- Barley seed ageing: genetics behind the dry elevated pressure of oxygen ageing and moist controlled deterioration. There’s seed ageing and seed ageing, genetically speaking.
- Estimates of effective population size and inbreeding in South African indigenous chicken populations: implications for the conservation of unique genetic resources. “Conservation flocks” aren’t working.
- Seed laws, certification and standardization: outlawing informal seed systems in the Global South. The Man uses more than just IPR.
- Farmland biodiversity and agricultural management on 237 farms in 13 European and 2 African regions. The more agriculture, the less biodiversity…
- An Underground Revolution: Biodiversity and Soil Ecological Engineering for Agricultural Sustainability. …but you can do something about it…
- Warming and fertilization alter the dilution effect of host diversity on disease severity. …and this is why you should: plant diversity means better protection against pests and diseases.
- Multi-country evidence that crop diversification promotes ecological intensification of agriculture. No, really.
- Assessing the conservation value of ex situ seed bank collections of endangered wild plants. It’s not just the number of species.
- Biotechnology or organic? Extensive or intensive? Global or local? A critical review of potential pathways to resolve the global food crisis. “…no single pathway will work in every situation.”
Hi Luigi, The ‘no, really’ comment could be taken as suggesting that there is no great surprise contained in the title ‘…crop diversification promotes ecological intensification of agriculture’. In fact, the idea that ecological approaches such as crop diversification can have the types of beneficial effects that we report is often challenged. Had word counts allowed our title to be longer we’d have liked to have extended it to say something like ‘to the extent that the need for synthetic inputs was reduced by two thirds whilst increasing crop yield’. Cheers, Geoff
Thanks, Geoff. Actually I meant exactly the opposite of what you feared by my admittedly flippant comment. Also, your interesting paper reinforces the results of other papers listed above.