Digital innovations for sustainable and resilient agricultural systems

Innovations and Approaches for Resilient and Adaptive Systems

It was with great pleasure that I accepted the kind invitation from my friends at IGI-Global to play again the role of editor for this series of books collecting the papers from the yearly volumes of IJARAS, the International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems, established in 2010 and now in its third year of publication. Reflecting on the work done and rearranging the conten...

Book Review: Agricultural Systems: Agroecology and Rural Innovations for Development

INVITED REVIEW Sustainable intensification in agricultural systems

†Background Agricultural systems are amended ecosystems with a variety of properties. Modern agroecosystems have tended towards high through-flow systems, with energy supplied by fossil fuels directed out of the system (either deliberately for harvests or accidentally through side effects). In the coming decades, resource constraints over water, soil, biodiversity and land will affect agricultu...

Conserving agricultural biodiversity for use in sustainable food systems Conservation

Sustainable harvest: managing plasticity for resilient crops

Maintaining crop production to feed a growing world population is a major challenge for this period of rapid global climate change. No consistent conceptual or experimental framework for crop plants integrates information at the levels of genome regulation, metabolism, physiology and response to growing environment. An important role for plasticity in plants is assisting in homeostasis in respo...