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Sara M. Marcelino, Pedro Dinis Gaspar, Arminda do Paço, Tânia M. Lima, Ana Monteiro, José Carlos Franco, Erika S. Santos, Rebeca Campos and Carlos M. Lopes
Agriculture intensification has driven the loss of biodiversity at a global level. The implementation of strategies to conserve and promote biodiversity in agricultural areas can be favoured by adequate assessment methods that foster the awareness of dec...
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Chaitanya Prasad Nath, Ravi Gopal Singh, Vijay K. Choudhary, Debarati Datta, Rajiv Nandan and Sati Shankar Singh
Weeds are the most severe and widespread biological constraint on agricultural production systems and cause damage to cropped and non-cropped lands. They reduce crop yield and degrade the quality of the produce, besides raising the cost of production. Th...
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Édson Luis Bolfe, Taya Cristo Parreiras, Lucas Augusto Pereira da Silva, Edson Eyji Sano, Giovana Maranhão Bettiol, Daniel de Castro Victoria, Ieda Del?Arco Sanches and Luiz Eduardo Vicente
Agricultural intensification practices have been adopted in the Brazilian savanna (Cerrado), mainly in the transition between Cerrado and the Amazon Forest, to increase productivity while reducing pressure for new land clearing. Due to the growing demand...
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Hao Guo, Yong Li, Xu Wang, Hongyan Ruan, Toyin Peter Abegunrin, Lanchao Wei, Zhigang Huang, Kayode Steven Are and Gabriel Oladele Awe
Excessive fertilizer application, majorly nitrogen- and phosphorus-based fertilizers, in farmland has intensified environmental pollution of rivers, lakes, and other surface water bodies worldwide by agricultural non-point sources, especially the highly-...
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Charles R. Ortloff and Alan L. Kolata
Raised-field agricultural systems have received attention from scholars involved in the analysis of prehistoric agricultural intensification in the New World. This paper discusses the function of raised fields associated with the Tiwanaku society (500?11...
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Ranjit Kumar, Sanjiv Kumar, BS Yashavanth, Nakeertha Venu, PC Meena, A Dhandapani and Alok Kumar
The ?Green Revolution? (GR) technology-induced agricultural intensification has transformed India from food scarcity to a food surplus country. However, this has also resulted into several adverse repercussions. Increased application of chemical fertiliz...
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Lukasz Kajtoch
Horticulture is one of the land use types in agricultural landscapes, which is beneficial for nature if traditional ways of management are implemented. Orchards are affected by three negative transformations: abandonment that leads to afforestation; grub...
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Piotr Kanarek, Barbara Breza-Boruta, Mateusz Pawlowski and Miroslaw Kobierski
Excessive agricultural intensification adversely affects soil quality, particularly in hilly terrain, leading to increased erosion. Anthropogenic denudation, intensified by tillage erosion, results in the displacement of soil material from hilltops and s...
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Laura Recuero, Lilian Maila, Víctor Cicuéndez, César Sáenz, Javier Litago, Lucía Tornos, Silvia Merino-de-Miguel and Alicia Palacios-Orueta
Multiple cropping systems constitute an essential agricultural practice that will ensure food security within the increasing demand of basic cereals as a consequence of global population growth and climate change effects. In this regard, there is a need ...
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Zhifang Pei and Bin Wu
With the intensification of global warming, food production will face serious drought risk. In view of the insufficient applicability of the existing crop drought index, a standardized crop water deficit index (SCWDI) was constructed based on the constru...
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