In 2015 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with 17 Sustainable Development Goals. While the goals relate to work in different sectors, they are highly interdependent. In 2010, Parties to the Convention on Biological...

The development objective of this project is to conserve crop genetic diversity in ways that increase food security and improve ecosystem health. The immediate objective is to enhance conservation and use of crop genetic diversity by farmers, farmer communities, and local and national institutions to minimize...

The crop diversity which constitutes the food sustaining life on Earth should be considered as an important component of agro-ecosystem. But at present times, the existent crop diversity or Agrobiodiversity (ABD) is declining at a rapid state as a result...

Sustainable crop production intensification should be the primary strategic objective of innovative agronomic research for the coming decades. A range of often very location-specific options exists for farming practices, approaches and technologies that can strengthen sustainability and at the same...

In Western economies, several agriculture models coexist. For instance, intensive agriculture organization, which has increased yields while causing major pollution and resource depletion, competes with alternative models, which tackle these sustainability issues and lead to lower yields. An agronomical typology...