Highlights The study reviews ex-post impact assessment studies on improved rice varieties. Articles were published between 2016 and 2021. Stress-tolerant varieties significantly...

Integrated mixed crop-livestock farming systems help improve farm sustainability by securing agricultural incomes through the diversification of productions and by enhancing farm autonomy regarding agricultural...

LAC’s rural territories produce food for more than 800 million people; cultivate 14 % of the world’s crops; are home to a large part of the planet’s biodiversity...

Livestock in the Amazon is mainly limited by the lack of forage biomass production in the dry season. The sensitivity of pasture to drought depends on pasture management and on certain natural factors that enable...

Global climate studies show that not only temperatures are increasing and precipitation levels are becoming more varied, all projections indicate these trends...

Agricultural price shocks strongly affect farmers’ income and food security. It is therefore important to understand and anticipate their origins and occurrence, particularly for the world’s main...

Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) is an important Neotropical crop originating in South America and dispersed by European explorers, arriving in Madagascar in the late 19th century. Although Madagascar...

Oil seed crops, especially oil palm, are among the most rapidly expanding agricultural land uses, and their expansion is known to cause significant environmental...

The double burden of malnutrition in children is a serious global public health problem, as upwards of 155 million children have stunted growth, 52 million show wasting...