A comprehensive systems analysis reveals that Pakistan's agricultural sector is on an unsustainable trajectory. Current input ...

A research team has uncovered how different hydrological pathways—rather than total runoff alone—govern the movement of nitrogen (N) pollution across rural–urban landscapes.

New research in Science is showing how the rise of modern agriculture has turned a North American native plant, common waterhemp, into a problematic agricultural weed. An international team led by ...

According to Encyclopedia Britanica [1], intensive agriculture is, in agricultural economics, a system of cultivation that uses a large amount of labor and capital in relation to the surface area of ...

Pollinators in the tropics are less likely to thrive in intensive croplands, finds a new study suggesting bees and butterflies are at risk of major losses. Pollinators in the tropics are less likely ...

Our food system is in big trouble. It’s in big trouble because the global agritech/agribusiness sector is poisoning it, us and the environment with its pesticides, herbicides, GMOs and various other ...

Scientists agree that changes in land use such as deforestation, not just emissions of greenhouse gases, can play a significant role altering the world's climate systems. Now, a new study reveals how ...

https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2013.63.1.10 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/bio.2013.63.1.10 Copy URL Fertilizer-intensive agriculture has been integral to ...

Industrial agriculture depends on monoculture—growing single crops that can be easily planted, fertilized, treated with pesticides, and harvested—especially on large-scale, mechanized farms. In spite ...

Slash-and-burn agriculture is the practice of clearing and burning areas of vegetation to replenish the soil and grow food. Hundreds of millions of people around the world still rely on slash-and-burn ...