Zhang, Qing Ye, Feng Razzaq, Amar Feng, Zhongchao Liu, Yi
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
The relationship between farm size expansion and efficiency is a key topic in agricultural economics, especially for achieving sustainable land use and food security. While existing literature focuses on land productivity, technical efficiency, and total factor productivity, the link between farm size and cost efficiency remains less explored. Cost...
Perez Marulanda, L Rudbeck Jepsen, M Castro Nunez, A
Sustainable land-use systems (SLUS), such as agroforestry with cocoa, implemented with organic fertiliser, with prescribed post-harvest practices and rainwater irrigation, can potentially increase farm productivity, while reducing pressure on natural resources by decreasing deforestation and providing legitimate incomes for rural households. SLUS a...
Morales Muñoz, Héctor Martens, Leigh Löhr, Katharina Bonatti, Michelle Chará, Julián Pérez Marulanda, Lisset Sieber, Stefan Castro-Nuñez, Augusto Carlos
Land is an essential natural resource for climate mitigation and peace. It is commonly connected with sources of GHG emissions and with drivers of (violent) conflict. Therefore, climate mitigation and peacebuilding strategies are co-designing sustainable land-use systems (SLUS) with affected communities to integrate land-based climate mitigation an...
Pérez Marulanda, Lisset
Presentation about how to boost sustainable land use systems at different scales in conflict affected areas and prone to deforestation.
Lincoln, Noa Kekuewa Haensel, Thomas P. Lee, Tiffany M.
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Most neglected and underutilized crops were developed and utilized within indigenous agroecological cropping systems. While crop suitability must consider the constraints of the environment, the conditions of agroecological systems and the role of crops within those systems should be considered. Such consideration may guide the implementation of ap...
Vanegas Cubillos, Martha Cristina Villarino, Maria Eliza J. Castro-Nuñez, Augusto
The SLUS Project has been generated evidence on the links between climate action and peacebuilding. During its implementation, four tools have been developed, enhanced spaces for zero-deforestation dialogues in conflict-affected areas that contributed to capacity building for sustainable agricultural production and research.
Gallo, Bruna Cristina Magalhães, Paulo Sérgio Graziano Demattê, José A.M. Cervi, Walter Rossi Carvalho, João Luís Nunes Barbosa, Leandro Carneiro Bellinaso, Henrique César de Mello, Danilo Veloso, Gustavo Vieira Alves, Marcelo Rodrigo
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Intensive cropland expansion for an increasing population has driven soil degradation worldwide. Modeling how agroecosystems respond to variations in soil attributes, relief and crop management dynamics can guide soil conservation. This research presents a new approach to evaluate soil loss by water erosion in cropland using the RUSLE model and Syn...
Otter, Verena Deutsch, Maximilian
In reaction to new challenges of shifting sustainability requirements and climate change in the agricultural sector, sustainable process innovations are a way to combine food production with diverse ecosystem ser-vices. Despite their advantages, which have long been described in research, the actual adoption rates of these innovations in agricultur...
Villarino, Maria Eliza J.
Villarino, Maria Eliza J.
For the past four years, researchers from the Bioversity International Alliance and its partners, in the framework of the SLUS project funded by the International Climate Initiative of Germany, have been analyzing how sustainable land use, specifically organic agroforestry cocoa and silvopastoral systems, affect forest conservation trends and stabi...
