We explore the role of agriculture in destabilizing the Earth system at the planetary scale,
through examining nine planetary boundaries, or “safe limits”: land-system change, freshwater …

266 tions for improving tropical soil fertility through biological processes.” To achieve this
objective, the editors and contributors have produced a new edition of the handbook that …

While many studies have demonstrated the sensitivities of plants and of crop yield to a
changing climate, a major challenge for the agricultural research community is to relate these …

Agriculture and food security are key sectors for intervention under climate change.
Agricultural production is highly vulnerable even to 2C (low-end) predictions for global mean …

Food systems contribute 19%–29% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions,
releasing 9,800–16,900 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO 2 e) in 2008. …

Dynamic interactions between and within the biogeophysical and human environments lead
to the production, processing, distribution, preparation and consumption of food, resulting in …

Humans constantly use their hands to interact with the environment and they engage
spontaneously in a wide variety of manual activities during everyday life. In contrast, laboratory-…

There is growing concern that satisfying societal demand for food over coming decades will
be increasingly challenging. Much of the debate centres on increasing food production …

A unified approach is presented for the derivation of conservation of mass, balance of
momenta, conservation of energy, balance of entropy and associated jump conditions across a …

… thread in Ingram's social … Ingram then as an Irishman, born in 1823, whose main work in
economics centres about the year 1880, belonging roughly to the decade 1875-1885. Dr. Ingram …