Sustainable intensification in agricultural systems.

By J. Pretty, Z. Bharucha. Annals of Botany, 2014

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Raising Crop Productivity in Africa through Intensification (2017, background): “Sustainable intensification (SI) is defined as a process or system where agricultural yields are increased without adverse environmental impact and without the conversion of additional non-agricultural land [70].”
Agricultural intensification, dietary diversity, and markets in the global food security narrative (2019, background): “Across the planet, agricultural systems that once produced a wide variety of crops employing diverse cropping methods, adopted similar methods of cultivating improved varieties of wheat, rice, and maize using inorganic fertilizers, chemical pesticides, machinery, and irrigated water (Pretty and Bhar”
Shifts in plant functional strategies over the course of wheat domestication (2018, background): “In cereals, intercropping systems where they are mixed with other species of agronomic interest (e.g. legumes) are a demonstration of the benefit of biodiversity for crop sustainability (Brooker et al., 2015; Pretty & Bharucha, 2014).”