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Chemical Pesticides and Human Health: The Urgent Need for a New Concept in Agriculture Open
The industrialization of the agricultural sector has increased the chemical burden on natural ecosystems. Pesticides are agrochemicals used in agricultural lands, public health programs, and urban green areas in order to protect plants and…
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Impact of Climate Change on Crops Adaptation and Strategies to Tackle Its Outcome: A Review Open
Agriculture and climate change are internally correlated with each other in various aspects, as climate change is the main cause of biotic and abiotic stresses, which have adverse effects on the agriculture of a region. The land and its ag…
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The Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Insect Pests Open
Climate change and global warming are of great concern to agriculture worldwide and are among the most discussed issues in today’s society. Climate parameters such as increased temperatures, rising atmospheric CO2 levels, and changing prec…
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Applications of Nanotechnology in Plant Growth and Crop Protection: A Review Open
In the era of climate change, global agricultural systems are facing numerous, unprecedented challenges. In order to achieve food security, advanced nano-engineering is a handy tool for boosting crop production and assuring sustainability.…
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Climate Change and Global Food Systems: Potential Impacts on Food Security and Undernutrition Open
Great progress has been made in addressing global undernutrition over the past several decades, in part because of large increases in food production from agricultural expansion and intensification. Food systems, however, face continued in…
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Global maize production, consumption and trade: trends and R&D implications Open
Since its domestication some 9,000 years ago, maize ( Zea mays L.; corn) has played an increasing and diverse role in global agri-food systems. Global maize production has surged in the past few decades, propelled by rising demand and a co…
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Agriculture in 2050: Recalibrating Targets for Sustainable Intensification Open
The prevailing discourse on the future of agriculture is dominated by an imbalanced narrative that calls for food production to increase dramatically—potentially doubling by 2050—without specifying commensurate environmental goals. We aim …
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Machine Learning Applications for Precision Agriculture: A Comprehensive Review Open
Agriculture plays a vital role in the economic growth of any country. With the increase of population, frequent changes in climatic conditions and limited resources, it becomes a challenging task to fulfil the food requirement of the prese…
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Trends in Global Agricultural Land Use: Implications for Environmental Health and Food Security Open
The eighteenth-century Malthusian prediction of population growth outstripping food production has not yet come to bear. Unprecedented agricultural land expansions since 1700, and technological innovations that began in the 1930s, have ena…
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Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century Open
Spatiotemporally consistent data on global cropland extent is essential for tracking progress towards sustainable food production. In the present study, we present an analysis of global cropland area change for the first two decades of the…
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The Role of Agriculture in Ensuring Food Security in Developing Countries: Considerations in the Context of the Problem of Sustainable Food Production Open
Ensuring food security has become an issue of key importance to countries with different degrees of economic development, while the agricultural sector plays a strategic role in improving food availability. The aim of this paper is to iden…
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Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from US Agriculture Open
Understanding the potential impacts of climate change on economic outcomes requires knowing how agents might adapt to a changing climate. We exploit large variation in recent temperature and precipitation trends to identify adaptation to c…
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The effects of climate extremes on global agricultural yields Open
Climate extremes, such as droughts or heat waves, can lead to harvest failures and threaten the livelihoods of agricultural producers and the food security of communities worldwide. Improving our understanding of their impacts on crop yiel…
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Future food-production systems: vertical farming and controlled-environment agriculture Open
The unremitting trends of increasing population, urbanization, diminishing water supply, and continuing climate change have contributed to declining stocks of arable land per person. As land resources for agriculture decrease, policy maker…
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Global nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer use for agriculture production in the past half century: shifted hot spots and nutrient imbalance Open
In addition to enhancing agricultural productivity, synthetic nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P) fertilizer application in croplands dramatically alters global nutrient budget, water quality, greenhouse gas balance, and their feedback to the…
