A matter of culture? Conceptualizing and investigating "Evidence Cultures" within research on evidence-informed policyma...
status: published
Characteristics of temperate food forestry : a case study in Flanders, Belgium
Within the search for sustainable food production methods, a system that has recently seen a surge in attention is the temperate food forest. Research into the functioning of these complex agroforestry systems is taking off, yet the variety in systems referred to as food forests has not been thoroughly explored. We therefore used site surveys and i...
Wastewater reuse in agriculture : prospects and challenges
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Sustainable water recycling and wastewater reuse are urgent nowadays considering water scarcity and increased water consumption through human activities. In 2015, United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6 (UN SDG6) highlighted the necessity of recycling wastewater to guarantee water availability for individuals. Currently, wastewater irrigation...
Expansion of Agriculture in Northern Cold-Climate Regions: A Cross-Sectoral Perspective on Opportunities and Challenges
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status: published
Research Topic: The Feasibility of Large-Scale Action for Adaptation and Mitigation
The aim of this Research Topic is to gather contributions from scientists working in diverse disciplines who have common interests in achieving large-scale impacts on adaptation and mitigation. We welcome scientists from different fields. Articles can be Original Research, Reviews, Technology Reports or Perspective papers. One goal is to demonstrat...
Biofortification in underutilized staple crops for nutrition in Asia and Africa
Malnutrition is one of the biggest public health challenges of the century with about 2 billion people affected by it globally. Biofortification is the process of breeding micronutrients traits into staple food crops, which is bioavailable to make a positive measurable impact to the population that eats such staples on a daily basis. It is a cost-e...
Meeting the nutrition and water targets of the Sustainable Development Goals: achieving progress through linked interven...
Water and nutrition are linked in multiple ways, but few of these interlinkages are well understood. What is, for example, the exact relationship between water pollution and health or between water resource management and nutrition? Even less is known about the interactions across these various linkages. The importance of better understanding these...
Opting for the middle ground – blended sustainability as the way forward
In both developed and developing countries, policy stakeholders are tussling with the question of whether to promote agroecological intensification or sustainable agricultural intensification to deal with the multiple burden of a growing population, a changing climate, environmental degradation, and a precarious food and nutrition security situatio...
USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab: Global research in sustainable intensification
United States Agency for International Development
Agriculture et exploitation agricole durables : état de l'art et proposition de définitions revisitées à l'aune des vale...
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Ce papier s'inscrit comme une contribution au séminaire de lancement du Réseau Mixte Technologique Evaluation de la duRabilité des sYstèmes et Territoire AGricolEs (Erytage) lancé en France en juillet 2015. Il questionne les deux concepts que sont l'agriculture durable et l'exploitation agricole durable, à partir d'une large analyse de la littératu...
