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How sustainable is sustainable intensification? Assessing yield gaps at field and farm level across the globe

Sustainable intensification involves trade-offs between “sustainability” and “intensification”. Such trade-offs are likely to occur at the farm level given resource constraints and the timing of activities; some objectives are then prioritized over others. Assessing whether sustainable...

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CGIAR genebank viability data reveal inconsistencies in seed collection management

CGIAR Centers manage some of the oldest, largest, and most diverse collections of staple food crops in the world that are held in-trust as global public...

Continuous practice of conservation agriculture for 3–5 years in intensive rice-based cropping patterns reduces soil weed seedbank

Conservation agriculture (CA) has a major influence on the relative abundance of weed species, while weed control is perceived as one of the most challenging...

Co-benefits of nutrient management tailored to smallholder agriculture

While inorganic fertilizers combined with high-yielding varieties, mechanization, irrigation, and other inputs have contributed to sustained increases...

Interactive effect of weeding regimes, rice cultivars, and seeding rates influence the rice-weed competition under dry direct-seeded condition

The rice production method, dry direct seeding (DSR), is the alternate option for the successful cultivation of aus rice where irrigation water is scarce...

Conservation agriculture improves soil health: Major research findings from Bangladesh

This chapter explores how, in Bangladesh, conservation agriculture improves soil physical, biochemical, and biological health, leading to improved cropping...

Climate-smart agriculture practices influence weed density and diversity in cereal-based agri-food systems of western Indo-Gangetic plains

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA)-based management practices are evolving as a viable and sustainable alternative to conventional rice-wheat cropping systems...

Abiotic stress tolerance: Progress and pathways of sustainable rice production

Investment, innovation, and empowering the world’s most vulnerable populations are required to establish a rice production system that adapts to climate...

Insights into natural genetic resistance to rice yellow mottle virus and implications on breeding for durable resistance

The prospects for rice self-sufficiency in sub-Saharan Africa are being subverted by abiotic and biotic factors, including plant diseases. Several important...

Integrated strategies for durable rice blast resistance in sub-Saharan Africa

First reported in sub-Saharan Africa in 1922, rice blast has become the most devastating and widespread disease of rice with yield losses of up to 100%...

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