Multifunctional crops can simultaneously contribute to multiple societal objectives. As a result, they represent an attractive means for improving rural livelihoods. Moringa oleifera is example of multifunctional crop that produces nutritious leaves with uses as food, fodder, and biostimulant enhance growth. It yields seeds containing water purifying coagulant oil cosmetic possible biofuel feed...

Urban and peri-urban areas are subject to major societal challenges, like food security, climate change, biodiversity, resource efficiency, land management, social cohesion, economic growth. In that context, Peri-urban Agriculture (UPA), thanks its multifunctionality, could have a high value in providing social, economic, environmental co-benefits. UPA is an emerging field of research productio...

Agricultural heritage is gaining increasing importance as a repository of lessons to be learned for more sustainable agriculture in the future. Among forgotten European agricultural heritage, Italian grapevine “coltura promiscua,” which integrates agroforestry and intercropping, survives only few regions form relics. Based on geographic, historic, literature published subject between 16th 20th ...

20 21 In this paper a set of criteria is proposed for the evaluation of the potential contribution of modelling 22 tools to strengthening the multifunctionality of agriculture. The four main areas of evaluation are (1) 23 policy relevance, (2) the temporal resolution and scope, (3) the degree to which spatial and socio24 institutional scales and heterogeneity are addressed and (4) the level of ...

Mokany et al. (1) reiterate an important consideration about the interpretation of results in our PNAS report (2). The authors suggest that the use of a different metric of β diversity might reveal a larger effect of β diversity on ecosystem multifunctionality. We agree, and reiterate that our reported effects of β diversity on ecosystem multifunctionality are likely conservative for a number o...

Rural Europe encompasses a variety of landscapes with differing levels forest, agriculture, and agroforestry that can deliver multiple ecosystem services (ES). Whilst provisioning regulating ES associated individual land covers are comparatively well studied, less is known about the cultural ES. Only seldom provisioning, regulating, investigated together to evaluate how they contribute multifun...

Transparent heterogeneous ultrathin films of exfoliated layered double hydroxide (LDHs) nanosheets, fabricated alternately with polyanion, have been obtained via a layer-by-layer electrostatic self-assembly which yields a series of novel LDH films with potential multifunctionality.

The bulk of experiments that study stressor effects on ecosystem functioning consider only individual functions one at a time, and such narrow focus may well bias our understanding of the overall impact on ecosystem functioning. We used data from six published experiments in which marine illuminated sediment systems were exposed to nutrient enrichment, toxicants, sedimentation and warming, eith...