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Highlights: As Colombia navigates a complex path toward a richer and more equitable future, the country faces three critical climate transitions. First, it will need...

Highlights: The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Experts on Climate Change found that methane emissions from all human activities contributed about 0.5°C to the present observed...

Crop diseases affect crop yield and quality and cause significant losses of total food production worldwide. With the ever-increasing world population and decreasing land and water resources...

Smallholder farmers struggle to achieve food security in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It is urgently required to find appropriate practices for enhancing crop production...

Agricultural food production is a main driver of global greenhouse gas emissions, with unclear pathways towards carbon neutrality. Here, through a comprehensive life-cycle assessment using...

Sustainable food systems require malnutrition and climate change to be addressed in parallel. Here, we estimate the non-CO 2 greenhouse gas emissions resulting from closing...

Ruminants have lower feed use efficiency than monogastric livestock, and produce higher reactive nitrogen and methane emissions, but can utilize human-inedible biomass through foraging...

Highlights On-farm trials and Random Forest (RF) used to compare nutrient management options. Nutrient Expert (NE) rates improved energy productivity of wheat...

Food production on our planet is dominantly based on agricultural practices developed during stable Holocene climatic conditions. Although it is widely accepted that climate change...

Perennial biomass crops (PBC) are considered a crucial feedstock for sustainable biomass supply to the bioeconomy that compete less with food production compared to traditional crops. However...