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Key messages: Leakage of reactive nitrogen (Nr) from food systems threatens the environment and human health by causing air, water and soil pollution, while contributing to climate...

The EU agricultural outlook, published once a year, presents the outlook for major EU agricultural markets until 2035. It is based on a set of assumptions regarding macroeconomic...

Highlights: Quantitative evidence from a cross-country sample of 4772 rural households. Smaller farms (2 ha) benefit most from farm diversity. Dietary diversity increases with...

Water supports important ecosystem services, functions as a non-substitutable input to crop and animal production, and is essential for sustaining economic growth, health and resilience of a country. However, water...

Low- and middle-income countries worldwide share the common challenge of achieving sustainable economic development while reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This challenge is complex due...

Conflicts such as the Boko Haram insurgency, herder–farmer conflicts, and armed banditry attacks are major concerns affecting the livelihoods and food security of households in Nigeria. In this paper...

There is conflicting evidence on the association between farm production diversity and dietary diversity, worldwide. Notwithstanding this, farmer input subsidy programmes aimed at promoting both...

The paper is a brief Comment on the article of D.J. Connor, 2022 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2022.103404). Connor compares how much human-metabolizable energy (HME) could be produced in Swedish organic...

The distribution of crop and fodder production in organic and conventional farms is established for eight regions of Sweden. Regional yield per ha (mass and metabolic energy) of grain and fodder crop...

Methane’s short atmospheric life has important implications for the design of global climate change mitigation policies in agriculture. Three different agricultural economic models are...