Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

Soils host diverse communities that support and regulate ecosystem functions, thereby affecting plant production and resource use efficiencies. There is increasing evidence that agricultural intensification...

Healthy ecosystems are the very foundation for people’s wellbeing and livelihoods in the Sahel. WFP's integrated resilience programme generates climate solutions at scale bringing degraded land...

The development of agroecosystems that can provide multiple ecosystem services with a reduced need of external inputs, requires management practices that foster ecological processes to enhance soil quality...

Ce 26e dossier d’Agropolis International est l’un des numéros spéciaux de cette série dédiés au partenariat, comme le dossier n°15...

Anthropogenic climate change threatens ecosystem functioning. Soil biodiversity is essential for maintaining the health of terrestrial systems, but how climate change affects the richness and abundance of soil...

Conventional agricultural practices – especially conventional tillage – are a major driver of soil erosion globally. While soil may not frequently considered...

Agricultural lands or Agroecosystems use ecosystem services provided by nature and can generate ecosystem services, as well as disservices (negative impacts), for biodiversity and human wellbeing. It...

With agroecology, great attention is now given to ecological processes occurring within agrosystems. Nevertheless, little attention has been given to soil ecological processes and the below-ground...

Plant diversification is one of the main ways to ecologically intensify agroecosystems to improve their sustainability and resilience. Rotations and/or a mixture of crops can mitigate pest and weed...

The report is organized in fourteen chapters. The first chapter describes the methodology. Chapter 2 introduces the main groups of soil contaminants and also describes the main soil properties...