- Understanding the role of biodiversity in the climate, food, water, energy, transport and health nexus in Europe. Meta-analysis shows that a lot of things people do affect biodiversity negatively, yet biodiversity affects most things people want to do positively.
- Food Systems Interventions for Nutrition: Lessons from 6 Program Evaluations in Africa and South Asia. Have a strong theory of change, assess a range of outcomes, triangulate methods, including those from other fields, use adaptive and flexible evaluation designs, and document everything transparently. I wonder how many of these boxes the studies analysed above ticked.
- Geospatial evaluation of the agricultural suitability and land use compatibility in Europe’s temperate continental climate region. Europe has run out of land usable for crops, but some currently used land is being used for the wrong crops.
- Beyond yield and toward sustainability: Using applied ecology to support biodiversity conservation and food production. But does “suitability” mean “sustainability”? Probably not so much, but it should.
- 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?
- Editorial: Trends and perspectives for the use of crop wild relatives in crop breeding. Way beyond yield…
- Global potential distributions and conservation status of rice wild relatives. Still a lot of work to do to save rice wild relatives so they can be used to, you know, move beyond yield.
- Collecting and managing in situ banana genetic resources information (Musa spp.) using online resources and citizen science. Can probably say the same about banana wild relatives as was said above about rice, but I don’t see as much scope for citizen scientists getting into wild rice.