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Policies for ecological intensification of crop production
(Elsevier Science London, 2019-04)
Ecological intensification aims to increase crop productivity by enhancing biodiversity and associated ecosystem services, while minimizing the use of synthetic inputs and cropland expansion. Policies to promote ecological ...
The challenge of making the idea of Sustainable Intensification operational
(Universidad de la República. Facultad de Agronomía. Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria, 2019-11)
The intensification of agricultural production has become a topic of intense debate in academic and socio-political media worldwide. In southern South America agricultural intensification operates in two ways. On one hand, ...
Biofuels and biodiversity: Challenges and opportunities
(Elsevier, 2015-07)
The use of biofuels can result on a decrease of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions when compared to fossil fuels. However, the expansion of biofuels crops has been either based on direct or indirect displacement of natural ...