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Highlight Case Study 11 deals with Improving Water Availability and Restoring Soil Fertility in the Sahel. In Africa’s Sahel region, where agriculture is the main employment and...

Globally, the gap between the production of nutritious quality crops and their consumption is widening, resulting in high rates of malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies. Our goal is to examine the rich...

Understanding concurrent drought events in global main croplands is crucially important for food security, effective adaptation to climate change and human well-being. Yet, there is a lack...

With rising physical and economic scarcity of water, increasing or sustaining agricultural production while limiting or reducing consumptive water use is an urgent challenge. This article examines the case...

The theory and empirical research on ecologically unequal exchange finds that core nations “externalize” their environmental impacts onto semi-peripheral and peripheral nations. However, semi-peripheral nations like China...

The response of China's rice yield to climate change is crucial for ensuring food security for China and the globe. However, previous studies have focused on the impact of climate change...

While China has transformed its economy over recent decades, challenges such as climate change and land degradation have continued to impact its agriculture...

BACKGROUND Mycotoxin produced by mould is one of the most serious contamination sources in food security. Safe storage of grain has become more important to control food...

The expansion of cash tree crops, such as natural rubber, in the tropical region of South Asia has resulted in an agricultural transformation from subsistence production to market-oriented production, implicating...

Earth's water resources are critical for supporting livelihoods and food security but are being increasingly overexploited to support global agriculture. Diversifying cropping systems could...