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Soil Health and Potato Yield Cultivating a Sustainable Future from the Ground Up

Soil Health and Potato Yield: Cultivating a Sustainable Future from the Ground Up

Introduction – Linking Soil Health & Potato Production The unassuming potato, a starchy tuber originating from the Andean highlands, has transcended geographical boundaries and cultural barriers to become one of […]

Unlocking Sustainable Farming Solutions Insights from Wageningen's Lighthouse Farms

Unlocking Sustainable Farming Solutions: Insights from Wageningen’s Lighthouse Farms

In 2017, National Geographic celebrated the Netherlands as an “agricultural giant” that was “changing the way we farm”; notwithstanding its small size, this country was feeding the world and consistently […]

Optimizing Soil Health Understanding and Balancing Soil Organic Matter

Optimizing Soil Health: Understanding and Balancing Soil Organic Matter

Balance of Soil Organic Matter Soil organic matter is among the most important components of soil, determining several of its physical, chemical, and biological properties. It is a source of […]

Integrated Pest (Disease & Weed) Management (IPM) Principles, Practices and Advantages

Integrated Pest (Disease & Weed) Management (IPM): Principles, Practices and Advantages

The problem of pest (and pathogens) resistance to pesticides The release of pesticides has significantly helped the farmers protect their production and increase crop yields, keeping the crop pest population […]

Restoring and Maintaining Thriving Farmland Through Soil Health

Restoring and Maintaining Thriving Farmland through Soil Health

A Legacy of Loss: The Scars of Unsustainable Practices Imagine vast stretches of parched earth, choked by dust and devoid of life. This wasn’t a scene from a dystopian novel […]

Practices to adapt and cope with climate change

What practices and approaches should be adopted in agriculture to cope with climate change

Towards a resilient agriculture Agriculture is a sector that contributes to global warming and suffers its consequences but also offers opportunities for adaptation and mitigation. Agriculture’s ability to cope with […]

How organic farming can be purely plant-based

How organic farming can be purely plant-based?

(Biocyclic) Vegan − an Opportunity for the Organic Food Sector The market for vegan products is booming. Young people, in particular, are increasingly opting for a responsible, plant-based lifestyle for […]

Improved water management practices empower women in the drylands of India

Water reverses climate change effects and shapes women’s lives in Bundelkhand, India A case study in Bundelkhand, India (recording the results at the end of 2023) The increased temperatures and […]

Sustainable Agriculture A multi-benefit approach for the modern agri-food sector

Sustainable Agriculture: A multi-benefit approach for the modern agri-food sector

In a world where environmental challenges and a growing global population are significant concerns, sustainable agriculture has become more critical than ever. To address the increasing need for food sustainability, […]

sustainable livestock management

The Role of Livestock Management in Biodiversity Conservation

Livestock management, a cornerstone of human civilization for millennia, presents a complex and multifaceted relationship with biodiversity conservation. Although livestock management can negatively impact the environment through land degradation, biodiversity […]