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Soil Degradation, Land Scarcity and Food Security: Reviewing a Complex Challenge Open
Soil health, along with water supply, is the most valuable resource for humans, as human life depends on the soil’s generosity. Soil degradation, therefore, poses a threat to food security, as it reduces yield, forces farmers to use more i…
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Nano-enabled pesticides for sustainable agriculture and global food security Open
Achieving sustainable agricultural productivity and global food security are two of the biggest challenges of the new millennium. Addressing these challenges requires innovative technologies that can uplift global food production, while mi…
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Global impacts of future cropland expansion and intensification on agricultural markets and biodiversity Open
With rising demand for biomass, cropland expansion and intensification represent the main strategies to boost agricultural production, but are also major drivers of biodiversity decline. We investigate the consequences of attaining equal g…
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Climate change and agriculture in South Asia: adaptation options in smallholder production systems Open
Agriculture in South Asia is vulnerable to climate change. Therefore, adaptation measures are required to sustain agricultural productivity, to reduce vulnerability, and to enhance the resilience of the agricultural system to climate chang…
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Precision Agriculture Technologies Positively Contributing to GHG Emissions Mitigation, Farm Productivity and Economics Open
Agriculture is one of the economic sectors that affect climate change contributing to greenhouse gas emissions directly and indirectly. There is a trend of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions reduction, but any practice in this direction…
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Food Security and the Dynamics of Wheat and Maize Value Chains in Africa and Asia Open
There is an ongoing debate about how best to feed the growing world population in the long run and associated implications for research and development. Some call for a new Green Revolution to secure the supply of staple foods, whereas oth…
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Agricultural waste: Review of the evolution, approaches and perspectives on alternative uses Open
This research provides an analysis of existing scientific production on agricultural waste from 1931 to 2018. The database was obtained from Scopus and includes a total of 3148 articles, which were analysed using the bibliometric method. T…
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The Challenge of Feeding the World Open
The aim of the present research is to provide a comprehensive review about the current challenges related to food security and hidden hunger. Issues are presented according to major factors, such as growing population, changing dietary hab…
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Perspectives and Challenges of Microbial Application for Crop Improvement Open
Global population increases and climate change pose a challenge to worldwide crop production. There is a need to intensify agricultural production in a sustainable manner and to find solutions to combat abiotic stress, pathogens, and pests…
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Carbon nanomaterials: production, impact on plant development, agricultural and environmental applications Open
During the relatively short time since the discovery of fullerenes in 1985, carbon nanotubes in 1991, and graphene in 2004, the unique properties of carbon-based nanomaterials have attracted great interest, which has promoted the developme…
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Agrophotovoltaic systems: applications, challenges, and opportunities. A review Open
The expansion of renewable energies aims at meeting the global energy demand while replacing fossil fuels. However, it requires large areas of land. At the same time, food security is threatened by the impacts of climate change and a growi…
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Impact of climate change on biodiversity and food security: a global perspective—a review article Open
Climate change is happening due to natural factors and human activities. It expressively alters biodiversity, agricultural production, and food security. Mainly, narrowly adapted and endemic species are under extinction. Accordingly, conce…
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Automated pastures and the digital divide: How agricultural technologies are shaping labour and rural communities Open
A “digital revolution” in agriculture is underway. Advanced technologies like sensors, artificial intelligence, and robotics are increasingly being promoted as a means to increase food production efficiency while minimizing resource use. I…
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Precision Farming at the Nexus of Agricultural Production and the Environment Open
Precision farming enables agricultural management decisions to be tailored spatially and temporally. Site-specific sensing, sampling, and managing allow farmers to treat a field as a heterogeneous entity. Through targeted use of inputs, pr…
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Subnational distribution of average farm size and smallholder contributions to global food production Open
Smallholder farming is the most prevalent form of agriculture in the world, supports many of the planet’s most vulnerable populations, and coexists with some of its most diverse and threatened landscapes. However, there is little informati…