Sustainable intensification in African agriculture

By J. Pretty, C. Toulmin, S. Williams. 2011

1,248 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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In Agronomy and Crop Science

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2. K. Giller
3. B. Vanlauwe
4. L. Rosa
5. K. Cassman
6. G. Mahajan
7. D. Ray
8. J. Foley

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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2. D. Ray
3. J. Foley
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6. Paul C. West
7. J. Fischer
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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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3. P. Tittonell
4. B. Shiferaw
5. Z. Tadele
6. G. Kohlin
7. K. Giller
8. M. Jaleta

Citations in the corpus

• Sustainable intensification of agricultural systems in the Central African Highlands: The need for institutional innovation (2016, background): “…as increasing the output of agricultural production, processing and commercialization activities, while at the same time increasing the efficiency of natural, physical, financial and human resource investments and reducing negative environmental and social impacts (Pretty et al., 2011).”
• Cropping system diversification, conservation tillage and modern seed adoption in Ethiopia: Impacts on household income, agrochemical use and demand for labor (2013, background): “Most attention in the literature has been given to the low and stagnant returns from African agriculture (Bluffstone and Köhlin, 2011; Jhamtani, 2011; Pretty et al., 2011; World Bank, 2007).”
• Current status and potential of conservation biological control for agriculture in the developing world (2013, background): “In systems where pest losses are high, better pest management through enhancement of biological control services can raise crop yields more than most other types of crop research (Pretty et al., 2011).”
• Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers (2019, background): “The judicious implementation of integrated pest management (IPM) in Europe as well as in developing countries of Africa and Asia over the years achieved similar or even greater crop yields (Furlan et al., 2017; Pretty and Bharucha, 2015; Pretty et al., 2011; Thancharoen et al., 2018).”
• Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications of Imposed Innovation for the Wellbeing of Rural Smallholders (2016, background): “In examples from around the world, key factors in the success of policies pursuing agricultural growth to reduce poverty were attention to smallholders’ needs, local participation, and adaptation to local context (Birner & Resnick, 2010; Pretty et al., 2011; Van Donge et al., 2012).”
• Sustainable intensification of agriculture for human prosperity and global sustainability (2016, methodology): “…sector to global environmental risks, to ‘‘friend,’’ thereby contributing to global sustainability, and, in so doing, build natural capital and resilience, while increasing productivity and improving livelihoods (Pretty et al. 2006, Pretty 2008; IAASTD 2008; Foley et al. 2011; Pretty et al. 2011).”
• Explaining the 'hungry farmer paradox': Smallholders and fair trade cooperatives navigate seasonality and change in Nicaragua's corn and coffee markets (2014, background): “strategies (Ellis, 2000; Pretty et al., 2011), but remain productionoriented and fail to consider questions about uneven food distribution (Horlings and Marsden, 2011).”
• Managing vulnerability to drought and enhancing livelihood resilience in sub-Saharan Africa: Technological, institutional and policy options (2014, background): “…crop diversification (intercropping and rotations, growing different cultivars/varieties at different farm plots that have different environmental response), use of manure, complementary use of organic fertilizers, and investment in soil and water conservation (Lee, 2005; Pretty et al., 2011).”
• Sustainable intensification in agriculture: the richer shade of green. A review (2017, background): “Still later, Pretty et al. (2011) and Firbank et al. (2013) stretched that definition to “producing more output per unit of land while reducing environmental impacts and increasing contributions to natural capital and flow of environmental services”.”
• Sustainable Food Security: An Emerging Research and Policy Agenda (2014, background): “…and practices that have adverse impacts on the environment and human health, a productive use of human and social capital (in the form of knowledge and capacity for innovation), and the minimization of environmental externalities (Collette et al., 2011; IFAD, 2011; Pretty et al., 2011).”
• Increasing global crop harvest frequency: recent trends and future directions (2013, methodology): “However, similar to methods that deploy agroecological intensification, wherein the management of ecosystem services is harnessed in agricultural practices, an environmentally friendly alternative [61, 88–90], it may be possible that harvest gaps could also be sustainably closed.”
• Agri-Food Markets towards Sustainable Patterns (2020, background): “In fact, the search of novel, original paradigms to sustain the emergent models of agricultural intensification has led to the appearance of numerous ‘intensification’ qualifiers, including ‘sustainable’ intensification [26,27,233,234], ‘eco-functional’ intensification [235] and ‘ecological’ intensi”