This Special Issue on Diversified Farming Systems is motivated by a desire to understand how agriculture designed according to whole systems, agroecological principles can contribute to creating a more sustainable, socially just, and secure global food system. We first define Diversified Farming Systems (DFS) as farming practices and landscapes that intentionally include functional biodiversity...

The development of agriculture-related enterprises is the key to acceleration of traditional agricultures transformation, development of modern agriculture and breakthrough for construction of new socialist rural areas, by which the enhancement of productivity of agriculturerelated enterprises is the only way to the healthy development. DEA model is a better measurement method for productivity ...

Traditional tropical agriculture often entails a form of slash-and-burn land management that may adversely affect ecosystem services such as pollination, which are required for successful crop yields. The Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico has a >4000 year history of traditional slash-and-burn agriculture, termed 'milpa'. Hot 'Habanero' chilli is a major pollinator-dependent crop that nowadays is ofte...

Introduction Organic farming systems are challenged by many of the same crop protection issues as conventional farming systems. Approaches to crop protection in organic agriculture differ widely among growers globally and regionally. At one end of the spectrum, organic growers use substitution-based approaches in large-scale operations to capture premium prices in a niche market. At the other e...

Contrary to Theodore W. Schultz’s assertions that small farmers are rational, part-time farming is efficient, and economies of scale have no logical basis and have not stood the test of time and empirical findings, this paper presents that in (1) the low income countries still saddled with traditional agriculture, (2) the low income countries developing towards the high income economy, and (3) ...

For countries like Ethiopia, agriculture is a backbone. The country’s most economic activities depend on agriculture. Agricultural commodities account for half of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However, factors like poor infrastructure, traditional techniques used for farming, periodic drought, and soil degradation have been the main obstacles for not projecting the export income, and also f...

Limited scientific evidence about the safety and efficacy of traditional healing make it essential for policymakers to develop policies, regulations, strategies mitigate issues related this practice. Such include hit-and-miss operation, incorrect diagnosis, improper dosage, low hygiene standards, dominant lack statutory regulation practitioners practices owing secrecy some methods. On other han...