Livestock contributes significantly to sustainable agriculture in terms of supporting food security, environmental integrity, and economic stability. On the environmental front, intensively managed livestock systems…
Maintaining Crop Diversity for a Robust Future
Crop diversity is essential in establishing robust and sustainable agricultural systems. Crop diversity maintains genetic diversity, enabling crops to cope with evolving environmental conditions, resist…
Environmental and Agricultural Consequences of Mono Cropping
Mono cropping, or repeated planting of a single crop, has multiple adverse effects on the environment, soil quality, and biodiversity. A serious implication is soil…
Sustainable Agriculture and Ecosystem Services: The Way Forward towards Resilience
Sustainable agriculture is important for maintaining ecosystem services and biodiversity. Since agriculture has a direct influence on ecosystems, it is vital to evaluate these impacts…
Evaluating Ecosystem Services in Sustainable Agriculture
Agricultural sustainability and evaluation of ecosystem services aim at identifying how farm practices influence biodiversity and ecosystem processes. Agriculture delivers important ecosystem services that sustain…
Sustainable Agriculture and Conservation of Biodiversity: A Vital Connection
Sustainable agriculture and conservation of biodiversity are closely interrelated. With increasing global food demand due to population growth, conventional farming methods normally degrade ecosystems and…
Sustainable Agriculture and Irrigation Management
Sustainable agriculture and efficient irrigation management are the key to long-term food production while conserving natural resources. Water is a key input for agriculture, and…
Renewable agriculture and water conservation
Sustainable farming and water conservation go hand in hand because agriculture consumes most of the world’s freshwater. With water growing scarcer, saving water will become…
Sustainable agriculture and water quality
Sustainable agriculture is also crucial in water quality conservation because farming itself is a significant source of water resources. Overuse of fertilizers, application of chemicals…
Agricultural Sustainability and Conservation of Soils
Conservation of soil is a very vital aspect of sustainable agriculture as it avoids soil erosion and maintains the fertility of the soil for plant…