cultivated land expansion due to rigorous compensation policies over the past two decades, resulting in...

Systems-level approaches are required for addressing the world's major challenges at the food-energy-water nexus. Taking on complex issues, such as rising food insecurity, malnutrition, and food waste, concomitant with unprecedented levels of stress on environmental systems, will necessitate that...

The research of the strategic alternatives for the development of the agricultural sector in conditions of environmental sustainability is considered in the article. Social and environmental problems that need to be properly solved in the field of the agrarian sector are investigated. Dynamics of...

Multi-structural rural economy is considered as a possible mechanism for coordinating state interests and the interests of producers of agricultural products in matters of socio-economic development of rural areas. For a comparative assessment of the effectiveness of each economic structure, the...

Fruit waste occurs at all stages of the supply chain. Thus, a single behavior or stakeholder cannot be identified as responsible for fruit wasted. It should be instead considered that a combination of multiple behaviors can increase or decrease the possibility of fruit being wasted. In this...