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Brainfood: Yield gap, Domestication & breeding, TEK, Breeding gourds, Breeding pearl millet, Breeding peas, Banana seed systems, Breeding bees

Agricultural Biodiversity

Global spatially explicit yield gap time trends reveal regions at risk of future crop yield stagnation. For 8 of 10 major crops, yield gaps have widened steadily from 1975 to 2010 over most areas, and remained static for sugar cane and oil palm. Ok, but ecological knowledge would like a word.

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Brainfood: Biodiversity nexus, Nutrition interventions, European land suitability, Beyond yield, Cover crops, CWR breeding, Rice gaps, Banana info system

Agricultural Biodiversity

Beyond yield and toward sustainability: Using applied ecology to support biodiversity conservation and food production. Global synthesis of cover crop impacts on main crop yield. Cover crops are good for yield. But didn’t we just say we should go beyond yield? Probably not so much, but it should.

Yield 213
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Brainfood: Private finance, Public finance, Land sparing, Land sharing, Trade-offs, Ecological intensification, Metaverse, Crop failure

Agricultural Biodiversity

Ecological intensification of agriculture through biodiversity management: introduction. Risks of synchronized low yields are underestimated in climate and crop model projections. Land sharing isn’t all that bad actually. Biodiversity and pollination benefits trade off against profit in an intensive farming system.

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Importance and Strategies in Forest Biotechnology and Conservation

Agric4profits

There is significant social and ecological value in conserving larger areas of biodiversity-rich natural forests and reducing economic demands on those forests by increasing yields from planted forests. This suggests that the total value in plantations is not simply a financial equation.

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Brainfood: Food systems, Micronutrients, Animal-source foods, Dietary diversity, Opportunity crops, Traditional landscapes, Gastronomic landscapes, Opportunity crops, Biofortification, Fermentation

Agricultural Biodiversity

NUS so fast: the social and ecological implications of a rapidly developing indigenous food economy in the Cape Town area. Breeding crops for higher nutritional value comes at a yield price. . …yes indeed there are, especially if they are grown in diverse landscapes. Nurturing gastronomic landscapes for biosphere stewardship.

Food 203
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Crop Diversity Benefits: Why Variety is Key to Sustainable Farming

Modern Farmer

Increasing the types of crops present in an area can provide numerous ecological and economic benefits. Increase Yields More diverse rotations can boost crop yields and resilience. In turn, this led to an increase in yields. One of the key differences between these two examples is the amount of crop diversity present.

Crop 67
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Understanding pH: Success Stories: Growing Sollutions to Soil pH Challenges

UnderstandingAg

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. of new cropland areas produced yields below the national average, with a mean yield deficit of 6.5%. Its much more complex than that.

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