The open-access book "SIMPLE-G ... Baldos et al, Adoption of improved crop varieties limited biodiversity losses, terrestrial carbon emissions, and cropland expansion in the tropics, Proceedings ...

High-yielding crop innovations have historically been focused in lower- and middle-income countries that also tend to have forest biomes and other ecosystems that are rich in biodiversity and have ...

A research collaboration between The University of Warwick, the Smithsonian Institution and Embrapa (Brazilian agricultural ...

The researchers spoke with several farmers who use traditional methods to cultivate the crop and learned that manioc’s diversity is not a coincidence. In these communities, farmers carefully ...

The genetic diversity of plants is among the earth’s most important resources for food and agriculture. Thousands of crop species and their wild relatives make up the genetic variability the world’s ...

This study is a considerable step forward in plant genomics, demonstrating how such insights can be translated into tactics to improve crop diversity, resilience and sustainability. By integrating ...

But tying changes in soil biodiversity to shifts in ecosystem function ... the soil are of fundamental importance to sustainable crop production and the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients within ...

The new Horizon Europe project, AGRI4POL, aims to assist the transition of agriculture from being a pressure on pollinators to becoming a positive force for biodiversity, crop pollination services ...