This paper investigates whether these changes have resulted in rapid intensification of farming systems, permitting rapid agricultural growth and increased incomes for farmers. Using the first round ...

Alongside agricultural intensification, urbanization is one of the biggest global drivers of changes in land use that affect biodiversity. It often leads to a major shift in species composition.

More recently, agricultural intensification has played a destructive role: in the UK, over 50% of hedgerows have disappeared since 1947 as farmers removed them so that machinery could be employed ...

The people of Arequipa face many challenges to their sustainable use of soil and water resources; contamination from past and current mineral resource extraction activities, inadequate management ...

Kansas State University has been issued stop-work orders on USAID-funded agricultural research at two innovation labs, valued ...

This rate is bound to further rise as a result of an increase in the demand for food by a growing global population, the stronger demand for dairy and meat products, and the intensification of ...